2006 Tico Travel Costa Rica Surfing Jr. Pro Am
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
The 2006 Tico Travel Surfing Jr Pro/Am went off to a great start. Friday was the beginning of our 10 day week which had the biggest swell of the year arrive with us. Overhead sets bombing all spots where on fire. It was too big behind the host hotel Jaco Beach Best Western for the free surfing so most ventured off to other rideable spots such as Escondido, Hermosa and Agujas and the Island all which were at their best.
Shea Lopez and Peter Mendia were doing tow-ins on the outer reefs on some triple overhead faces.
Photo by: david McNeil www.devadproductions.com
Everyone had five days to warm up before for the contest which started on Thursday. We also went on an offshore fishing trip on one of the Pangas. We caught 15 Mahi Mahi in 4 hours and brought them back to the hotel, Roray wife Ui cooked up the fish for the entire crew. The swell dropped as the contest drew closer but the conditions and form got much better. By the time the swell came for the contest we had perfect chest to overhead peaks. Mother nature provided us with some of the most perfect waves for a contest. Everyone was stoked! We had the top some of the top pro/am surfers in Costa Rica plus surfers from Brazil, California and the East Coast to make up a field of over 36 just for the first round of the Jr Pro division. The were also a large amount of participants in the Amateur Long and Shortboard divisions
CONTEST RESULTS
Photo: from right to left: Roray Kam (contest director), Mike Brooks (event coordinator) , Jason Torres, Luis Vindas, Gilbert Brown, Juan Carlos Naranjo, Ronald Brown
Jr Pro-1st-Luis Vindas $1000, 2nd-Gilbert Brown $500, 3rd- Juan Carlos $250 Naranjos, 4th-Jason Torres $175, 5th- Ronald Brown $75…
Boys- 1st- Carlos Munoz, 2nd- Anthony Flores, 3rd Jason Green, 4th Yuri Gonsalves, 5th Anthony Helberth, 6th- Spencer Ricardel.
Men’s division- 1st- Nino Myrie, 2nd- Keahi Kam, 3rd- Auturo Aquilar, 4th- Cappy Cheshier,5th- Shane Hlavsa, 6th-Kenny Keating.
Sr Men- 1st- Cassio Carvalho, 2nd- Victor Nasquez, 3rd Wally Pilat, 4th - Greg Hollingsworth, 5th- Chuck Herwig, 6th–Roberto Savinu,
Open Woman’s- 1st-Marianna Somullio, 2nd-Nataly Bernold, 3rd-Lupe Galluccia, 4th-Ariel Waller, 5th- Mallia Galluccia, 6th- Lorenz Brooks.
Open Longboard-1st-Anthony Flores, 2nd -Wally Pilat, 3rd-Marvin Perez, 4th-Greg Hollingsworth, 5th-Mike Stevens, 6th- Chuck Herwig.
Photo by David McNeil: www.devadproductions.com
Get ready to mark it down on your calendar next years 2007 CR Pro- Am in June promises to be an even bigger and better event!
For sponsorship opportunities or to sign up early and receive a 10% discount off your total package contact Mike & Roray at contestinfo@juniorproam.com