UK Pro Surf Tour – Thurso 2016

Current Scottish Champion, Mark Cameron, gladly receives one of the Men’s Open Wildcards after being unable to compete in the UK Pro Tour event in Thurso last year due to work commitments.

Thurso’s Mark Boyd, current Scottish no.2, will once again receive a wildcard into the UKPST event.  Last year Mark was the highest placed Scottish surfer in the Thurso UKPST event, making it through 3 rounds of the event in total (2 rounds at Thurso-East and 1 round at the Brims Ness Bowl) narrowly missing out on a place in the final by less than 1 point finishing a respectable 5th overall.  Mark will be hungry to improve on last year’s result.

Current Scottish no.3, Thurso’s Scott Main will be unable to compete due to work commitments therefore the 3rd Men’s Open wildcard will be given to Thurso-East specialist Chris Noble and the 4th to Dunnet Goofy footer Chris Clarke.

In the ladies division the wildcards have been given to Shoana Blackadder of Thurso and Iona McLachlan of Murkle.  Iona will be eager to get back in a rashie after recently competing at the ISA World Juniors in the Azores.

In the junior divisions Andrew Robertson will be competing in the Under 18s division along with current Scottish U18 Champion Finn MacDonald.  Finn is also coming off a win at the ‘Gathering of the Clans’ (Scottish Inter-Club Championships) therefore will be going into the event with confidence.  Finn will also take a spot in the U16 Boys division along with Ben Larg.  Finn, Ben, Andrew and Iona were all representing Scotland at the ISA World Juniors and 11 year old Ben progressed further in the worlds than any of his team-mates and will be one to watch at the UKPST in Thurso and all of these juniors will be taking the experience and lessons learned from their heats at the worlds into this event.