Help get South Hams Residents to the World Championships

South Hams residents, Rachel Booton and Crispin Jones have been selected to represent Team GB, Stand Up Paddleboarding for the ICF SUP World Championships in Abu Dhabi in October. Rachel is a PE teacher at Kingsbridge Community College and Crispin runs Waterborn SUP a paddleboard school, also based in Kingsbridge.

On the 7th/8th of June, GBSUP hosted the National Championships down in Falmouth, the results from which were used to select the team to send to the World Championships. Conditions in Falmouth were tricky that weekend with strong winds and bumpy sea conditions but that played into the local’s skill sets, being more used to the challenging sea conditions that our coastline can often provide.

Taking place over the 29th October – 2nd November the team will be covering different styles of racing, from Sprints, Technical and Distance. Crispin has been selected to do the Distance Course and Rachel selected for the Tech Course, so now the road to the World Championships really starts to ramp up for them and the rest of the squad.

Stand Up Paddleboarding, still being a relatively new sport requires all our Athletes to self-fund any trips to represent the country. The pair are looking for any induvial and/or companies that would like to help sponsor them to fly the flag for Team GB, and indeed Kingsbridge, in the United Arab Emirates. No doubt you will see them practicing across the South Hams in the coming months.

Any help would be greatly appreciated so we can represent our country! Any funds above and beyond what is required to fund the competition will be donated to the RNLI