Varsity College is proud to announce that they are the new title sponsor of the world’s biggest surfski series. The Varsity College Marine Surfski Series shifts into a new era with the first leg of the popular series getting underway at Ushaka Beach on Friday 15 January. This substantially invigorated ten leg series now offers bigger prizes and incentives to the top performers across the various categories.

"Varsity College is dedicated to delivering on its philosophy of promoting a balanced student life", said Carole Adam, Varsity College Sport & Social Manager. "This is evident in our ongoing involvement with the two Durban and Cape Town surfski schools and now our title sponsorships of the Varsity College Marine Surfski Series."

Continuing with this vision in 2010, Varsity College will be launching their new SportsLife Program, an exciting new sporting initiative, across its seven campuses. The focus is on mass participation sports that are fun, modern, healthy, outdoor, individualistic and that one can continue to be involved in for the rest of one’s life. At Varsity College a top priority is preparing students for their career ahead by encouraging a balanced lifestyle with focus on mind, body, social and community! Balance is important in the working environment where social skills, networking opportunities and health can have as much bearing on career success as formal academic grounding. Some of these exciting sports that Varsity College will incorporate into its SportsLife programme are: Mountain Biking, Surfsking, Canoeing, Triathlons and Multisport/Xterra Events and Running.

With the consistent growth in popularity of surfski racing, and Durban's undisputed status as the world's capital of the sport, the series dovetails neatly the Varsity College SportsLife program. Many of the novices who have been learning the ropes through the Varsity College Surfski School, run in Durban by SA paddler Barry Lewin, will be confident and competent enough to take part in the series races.

The Varsity College Marine Series boasts more paddlers taking part over the duration of the ten race series than any other series in the world, while individual race entries for a few other major surf ski races top the regular weekly entry of the Marine series events.

The series has also been boosted by the inclusion of the first ever Varsity College SA Schools Surfski Championships, which will be hosted on the final leg of the series on 9 April. "I am thrilled that Canoeing South Africa has backed this move and made it a formal national schools championship," said Lewin. "Paddling is thriving at school level across the country, and there is a growing interest in surfski paddling amongst the youngsters."

The Varsity College Surfski School will be hosting clinics for schools and has already confirmed interest from eight KwaZulu-Natal schools, five from the Western Cape and five from the Eastern Cape, eager to send teams of athletes to the championship event, and encouraging the pupils to take part in as many of the other series races as part of their preparations.

Varsity College Marine Surf Ski Series 2010 races take place on Friday evenings at 5:30pm on the following dates:

15 January
29 January
5 February
12 February
19 February
26 February
5 March
12 March
19 March
9 April

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