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ISA Scholarship Winners Announced
Author: Transworld Surf
ISA President, Fernando Aguerre said about this year’s Scholarship Program: “I believe the ISA Scholarship Program is a enormous step forward for the ISA to contribute to improve the lives of junior surfers around the world. Together, we are sustaining the dreams and hopes of good students who are also great surfers.”
After careful review by the Scholarship Selection Committee, the ISA announced the following surfers as ISA Surfing Ambassadors. The scholarship recipients are inspirational human beings, great surfers and avid students who want to succeed in surfing and school.
1 - Argentina, Tobías Ortells
2 - Australia, Jack Murray
3 - Australia, Kelly Norris
4 - Barbados, Chelsea Roett
5 - Ecuador, Irons Burgos
6 - Fiji, William Dansey
7 - France, Louis Baltazar Fears
8 - Great Britain, Jaide Lowe
9 – Guatemala, Mario Vega
10 – Japan, Gai Sato
11 – Japan, Minato Takahashi
12 – Netherlands, Jelle de Roode
13 – Nicaragua, Aarón Ernesto Gómez Selva
14 – Nicaragua, Milton Bladimir Aguilar Quintanilla
15 – Peru, Juninho Urcia
16 – Peru, Jorge Luis Rodríguez
17 – Slovenia, Niki Luksic Druskovic
18 – South Africa, Brandon Benjamin
19 – South Africa, Marchall Reans
20 – Spain, Nahir Aylen Manduca
21 – Thailand, Panu Wisetsombat
22 – USA, Mary-Townsend Bourque
23 – USA, Maddie Swayne
ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 67 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in San Diego, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro and re-elected seven times since. The ISA’s four Vice-Presidents are Alan Atkins (AUS), Mike Gerard (USA) Karín Sierralta (PER) and Debbie Beacham (USA).