World's Finest Surfers Coming to Southern California for Billabong Pro.Business Editors IRVINE, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--Sept. 19, 2000 Reigning world champion Mark Occhilupo Marco Jay Luciano Occhilupo is an Australian surfer and winner of the 1999 World surfing champion title. Occhilupo - also known as Occy, began his professional career in the World Championship Tour (WCT) at the age of 17. , current Association of Surfing Professionals The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) was organized in 1976 as governing body for professional surfing. The ASP organizes the ASP World Championship Tour. It sanctions six professional surfing circuits including: the Foster's ASP World Tour and ASP Women's World (ASP) World Tour leader Sunny Garcia Sunny Garcia (b January 14, 1970) is a famous American surfer from Maile, Oahu. He was the 2000 world surfing champion and several computer games use his name. Sunny discovered his talent for surfing at the young age of seven when his friends literally threw him into the and six-time world champion Kelly Slater Kelly Slater (b. Robert Kelly Slater February 11 1972, Cocoa Beach, Florida) is the most successful professional surfer in the history of the sport. Slater is an eight time world champion and has been sponsored by Quiksilver since 1990. will lead 48 of the world's greatest surfers to the famed Southern California surf The Southern California Surf was an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Anaheim, California.The team began play in the 2001-2002 ABA season but is now defunct. It became the Long Beach Jam. spot of Trestles This article is about the surf spots. For the table, see trestle table. For the type of bridge, see trestle. Trestles is a collection of surf spots in San Onofre, CA near the Orange County border. in Orange County, Calif. for the Billabong bil·la·bong n. Australian 1. A dead-end channel extending from the main stream of a river. 2. A streambed filled with water only in the rainy season. 3. A stagnant pool or backwater. Pro presented by Surfer Magazine Sept. 25-30. In nearby San Clemente, the Soul in the Bowl Festival, which includes the Billabong Junior Pro and Billabong Girls event, will take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1. The men's event is a crucial stop on the ASP World Championship Tour. While several regional and domestic competitions have taken place there over the years, an ASP World Championship Tour event has never been held before at Trestles. "Billabong has a reputation for creating events for surfers and their fans. Once again we have stepped up to the plate to stage an event at another world class venue," said Billabong Vice President Graham Stapelberg. Surf fans will not wait long to watch Trestles light up. Slater, the greatest competitive surfer in history and a huge crowd favorite, recently received a wild-card entry from Billabong. He will join fellow wildcard See wild cards and wildcard mask. nominations, the current Junior World Champ, Joel Parkinson and Californian Benji Weatherly. Others to watch will include the Australian 1-2 punch of Occhilupo and Taj Burrow, Californians Rob Machado, Tim Curran and Shane Beschen, Hawaiians Shane Dorian, Sunny Garcia and Ross Williams, and Florida's dual brother acts of C.J. and Damien Hobgood, and Shea and Cory Lopez. The tournament and its $150,600 purse culminate a four-event Billabong Pro series -- the largest such mini-series on the ASP World Tour. Additional stops took place on Australia's Gold Coast in March, South Africa's Jeffreys Bay in July and the Spanish and French coasts in early September. The Billabong Junior Series and Billabong Girls' World Qualifying Series tournament will take place in nearby San Clemente at T-Street on Sept. 29-Oct. 1, along with the Soul in the Bowl Festival at Pier Bowl featuring skate demos, live concerts, a Jumbotron movie screen and more. For more information, check out the Billabong Pro Web site at www.billabongpro.com or www.surfermag.com. Editors may contact Horizon Communications at 805/773-1000 for more information/photos or holly@thepressroom.com. |
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