2011 - 2012 Lightning Class Series!
The Lightning Class Series is held Friday nights on a time trial format at SDCKT's Fiesta Island location. The idea behind the Lightning Series is to give our younger paddlers an opportunity to race when there is no workout scheduled on the Saturday due to the Racing Team Competing in the SOCAL Winter Race Series.
The Tecolote 5000 and the Hano Hano races are in San Diego and considered part of the Lightning Series as well as the Dana Pt. race. This is for 14&U to 12&U beginners to intermediate paddlers who are able to paddle 1000m in a Lightning kayak. Mexican Teams from Ensenada and Tijuana frequently join us for these exciting races in the "little yellow boats"! 2011 - 2012 Lightning Series Dates: Friday 11th November 2011, Friday Dec 2nd, 2011, Saturday Dec 17th, 2011 (Tecolote Race), Friday Jan 13th, 2012, Saturday Jan 28th, 2012 (Hano Hano) Saturday Feb 4th, 2012, Friday Feb 24th, 2012, Saturday March 10th, 2012 (Dana Pt), Friday March 23rd, 2012. | 
Picture by Antionette AliotoThe SDCKT Lightning Class Boats were purchased from KAYAKPRO thanks to a Grant frrom the LA84 Foundation.
Rules: Must Race in a Lightning, Points of 20, 19.18 etc awarded to fastest finish at each Lightning Race. 2 extra points awarded to 12 and Under age category. At Tecolote and other races points given based on finish order. Athletes will be ranked based on their top 5 races in the series. Ties are broken by total of all races.  |
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2011 Lightning Class Champions - Noa Hopper and Josie Ballard
At the Three Nations Regatta on Saturday March 26th, 2011 Coach Chris Barlow awarded the
2010 - 2011 Lightning Class Trophy to overall points winners Noa Hopper and Josie Ballard.
Points were awarded to the top finishers based on their age and their best finshes in 5 out of the
9 races.
After the series in the Lightning Trainer Kayaks Noa Hopper was able to take the lead from Bayley Olds due to the fact that Noa is under 12 and picked up extra age points towards his overall total of 105 points compared to Bayley's 100 points. Bayley won the majority of the races and gained invaluable racing experience allowing him to move up to doing some of the SOCAL Ocean Racing Series races where he performed admirably for someone so new to the sport. Noa is turning into quite the waterman, racing on paddleboards, SUP's and playing Water Polo, this is the 2nd year in a row that Noa has his name on the Lightning Trophy.
Josie Ballard pretty much led the series from the start in the young ladies division scoring a total of 107 points. Josie has only been paddling for a few months and it is clear by her Lightning Class results that she has a great paddling career ahead of her. Lauren Da Costa clinched the 2nd place spot closely followed by Lilly Glasser with 97 and 96 points each.
For complete results and standing of the series click here....
2010 - 2011 Lightning Class Trophy to overall points winners Noa Hopper and Josie Ballard.
Points were awarded to the top finishers based on their age and their best finshes in 5 out of the
9 races.
After the series in the Lightning Trainer Kayaks Noa Hopper was able to take the lead from Bayley Olds due to the fact that Noa is under 12 and picked up extra age points towards his overall total of 105 points compared to Bayley's 100 points. Bayley won the majority of the races and gained invaluable racing experience allowing him to move up to doing some of the SOCAL Ocean Racing Series races where he performed admirably for someone so new to the sport. Noa is turning into quite the waterman, racing on paddleboards, SUP's and playing Water Polo, this is the 2nd year in a row that Noa has his name on the Lightning Trophy.
Josie Ballard pretty much led the series from the start in the young ladies division scoring a total of 107 points. Josie has only been paddling for a few months and it is clear by her Lightning Class results that she has a great paddling career ahead of her. Lauren Da Costa clinched the 2nd place spot closely followed by Lilly Glasser with 97 and 96 points each.
For complete results and standing of the series click here....
