Heather 'Fergie' Clark is totally 'over the moon'

Port Shepstone's own Heather Clark has won the Masters' surfing title in Peru.
TEAM South Africa continued its reign as the indisputed champion of world masters' surfing by trumping the world's best 35-years and older surfers to win the overall team crown at the 2008 International Surfing Association World Surfing Championship in Peru.
Led by individual gold medalists Heather Clark (masters' women), Marc Wright (kahunas) and Chris Knutsen (grand kahunas), South Africa blew away the competition to take its second consecutive team World Championship.
Former world tour surfer Heather Clark (Port Shepstone) got the ball rolling for the South African team, blasting her way to victory over Peru's Rocio Larranaga, Sandra English (Australia) and Brigitte Mayer(Brazil) in the final of the Masters Women's (over 35 years) division.
South Africa's most decorated female surfer was in a league of her own, netting 15.83 points in the final to end the event with the four highest heat tallies and the five highest single ride scores in the women's event.
"I'm absolutely ecstatic," Heather said. "In 2003 I was in contention for the title on the World Tour, so it's always been my dream to win a world title. I'm over the moon."
South Africa finished on top with 10 500 points, 1100 ahead of Australia in second, with Brazil (9 041) finishing in third and hosts Peru rounding out the top four with 8766 points.
Said ISA president Fernando Aguerre, "The proverbial fountain of youth is closer than we might think: it is the waves of the world. We don't stop surfing because we get old, we get old because we stop surfing ... so don't stop!"
The location of the 2009 ISA World Masters' Surfing Championship has not yet been chosen but locations in South Africa and Brazil are in the running.