GRACE DAVIES retained her British Longboard Union Ladies’ Championship title after winning round five at Gwithian Towers, Cornwall at the weekend.

The 18-year-old started the championship back in April and with three results to count from five rounds, Davies won the championship with maximum points following three superb wins – Gwithian Towers, Jersey and Watergate Bay.

In the Cornwall final, Davies, a head girl at Beaulieu School, was commended by British coach Joel Gray who had travelled down to watch her.

He said: ‘Grace was on fire, walking the board, hanging the 5s and 10s, putting in the turns and building the points to produce a fantastic solid performance that had been building through the day.’ In her final year as a junior Davies also entered the under-18 division which is a unisex competition of a very high standard – evident as the champion also made the Open men’s final.

And Davies made history as she was the first female to make the final of a BLU junior event, finishing an excellent fourth after an exhausting schedule (eight heats of 20 minutes in one day).