A rising star | Noosa Today

By Ron Lane

Despite the fact that Grace Otto of the Sunshine Beach Surf Life Saving Club, is a 16-year-old, year 11 student at St Andrews College, this quiet, attractive young lady, knows exactly what she wants when it comes to competing in the rugged world of surf life savings surf sports competition.

For Grace there are two golds: first is the Nutri Grain Iron Woman and following this is the biggest event of all, the Coolangatta Gold. “ To me these events are my big attraction. Because they are made up of different disciplines, board, ski, swim and run, I find this to be the greatest challenge of all; there is nothing better than these events.” What she finds so challenging about the Coolangatta Gold is the…