Historic final pits husband against wife

By Phil Jarratt

In more than 60 years of modern surfing competition, plenty of friends have become rivals when they meet in the water, but no one at last weekend’s Noosa Logger event could remember a husband and wife ever doing battle in the waves.

A quick search through the records revealed that Mr and Mrs Zye Norris did indeed make surfing history when they clashed in the final of the prestigious Old Mal event, in which traditional surfers ride surfboards that in most cases were made long before they were born. That was certainly the case for Noosa-born Zye and his beautiful Hawaiian bride who is better known in surfing circles as Sierra Lerback.

Sierra and Zye were married in Australia on Christmas Day 2019, just…