ASP GRADE-2 OAKLEY PRO JUNIOR HITS NEWPORT BEACH SEPT. 20-23

Juniors Ratings War Intensifies After Arrambide’s Win in New Jersey and
With Only Two North American Pro Junior Events Remaining

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2007 – Continuing the flow of major Southern California surf events this month, the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior returns to Newport Beach’s 54th Street Break next week (Sept. 20-23). The event, held in conjunction with the Oakley Newport Beach Pro presented by Jeep®, (Sept. 18-23) and 19th annual Newport Beach Surfing Championships (Sept. 22-23), will unite 48 of the world’s top Juniors (under the age of 20) to vie for a $10,000 prize purse and valuable ASP points.

The second to last event on the ASP North American Pro Junior Series, the Oakley Pro Junior will play a significant role in determining the four surfers who will advance to the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships held in Narrabeen, Australia next January. The final stop of the series will be the ASP Grade-3 Oakley Pro Junior in Santa Cruz next month, which will also serve as the 2007 ASP North American Pro Junior Championships.

With only two opportunities for ASP North America’s top Juniors to earn a result, the race has heated up and it’s anyone’s game. Just two weeks ago, Cory Arrambide (Ventura, CA) claimed his first ASP Pro Junior victory of the season in New Jersey, rocketing him from fourth to first on the current ASP North American Pro Junior ratings. He’s trailed closely by Eric Geiselman (New Smyrna Beach, FL), Chris Waring (Seal Beach, CA) and Adam Wickwire (Satellite Beach, FL), respectively.

The last two ASP North American Pro Junior events are also the last two stops of the Macy’s California Trifecta Surf Series, which will award an additional $5,000 to the top three Pro Juniors within the series. After stop one in Lower Trestles during the Jeep Body Glove Surfbout in April, the current Macy’s California Pro Junior standings are: Brent Dorrington (Gold Coast, AUS) 500 pts, Eric Geiselman (New Smyrna Beach, FL) 430 pts, Cory Arrambide (Ventura, CA) 365 pts and Nick Rozsa (Oxnard, CA) 335 pts.

“It’s all coming down to the wire for the juniors sitting in the top of the ratings. With a year end Trifecta cash bonus, ASP North American title, and berths into the world championships on the line, we are looking forward to an exciting points race coming out of Newport and are stoked to provide this opportunity to the competitors with the Oakley Pro Junior division of the Macy’s Trifecta.” says ASG Events Director Sean Nielsen.

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The Jeep brand has expanded to seven models in the 2007 model year, the most available to retail consumers at one time in the brand’s 66-year history. With the introduction of the all-new 2008 Jeep Liberty mid-size sport-utility vehicle (SUV), Jeep offers customers the freshest, most capable and widest range of sport-utility vehicles under one brand in the industry. At the start of 2004, the brand’s trio of tough, capable, rugged SUVs included the venerable Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Liberty (Cherokee outside North America) and the icon of the brand, the Jeep Wrangler. In 2005, the Jeep Commander was introduced. In 2006, the redesigned Jeep Wrangler was unveiled. Also debuting in calendar year 2006 were three more all-new Jeep vehicles: Jeep Patriot, Jeep Compass and the four-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.

About Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) is the governing body of professional surfing. Crowning surfing’s undisputed world champions since 1976 (formerly as IPS), the ASP sanctions the following tours: the Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour, the ASP Women’s World Tour, the World Qualifying Series (WQS) and the World Longboarding, Junior and Masters Championships. The ASP is dedicated to showcasing the world's best surfing talent in a variety of progressive formats and has revolutionized the way the world watches surfing via their webcasts. The organization is divided into seven different regions: Africa, Japan, Australasia, Europe, Hawaii, North America, and South America. These regions manage all their respective domestic affairs under the guidance of ASP International, which is located on the Gold Coast of Australia. ASP International and ASP North America are committed to the progression of surfing and are dedicated to continuing excellent relationships with their surfers, event operators, sponsors and media. For more information: www.aspworldtour.com or www.aspnorthamerica.org.

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