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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Craig Kerry

Meg Purser program brings support for next wave of Newcastle women's surfers

Merewether surfer Philippa Anderson competing at Surfest in 2020. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

Philippa Anderson was more than happy to help the newly formed Meg Purser Pathway Program when organisers wanted nominees from the next generation of Newcastle women's surfers to support.

The 30-year-old qualifying series veteran, a Surfest champion at 17, put forward Amelie Bourke, Logan Dalton and Ellie Lambkin as worthy recipients. Anderson, though, did not expect to join them as beneficiaries of the program.

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