Wanna win this sweet surfboard?
The contest period has ended. Thank you for all the amazing entries. Stay tuned over the next few days for the announcement of our winners!
We worked with our friends over at Carve Designs to create a one-of-a-kind T9er surfboard (shaped by Entropy) for one of you lucky ladies to win. Here’s all we’re asking – dazzle us with your creativity by telling us why YOU deserve this sweet 7′ sustainably-made ride.
Would you like to fulfill a life-long dream to catch a wave? Use it as a surf deco coffee table, or save drowning children in faraway oceans? Whatever the cause, tell us in 99 words or less by posting a comment below.
Share your words by June 1st, 2009 for a chance to win the surfboard awesomeness. Fret not, ’cause we’ll be giving away 2 prizes to the runners-up ($100 gift card + Team T9 membership).
Heads Up: Our contests are only open to Title Nine eMail subscribers. They are our way of saying thanks to our loyal customers. So if you aren’t already a subscriber you will become one by submitting your entry. Click Here to read the official rules.
Diploma in hand, borrowed shortboard patched with epoxy on the roofrack, I left North Mississippi for Southern California waves.
I learned to read breaks, duckdive and the difference between sharks and dolphins (!!!). Surfing taught me what it is to feel alive and strong yet small compared to nature’s muscle.
Today I’m a 40ish mother of three girls, (7, 6, 4) to whom I hope to transfer an appreciation of creation and physical accomplishment. They’re getting it. Several times a year we’re oceanside and I watch them dive, dance, race, sprawl in the surf. Your board would “further their education”.
I am a 41 year old mother of three wonderful children, ages 6, 4, and 3! About eight years ago, I would have considered myself a pretty good athlete. Then motherhood came along and zapped away a lot of my time, energy, and resources. As much as I enjoy being a mother, I miss being physically active and the rush I would get from conquering a new sport. I personally declared 2009 as the “bring back the body” year. I’ve started running and biking again, and would love to add surfing to the list.
In the spirit of title nine I have a story to share about a gifted athlete, her love for California, and her desire to surf. After accepting a coaching job at Indiana State, my husband moved our family two years ago from California to Indiana. No beach, no sand, no waves. My daughter Kelly will eventually return to California, go to college and play division one basketball. But in the mean time, with title nine in mind, help a head baseball coach win his daughters heart back by surprising her with a new surf board. California here she comes!
Diploma in hand, borrowed shortboard patched with epoxy on the roofrack, I left North Mississippi for Southern California waves.
I learned to read breaks, duckdive and the difference between shark and dolphin fins (!!!). Surfing taught me what it is to feel alive and strong yet small compared to nature’s muscle.
Today I’m a 40ish mother of three girls, (7, 6, 4) to whom I hope to transfer an appreciation of creation and physical accomplishment. They’re getting it. Several times a year we’re oceanside and I watch them dive, dance, race, sprawl in the surf. Your board would “further their education”.
A 7 year old boy, a 3 year old boy, and a 37 year old slightly bigger boy. These are my three best companions in life and we do everything together; especially trips to the beach to find waves. There’s nothing more satisfying than playing in the water, watching Grant catch his first wave, watching Ethan try to balance on a board on the beach, and knowing that Ryan and I will be able to continue to surf as a family for years and years to come. That’s what we’ll do.
I have been an elementary physical education teacher for 20 years and reside in Long Beach, California…inspiring young people to enjoy movement, activities and something new everyday. A few years ago my 4th and 5th grade students succesfully encouraged me to begin surfing (I have a huge fear of the fish in the ocean)! The basis of my school lessons have always revolved around character…intertwined with ‘fun in the sun’ all wrapped up in a burrito called disguised fitness. Now, I begin to see my students use on me what has been delightfully engrained in their learning through physical education…encouragement, honesty, cooperation, diligence, and integrity! My students are teaching me…patience…respect for the ocean…patience…ahhh did I already say that? 🙂
I would be honored to practice patience on the T9 surfboard!
I’ve always wanted and haven’t:
a skateboard (my husband says we can’t afford my repair bills);
a red leather miniskirt (at this point… probably just as well);
a tambourine (there’s still time);
to see a volcano erupting (you know, spewing… but how often does that happen?);
and to surf (missed my chance at Noosa, Puerto Escondido, Ehukai and Dillon
Beach).
Okay, so I’m a procrastinator… If I’m to learn to surf I’ll need that board… (and lessons
to go with it).
It matches my dreams… (and my eyes).
‘Sides I promised my nieces I’d take them to surf camp.
Can a Nebraska girl learn to surf? I hope so! Today is my 42nd birthday and the past year has been a rough one. My house was foreclosed on, I was laid off from my job, and I have forgotten that life is supposed to be fun. I have always wanted to learn to surf, but living first in the midst of corn fields and then in the desert of Arizona has made that a bit of a challenge. I woke up today and vowed that this year will be different. No matter what curves life throws me, I am still going to have fun and do the things I have always wanted to do! And, as the internship coordinator and an instructor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, the fact that the board is sustainable is a sweet bonus to someone who paints the world green!
hello people,
i am writing to a responce posted by kalya parcells, my name is isaac and i am one of her good friends. we grew up only a couple miles away and have been great friend longer then we can remember. we live in a really small town with a local ski mountian (Pats Peak) kalya is an amazing baorder. literly, she is better then me. this year kalya was found to have a tumer in her lower back……..it killed us, really the entire crew we ride with at the mountian was shocked. here is a girl who is so happy ever day of her life and this happens. but the funny thing was kalya was the same. shur some days she was not there because she was getting toxins pumped into her or she was so sick she could not stand. kalya parcells turned into a mentoe to me she embraced life by fighting and living every monent as her last. but now that is over the mountain is now coverd in grass and the crew is running fast ofr the wall (surf spot about an hour away) kalya was planing on getting a board but the operations set her back a few. she want to come up and ride with us aganie but has no board. she is one of the best chick boarders i have seen and she needs to ride. please….PLEASE.. give her her freedom the doctors are not saying if the spinal fusion in the fall will stop the cancer so please for all of our sakes let kalya anne parcells enjoy this summer. i rode with her and stood by her and i am not doing this plead because she asked me i need my friend back. so please this board will help us all and allow kalya to be with the people she loves so we can give her the summer she deserves.
This surf board could help save the lives of children!
In the past 9 years I have survived Leukemia 3 times and had a bone marrow transplant. In the same time period, I have participated in 4 marathons and 1 triathlon raising $20,000 for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Children should spend their childhood playing in the waves not in a hospital bed with toxins running through chest ports making them sick and losing their hair.
I live in Wilmington, NC so I hope to raffle off the surfboard with proceeds going to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.