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UO Surf Club Competes at the Clean Water Classic in Westport, Wa.

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oregon chapter.

Two weekends ago, the UO Surf Club brought two vehicles packed with excited students to Wesport, Wa. to attend the 10th annual Clean Water Classic Surf Competition.

Brittany Krieg (right), Allie Ketchum (middle) and Mychelle Hastings (left) head to the beach to check the surf conditions. The girls had never surfed on the Washington Coast before this competition.

The waves in Westport can get out of hand at times, but they were just right for the Clean Water Classic.

UO Surf Club Coordinator Ben Hulburt was happy to see a bigger turnout than last year for the Oregon Surf Club.

Corey Talbott, a freshman at Oregon, grew up in California and has a lot of experience with big surf.

Stephen Semansky, a freshman at Oregon, is in the process of becoming co-coordinator for the UO Surf Club. This was his first trip to the Clean Water Classic.

Kevin Sennewald competed to represent the University of Oregon in a longboard heat. Sennewald is from the Oregon Coast and is accustomed to surfing in chilly conditions.

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A University of Oregon junior and San Francisco native, Charmaine Ng loves authentic noodle dishes and will always opt for Asian and Italian cuisine when pressed to choose a restaurant. She is a self-proclaimed "noodler," someone who uses her noodle to collaborate with others and bring big ideas to life. She interns for a student-run full-service ad agency, blogs for a wedding and event planning company, and runs the UO Muggle Quidditch League. In her spare time, she sleeps, and sleeps, and sleeps - and dabbles in social media and blogging, her two biggest passions. Her quirkiness isn't apparent at first, but then she starts talking about packaging design and making funny faces, and you wonder what happened to that shy Asian girl you first met. With ambition bursting beyond the campus walls, Charmaine can't wait to graduate and work for an agency, company, or publication in community outreach efforts using social media.