The 2015 National Scholastic Surfing Championships will be played out in the Gisborne Region in two weeks' time with surfers praying for perfect spring swells to let loose upon.

The event takes place from Monday, September 28, running for five days.

Bay of Plenty surfer Callum Chuter (Tauranga), one of the twelve junior surfers selected to defend the Bay of Plenty's title at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships.

Around 120 of New Zealand's top school aged surfers will be in attendance at the event with all twelve regions expected to field teams.

The Eastland Community Trust is pleased to be able to support the Gisborne Boardrider Club's efforts to host such a high profile surfing event in Gisborne.

ECT General Manager Leighton Evans says the opportunity to welcome hundreds of competitors and their supporters to the region at a traditionally quiet time of year was a compelling reason.

"The potential benefits of these events fitted well within our funding framework. We are looking for events that can attract people to the East Coast, raise the region's profile and celebrate our unique natural assets.”

"We consider this a major coup for our region," he says.

The event was last held at Gisborne in 2010.The defending champion Bay of Plenty Team have been in hot form recently with Mount Maunganui College taking out the Secondary School event held at Raglan at the end of August.

They will again be a title favourite at Gisborne with strength across the entire twelve-surfer team.

The Bay of Plenty has won four of the last five titles with only Gisborne topping them in 2011.

Within a week of this year's event finishing, the New Zealand Junior Surfing Team will head to California, USA to contest the International Surfing Association (ISA) 2015 Vissla World Junior Surfing Championship.

That will give this Scholastic Championships extra purpose for those set to compete internationally.Five of the Mount Maunganui Team have also been named in the New Zealand Team.

They include Callum Chuter, Jonas Tawharu, Kehu Butler, Elin Tawharu and Raiha Ensor. Ensor is the only defending champion in the team as she looks to make it two in a row in the Under 16 Girls Division.

Taranaki will look to lose their bridesmaid tag at the event and claim their first ever team's title with the likes of defending Under 16 Boys Champion Daniel Farr leading the team alongside his brother Joshua, who will contest the Under 18 Boys Division and recent Maori representatives Reef Matthews (Under 16 Boys) and Zhana Hutchieson (Under 16 Girls).

The Taranaki team narrowly lost the points race on the final day in 2014.

The Adam Clegg Trophies for the most improved male and female surfers as determined by peer voting will be handed out at the conclusion of the event.

The trophy was first won by Gisborne's own Ben McCulloch who will again be part of the host team this year.

The twelve regional teams from around the country include Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Canterbury, West Coast and Dunedin/Southland.

The National Scholastic Championships has been grouped together with the Primary School Champs which is held the weekend prior and the GromLab Surfer Development Camp.

The GromLab is a Gisborne Boardrider Club initiative that will see twenty young surfers spend the week together developing their surfing and learning about the region's waves from some of the country's top surfers.

Ricardo Christie will also tune in to the camp from overseas and will be talking to the group of surfers and answering questions that they have.

The GromLab will run alongside the Scholastic Championships.