After compiling successful junior resumes both in Australia and internationally, rising surf stars Jessica Grimwood and Amy Stewart are hoping to jumpstart their senior professional careers on surfing's elite World Qualifying Series (WQS) tour by winning Jim Beam's The Break competition. The competition, that challenges surfers to ‘catch the break of a lifetime' by entering online at www.jimbeamthebreak.com.au, will win the top female entrant a cool $25,000 package of cash and prizes to help in an offensive on next year's WQS tour. The best male contestant will also take home a $50,000 sponsorship. Grimwood, from Bateau Bay on the NSW Central Coast, and Stewart, of Jan Juc in Victoria, are just two of more than 200 women and men to have signed up for the competition so far. The pair have had similar career successes to date with local victories in their home states' as well as overseas - a win at the prestigious Huntington Beach Volcom QS event in the USA for Grimwood and the Mr Price Pro Junior in South Africa for Stewart - the highlights. Since those junior triumphs and now in their 20's both have been forced to work fulltime leaving little opportunity to train and surf at the level required to make it on the full-time tour. That is until now when Jim Beam The Break, offers a chance that Grimwood is all too keen to grasp. "My goals this year are to prepare myself financially, physically and mentally to destroy competition on the 2011 WQS," Grimwood said. "(If I won) I could concentrate on my surfing performance and training instead of working full time to support myself on the WQS. "Win or not I will be doing the WQS next year, nothing is going to stop me (but) it would just be a lot more effective to have a sponsor to help me reach my professional goals." Stewart, who is currently sitting 53rd on the women's world rankings, has similar dreams and at the moment an even busier task trying to reach them as she juggles a TAFE course with working seven days a week and still trying to surf as much as possible. "Winning this competition would mean that I could finally do a proper, full year, with no worries and could just go out and surf." Stewart class's fellow Bells Beach ripper and Jim Beam The Break entrant Adam Robertson as one of the major influences on her surfing style and ambitions and the pair might just make it a local double for the Victorian Surf Coast. Ranked inside the world's top 100, Robertson is part of a talented list of males signed for the competition so far that includes Leigh Sedley, Noah Lane, Clancy Dawson, former World Championship Tour stars Toby Martin and Kirk Flintoff, experienced competitors Jay Phillips, Dave Reardon-Smith and Dru Adler as well as big wave charger Jy Johannesen. Surfers that are unsigned to a major endorsement deal can register online now and have until the end of October to submit a 60 second highlight package of their best waves as well as a short insight into their character out of the surf. From there 40 men and 20 women will be announced as semi finalists going to public and judges votes in online heats over two months before fifteen finalists will be selected to attend the Jim Beam The Break surf camp in January. The camp will feature free surfing displays, physical testing, media training and a marketing session before the overall winner is selected and awarded The Break of a lifetime. All thanks to Jim Beam - The Spirit of Surfing and their partners Rip Curl, Sanyo, Swellnet and Tracks.