Alpine Racing News

Athlete Presentation Night 2011

“Welcome to Winter 2011” our athlete presentation night, was an “eye opener” for the new members and visitors who attended on 15th July @ Albert Town Tavern.

Our club had distributed $18 000 between 22 athletes for Northern Hemisphere training 2010-11.This money was raised by members volunteering their time in many ways. All grant recipients are required to assist with fund raising in some form.

The grant recipient athletes are also required to describe how their money was used. Many athletes who received grants ranging from senior athlete Becky Sinclair who gained 4th place at the World Snowboard Champs to Jackson Wells who won the Kombi at Whistler Cup Children’s Race proved the club was certainly very well reimbursed. The crowd watched as athletes tumbled on tramps, trained on alpine piste courses, pipes or parks across the northern hemisphere, broke bones training, rehabbed bravely, mastered the unknown out of bounds territory, represented NZ in different teams, discovered new countries and nationalities while always striving for the heights of their discipline. Even the youngest of athletes was inspiring.

Senior members commented that each year the club achieves better results.

Congratulations to all presenters from the entire club

Adam Barwood – USA – http://adambarwood.wordpress.com/

 

Adam Barwood

Piera Hudson – USA

Piera Hudson

Piera’s Results: Northern Hemisphere 2011, K2 Whistler Cup 4th Super G, Vermont, USA ,State Champion Super G.

Goals: During the  NZ season :Train hard for my first year of FIS racing . Race in the Cardrona FIS races, N Z National Champs and A N C races . Northern Hemisphere: Train hard and study, and make the most of my remaining 25 available 2011-2012 FIS starts in the Northern Hemisphere.

NZ  Season:  2011 First year FIS  athlete.

Sponsors: Rush Munro 100% Natural Ice Cream, Icebreaker, Cinta Market Research Ltd

Skis; Stockli ,  Boots; Atomic

School : Stratton Mountain School, Vermont, USA.

Phoebe Young – Switzerland
K I athlete

2011 Goals Alpine: Improve my slalom technique by learning to cross block properly

2011 Goals Freeski: Land a 360 with a grab.

Longer term goal : To be selected for the International Children’s races, Whistler Cup, Topolino and the Youth Olympics

Skis : Stockli / Atomic  Boots: Lange

School : Wanaka Primary School

Brent & Lane Henry – Switzerland

Lane Henry

Brent Henry

Brent and Lane Henry were born in New York City, but have lived half their lives in NZ and half in NY. They are “Kiwi Americans”! They have a passport for each country. So far, they’ve only raced “for New Zealand” and have spent their entire ski careers only with HPC and Ski Connect—pretty kiwi. Additionally, they got on skis for the first time only 2 years ago (2009)—they’d never skied before July 2009, this is their 2nd race year—2010 was their first.

 

Willis Feasy & Wilbur Coote -  FIS Racing Europe

Toby Eady – Race Training Switzerland

Monique Oosterbaan – Uni World Games , Turkey

Fraser Hannon – USA

Rosie European Season 2011
School : Samuel Marsden College, Wellington

Sam Andrews & Jackson Wells – International Childrens Races

Taylor Smith Europe 2011
School : Samuel Marsden College, Wellington