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| • SPRING GENERAL MEETING - HAVE YOU BOOKED YOUR ROOM? | The 2007 BC Alpine Spring General Meeting will be here before you know it! Everyone is invited. Come and be part of the planning for next season, meet new ski enthusiasts from around the province or reconnect with old friends that you haven't seen for a while.
- May 3rd and 4th: Prestige Inn, Vernon - Coach Meetings
- Saturday, May 5th: Prestige Inn, Vernon - General Meeting
- Saturday, May 5th: (evening): Social (Most likely at the Prestige Inn)
- Sunday, May 6th: Okanagan Golf Club - Alpine Classic Golf Tournament (see "Alpine Classic Golf" in this newsletter)
To book guest rooms at the Prestige Inn (before April 18th deadline):
Toll Free - 1-877-737-8443
Direct - 1-250-558-5991
Website - www.prestigehotelsandresorts.com
Rates: Single/Double/Twin - $89.50
Loft Suite - $109.50
Loft Kitchenette or Bedroom Suite - $119.50
$10.00 per person over 2 per room | |
| • ALPINE CLASSIC GOLF - EVERYONE WELCOME | You are invited to the 13th Annual Alpine Classic Invitational Golf Tournament on Sunday, May 6th, 2007 at the Okanagan Golf Club (Bear Course) in Kelowna. With the Spring General Meeting taking place on the same weekend, we're hoping many of you will decide to stay to enjoy a day of FUN golf with old and new ski friends. Open this INVITATION AND REGISTRATION FORM for all the details. Check www.bcalpine.com in the next week or so for online registration. | |
| • PONTIAC TORRENT RAFFLE - WHO WILL WIN A NEW CAR? | Time is running out - next Saturday we will be awarding our grand prize - a brand new Pontiac Torrent - to one lucky ticket-holder! Please note the following important dates:
• Wed, March 21/07 @ 5 p.m. - Deadline for all ticket stubs and money to BC Alpine
• Saturday, March 24/07 @ 4 p.m. - Pontiac Torrent Grand Prize Draw in Whistler
NOTE: Tickets received after Wednesday, March 21, 2007 will not be guaranteed entry into the March 24, 2007 draw.
• Please do NOT send cash
• Personal cheques will not be accepted
• Clubs must submit ONE CLUB CHEQUE with a RECONCILIATION REPORT to BC Alpine when ticket stubs are turned in. Please send tickets and money to:
BC Alpine, Attention: Kathy Stahr
306-1367 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6H 4A9
• ALL UNSOLD TICKETS MUST BE RETURNED TO BC ALPINE FOR RECONCILIATION PURPOSES.
PRINTABLE RECONCILIATION REPORT
IMPORTANT DATES
Ticket Raffle License # 872775 (20,000 tickets printed)
Grand Prize Draw: March 24, 2007 (4:00pm PST at the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, 2028 Rob Boyd Way, Whistler, BC V0N 1B2)
Prize: 2007 Pontiac Torrent
Estimated Value: $36,000 (Prize must be accepted as awarded) | |
| • 2006/2007 BC ALPINE AWARDS | DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO NOMINATE! Deadline for nominations is Friday, April 13th. Here's a perfect opportunity to recognize and reward the achievements and dedication of Athletes, Coaches, Officials and Volunteers in your area.
To read about the individual awards and bursaries available, as well as the criteria for nominating, please see Chapter 15 of the Green Book. Please note, the BC Alpine “awards selection committee” will only accept one application per gender from each club for each athlete award.
If you would like to suggest an award nomination, please get in touch with your club president. Nominations must be submitted via the Electronic Nomination Form found on the BC Alpine Website (under Communications/Awards). Winners will be announced on May 5th in Vernon at the Spring General Meeting. | |
| • PANORAMA SPRING SERIES - VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED | Decision Day is fast approaching for the Spring Series and we are still short approximately 25 volunteers to run 2 race courses. Unless 15 materialize between now and March 21, we will condense to one ROC and quota the race. We have done everything within our power to round up volunteers in our small town of 5000 residents and we just can't get to the magic number. Again, we appeal to Alberta and BC race parents to help make this a good race for ALL FIS racers! We really don't want to see anyone excluded, but we want to hold an event of reasonable quality for the participants. We still have some free accommodation left and are now assigning it to those able to volunteer for 3 days or more. If you can assist, please e-mail gordon@bagan.ca Thank you in advance! ~ Windermere Valley Ski Club Spring Series ROC | |
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| • K2 NATIONALS - MARCH 19 TO 24 | GO TEAM BC!! Congratulations to the following BC athletes who are in Mt. Tremblant, Quebec preparing to compete for the national K2 championship titles:
WOMEN
Aberger, Daniella (Apex Ski Club)
Darlington, Bria (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Elliot, Sarah (Big White Racers)
Francisty, Kelsi (Mt. Washington Ski Club)
McLeish, Madison (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Meyer, Jen (Big White Racers)
Park, Erica (Apex Ski Club)
Rytz, Celine (Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
TeBulte, Rebekah (Red Mountain Racers)
Timoshenko, Elyse (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
MEN
Black, Jordan (Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
Cadman, Michael (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Hotte, Ryan (Mt. Washington Ski Club)
Konantz, William (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
MacKenzie, Tyler (Sun Peaks Alpine)
Morris, Spencer (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Penn, Isaac (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Sawchyn, Matthew (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Swette, Ford (Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Taillefer, Patrick (Whistler Mountain Ski Club) | |
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| • REPORT FROM ANDREW LAMBERT, MEN'S TEAM COACH | The BC Men's Team has been busy preparing for the final push in March. Our team went off in several different directions at the beginning of March. Ben Thomsen (along with Elli Terwiel from the women’s BC Team) was selected to compete for Canada at the World Junior Champs in Flachau, Austria. He met some of his personal goals there, finishing top 30 in both the SG and DH.
The majority of the BC Team (Conrad Pridy, Trevor Rose, Ian Cumming and Stan Rey) headed out to the Yukon for the Canada Winter Games, along with WMSC athlete JD Mclean. Greeted with -40 C temperatures and thousands of other athletes, our athletes were presented with a new experience and new challenges. The race hill (Mt Sima, just outside of Whitehorse) gave us a good quality race (SG, GS and SL). The men had some decent results in a competitive field. JD McLean (WMSC) narrowly missed the podium in SG, finishing 4th. Conrad Pridy had two 5th place finishes while Trevor Rose came 7th in the slalom. The highlight of the competition was Kelsey Serwa (BC Women's Team) taking home gold for Team BC in the GS. Overall our guys had a respectable team performance - the men finished 3rd in the overall provincial standings, with Ontario 1st, Quebec 2nd and Alberta 4th. During this time, Jonathan Hadley competed in the Reese Cup in Alberta, achieving a career best technical result in the SL, finishing 2nd.
The team is now in Panorama for the Nor Am Finals, followed by the National Championships in Whistler and finally back to Panorama for the spring series. It's a big month for us. Our six guys are all healthy and looking forward to the challenges ahead. | |
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| • ALPINE CANADA ANNUAL COACHES' SUMMIT | Mark April 30th - May 2nd, 2007 on your calendar. ACA and the CSCF will host the second annual Coaching Summit in Calgary, AB on these dates. The summit is aimed at Level 3 and Level 4 professional coaches who are actively coaching at the FIS level and higher. The 2006 summit was a success with all the Canadian Alpine Ski Team coaches, provincial team coaches and some club head coaches in attendance. This year's will be even better!
In addition to coaches meetings and seminars, ACA will add a "congress" component this year that will broaden the scope of the content appealing to more than just coaches. Watch ACA's website for more details and registration info. If you are working at the FIS level and you've committed to ski coaching as a career, then you should be there.
Here is a PROPOSED AGENDA - Registration will begin soon, location details to follow. | | | • INTERFACE WITH CAST COACHES | Coaching Interface Opportunities for Level 3 & 4 Coaches
The Canadian Alpine Ski Team (CAST) is opening up a number of coach interface opportunities this spring at men's and women's training camps at Whistler on Olympic terrain. Camps will run from April 2 - 30 and from May 6 - 16, 2007. Interface opportunities will be 7-14 days and will give attending coaches a chance to be exposed, first hand, to CAST programs, philosophies, staff and athletes. These opportunities are intended for coaches working with FIS level athletes and above. | | | • HUSKY SNOW STARS PROGRAM ON-LINE | The CSCF, in cooperation with Alpine Canada, has posted the Husky Snow Stars program on-line. Over time, pictures and video clips will be added to benchmark tasks in each of the levels, where possible. Currently ALL the program information is there, including all the detailed descriptions to benchmark tasks in the technical manuals. Next season, there will be an additional testing module added to the on-line application to make it available as a professional development module for Entry and Development Level coaches. You can access the on-line version HERE. | | | • CSCF - ACA ATHLETE BURSARY - 2007 | It's that time of year again! This season, members have been particularly generous with voluntary contributions to the Athlete Bursary Fund. The CSCF will be distributing approximately $10,000 in bursaries this spring. Over the past 6 years, more than $65,000.00 has been awarded to K2 and J1 athletes who were in need and showed promise.
Eligible athletes for 2007/2008 season are:
K2 - those born in 1992 or 1993
J1 - those born in 1990 or 1991
Note: The athlete's coach must be a CSCF member in good standing at the time of application or the application will not be considered.
Follow the link to guidelines and an application form for the 2007 CSCF Athlete Bursary Program Application - deadline is April 30, 2007. | | | • ATTENTION ALL K1 COACHES - DON'T MISS STEPHEN NORRIS SEMINAR IN FERNIE | In conjunction with the K1 Provincial Championships taking place in Fernie March 23 to 25, the Fernie Alpine Ski team is proud to present "High Performance Strategic Planning and Long Term Skier Development" - a one-hour Seminar with Stephen R. Norris, Ph.D. - High Performance and Strategic Planning Consultant for Alpine Canada. It's happening on Friday, March 23rd and is a must for all K1 coaches! Click HERE for details. | | | ODDS & ENDS | |
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| • THE UBC SKI TEAM IS LOOKING FOR YOU! | The UBC Varsity Ski Team is the only Canadian ski team racing in the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, a league with over 150 American colleges including Rocky Mountain College, Sierra Nevada College and Brown University. Since its start over 50 years ago, the UBC ski team has sent athletes to the Olympic and World University Games. In the last 10 years, the team has seen a rebirth and now ranks consistently in the top 10 at the USCSA national championships. (Recent NEWS RELEASE from the UBC Team)
UBC is internationally recognized as one of the best schools in the world, and as such, skiing at UBC gives athletes a chance at a world class education, while maintaining high level athletic pursuits. With several racers graduating this year, the UBC ski team is currently recruiting for the 2007/2008 season. Please contact Coach Katie Benjamin for information, ubcskiteam@hotmail.com or 778.773.3737 | | | • HAVE YOU BEEN CLIPPING? | YOUR NEW BC TEAM JACKET IS WAITING FOR YOU!! We're in the final stretch, but there's still time for more, so if you've been gathering articles featuring BC Alpine events and athletes, please mail original clippings to Kathy Stahr, BC Alpine, 306 - 1367 West Broadway, Vancouver, V6H 4A9. Remember, each time you clip an article and send in, we enter your name in the draw to win a Descente Ski Jacket. The winner will be announced at the Spring General Meeting on Saturday, May 5th in Vernon. | | | • SELECTION CAMP FOR CANADIAN HIGH PERFORMANCE SKI CROSS PROGRAM | The Canadian Snowsports Association (CSA), with its partners Alpine Canada Alpine and Canadian Freestyle Ski Association, is committed to the creation of a high performance Ski Cross Program capable of achieving podium results at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. As part of the athlete identification process, the CSA will be holding an invitational SX Camp from April 2 to 6th at Cypress Mountain in order to assess athletes for potential selection to a Canadian High Performance Ski Cross Program. For details, please read the SX Camp Selection Criteria. | | | |
