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| • TICKETS GO ON SALE NOVEMBER 2ND | 07/08 PONTIAC TORRENT RAFFLE - Happy Selling!
BC Alpine and Pontiac GMC are offering you a chance to win a brand new 2008 Pontiac Torrent while raising valuable funds for your club. Tickets are $5.00 each and the odds are good - only 20,000 tickets have been printed!
Early Bird Draw: January 11, 2008 (3:00pm PST at the BC Alpine Office,
306-1367 W Broadway, Vancouver BC V6H 4A9)
Prize: Descente BC Ski Team Jacket & Pants
Estimated Value: $800.00
Grand Prize Draw: March 1, 2008 (4:00pm PST at the Sun Peaks Club Cabin, 1001 Village Way, Sun Peaks, BC, V0E 5H0)
Prize: 2008 Pontiac Torrent (Team Canada AWD Edition)
Estimated Value: $33,640. (Prize must be accepted as awarded no cash equivalent. Vehicle will incur mileage during promotion.) Licence #: 2216 | |
| • ALPINE CANADA WAIVER SIGNING SITE NOW ONLINE | New for this season, BC Alpine has created a portal for members to log in and update their contact information with us, sign the ACA waiver (Required to complete your registration this season) as well as manage other account information. In order to log in, your club needs to have registered you with BC Alpine and you must have access to the email address on record for your account.
NOTE: it is MANDATORY this year that all members sign the ACA waiver, either in person and give it to the club, or via this online system. Our database will be tracking all signatures - members who have not signed using one of these methods will NOT be covered by our insurance. This applies to all members, not just racers, so even if you are a parent or supporter at the club be sure to go through the steps of making sure you are covered!
The link to log in can be found under the RESOURCES tab on the BC Alpine website and is entitled "Member Info Update". | |
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| • CANACCORD K1/K2 APEX B2B CAMP | November 21 to 25, 2007
Congratulations to everyone who has been invited to the first on-snow Canaccord Kinder Camp of the season at Apex Mountain Resort! (Click HERE for list of athletes.) This training opportunity is supported by BC Alpine and Canaccord Capital. The cost to the athlete, including all meals (but not including travel to and from Apex), is $575.00. If you plan to attend, please PAY ONLINE or mail your cheque payable to BC Alpine to 306 1367 West Broadway, Vancouver, V6H 4A9. Sign up and payment DEADLINE is November 10th! Please be sure to arrive at the Apex Mountain Inn in Apex BEFORE 7:00 PM on the evening of November 20th we start skiing on the 21st. | |
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| • NEW KOMBI GUIDELINES | The Kinder Kombi is an internationally recognized event for Kinder racing that consists of a mixture of standard turns and gates. The event meets developmental needs for this age group, creating a tactical awareness by blending sections of different gates in a flowing, rhythmical, constantly changing pattern. Click HERE for complete Kombi Guidelines (course setting and design, technical data, etc.) | |
| • COACH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UPDATE | Sign up early for courses in your area!
CSCF Head Coach- Leader Pro D: www.snowpro.com Apex -November 13-14, 2007 CSCF Entry Level Facilitator Training: www.snowpro.com Apex -November 15-16, 2007 CSCF Entry Level Course for club coaches: www.snowpro.com Apex (Okanagan Clubs) December 7-9, 2007 Grouse (Coast Clubs) December 7-9, 2007 (night) Kimberly (Kootenay Clubs) December 14-16, 2007 Mount Washington - December 21-23, 2007 Prince George (North Clubs) January 4-6, 2008 Entry Level 1-day Academies: contact Joanna Magee joannaM@bcalpine.com Apex (Okanagan Clubs) December 9, 2007 Grouse (Coast Clubs) December 18 & 19, 2007 (night) Kimberly (Kootenay Clubs) December 16, 2007 Mount Washington December 22 or 23 (TBA), 2007 Prince George (North Clubs) January 6, 2008 For coach interface opportunities at the November 21 Canaccord Kinder Camp in Apex, please contact Joanna Magee | |
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| • WIN FIRST TICKETS TO 2010 - PURCHASE A SPORTSFUNDER INSTANT WIN TICKET! | British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is pleased to release First Tickets to 2010, a new $5 SportsFunder Instant Win ticket offering players the chance to win the very first tickets to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony.
We are very proud to offer British Columbians the first chance to get tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime event, said Dana Hayden, BCLC President & CEO. The thrill and excitement of the Olympic Games is inspiring and moves people to participate in sports. Through SportsFunder lottery games, BCLC is offering the opportunity to support amateur athletes, many of whom aspire to compete at the Olympic level.
With a total of 100 pairs of tickets to be won, players have a 1:5,000 chance of winning tickets to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. In addition to offering the chance to win tickets to the Opening Ceremony and $1,000 spending money, the new $5 SportsFunder First Tickets to 2010 also features $1 million in cash prizes. The overall odds of winning any prize are approximately 1:4.
CLICK to read BC Lottery Corporation MEDIA RELEASE | |
| • PANORAMA BC CUP ACCOMMODATION | If you are interested in booking at Panorama Mountain Village for the BC Cup Slalom and GS event December 18th 21st, 2007, HERE is all the information pertaining to accommodation, meal plans, lift tickets and training space. Book soon as space is filling up quickly! | |
| • WANTED - SKI RACK FOR TEAM VAN | The Big White Racers Ski Club is looking for a ski rack/box for the roof of their 15 passenger team van. If you have one, please call Trevor Haaheim (Big White Program Director) at 250-762-9011. | |
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| • SERWA, SIMMERLING,TERWIEL MAKE THE CUT & STAY WITH 2010 ACCELERATION TEAM | As part of the largest-ever Canadian Alpine Ski Team - 44 racers in all - Alpine Canada Alpin has named nine women to the new 2010 Acceleration Team. These high potential athletes will focus on gaining valuable experience against tough international competition. Selected in the spring to participate in an intensive summer program that included dryland and on-snow training, they had to earn the right to stay with the group for the remainder of the season. Former BC Ski Team athletes Georgia Simmerling of West Vancouver (Grouse Tyee Ski Club), Kelsey Serwa of Kelowna (Big White Racers) and Elli Terwiel of Heffley Creek (Sun Peaks Alpine Club) were offered an opportunity to train with the best and they met the challenge head on. They fought hard and proved thats exactly where they belong with the best! (Read full News Release with quotes and photos) | | | • MEN'S TEAM UPDATE BY GLENN THOMSEN | Summer training is over with five very successful on-snow camps completed. The dryland program ran non-stop this year from May to the end of October with a two month uninterrupted block in July and August. Our final physical lab tests which are taking place November 3rd and 4th at UBC will give us an indication of just how successful our dryland program has been this year. Cindy Thomson of PacificSport has played a key role in the design and implementation of our dryland programs and although the boys were rewarded with great gains in their strength and fitness, they are not sad to see the end of the big dryland push. Everyone is looking forward to focusing on their first love ski racing! They are all healthy and fit with the exception of Stan Rey who suffered a concussion during our Portillo, Chile ski camp. We expect Stan to be fully recovered and ready to join us on snow beginning November 9th at Panorama. The boys will have a very busy November and December, forerunning the Mens World Cup Downhill and Super G in Lake Louise as well as racing in 12 different starts before Christmas. We are definitely ready to rumble!! Here are the BC Team guys to watch for: Ben Thomsen (Windermere Valley Ski Club), Conrad Pridy (Whistler Mountain Ski Club), Morgan Pridy (Whistler Mountain Ski Club), Sasha Zaitsoff (Red Mountain Racers), Stan Rey (Whistler Mountain Ski Club) and Mat Leduc (Mt. Washington Ski Club) | | | • NANCY O'NEILL WOMEN'S TEAM UPDATE | The Women's BC Ski Team took quite a hit when Victoria Whitney (Whistler Mountain Ski Club) suffered a season-ending knee injury during a training camp in Portillo, Chile. Surgery to repair her ACL was successful and she is well on her way to a full recovery. Smiling and taking it all in stride, Toria is looking forward to lots of physio and wrapping up grade 12! FULL NEWS ARTICLEVic Glowczynski had an excellent opportunity to train along side her old teammates on the 2010 Acceleration team in Farnham. She had a great camp despite some tough conditions - winter really hit hard while we were there and the powder skiing was amazing! Unfortunately Sandra MacDonald wasn't able to join us in Farnham, but she is coming back steadily from her bout with mono and is working with Cindy Thomson (PacificSport) who has given her an individualized training program to follow. The BC Team women will spend most of November and December living and training at Panorama and Nancy hopes to be able to work with some of the young up and coming girls in the province during that time. | | | OFFICIALS | |
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| • MARK ARMOUR'S OFFICIALS NEWS | I ask everyone for your patience as I slowly dip my toes into my new position as Officials' Chair. A number of well-attended events hosted by BC Alpine (TD Update; timing seminar by Ted Savage; Dr. Bob Morrell's concussion presentation) as well as the FIS Update in Vancouver last weekend have been an informative start to the season for all of us. Also, there a lot of new information in the current FIS Provisional Precisions (final after Nov.4 meeting) and in BC Alpine's 07/08 Green Book (now available). I would suggest all officials and course conductors make themselves familiar with this material on the web. TD assignments are in the draft phase right now and will be in place on the calendar as soon as possible. A reminder to everyone - if you are helping at any of our events, you must be a club member, and sign the ACA waiver in order to fulfill our insurance requirements. I look forward to seeing you all on the hill! | |
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