New for the 2016 - 2017 scholarship year, an integrated high performance program with the Perisher Winter Sports Club has been established to enable scholarship athletes in Snowboard Slopestyle to be supported by a dedicated NSWIS/SSA park and pipe coach.
Lydia Lassila has confirmed she'll make a tilt for a record-equalling fifth Winter Olympics, buoyed by a decision to build a $6 million training facility in Australia.
The National Skills Assessment is a Ski and Snowboard Australia initiative to help promote the importance of skill development and to allow athletes, coaches and parents the ability to track development over time.
It has been 10 years in the making, but Australia’s Winter Olympic leaders finally have the green light to build a water ramp facility they believe will underpin future international success.
Matt Graham has taken out the 2016 Ski and Snowboard Australia Athlete of the Year award after an outstanding season, which saw him finish second overall in this season's Moguls World Cup.
Since 2011 Ski and Snowboard Australia (SSA) has been hosting the National Alpine Children’s Program, giving young Australians the chance to build the foundations for future alpine skiing success.
It’s been an historic night for Australian Winter sport, with Belle Brockhoff and Alex “Chumpy†Pullin winning the Women’s and Men’s World Cup Snowboard Cross Gold Medals at the season ending event in Baqueira Beret, Spain.
The Will To Fly is the story of Olympic Champion Lydia Lassila, who as a young mum, against all the odds competing in one of the most dangerous sports in the world, dares to reach for an almost impossible dream.
Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA)/New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) athlete Belle Brockhoff has finished second at the first of the two World Cup Snowboard Cross events this weekend in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.