Daisy Thomas (Freestyle Skiing) and Noah Bradford (Cross Country/Biathlon) have been accepted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame’s 2025 Scholarship and Mentoring Program.
Following the recent National Discipline Committee review Snow Australia is calling for expressions of interest from the community to apply to join an NDC.
Emma Chapman-Davis carved out a successful Moguls career, performing strongly in Australia and around the world. It all came off the back of a promising junior career, where one of her annual highlights was competing at Interschools.
If you look down the start list of athletes contesting the Division 1 competitions this week at the Subaru Australian Interschools Snowsports Championships, around half of them will be in year 12. That means that this weekend they will be taking part in the event for the very last time.
If ever you wanted a true example of the camaraderie and sense of sportsmanship which Interschools stands for, it was evident after lunch on Front Valley at Perisher when the Multiclass and Special Olympics races took place.
Less than half an hour after Sean'Hope "Seanie" Craig wound up her Interschools journey in her final Division 1 race, she had donned a high-vis vest and was down assisting the cross country officials at Blue Cow to get the following relay events underway.
Interschools has long been a breeding ground athletes to move into their senior careers and that was certainly evident when the Snowboard Cross Division 1 athletes took to the course at the Subaru Australian Interschools Snowsports Championships at Perisher today.
One of the most anticipated events of the winter calendar is underway with the commencement today of the Suburu Australian Interschools Snowsports Championships.
Snow Australia has routinely reviewed the role and effectiveness of the National Discipline Committees (NDC’s) against the backdrop of a changing sport and community landscape. One of the key issues that emerged was a need (in some NDC’s) to drastically improve gender diversity on the NDC’s, prompting a targeted approach to increase female membership, aiming for a minimum of 40% representation of each gender by 2026.
The FIS JNR SBX Series powered by the Chumpy Pullin Foundation has been run and won for another year, with organisers getting creative in the face of adverse weather affecting the original program.