Discipline: Para Alpine Skiing
Paralympic Participation: Beijing 2022
Medal awarded in: 2022

Sighted guide for Para-Alpine skier Melissa Perinne, Bobbi Kelly herself was a ski racer training at the Perisher Winter Sports Club. She competed in FIS Alpine events from 2009 to 2014. 

Bobbi has a Level 4 Australian Professional Snowsport Instructors (APSI) qualification and is a Level 1/2 trainer for the APSI. She has been an Alpine coach with Perisher Winter Sports Club for a number of years.

Bobbi’s good friend and former guide to Perrine, Christian Geiger, is the one who asked her to become a guide. Geiger, who guided Perrine to two bronze medals at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, encouraged them to work together, and the team was quickly formed ahead of the 2018/19 season. 

In their first season, Bobbi and Mel won 12 medals on the World Cup circuit and four medals at the 2019 World Para-alpine Skiing Championships, a feat which Bobbi lists as her career highlight.
The medal haul at the World Championships included gold in the Super Combined, silver medals in the Giant Slalom and Super G and bronze in the Slalom. 
The season achievements led Perrine and Kelly to be named 2019 Snow Australia’s Paralympic Athlete of the Year and Female Para-athlete of the Year at the AIS Awards later that year. 
At the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games the pair finished in sixth position in the Women’s Giant Slalom. They closed their campaign with the Slalom however striking a gate in the second run, the duo recorded a DNF.