Park and Pipe Community Update - March 2024

Dear Park and Pipe Community,

Park and Pipe action in Europe is set to ramp back up this month with multiple Aussie athletes representing the Green & Gold across a massive schedule of events!

Wrapping up last month’s World Cup action was the Calgary Snowboard Halfpipe event where Valentino Guseli was able to secure his maiden gold medal in the halfpipe event. Guseli stomped his first two runs and was able to celebrate his win with a victory lap in what was the last halfpipe event for the season. In the women’s event, Emily Arthur was able to make it through to the finals, where she finished in 8^th place.

The results for the Calgary Snowboard halfpipe events can be viewed here.

The Laax Europa Cup Premium Slopestyle event kicks off on 9^th of March CET where 11 Aussie athletes will compete across the snowboard and Freeski events, headed by World Cup athlete, Josh Robertson-Hahn, and 2023 Junior World Championships Bronze medalist, Ally Hickman, in the Snowboard event, and YOG finalist, Joey Elliss, in the Freeski event. We wish all the best to all those competing!

Following this will be the Tignes World Cup in France beginning on 13^th of March, where Aussie World Cup skiers Kai Martin, Cam Waddell and Abi Harrigan will all aim to bring home the hardware. In Snowboard, we’ll get to see Olympians Valentino Guseli and Tess Coady back in action along with NSWIS athlete Mela Stalker. A week later on the 21^st of March, will be the Silvaplana World Cup which looks to be promising with 6 athletes representing Australia across both disciplines. Good luck to all our World Cup athletes ahead of these events!

Coming up after the World Cup action this month will be the FIS Junior World Championships in Livigno, Italy. The event will run from the 22^nd of March – 30^th of March featuring both Slopestyle and Big Air events, rounding out the month’s competition. A team announcement will be made next week once all the Junior World Championships teams have been confirmed, good luck to our promising junior athletes who will represent Australia over in Livigno!

Don't forget you can now watch most World Cup events live thanks to FIS.TV. To see the schedule for all the Aussies in action visit Snow.org.au/live

We look forward to reflecting over this month’s competition with you all next month.

All the best.

Park and Pipe National Discipline Committee

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In this edition:

- Watch World Cups live with Snow Live X FIS.TV

- Guseli Wins first World Cup Halpipe Gold

- New NSTC Park Clubhouse is now open

- Job Position: Interschools Event Officer 

Image courtesy of Chris Hocking