Snowboard Community Update - September 2022
Published Thu 22 Sep 2022
Dear Snowboard Community,
What a hectic month of riding and competing highlighted by the SBX Futures and ANC’s held at Hotham and the two final events for the FIS Junior SBX Series Powered by the Chumpy Pullin Foundation held at Mt Hotham and Perisher.
Congratulations to Lara Walsh and Max Vardy for being crowned the overall FIS Junior SBX champions. The top 3 overall leader board results are as follows:
Women’s
1. Lara Walsh
2. Abbey Wilson
3. Tara Jones
Men’s
1. Max Vardy
2. Will McCarthy
3. Cameron Turner
The full leader board can be found on the JNR Series Webpage.
A massive thank you to each of the resort partners, the Chumpy Pullin Foundation and its partners including XTM for making this event possible.
There also was some great racing at the Snowboard Cross Australian New Zealand Cup (ANC) at Mt Hotham.
The festival kicked off with a Futures camp featuring some of Australia’s best young SBX riders. The SBX FUTURES is a Talent Identification (TID) and skill development initiative by Snow Australia with support from the OWIA and NSWIS Athletes and Coaches. The program is designed to lead into the SBX FIS Junior and ANC Races. Participants were given an authentic high-performance training experience over two days on course with the OWIA SBX Team.
The Futures was followed by four days of intensive racing featuring Groms, Jnr FIS and three ANC events.
Congratulations to Josie Baff and Adam Lambert who took first place in the series results. Josie won all three women’s events and Adam Lambert won out two of the three men’s races.
The top 3 overall series results are as follows:
Women’s
1. Josie Baff
2. Amber Essex
3. Taya Lilli-Dent
Men’s
4. Adam Lambert
5. Cameron Bolton
6. Takeru Tebakari ( Japan)
Good luck to all for the balance of the season.
Rob Dickson
Chair- National Snowboard Committee
- Overall FIS JNR SBX Series Champions Crowned
- SBX ANC Wrap Up
- Athlete Spotlight: Josie Baff
- Tassie Local Emerges as Young Snowboard Champion
