Earlier in 2024, Snow Australia conducted a survey with snowsports volunteers and clubs to gain deeper insights into our volunteer base and identify ways to better support and engage them.
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.
The Subaru NSW / ACT / QLD State Interschool Championships have come to a close at Perisher today, Friday 23 August.
Over the 5 days of competition more than 1,800 students participated from 255 schools.
Today wraps up the final Interschools Regional Championships in Falls Creek where 139 school students 14 Regional NSW schools competed over five days totalling 340 entries.
This week the SUBARU ACT & Regional NSW Interschool Snowsport Championships returned to Perisher where 1300 students competed from 146 schools, totalling over 2700 entries.
The Interschools Championships headed to both Perisher and Falls Creek this week for the SUBARU Sydney Championships and South Australia and Tasmania Interschools Championships.
The Interschools Snowsports Championships has returned for another season with the SUBARU Northern NSW and QLD Regional Championships held in Thredbo this week.
This season Snow Australia are offering volunteers mentoring and shadowing opportunities at Interschools for those looking to become more experienced to undertake roles, such as start referee, finish referee, and chief of gates roles.
As Director of Sport at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Essendon, Vicki Hoban will once again be back at Victorian Interschools with the biggest team the school has entered in three decades of competing.
Mia Clift made her Snowboard Cross World Cup debut at the age of 17 in 2021, racing against World Champions and Olympic gold medallists including Eva Adamczykova (nee Samkova), Michela Moioli, Charlotte Bankes and our own Belle Brockhoff.