Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Scottish Championships

The Scottish Championships in Courchevel provided us with a good warm up for the British Championships immediately after.
Minis 
The minis enjoyed two days of racing in Courchevel, with a GS and Combi.  The minis ran after the childrens races therefore we had plenty time to warm up and make the most of the morning snow!  On our last day in Courchevel we were also lucky enough to watch members of the French National team take part in a SL ski testing session. 
GS
U12 Girls - 1st Siena Horton, 3rd Nadine Hugec 
U12 Boys - 1st Joe Christey
U10 Boys - 1st Max Laughland
Combi
U12 Girls - 1st Siena Horton, 2nd Nadine Hugec, 3rd Rebecca Chastney 
U12 Boys - 2nd Joe Christey, 4th Ted Slade 
Minis Report: 

"The Scottish Championships were good fun but very hard at times. Due to the warm conditions the courses were salted on both days to keep the snow hard. This also stopped huge ruts! On Sunday we enjoyed a very short  but difficult GS. This included a very big banana gate , this was the gate that you had to get right! We all had a very good GS day with many of the BSA coming in the top 15! 
On Monday we competed in a great Combi race which included GS gates,stubbies,some brushes that we had to jump over, suicides, undergates and wigwams(figure of eight).  Again this was very challenging course and we all were very tired at the end. Quite a lot of us on the first run missed a gate or fell over so we hard to come back hard in the second run, which most managed to do!  Again the BSA did very well with lots of us finishing in the top 15!
Overall  on these two days of competition everyone did very well! Now we look forward to the British, good luck everyone."

By Siena Horton U12 - Overall winner on both days of the Scottish Bairns Race!
 
Children 
The weather conditions on the first day caused the race to be cancelled meaning we had 2 races remaining. There was a slight difference from the normal format for the U14’s with each run counting as a separate race for prizes. There were some good performances and also some good indications of changes that need to be made in approaching the races in Meribel in the coming days
GS
U14 Boys Race 1 Charles Rankin 3rdU14 Boys Race 2 Charles Rankin 2ndU16 Girls Marion Legais 2nd U16 Girls Yazmin Cooper 3rd
SL
U14 Girls Hannah Loeffen-Gallager 2ndU14 Girls Nicole Hugec 3rdU14 Boys Harry Deighton 2ndU16 Girls Megan Jenkins 1st U16 Girls Lucinda Dilworth 3rdU16 Boys Angus Wills 3rd