Sherret wraps up breakout season winning World Junior Ski Cross Gold - BC Alpine Ski Association
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
SHERRET CLAIMS WORLD JUNIOR SKI CROSS TITLE
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VALMALENCO, ITALY (April 1, 2015) – India Sherret has put an exclamation mark on her breakout season – winning 2015 FIS Freestyle World Junior Championship Ski Cross Gold for Canada.

Sherret, from Cranbrook, BC, is a member of the Canadian Ski Cross Next Gen development team and races for Alberta Ski Cross.

“I had a great day!” said Sherret. “I’m so happy for our entire team! We’ve had a lot of success over the past two weeks winning three National Championships in Canada, Switzerland and Italy. To win the World Junior Championships is huge and it says a lot about our program and the next wave of Ski Cross athletes in Canada.”

Sherret finished 7th in qualifying after a few mistakes, which she put into the learning bank as she prepared for the next rounds.  With great starts throughout the day and a determined approach, she was able to battle her way to the finals and take 1st place.

Current Canadian Ski Cross athlete and Olympic Champion Marielle Thompson won the World Junior title in 2013 and offered her take on the event: “It’s great to see the younger athletes having success on the world stage and it’s a very positive stepping stone in the right direction for India and the program. I’m very happy for her and her teammates.”

The team was led by Sead Causevic, Canada Ski Cross Head Coach of Development.

“The entire team skied great today. India and Kris’ performances today were incredible and it was great to have some additional coaching support with Stanley Hayer and Andy Voukoun” stated Causevic.  “Marcos our ski tech did an amazing job and he deserves a lot of credit for our win today. It was great to see all the men make it into the top 16 and unfortunately there was a little wind that affected the qualification results for the women. I’m very proud of the efforts put forward by our athletes.”

Women’s 2015 FIS Freestyle World Junior Championship (Canada’s placements)

1 – India Sherret
17 – Zoe Chore
20 – Alexa Velcic
27 – Abby McEwen

Men’s 2015 FIS Freestyle World Junior Championship (Canada’s placements)

4 – Kris Mahler
8 – Matt Brady
15 – Adam Gibson
16 – Ned Ireland

Heat brackets and video clips can be found on the Alberta Ski Cross Facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/AlbertaSkiCross?fref=ts

Full race results Ladies:

http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=FS&raceid=8538

Full race results Men’s:

http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=FS&raceid=8539