Registration information for 2012/13 season published – PLEASE READ THIS!

by Keven Dubinsky | May 29, 2012 | Member News

The registration categories and costs are now available for the 2012/13 season.  Members who are going to be taking part in summer programs (including coaches) need to be registered in the BC Alpine Club Admin Database before their previous year commercial general liability coverage ends on July 1st.

With the E1/ E2 / K1 / K2 / J1 / J2 programs making way for the new U6 / U8 / U10 / U12 / U14 / U16 / U18 / U21 programs we've decided to reduce the complexity of registration by having categories that denote the level of competitor and allowing our database to separate them for later reports based upon their year of birth.  By doing this we have been able to turn 18 potential registration categories into just 6.

Entry Level
Aged 4-11 these members are in the Gliding Start through Learn to Train stages of development.  They may compete in both club and local events but not outside of their province.  Includes Commercial General Liability insurance.

Recreational Program
Aged 12-21, members in the Recreational Program fall into the Skier Essentials & Learn to Train stages.  They may train with a coach, compete in club, local and regional events within the province of BC that do not have a national codex number.  They are ineligible for National Team selection and National Championship events.  Includes Commercial General Liability insurance.

National Competitor Card
Aged 12-21, these athletes are starting in the Learn to Train stages of development and develop through to Train to Win.  They may compete outside of their province in both regional and national codex sanctioned events.  They carry national points in all alpine disciplines managed at www.acapoints.ca and are eligible to qualify for National Championships and the National Team.  Includes Commercial General Liability insurance.

FIS Alpine
Aged 16+ FIS athletes are in the Learn to Race stages and beyond.  They receive both a national competitor card as well as an international FIS competitor card and are eligable to qualify for FIS-Alpine internationally sanctioned events in all alpine disciplines.  Includes Commercial General Liability insurance as well as SAIP Class 2 insurance.

FIS Ski Cross
Aged 16+ FIS athletes are in the Learn to Race stages and beyond. They receive both a national competitor card as well as an international FIS competitor card and are eligable to qualify for FIS-Freestyle internationally sanctioned Ski Cross events. Includes Commercial General Liability insurance as well as SAIP Class 2 insurance.

FIS Alpine + Ski Cross
Aged 16+ FIS athletes are in the Learn to Race stages and beyond. They receive both a national competitor card as well as an international FIS competitor card and are eligable to qualify for both FIS Alpine as well as FIS-Freestyle internationally sanctioned events. Includes Commercial General Liability insurance as well as SAIP Class 2 insurance.

For more information and registration costs please visit: http://bcalpine.com/content/bcalpine/ProgramFees/?Current

Your last chance this season to get future coaches to take the CSCF1 course

by Keven Dubinsky | Apr 16, 2012 | Member News

Here’s your last chance this season to get future coaches take the CSCF ENTRY LEVEL course.

GET YOUR STAFF TRAINED FOR NEXT SEASON…PLAN AHEAD!!!!

Where: Blackcomb
When: May 18-19-20, 2012
Register here: http://www.canskicoach.org/en/services/register-for-events/entry-level-events
Select region and event type.

OPEN TO ALL 15 YEARS-OLD AND UP
– FIS ATHLETES
– PARENTS
– VOLUNTEERS
– ETC…
 

FIS ATHLETES BURSARY:

To help keeping our FIS athletes involved in the sport and passing on their PASSION for ski racing,

BC Alpine is offering a Bursary to help them through the first step of becoming a Ski Coach.

Here is how it will work for the 150$ FIS Athletes Bursary for Entry Level courses (only).

• Athlete must have a FIS card this year (2011-2012) or have had a FIS card within the last 2 years (2010-2011 or 2009-2010).

• FIS card could be Alpine or Ski Cross.

• The participant has to send an email to justinep@bcalpine.com confirming :
  • he/she is a FIS athletes entering a course
  • the year he/she had a card
  • FIS card # (if possible)
  • where that course is taking place
  • full name
  • postal address
  • telephone number

• The participant will pay the original fee (early or late fee depending on time of registry) and will receive a 150$ Bursary check from BC alpine after completion of the course.

So get your staff ready to take on the 2012-2013 season with a head start!!!

Justine Parent
BC Alpine Ski Association
250.602.9077
bcalpine.com

BC Alpine Summer SUPER Camps/HPP (High Performance Program) Info

by Keven Dubinsky | Apr 11, 2012 | Member News

https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=2AF87AF0036985D8&resid=2AF87AF0036985D8%21389

At the above link you will find the details of the BC Alpine High Performance Program (HPP) for 2012. Also included are the dates for the Super Camps that we have scheduled for any club or athlete across the province that wants to participate alongside other teams and peers on the slopes this spring, summer and/or fall.

From April 18-22 we will simultaneously be holding the BC Ski Team Selection Camp, HPP Selection Camp for all U21/U18 (FIS) athletes. The HPP Selection Camp (April 18-22) is open to all athletes born 1996 and older who are currently members of a BC Alpine Club. The cost of the camp is $500 and includes local transit, lifts, lanes, accommodation, meals from the morning of the 18th until noon on the 22nd. Transportation to and from the Camp venue is not included. I will be in Panorama for the Spring Series and meet with the club coaches to create a list of HPP participants for the first camp. Following that meeting BC Alpine will work directly with your club to confirm all participants and distribute further details for each camp thereafter via email. BC Alpine will create an on line payment process for all HPP participants.

At the 2012 Western Spring Series Miele Cup Races in Panorama the BC Ski Team Coaches will work with the Club Coaches to determine participants in the simultaneous BC Ski Team Selection Camp. The selections will be based on the criteria outlined on the BC Alpine website.

SUPER CAMPS – The Super Camps for any Clubs that wish to bring U16/U14 athletes to Whistler for any of the days. BC Alpine will pay the costs for any grooming operations in preparing the track for great training….Super Campers need only arrive with their coach and organize their lift tickets, accommodation and meals.

Nigel Cooper – Program Director – NigelC@bcalpine.com

2012 ACA Coaches Summit @ COP/WinSport Athletic Centre, April 20-21-22

by Keven Dubinsky | Mar 21, 2012 | Member News

https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=2AF87AF0036985D8&resid=2AF87AF0036985D8%21395

Registration is now open! (Registration file linked above)

This year’s Coaches Summit will feature presentations from a variety of presenters including many of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team key staff such as Sport Science Director Matt Price, Sport Psychology Consultant Derek Robinson and many others. Our guest speaker for this year’s Summit is Carson Patterson from the Campus Sport Tirol Innsbruck Olympiazentrum. Carson is a Calgary native who was previously a conditioning coach with our Men’s Downhill Ski Team and who now lives in Austria working with many of Austria’s top winter sport national teams including the Austrian Alpine Ski Team.

On top of keeping you current with many aspect of alpine ski racing and offering a great opportunity to network with coaches and leaders of our sport from across the country, attendance to the Alpine Canada Coaches Summit is a great opportunity for coaches to satisfy the Canadian Ski Coach Federation annual professional development requirement to be a licensed coach.

The Summit is scheduled to start on Friday evening at 7:00 PM with an address from Alpine Canada’s President, Max Gartner. The complete Summit agenda and schedule will be communicated in the next few days.  

Three BC Athletes competing at Blue Mountain Ontario Ski Cross World Cup

by Keven Dubinsky | Feb 1, 2012 | Member News

Three BC athletes are currently competing as invitees to the National Ski Cross Team at the FIS World Cup event in Blue Mountain, Ontario due to their inspiring results in Copper Mountain on the 21st and 22nd of January.  As they are playing host nation to the event, the National Ski Cross Team was able to invite three additional racers to compete for Canada.  Those extra quota spots were filled based on Canadian top results from the Copper Mountain races and each day the same three names from BC showed up at the top of the list.

Ian Deans of the Big White Racers easily turned heads after he finished both days of competition at Copper Mountain in first place.  When asked about Ian, Big White Racers Program Director Trevor Haaheim said “He is an incredible athlete, role model and overall great guy!  I wish him all the best and the Big White Racers are very proud of everything he has done so far in Ski Cross.  We believe he has what it takes to be the next international superstar from Big White!”

Mathieu Leduc from the Mt Washington Ski Club finished in second place on day one and fifth overall on day two.  A hip injury in Aspen last year cut Mathieu’s Alpine FIS season short, but he decided to focus on Ski Cross this season and has been training in the sport since June.  If having top ten finishes in every one of the five races he’s entered hasn’t yet proved that he will be a contender, then being the second positioned Canadian in both races at Copper definitely should and is especially telling of things to come for this athlete!  Both he and his family are ecstatic about the invitation and his first World Cup appearance.

Robert Lepine from the Whistler Mountain Ski Club held on close as the third place Canadian on each day of racing at Copper.  Coach Drew Hetherington told us that “Robert is extremely excited to have another chance to show what he’s got at a World Cup Race and to prove to himself that he can qualify.  Last year Robbie placed 36th overall, just out of the qualifying range, but this year he’s not as nervous about the opportunity as it’s no longer his World Cup debut.  He is very happy at the opportunity to represent his province and his country at a World Cup, especially a World Cup held here in Canada!”

For more information about the FIS World Cup in Blue Mountain please visit: http://www.bluemountainworldcup.ca/

FINISH POSITION OF CANADIAN ATHLETES IN COPPER MOUNTAIN

Jan 21

Jan 22