by Keven Dubinsky | Apr 7, 2010 | Member News
Great news for BC today at the 2010 Whistler Cup! A total of six of the ten athletes selected to represent Canada’s “Team 1” this year are from our province. Only athletes selected to ”Team 1” for a country can obtain points and help their nation win the Nations Cup, an honour that Canada is defending this year.
BC K1 Athletes representing Canada Team 1 include:
Sam Mulligan (West Vancouver, Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club)
Mikayla Martin (Garibaldi Highlands, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
BC K2 Athletes representing Canada Team 1 include:
Martin Grasic (Invermere, Windermere Valley Ski Club)
Blake Ramsden (West Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Emma King (Whistler, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Alix Wells (Prince George, Prince George Ski Club)
Nation Points in a Nutshell:
The Whistler Cup nation points are only awarded to the nations athletes which are in the “Team 1” team. The quota for “Team 1” is set at six athletes per nation for the K2 (13-14 year old) category and four athletes per nation for K1 (11-12 year old) category. For each race the top 15 athletes that are in a national “Team 1” achieve points for their nation as follows:
1st – 25 points
2nd – 20 points
3rd – 15 points
4rth – 12 points
5th – 11 points
6th – 10 points
7th – 9 points
8th – 8 points
9th – 7 points
10th – 6 points
11th – 5 points
12th – 4 points
13th – 3 points
14th – 2 points
15th – 1 point
by Keven Dubinsky | Apr 1, 2010 | Member News
BC’s athletes went into the 2010 K2 National Championships with the knowledge that BC had finished third overall last year, 431 points behind Ontario. Based upon entry quota alone
, we knew that it would be extraordinarily difficult to beat either Ontario or returning K2 champions Quebec in the points race, as their entry was larger than ours and anyone in the top 30 in any race contributes to the points calculation for the event.
After a superb performance from the team in the SG on Monday, which ended with Emma King in second spot and Alix Wells in fourth for the girls, and Martin Grasic taking the podium with a first place win for the boys, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that we were in second place overall and had taken an early lead on the Quebec team. Having run the SG portion of the Super Combined race that same day, we showed promise for maintaining that lead if the SL races went smoothly enough.
The next morning both the boys and girls held their edges cleanly in the soft Osler Bluff snow and increased their lead on the previous year’s champions by a considerable margin. Although BC saw no podiums in the Super Combined, there were four athletes from BC in the top ten for each gender, more than any other single province had achieved.
Wednesday saw only the girls competing, with the GS race at Georgian Peaks. The race was owned by BC’s own Alix Wells who posted the fastest Canadian time on each of the two runs, handing local favorite Roni Remme her only trip away from the top of the girls podium for the entire week. Emma King also made the top ten with a solid performance landing her in fourth place.
Thursday didn’t shape up quite so golden for the BC boy’s, however three of them packed their way into the top ten including a fourth place finish from the Vernon Ski Club’s Alex Kreutz. A quick tally of the points that evening showed that BC had once again increased our foothold on second place, with a total of 180 points separating us at this point from Quebec. Slalom is a strong discipline for the QC team however, so we knew that Friday would be the real contest as both the boys and girls would be competing in the slalom in our final destination
at Craigleith.
The weather got COLD on Friday with rock hard snow and tempatures of -7c. The girls hit the podium with Alix Wells of Prince George in third position, and two of her team mates also in the top ten behind her including Jamie Honsberger in fourth. The boys were not as lucky, however they had two top-ten finishes by Blake Ramsden and Peter Behncke in sixth and seventh positions.
So where were we overall? Team BC was in second place, well behind Ontario but also pretty strongly ahead of Quebec. Not to say that being ahead of the previous year’s champions, who had more athletes attending than we did isn’t good enough, what I think was the most showing proof of why BC had a right to come home proud from these K2 Championships was the overall podiums. With two girls and one boy on the overall podium, BC owned half of the overall podium spots. After only having one of those podium positions last year, this shows the dedication to improvement in our province by the coaches, clubs and most importantly the athletes representing our province.
2010 K2 Team Overall Ranking
1. Ontario 1841
2. British Columbia 1324
3. Quebec 1175
2010 K2 Women National Overall Ranking
1. REMME Roni AOA
2. WELLS Alix B.C.
3. KING Emma B.C.
2010 K2 Men National Overall Ranking
1. BROWN Griffin USA
2. KUUS Karl AOA
3. GRASIC Martin B.C.
by Keven Dubinsky | Mar 31, 2010 | Member News
Congratulations to all of the following BC athletes who have been named.
TEAM CANADA K2 LADIES
Emma King (Whistler, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Alix Wells (Prince George, Prince George Ski Club)
TEAM CANADA K2 MEN
Martin Grasic (Invermere, Windermere Valley Ski Club)
Alex Kreutz (Vernon, Vernon Ski Club)
Blake Ramsden (West Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
TEAM CANADA K1 LADIES
Cassandra Mah (Vancouver, Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club)
Mikayla Martin (Garibaldi Highlands, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
TEAM CANADA K1 MEN
Sam Mulligan (West Vancouver, Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club)
TEAM BC K2 LADIES
Charley Field (Pemberton, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Mia Henry (Calgary, Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
Hallie Maclachlan (Fernie, Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
Jamie Park (Peachland, Big White Racers/Kelowna Ski Club)
Rae Swette (North Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Emilie Tremblay (Coldstream, Vernon Ski Club)
TEAM BC K2 MEN
Peter Behncke (Revelstoke, Revelstoke Ski Club)
Bryan Cadman (Anmore, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Patrick Carry (Calgary, Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
Logan Pehota (Pemberton, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Charlie Renzoni (West Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Brodie Seger (North Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
TEAM BC K1 LADIES
Tyra Collombin (Calgary, Fernie Alpine Ski Team)
Siobhan Finan (Whistler, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Stefanie Fleckenstein (West Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Courtney Hoffos (Windermere, Windermere Valley Ski Club)
TEAM BC K1 MEN
Alex Gershon (Whistler, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Matthew Kreutz (Vernon, Vernon Ski Club)
Edward Lee (Coquitlam, Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club)
Riley Seger (North Vancouver, Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
by Keven Dubinsky | Mar 19, 2010 | Member News
Kimberly K2 Coach and father David Wilson is the grand prize winner in the BC Alpine 2010 GMC Raffle!
One of the friendly neighbors from our building came over to pull the winning ticket and afterwards Bruce and I called Dave up to tell him the good news. After the typical "Are you joking" (which always seems to be the first comment made when people win a prize) Dave went on to exclaim "I’ve never won anything in my life.. this is really something!"
The call came as a double dose of good news to the Wilson family as our Athletic Director Gordie Bowles also jumped in to let the Wilsons know that their son Aidan Wilson made the cut for the Whistler Cup!
After a phone call like that, there is likely not a more celebratory household in this province today.
Congratulations Dave and Aidan from all of us at BC Alpine, and thank you for supporting youth ski racing opportunities throughout the province!
EARLY BIRD DRAWS:
1. DESCENTE BC SKI TEAM JACKET & PANTS (WINNING TICKET N0. 07512)
Estimated Value: $750
2. MIELE BLUE STAR VACUUM (WINNING TICKET NO. 14417)
Estimated Value: $750
Draw Date: January 29, 2010 at 3:00PM PST
Draw Location: BC Alpine Office, 403 – 1788 W Broadway
Vancouver BC, V6J 1Y1
GRAND PRIZE DRAW:
2010 GMC TERRAIN (WINNING TICKET NO. 04668)
Estimated value $30,500
Draw Date: March 19, 2010 at 3:00PM PST
Draw Location: BC Alpine Office, 403 – 1788 W Broadway
Vancouver BC, V6J 1Y1
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BC GAMING EVENT LICENCE #18193 – $5 per ticket – 20,000 tickets printed
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by Keven Dubinsky | Mar 3, 2010 | Member News
[FROM THE SASKATCHEWAN ALPINE SKI ASSOCIATION]
The race notice, registration files, and accommodation/lift information has been posted to the Sask Alpine web site page for 2010 SaskTel Sask Cup GS event at Panorama. This race will be open for ages E2 (8-10) through to Senior – and will include para-alpine participation. Navigate to the following web site page to access the event information.
http://www.saskalpine.com/Programs/SaskCup/2010GSSpringRace/tabid/239/Default.aspx
Note that there is a registration cap for this race, so get your information in early to avoid disappointment!
