by Sue-Lynda Bate | Dec 16, 2002 | Member News
Fernie native and BC Ski Team rookie Danielle Poleschuk took home two top-15 results over the weekend as the CIBC Coupe Nor-Am Cup wrapped up women's downhill competition Sunday in Lake Louise, AB.
Poleschuk, 16, with an undesirably high bib 34 came on strong to finish 14th in one minute 41.30 seconds on the men's Olympic downhill course in Lake Louise Saturday. Poleschuk was one of seven Canadians in the top-15.
Starting in 33rd for Sunday's downhill, Poleschuk tore up the course to finish amoung eight fellow Canadians in one minute 42.13 seconds for 15th spot.
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The BC Alpine Ski Association organizes and coordinates alpine ski racing within the province of British Columbia and is the host association for the BC Ski Team. BC Alpine is a member Provincial Sport Organization (PSO) of Alpine Canada Alpin who is responsible for Canadian alpine race programs and the National Ski Team. BC Alpine promotes competitive skiing on behalf of its 42 member clubs and 6,000 athletes, officials and coaches across British Columbia.
BC Alpine is committed to bringing to our communities fun, challenge, and opportunities for personal excellence through participation and competition in alpine ski racing.
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by Sue-Lynda Bate | Dec 13, 2002 | Member News
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Italian Karen Putzer picked up where she left off in Lake Louise last week, winning her second consecutive World Cup race Thursday in the giant slalom at Val d'Isere, France.
Putzer carried a .74 of a second lead into the medal run and held off Swiss ace Sonja Nef to win in a combined time of two minutes, 22.17 seconds. Nef was .36 of a second back while Austrians Michaela Dorfmeister and Alexandra Meissnitzer shared third place in 2:23.05. Dorfmeister skied the fastest second run to claim her podium.
Three Canadian racers each put in one very good run, with Genevi
by Sue-Lynda Bate | Dec 12, 2002 | Member News
Keeping track of Canada's fastest ski racers at events within the country has been made easy thanks to an innovative new real-time service from Alpine Canada Alpin and its official data processing partner.
Provided by STAT Timing, the technology makes it possible for alpine racing fans around the world to catch racers' intervals, final times, and overall positioning as they speed down the course by simply visiting www.canski.org and clicking on the live timing button.
“The live timing ability is a tremendous tool, especially in a country as vast as Canada where it is impossible for all fans, parents, friends, and even the hometown media to follow our elite racers to competitions,” said Ken Read, president, Alpine Canada Alpin. “This new service allows Canadians to capture the immediate tremendous excitement of ski racing while learning more about the dynamic young racers Canada will be counting on to win World Cups in the future.”
For the 2002/2003 season, Alpine Canada Alpin will have live timing of major ski racing competitions taking place on Canadian soil, beginning with this weekend's men's and women's downhill races at the CIBC Coupe Nor Am Cup at Lake Louise, Alta., beginning on Saturday at 11 a.m. MST.
2002/2003 schedule of Canadian live timing events:
CIBC Nor AM Cup
by Sue-Lynda Bate | Dec 11, 2002 | Member News
The University of British Columbia Alpine Ski Team will once again have strong representation at the up-coming World University Games this January. Thunderbird rookies Trevor Bruce and Alexandra McLean were named to the Canadian Team for the Winter University Games in Tarviso, Italy. Their selection marks the fifth consecutive World Games that UBC has had Alpine Skiers represent Canada. Twenty-one year old Bruce, a North Vancouver native and engineering student, was a member of the Canadian National Ski Team this past season and has been one of Canada's strongest young racers in recent years. Eighteen year-old McLean is also in her first year at UBC and spent the past several years racing out of Whistler for the BC Ski Team. According, to Gordie Bowles the BC Alpine Program Director, the Canadian Team that Bruce and McLean join “is an impressive group, one of the better groups assembled for this event for Canada in a long time”.
The World University Games runs from January 14 to 27 and brings together the worlds best student-athletes to participate in several winter sports. McLean and Bruce will race in three or four events over the course of the games and will join their UBC teammates for the rest of the USCSA racing season.
For more information contact Paul Boskovich @ ubcskiteam@hotmail.com
by Sue-Lynda Bate | Dec 10, 2002 | Member News
Fernie's Jenny Delich (University of New Mexico) and North Vancouver's Trevor Bruce (University of BC) were selected Tuesday to represent BC and Canada at the World University Games in Tarvisio, Italy January 16-26, 2003. Whistler Mountain's Alex McLean is Canada's first alternate.
