All Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance and Sport Accident Insurance Policy (SAIP) purchased during the 2023/2024 season will expire as of July 1st 2024. Because of this, all insurance must be renewed for anyone participating in summer programs on or before this date. To make this transition easier BC Alpine will be accepting early registrations for the 2025 season as of June 15, 2023. Clubs running summer programs must have their registrations for both coaches and participants completed before the summer programs get underway.
Increased Membership Fees – BC Alpine
For the 2024/25 season, BC Alpine has increased its membership fees by 4% to account for inflation. The BC Alpine Board of Directors has also approved a $2 per member fee to subsidize the costs associated with reporting through our Safe Sport mechanism and the independent third party handling all complaints. Distributing the fee to all members ensures BC Alpine clubs and individual members are not deterred from utilizing the reporting system due to financial constraints. Alpine Canada have also increased their membership fees by an average of 8.6% (varies by category). Influencing factors for this increase include inflation, cost of providing service and enhanced programming (SnowStars).
You can’t purchase a FIS card or membership directly from BC Alpine. In order to be a member, you must register through one of our member clubs. A full list of current clubs and their contact information can be found at https://bcalpine.com/contact/
This article contains two different registration deadlines: Activation of athletes requiring FIS List #1 is June 24th. CWSAA All Area Pass Requests: August 10th. Please email kevend@bcalpine.com if you require any assistance with the process.
FIS Registration
If your club would like to have any FIS racers active in time for FIS List #1, the deadline to have them registered with us is June 24th. FIS registrations after this date will not change in price but they will be published on the next available list per the FIS Points List Deadlines for the 2023 season found here: https://assets.fis-ski.com/image/upload/fis-prod/assets/document-library/deadlines/2023/Deadlines-AL.pdf Please remember that racers must be on a published list at least a week before the start date of their first race.
Online registration by the club to BC Alpine’s registration database is all that is require to get them on the list however athlete will not be start eligible until such time that their paperwork is accepted by BC Alpine for the athlete.
Paperwork for the current season’s FIS registration can be found online at https://bcalpine.com/files/Registration_Files/FIS_Registration/. Please remember that the Medical Evaluation requires a physical so make sure your athletes book an appointment with their medical professional to get this document completed.
All Area Pass Registration
Qualifications and guidelines for the 2023 season CWSAA All Areas Pass have been published by the Canada West Ski Areas Association on their website at https://cwsaa.org/policy/cwsaa-competitor-pass/.
Alpine and Ski Cross athletes in FIS programs born between 2002 and 2006 are on the qualification for this season, and their deadline for selection is August 11th so any athlete or FIS traveling coach wanting to qualify for an All Areas Pass must be registered with BC Alpine before that date and then the club registrar must submit those requesting passes via the “All Area Passes” registration form found in the BC Alpine Club Admin Login by August 10th.
Cost of the pass this season is $661.50 for athletes and $1323.00 for coaches.
