Pendle Ski Club News

Well done to Anna Greensmith who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for March – keep up the hard work

On Saturday 21st March at the North West Ski Federation Schools Championships in Pendle (Lancashire), a fantastic 53 schools and colleges from across the region took centre stage to battle it out to be crowned regional champion.
159 students competed through the course over 2 runs in the morning’s individual slalom hoping to take the top step of the podium. In the Boy’s race, Ribblesdale High School student Callum Witts clocked the fastest run of the day, seeing off Josef Huppach (Park High School) Jonathan Eaves (Longridge High School) who finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Girls race, Victoria Gatty added another 1st place for Ribblesdale, beating Joely Side (Holy Cross College) to the title. 3rd place was between two fast flying juniors, with Eleanor Eaves (Grimsargh St Michael’s) narrowly pipping Charlotte Holmes (Blacko School) to 3rd place by 0.01 seconds.
The action-packed team parallel slalom later in the day saw the competitors from the individual slalom, join forces in mixed school/college teams with the younger racers of the day paired with the faster juniors to provide an incredibly close ran team event.

The School Championships kick start the spring racing season, following on from a highly successful Winter Race League at the slope where ski clubs from the North West (Oval, Abbey Gate College, Runcorn, Kendal, Rossendale, Pendle), Yorkshire (Sharks & Peak Performance), the North East (Carlisle & Tigers) and sole midlands representatives Stoke Scorpions raced for fun over 5 rounds.

Looking ahead Pendle Ski Club Chairman Mark Feneley stated “It has been a great season so far and we’re looking forward to hosting our Club National races at the end of June. It’s clear to see the students are developing their skiing and I hope the performances seen today will encourage more schools to continue or start their participation in what is a fantastic sport.”

A special mention must go to volunteer Jenni Corr who is the driving force behind the races held at Pendle Ski Club. After running the races on behalf of NWSF over the weekend she was encouraged to “see lots of new people enjoying themselves and racing on plastic for the first time”.

Will McGlynn – Snowsports England Regional Development Office – had a great day helping out and was on hand to present the awards
A full list of results can be viewed here:

Team results

Overall Combined

girls results

boys results

Individual results summary

The final event of this seasons Winter Race League series was held on Saturday 7th March and it was great to welcome back skiers from throught the North West, Cheshire, Cumbria and Stoke to take part for an excitings mornings racing.
Pendle enjoyed clear skies and sunshine with 115 individual races undertaken to decide the results for the day, and then the series results (best 4 out of 5 events to count).

Results for the day and the series are below with medals & series shields presented by Will our Snowsports Engalnd Regional representative.

Series summary

U10 1st Pendle 2nd Kendal 3rd Sharks
U13 1st Pendle 2nd Kendal 3rd Go Snow Rossendale
U19 1st Pendle 2nd Kendal 3rd Snowsports Runcorn
U99 1st Pendle 2nd Oval 3rd Sharks

We look forward to seeing you all next season

Results Sent Out March 15

Overall Results March 15

We had 40 racers taking part in our monthly training ladder – copies of the times are available on the link below – with the timed runs followed up by some exciting individual head to head racing.

Feb 2015 timed runs

Well done to Tom Greensmith who has been presented with the Coaches award for February to recognise all the effort he is putting in at training