Whilst normal lessons finished for thge season on Thursday 24th March, the club will continue to be open on Thursday nights for open practice sessions to members so you can still carry on skiing at Pendle until work starts on the annual maintenance programme.
Practice will run from 7.00 through to 9.00
Well done to Grace Harrison who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for March
Well done to Kat Ferguson who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for February in recognistion for all your hard work during training – well done
Pendle played hoast to the NWSF 2016 schools race which saw 144 competitors take part in this annual competition from schools and colleges from throughout the North West Area.
Special thanks go to Jenni Corr the race organiser assisted by David Eaves who maned the timing and produced all the start lists and results as well as Rossendale Mountain Rescue who provided First Aid cover and the many helpers on the day.
Plendle Hill was blessed with clear sunny skies which saw the event follow its normal format. After open practice the timed runs started – eg racers gets tww runs with their best time to count for them and to be carried in to their team time. If a racer is in a team the teams best three times count to the overall team time.
After the timed runs, and whilst results are calculated the races take part in a fun head to head knock out completion. As the event is made up of established racers and novice racers the organisers pick the teams of four racers based on the morning times – this ensures some very close fun racing.
A fun day was had by everyone, and a result pack issued to each school as well as being published on www.britski.org although the indivdual results are as follows:
Infant Girls
1st Ella Downey (Stanwix) 2nd Louisa Rishton (St Marys) 3rd Cliona Keane (All Saints)
Infant Boys
1st Guy Kiely (St Pauls) 2nd Zayn Horlock (Broadway)
Novices 1st Cliona Keane 2nd Lola Heyes
Junior Girls
1st Charlotte Holmes (Blacko) 2nd Rebecca Hart (Tottington) 3rd Matlida Hird
Junior Boys
1st Elliott Stocks (Rainford) 2nd Ethan Heyes (Tottington) 3rd Bradley Marlor (Hesketh)
Novices 1st Saddie Merritt 2nd Finlay Royle
Lower Senior Girls
1st Eleanor Eaves (Archbishop) 2nd Rebecca Heselton (Ribblesdale) 3rd Harriet Staden (Bishop Heber)
Lower Senior Boys
1st Jack Feneley (Alder Grange) 2nd Ciaran Bradwell (Ribblesdale) 3rd Thomas Lloyd (St Augustines)
Novices 1st Ben Wain 2nd Reece Griffiths
Upper Senior Girls
1st Anna Greensmith (Clitheroe) 2nd Eleanor Jessop (Ribblesdale) 3rd Alice Nickson (Westholme)
Upper Senior Boys
1st Will Austin (Ribblesdale) 2nd Jake Lye (Settle) 3rd Lucas Rowley (Kirkham)
Novices 1st Max Ball 2nd Laura Backhouse
Sixth Form Girls
1st Tori Gatty (Clitheroe) 2nd Joely Side (Holy Cross)
Sixth Form Boys
1st Callum Witts (St Christophers) 2nd Jonny Eaves (Runshaw) 3rd David Corr (Cardinal Newman)
Ski Racing Supplies & POC also provided prizes to the top three girl and boy racers overall Tori Gatty, Joely Side & Charlotte Holmes – Callum Witts, Jonny Eaves & Will Austin – we thank them for their support
After having to cancel the December event due to servere weather warnings its was a pleasure to welcome everyone back to clear sunny skies for the final event of the current series.
After a prompt start to open practice the morning progressed through the 105 race events with 110 racers taking part and a number of race off required on the day to determine the medals outcome on the day.
A three way tie for second place in the U99 age group lead to an additional race off although results were still all even after this and a larger than normal three way second place podium.
After medals were presented for the days events, Shields were then presented for the series awards
Overall Series awards
2016
U10’s
1st Rossendale
2nd Pendle
3rd Tigers
U13’s
1st Pendle
2nd Tigers
3rd Sharks
U19’s
1st Pendle
2nd Scorpians
3rd Kendal
U99
1st Rossendale
2nd Pendle
3rd Sharks
We look forward to welcoming everyone back for the next series and thank everyone for their help and support
With a busy February schedule the training ladder was brought forward to the last week of January, and we were joined by a number of students of Lancaster and Manchester Universities as part of their training for their BUDS race series.
After working through the timed runs we quickly moved in the the head to heads slalom races which saw soemn very close racing.
Well done to Eleanor Jessop for all her hard work in training, who has been presented with the first monthly coaches award for January 2016