Pendle Ski Club News

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

After the recent cold weather and snow it was a clear dry sunny day to welcome everyone back for round 4 of the Pendle Winter Race League after the Christmas break.

Although the event was close to half term with some racers away on holidays, at Esskia events or racing in Scotland we still had over 100 racers taking part, from Carlise, Kendal, Oval, Sheffield, Runcorn, Rosendale & Stoke.

Thanks go to the team of helpers who arrived early to put arrangements in place for a prompt start to get racing underway for 9.30 allowing us to get through 114 races by 12.40 for prize giving at 1.00pm

We look forward to seeing everyone again in March for the last event of the series – don’t forget it’s the best four out of five results to count, and to bring back any of the overall trophies so that they can be presented for the series.

Well done to Jake Lye who has been awarded the monthly coaches award for January 2015 for continued hard work in training especially after recovering from a broken leg at the later part of 2014.

Keep up the hard work

It was great to see Dave Ryding featured on Ski Sunday recently, his summer training program is really paying dividends with him being able to put down some fantastic performances in the FIS racers finishing within the top 30 after the first run on a regular basis to earn a place on the second run start list and gain those valueable points.

Well done Dave, and thanks for mentioning Pendle.

We all wish you well and hope for a great rest of season we will be following you on Ski Sunday and Facebook

The committee and club house project team have been working hard in 2014, and had various meetings with the local council and architects to look at various schemes to extend the present club house and car park facilities.

A number options have been looked at and amended following discussions with the local planners with a working version now on display in the club house.

These latest plans have now been submitted with a view to obtaining full planning consent.

Once this has been obtained it will allow costs to be determined and the hard work of fund raising and applying for grant assistance to assist with the total costs will start.

A number of members have already managed to secure grant funding through their employers to assist with the costs todate, although if you are aware of any schemes through your employer or grant bodies please contact the committee so that these can be investigated and applied for if appropriate.

Well done to Chris Moore, who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for December. Chris joined the race squad earlier in the year and all his hard work is showing through.

In line with previous years the Club was open for practice on Boxing Day, and it was great to welcome so many members on the day to work off the Christmas lunches, children try out their presents from Santa – and not forgetting the packed lunch of turkey sandwiches and mince pies