Scottish Schools Snowsports Association School Championships

Out of 500 + total (individual) entries to the Scottish Schools Snowsports Association School championships, 7 Gordon Skiers made it through to the Secondary Schools finals.

FAST British Championships Camp in March 2015

If your child wants to attend the FAST British Championships Camp in March 2015, you need to read on!

First, welcome back to those who went to Tignes! I hear that it was a great camp and the organisation of it was absolutely excellent: many, many thanks to Dawn Waitt in particular for all her hard work which brought the camp to fruition. Also a big thank you to the houseparents, the coaching team and all the children for making the most of the two weeks, combining hard work with good fun and great attitudes all round.

Snowsport Scotland Competitor Registration for 2014-15

A reminder to all Gordon Skiers racers to renew their Snowsport Scotland competitor registration for the upcoming season.  Please complete the competitor registration form HERE. For both re-registrations and new registrations they will be issuing competitor licences in early November.

You will notice slight change to the form from previous years particularly relevant to Alpine racers. On any iBARTS, oBARTS and BASS race start lists and results, only one club will be shown. Therefore, we request one named club for BARTS (Artificial races) and BASS (Snow races). The same club can be used for both where appropriate. More information can be found here.

So for all Gordon Skiers planning on racing over the next year (all of you we hope!) please go to the Snowsport Scotland website to either renew your existing registration or take out a new one.  The good news this year is that the price has been held at £35!  For families with more than one competitor, additional family members can register as a competitor with a £10 discount.  Any competitors in the Under 12 category or younger (born 2003 or later) can register for free.

Please note, there will be a late charge for those re-registering after 7th November 2014. Please register before this date even if you won't be competing until the dryslope competitions in Spring/Summer. All late re-registrations will be charged £45.

Bairns and Lassies Race.

Thanks to everyone for letting James know they have entered for the Bairns and Lassies Race at Hillend on Sunday November 2nd.  We have 16 members competing, one of our best turnouts ever at a dry mat race.

Coaching support has been finalised and consists of Gary Whatford and Andrew Cambell with Iain Cambell in support.  We will be running a training session on Saturday afternoon,  starting at 2pm and finishing at 5pm in order for the younger skiers to get back to the hotel and get a meal at a reasonable time as it is a very early start on Sunday morning.  There will also be coaching support for the races on Sunday to help with course inspection etc.  There will be a charge of £20 per competitor for the whole weekend to cover the coaching.

We will be in touch by email to see who is staying at Novotel and who would like to join up for a meal on Saturday evening.

The Life of a Head Ski Coach!

Gary on Oct 23rd at Tignes getting a massage from Ben and Paul during lunch. His excuse was it was his 15th wedding anniversary and Wilma wouldn't oblige. The truth is out, now we know what Gary really gets up to on his skiing vacations!

Snowsport Scotland AGM

AGM 2014 Reminder – Sunday 23rd November, Glenmore Lodge.

We wish to remind Member Clubs that the formal announcement of the AGM and its agenda will be issued to you on this Friday, 24 October, together with the detailed programme for the weekend of 22 and 23 November.

Hence any motions for the agenda or nominations for Board vacancies which you might wish to propose have to be received by us no later than Thursday of this week (23rd October). Please email info@snowsportscotland.org<mailto:info@snowsportscotland.org> with any nominations that you may wish to make. Please note in order for votes to be put forward clubs must be affiliated for the 14-15 year, I have attached the club subscription form for the upcoming year.

Kind Regards,

The Snowsport Scotland Team

Snowsport Scotland
Tel: 0131 625 4405|Fax: 0131 317 7202

Suzanne Taylor, A Message From Walter

Walter has asked us to post this message on his behalf:-

"Dear Friends,

Rhiannon and I were both extremely disappointed to discover after the service on Monday that so many of you came along to participate in the celebration of Suzanne’s life only to be left out on the corridor and hence missed the service. You may be one of those people and if not then you may know some of those that missed out. On hindsight I should have reserved more seats for friends but given the number of people that let me know that they couldn’t make it due to holidays I thought we would be able to seat you all. As it happened we were overwhelmed and the hotel counted around 300 of you when we had anticipated around 100. Hindsight is a great thing isn’t it?