Scotch College

SKIING/BOARDING: SnowSports Club

Background

Scotch provides boys with fabulous opportunities to get involved in Snowsports. Camps are run each year for beginner, intermediate and advanced skiers and snowboarders. These are held at Mt Buller, Falls Creek, and Hotham. At Mt Buller and Falls Creek boys on these camps are lucky to be accommodated at the Koomerang lodges which are run by a group of Old Boys and others for their members. (Info Koomerang www.koomerang.com.au) For Senior School boys there is also a trip to Canada each year.

The Snowsports Club was formed five years ago to provide support to the staff organising School ski teams for the Victorian and National InterSchool competition.

These competitions are held at Mt Buller in August and later in the year at either Falls Creek, Mt Hotham or a NSW mountain.

Boys at a variety of levels of skiing and snowboarding proficiency are able to participate.

For the Victorian InterSchools, Scotch holds a trials weekend in July for Junior and senior boys, at Mt Buller. Boys are entered in time trials for skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing and gradings for moguls. Staff then select all teams and parents help organise team managers, course officials, general support to all boys at race events, social get togethers, and the presentation night. Funds raised at our function early in the year enable us to offer some extra race training and cross country-training lessons to the boys and to subsidise the costs of race entry and the Presentation Night.

Main activities

• Trials weekend - Camps

• The Victorian InterSchools competition held at Mt Buller

• The National InterSchools competition held in Victoria or NSW

• Pre-season Sausage Sizzle at School for students to collect our Handbook and expression of interest form

• Get-together in Melbourne for parents prior to the season and at Mt Buller on the Trials weekend.

• Presentation Night Barbecue at Cardinal Pavilion to

acknowledge all boys who have competed during the season.

• Family Day - The Club run an information stall and display of activities during the season.

How to get involved

• All interested parents are encouraged to attend our committee meetings held in the evening at School approximately twice a term, dates advised in the Torch.

• Contact Snowsports Club President.

• Come to our Pre-season Information Night and our Cocktail Party, details to be advised in the Torch.

The staff involved at both Junior and Senior levels are wonderfully enthusiastic with Scotch having great successes over the past few years. We look forward to you and your son’s participation.