Hello Everyone,

We have a few important announcements regarding the freestyle banquet, Mogul and Park and Pipe Club Champs, Ontario Winter Games and Provincial Championships results. So Please don’t ignore this e-mail!!  Read on…

Club Champs

Freestyle Moguls Club Championship will be held on Saturday March 13th on Freefall. But not to worry, we will have two separate start gates for both the novice and advanced skiers. Bib pick up will be held in the Cafeteria from 8-9 a.m. Awards will be at 3 p.m. on the North Deck. The course will be open for training from 10-11:30 a.m. Competition will be starting at 12:30 p.m.

All ages and abilities are welcome! If the freefall track seems a bit daunting, use the alternate start halfway down. Jumps are also optional.

Freestyle Ski Slopestyle Club Championship will be held on Sunday March 14th along side of the snowboard slopestyle. There are categories for both skiers and snowboarders and if you ski as well as snowboard, you can enter in both. There are multiple age categories from 6 & under through to 40+ and everything in between for girls and guys. You can register at the Clubhouse this Saturday, either at the registration table in the lobby beside the Senior Member’s Lounge. Or downstairs at the Club office mail@beavervalley.ca . The cost will be $5 for Snowboard and Ski categories, or $10 if you want to compete in both. Please be sure to indicate snowboard or ski or both when you register.

Note: helmets are mandatory.

So get your registration in today, mail@beavervalley.ca

Freestyle Get Together

This Saturday after the Mogul club champs. We will be holding a get together for all of the freestylers and their parents from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. In the Silver Creek Room.

This will be a simple get together, lounge and Apre for all of us to talk about the season, eat a few appetizers and see each other for one last time before next season. This will be a chance for you guys to talk to your kids coaches, ex…..

I look forward to seeing all of you there!!!!

Ontario Winter Games and Provincial Championships

This past week, Mt. St. Louie Moonstone was host to the Ontario Winter Games and Provincial Championships and it is safe to say that all of our kids skied extremely well.

For the Provincial Championships, the results are as follows:

Men’s Moguls:

In the M4 category, the largest category of the competition, Stephan Sum placed 1st followed by Ben Fuller in 10th , Roman Robazza in 11th , Alex Mackay in 14th and Geoffrey Hardacre in 22nd place.

Female Moguls:

In the F4 category, Berkley Brown placed 3rd, followed by Jenna Hewat in 4th and Coco Robazza in 8th.

Female Big Air:

In the female Big Air event, Olivia “Dolly” Lane placed 1st in the F4 category and 3rd overall.

In the Ontario Winter Games Invitational event, the results are as follows:

Female Moguls:

In the female F6 category, Berkley Brown placed 1st and in the F5 category. Jenna Hewat placed 1st , followed by Coco Robazza in 4th.

Men’s Moguls:

In the men’s M4 category, Ben Fuller placed 8th and in the M5 category. Stephan Sum placed 1st, followed by Roman Robazza in 2nd and Alex Mackay in 5th.

Well, I look forward to seeing you all out at the club this weekend, as well as the get together on Saturday.

Talk to you then.

Brendan Buchar

Freestyle Head Coach

Beaver Valley Ski Club

freestyle@beavervalley.ca

There will be a “Mogul Girls” Progression Ski Camp being held at Beaver Valley Ski Club on Monday February 15, 2010 (Family Day). 

This clinic is a ‘girls only” Moguls Clinic coached by women.

Times: Check-in at 9:00 in the Brown Bag room at BVSC

            Camp runs 10-3

Cost: $20 with a general or trial Canadian Freestyle Association membership

          If you need to purchase a lift ticket: $30 (special price)

Coaches:  Emma Rogers and Kirsten Morson

Registration: CFSA membership and camp: www.karelo.com

Additional notes: Awesome prizing

                            Helmets mandatory

                            Camp is open to all skiers 8 and over

                            All participants must be strong intermediate skiers

 Questions: jrogersis@rogers.com

Hope to see you there!

Dear Freestyle Parents,

I hope everyone’s winter has been going well. It’s nice to finally be getting some snow flying around and under our feet.

Anyway. The main reason why I am sending you all this e-mail, is to try to remind and encourage all of you to get involved with this years Gala if you haven’t yet done so.

By attending the gala and participating in the silent auction and basket raffles. We will be raising money that will be divided amongst Freestyle Skiing, Freestyle Snowboarding, Snowboard Racing, as well as Apine Racers. (Any competitive programs)

I know that in the past. People had considered the Gala to be “The Racing Gala.” But that was only because they have been such a driving force behind Beaver Valley’s competitive programs. In the past couple of years, our Freestyle program has really grown a lot and since we get an equal part of the pie when it comes to the final outcome of the Gala. It would be great to have the participation that racing has had for so many years now. Come on now…..We can’t have them make us look bad now. Haha

In fact, last season alone. $10,000 went into our terrain park. So we should really be getting as involved in this process as possible.

The Gala will be held on Saturday, February 20th and the tickets will be $60.00 each. For this amazing price you will receive a margarita to start your “Hot night in Beaver Valley.” Followed by a fantastic meal prepared for us by our very own Keith Hagedorn. We have a pair of dancers coming up from the city to start the night off with a little salsa. So come prepared and bring your dancing shoes. There will also be a live band, as well as many fantastic Silent Auctions going on, that no one will want to miss out on.

We will continue to accept donations right up until the day of the Gala. But any donations submitted before Saturday February 6th will be submitted into our night’s program. After that it will be to late for publication changes.

For more details on how you can contribute. Please contact:

Michelle Abbott – 1-647-223-1355 or michelle.abbott@sympatico.ca

Thank you very much and please help support your competitive programs.

Brendan Buchar

Freestyle Head Coach

Beaver Valley Ski Club

freestyle@beavervalley.ca

Hello Everyone,

The kids are just beginning to get into the competition season and for the most part and are all looking pretty confident. We had a few kids attend a Rail Jam at Blue Mountain this weekend. As well as another group of our mogul kids will be attending Horseshoe Valley’s first mogul competition of the year next weekend.

We will be holding out fist mogul based Friday training this week at Horseshoe Valley for the bump kids. But will commence with regular Friday training at Beaver Valley for the Park and Pipe kids that will be attending next weekends Slopestyle event at Craigleith Ski Club. 

This seasons Friday training was inclusive in the price of any of our High Performance programs. Unfortunately due to the commitment, cost increase, as well as ability to miss 10 Fridays worth of school. We did not receive the commitment needed to facilitate this many extra training days. So in reflection of this. We have wisely chosen 5 Fridays for training based around some of our athletes main competitions this season.

The 5 Friday training sessions will be held as follows:

Friday Jan. 29th @ Horseshoe Valley (Mogul) and Beaver Valley (Park and Pipe) Friday Feb. 5th @ Beaver Valley Friday Feb. 12th @ Beaver Valley Friday Feb. 19th @ Beaver Valley Thursday March 4th @ Mt. St. Louis

Another reminder to everyone. If you have not yet done so. It would be very much appreciated and beneficial if everyone were to sit down with their little ones and fill out their goal setting sheets and have them returned to their coaches by next weekend, or at your earliest convenience. This way we can ensure that all of our kids are on the right track and on their way to reaching their own personal goals.

Well, I hope this note finds everyone well and I look forward to hearing from you.

Please feel free to hit me up with any questions that you may have regarding Freestyle Skiing at freestyle@beavervalley.ca

I wish I could say see you on the slopes. But I’ll see you around the club house.

Brendan Buchar

Freestyle Skiing Head Coach

Beaver Valley Ski Club

freestyle@beavervalley.ca