Gold for Boys' School Ski Team!

Despite the inclement weather ‘down the mountain’ curtailing racing, one of the Boys’ School ski teams earned enough combined points to win themselves a team Gold medal at the NIPS Ski and Snowboard Competition. We sent down two ski teams and one snowboard team and the boys represented our school with pride both on and off the course. 

Sadly, due to the weather conditions, only one day of Giant Slalom (GS) racing was able to be completed but the boys managed the challenging conditions well.  After the GS time trials, our boys were closely seeded with Ben McCutcheon placing 6th, Joshua Stephan 7th, Max Dudson 8th, Nate Gilbertson 9th, Tom Hope 11th, Miller Stewart 12th, James Stanfield 14th and Jack Beveridge 15th. 

Unfortunately the weather closed in and that was all the racing that could be recorded.  The boys were disappointed to not be able to race an opponent in the Dual Slalom event but earning enough points for a Gold medal well and truly made up for that! 

Our snowboarders also did extremely well considering most of them were first timers to the event.  They finished 5th overall as a team with Brodey Warren finishing 12th, Thibaud Williams 13th, Hudson Copley 22nd and Abe Paykel 24th.  As with the skiers, the weather put an end to any more racing meaning the highly anticipated Boarder Cross event will have to wait until next year!