DROPPING IN
Silver Star Freestyle Club Newsletter
February 2016
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Nicole
In the NEWS:
- How did we do at Apex Timber Tour?
- Seasons Pass Survey Reminder
- Apex Mountain Timber Tour/Super Youth Competition
- Shaw TV Spotlight on Stirling Peters
- Whistler Timber Tour
- Whitewater Freeski Competition
- Silver Star Snow Report
- Event Pictures
- Sponsorship Highlight
If you are a member of the Silver Star Freestyle Club you should have received your FREE hat by now! If not ask your coach or Wade.
Have you filled out the Season Pass Survey from Silver Star Mountain yet?
Apex Timber Tour Pictures
APEX Timber Tour - How did we do?
This past month the Silver Star Freestyle Athletes were off to Apex Mountain for the first of 3 stops in the BC Freestyle Provincial Timber Tour/Super Youth Competitions. We really don’t know where to start with the results – this Club is talented, they cleaned up and are loaded down with neck candy! 9 Gold Medals, 11 Silver Medals and 4 Bronze….but who’s counting. The number one goal was to have fun and that they did. Under beautiful skies these kids hucked big air, threw down some serious slopestyle runs and were unbelievable in the moguls.
Naming these tricks is a sport in itself, we really need to work on a glossary. Getting the lingo down is one thing but understanding what it means and comprehending how many turns in a spin,is it off axis etc etc etc it's confusing to us parents!
In the U18’s Max Fenn was 1st in Big Air with his sweet Switch 9 followed closely by Hayden Broderick showing off his mad park skills nailing his Rodeo 5 and coming in 2nd. Landon Gordon cranked out a killer slope run landing him in 2nd for U18’s.
Have you ever heard of a Rodeo 9? That’s how Stirling Peters U16 category ended up 1st in Big Air. His buddy Liam Westermann pulled off unbelievable runs through the park in Slope and Big Air where he spun a Bio 9 to give him a double silver finish. Liam Collyer had all eyes when he threw down a 3rd place finish with a Bio 7 truck driver in the slope course. Nicholas Suchy wore an oven mitt over his wrist cast to pull off a 5th place finish on the Slope course, but it was his Switch Rodeo 10 at Big Air that caught the crowd’s attention. U14 Timber Tour athlete Caden Danbrook placed 5th in both Slope and Big Air spinning a Cork 7.
Female athlete Jamie Rykuiter in the U16 category, originally from Silver Star but now skiing with the BC Development Mogul Team pulled out a 2nd place finish with her spins off the mogul jumps.
The Silver Star boys in the U14 category dominated their age group with a Clean Sweep on the podium in each event. Jarvis Jurome took home one of each colour coming in 1st in Big Air, 2nd in Moguls and 3rd in Slopestyle, while good friend Alex Collyer rocked the stage with two gold medals in Slopestyle & Moguls and a bronze in Big Air. The third in the winning trio was Evan Bush, taking home 2 Silver Medals in Slopestyle & Big Air and a Bronze in Moguls. Keaton Dick was close behind with a 4th in Moguls and 5th in Big Air & Slope. Our very own Jordan MacDonald owned the podium with a 1st place spot in all three events in the girls U14.
A gold medal now hangs around Mason Land’s neck for stomping his 540 in Slopestyle for the U12 boys. The same goes for Alex Sewell who pulled off a sick 360 in his U10 Slopestyle run.
In their first competition, Mason Swanson and Anderson Bicknell upset the veterans by stealing 2nd and 4th place positions, respectively in the U10 Big Air. Mason Swanson went on to take another 4th place finish in moguls to start his freestyle ski medal collection.
Keeping it all in the family, although different age categories, the Silver spotlight was on Hayden & Liam Person. Hayden U16 from Silver Star now skis with the BC Moguls Team. Hayden and his younger brother Liam U10 dominated the mogul field.
There was so much action in just a few days it was hard to keep track of it all. We would like to thank the parents and give them all honourable mention for volunteering through the weekend. They seemed to be working equally as hard on the hill as they were on the dance floor boogying to Vernon’s Band “Young Un’s”. It was a good time had by all!
January’s a big month, still to come…… the Freeski Team is off to Whitewater in Nelson for the Junior Smith Optic Freeski Open and the Freestyle Gang is heading to Whistler for the second Timber Tour/Super Youth stop. Good luck to everyone and congratulations on such great finishes.
On Scene with Shaw TV - SSFSC is going to be famous..wait a minute - we already are!
Stirling Peters
Proud Dad Rod Peters
Happy Program Director Wade
Whistler Timber Tour
SUPER YOUTH
Slopestyle
U14 Alex Collyer 1st
Big Air
U14 Alex Collyer 1st
Moguls
U14 Alex Collyer 1st
TIMBER TOUR
Slopestyle
M14 Caden Danbrook 2nd
M16 Liam Collyer 1st
M16 Nick Suchy 2nd
M16 Liam Westermann 6th
M18 Landon Gordon 6th
M18 Max Fenn 7th
Big Air
M14 Caden Danbrook 12th
M16 Stirling Peters 3rd
M16 Liam Collyer 5th
M16 Nick Suchy 7th
M18 Landon Gordon 2nd
M18 Hayden Broderick 6th
M18 Max Fenn 9th
TRIPLE GOLD WEEKEND for Alex Collyer
WHITEWATER FREESKI COMPETITION
Girls 7-11 Years
Makenna Christensen 3rd
Ella Garrod 4th
Boys 7-11 Years
Nathan Sewell 11th
Tate Garrod 14th
Max Ball & Kyle Bush (honourable mention)
Boys 12-14 Years
Jarvis Jurome 12th
Ryan Mostyn 13th
Sam Rampado 14th
Keaton Dick, Evan Bush, Owen Tooke (honourable mention)
Boys 15-18 Years
Jacob Tooke 10th
Declan Stevenson 12th
Can you figure this one out?
CHECK OUT OUR NEW MOGULS COURSE!
NEW LOCATION.....NEW COURSE.....NEW SIZE
Every mogul course has an upper and lower set of jumps. You'll notice we have 4 jumps on each landing (upper and lower), Two of the four jumps on each landing will be used for Timber Tour (older kids) and be more challenging while the other 2 jumps on each landing will be for Super Youth (younger kids) and provide a safe jump for the younger kids.
Where oh where are these moguls?
After a big afternoon of skiing Moguls!
Upcoming Events
February 18-21 Fernie Freeski Compeition
March 3-6 Lake Louise Freeski Competition
March 6 - Year End Hot Dog Mogul Event at Silver Star Mountain
March 12-13 Big White Regional Slopestyle Competition
March 19 Silver Style Rail Jam
March 26-27 Freeski Team at Revelstoke
March 31-April 3 BC Champs at Silver Star Mountain
Meet the G Team Coaches
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