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Girls Shred Day

Cairngorm Snowboard Club in association with Snowsport Scotland and sponsored by Roxy, invite all skier and boarder girls to come along to the Girls Shred day hosted at Cairngorm mountain. The shred day is aimed at ladies/girls looking to learn basic freestyle skills and ride with like minded girls - THIS IS ...

Revised Entry Process for Courchevel Races

Snowsport Scotland would like to advise all racers attending, or intending to attend, the Childrens and FIS races in Courchevel in April, that the entry process for races has changed. Snowsport Scotland are no longer accepting entries to the races, however, all entries already made to the races through Snowsport ...

Alpine L1 Coach Pilot Course

Snowsport Scotland, England, Wales and BASI are currently working on a UK wide performance coaching pathway which will be recognised by all organisations. As part of this process BASI are running a pilot course for the new Alpine L1 on the 8-10 Feb at SNO!zone Braehead. The Level 1 Alpine Coach is designed for ...

Andrew Musgrave 2nd at Norwegian Championships

Snowsport Scotland would like to congratulate Andrew Musgrave on finishing 2nd in the 15K Freestyle (Skate) at the Norwegian Championships yesterday beating most of the Norwegian Team. Andrew is a member of the British Team and started competing with Huntly Nordic Ski Club.

Claire Jeffray Takes Gold at the Special Olympics

Snowsport Scotland would like to congratulate Claire Jeffray on her success at the Special Winter Olympics in Pila Italy earlier this month. Claire who trains with LSRA (Lothian Ski Racing Association) won Gold in the Slalom and came 4th in the Super G events. ...

THE LECHT OPEN

CANCELED / POSTPONED - Lecht 2090 Unfortunately the heavy snow forecast has not been heavy enough and the race organisers have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel the Lecht Open for this Saturday and Sunday. John Allan and the organising committee form Gordon’s Skiers have worked ...

More World Cup Points for Andrew Musgrave

In Toblach, Italy, today Aberdeenshire’s Andrew Musgrave finished 23rd in the freestyle sprint prologue, earning himself more World Cup points. Since he took Britain’s first ever cross-country World Cup points last weekend in the Tour’s opening race (the 3km freestyle where he finished 28th) ...

Andrew Musgrave achieves first World Cup points

Another milestone was reached yesterday in the British cross-country skiing programme when Andrew Musgrave from Aberdeenshire became the first Briton ever to earn World Cup points in cross country skiing. The annual “Tour de Ski” opened in Oberhof, Germany, yesterday with a 3.75 km freestyle ...

Avalanche Awareness Courses Winter 2012

During the winter of 2009/10, 30% of human triggered avalanches in Scotland were triggered by skiers and snowboarders. Last season, the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) teamed up with Snowsport Scotland to bring practical training sessions that were tailored towards Scottish skiers and ...

BECOME A COACH

Need to gain a recognised UK qualification to coach upcoming athletes from club level and upwards? Then we might have the award for you. Our Performance Pathway is geared towards qualifying coaches with the necessary skills to safely and succesfully train athletes with specific focus on race training. Pathways are available in Alpine, Snowboard and Nordic disciplines.

To get on or progress along the coaching pathway book on a course in our Find a Course section, or Contact Us for further information.

ALPINE

There are 3 Levels of performance coach available for individuals who already hold an ASSI qualification. A 3 day course giving an introduction into Performance Coaching and will allow you to assistant a Level 3 or 4 coach in training sessions. The one week Level 3 and Level 4 increase your coaching skills and give you greater responsibility and scope within which to use your award. See below for further details.

Level 2 Alpine Performance Coach
Level 3 Alpine Performance Coach
Level 4 Alpine Performance Coach

SNOWBOARD

The Snowboard Performance Coach course, equivalent to that of the Level 3 Alpine course, is designed to educate snowboard coaches with entry level athletes. A 6 day course run either in Scotland or abroad follow the link below to learn more.

Level 3 Snowboard Performance Coach

NORDIC

There are 4 levels of Nordic Coaching qualifications starting from Assistant through to Elite level. The qualifications are for those who have an interest in working with Nordic Performance athletes. For further information and to take part on a course please contact Roger Homyer - roger.homyer@hotmail.co.uk.