Jane Campbell Morrison has been selected to take on the role of Chief Executive Officer of Snowsport Scotland from July 2013. Jane comes from a skiing and sailing background. Having started to ski with her family in Canada, aged 3 years old, she went on to take part in various training camps to improve ...
With the Huntly Rollerski Sprints and the Clashindarroch Hill Climb taking place this weekend (25-26th May), the Huntly Nordic Ski Club have published a newsletter with a round up of the year including features on some of the international success enjoyed by Scottish competitors and updates on Andrew Musgrave ...
This season saw the British Snow Tour being updated to be able to include all UK freeski and snowboard events in a similar concept to the World Snowboard and Association of Freeskiing Professionals tours. Events are awarded a star ranking based on the environment and number of competitors, with the best 4 ...
Alpine Training Centre\'s (ATC) October Alpine Camp has been announced and will run from 5th - 26th October (for 1, 2 or 3 weeks) in Hintertux, Austria and is open to all. The camp is set to be lots of fun and have excellent high quality coaching! The coaching team is headed up by former Olympians Andy ...
Results are now online for the Scottish Indoor Freestyle Championships which took place at Snow Factor on the 11th May 2013. On the ladies side, Vaila Chapman and Molly Summerhayes took 1st place in the Snowboard and Ski sections respectively. Meanwhile, Matt McCormick took gold for his snowboarding efforts in the ...
British Ski & Snowboard (BSS) are conducting a review of the British Children\'s team and are looking for feedback from coaches, athletes, parents, club managers etc. Please see below for links to two survey monkey questionnaires which provide more information about the review along with a short questionnaire ...
The Scottish Juniors Alpine Development Group AGM will take place on Saturday 15th June at Bellahouston ski club. SJADG is open to any skier who is U/18 or U/21 and who wants to continue skiing as a racer, for pleasure or to develop as a coach/ instructor. The meeting will start at 5.30 pm and information will be ...
From the 12-26th October the FAST Camp will run in Tignes offering the chance to train on a variety of pistes for Under 16 and Under 14 age groups. For more information see the attached FAST Camp Letter & Flyer .
The Scottish Junior Alpine Development Group (SJADG) training camp to Tignes will take place from 11th- 20th October and will give trainees 8 days of race training. The camp is open to all Junior skiers and affords excellent preparation for the 2013-14 season. We are delighted to have Kenny Morton, former British ...
Plans are already in place for the 2014 Combined Scottish Camp in Bormio supported by Scottish Juniors, FAST, Muckart, LSRA, Gordon Skiers, & SSC. The camp will run from 14th Feb to 22nd February for Under 10s through to Under 16s. For full information click here .
With the Summer competitions commencing shortly the updated age categories have been posted online available in our Forms & Resources section.
Here you will find current vacancies with Snowsport Scotland and selected other third parties. To advertise a job vacancy here email info@snowsportscotland.org
Chief Executive Officer - Snowsport Scotland
The Snowsport Scotland Board, in partnership with sportscotland, are looking to appoint a Chief Executive Officer with the experience and skills to lead the organisation forward and to implement Snowsport Scotland’s strategic plan for the next five years, which aims to increase participation and improve standards throughout the sport. Closing date - Wednesday 1st May at noon.
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Freestyle Snowsports Development Coach - Aberdeen Snowsports Centre
To develop freestyle ski and snowboarding in the North East of Scotland through the development and operation of a programme which encompasses the use of the available Snowsports Facilities in the North East and utilising other sporting facilities to participate in a range of cross training activities.
The focus of these cross training activities is to increase performance in the athlete’s snowsport discipline, however if the athlete shows promise at these cross training sports they may be encouraged at some point to focus on that particular sport as opposed to their original snow sport.
It will be part of the successful applicants role to develop, promote and run this programme and a more detailed description of those duties are shown below in the job description.
This exciting opportunity is supported by UK Sport, Aberdeen Snowsports Centre and The Aberdeen Snowsports Club.
Technical Director/High Performance Coach - Saskatchewan, Canada
Cross-country Saskatchewan are looking for a Technical Director/High Performance Coach full-time for the next 3 years minimum to lead provincial skiers into the next Canada Winter Games and beyond. More details here.