ALPINE RACING
THE SCOTTISH ALPINE TEAM
Snowsport Scotland runs the Scottish Alpine Team and delivers a supporting, 12-month, subsidised annual performance training programme.
Selection to the Scottish Alpine Team is conditional upon athletes meeting the performance selection criteria laid down by the Governing Body.
For many Scottish alpine athletes, being selected to the Scottish Team represents a significant milestone in their sporting career and provides them with a well supported opportunity to progress to higher levels of the sport though funded coaching and support from the sportscotland Institute of Sport.
Scottish female alpine Winter Olympian Charlie Guest shares what the Scottish Team meant to her...
"The Scottish Alpine Ski Team played an incredibly valuable part in both my skiing and my teenage life. It gave me the space to grow into and understand what it meant to be an athlete, developing my physical, psychological and skiing skills, continually pushing me outside my comfort zone.
The alpine team training programme also afforded me the opportunity to stay in school at home and complete my Scotland-based high school education, providing me with the crucial stability and continuity I needed to progress in both my sporting and academic development. This support really helped me transition smoothly from junior to senior racing, and was a vital building block in my Olympic career".