Queenstown Alpine Ski Team Incorporated

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Hi Everyone
I hope everyone had a good summer and is looking forward to another great ski season this year. Much of the pre season work for the budget and organisation of programmes for 2003 has been completed. The Board is excited and encouraged by the new additions to this years coach staff who will ensure that QAST has a top quality programme. Successful meetings have been had with nzski.com on availability of training space, dates for races etc. so we are able to confirm our race and events calendar to our members early in the season. We thank Nzski.com for giving QAST it’s full support for this coming season.

Annual General Meeting:
This will be held on Sunday 27th April 2003 at The Gold Ridge Hotel, Frankton Rd, Queenstown (opposite Sherwood Manor) at 2pm. All members and visitors welcome. Please try and come to support the organisation. Will be great to see everyone.

Ski Racing NZ:
SRNZ have already had several meetings in 2003. Our representative for the year will again be Murray Popenhagen. A tentative date for their AGM is 17th May. The Race Calendar is available in Draft thru the website www.skiracing.org.nz

Wakatipu Ski Club Ski Sale:
This is scheduled for Sunday 18th May at the Events Centre at Frankton. Gather together your ski or Snowboard gear that is unwanted and support this great fundraiser for the Wakatipu Ski club. Further information will be advertised in early May. For any member who has equipment at the office please collect this if you would like to place this in the sale.

TD and ROC Seminar:
This year the above meetings will again be held in Christchurch on 23/24 May. Several representatives from our organisation will attend including Murray Popenhagen (SRNZ Rep) and our Race Secretary for the year. If anyone is interested in attended this seminar please contact Stevie in the office.

New Zealand Alpine Ski Academy:
The applications for the Ski Academy run through Wakatipu High School have gone out. The successful applicants will be notified by Friday 2nd May. We welcome back Jane Gunn-Lewis as the Co-Ordinator for another season and look forward to working with Jane, Grant Adolph at the high school and Jan Eyles who is our Liaison person on the QAST Board. Please call me if you have any queries regarding the Academy.
QAST Coach Structure for 2003:
After receiving dozens of applications for coaching positions we are pleased to announce that the new Head Coach for this season will be Scott Zahn. Scott is currently Head FIS Coach with the National Alpine Training Centre in Canada which was set up six years ago.
Athletes at the Centre compete at regional and Nor-Am FIS level and are consistently ranked in the top 50 in the world and the top five in Canada for their age. The sort of expertise Scott will bring to QAST based on his work at the Centre and his wide experience as a top level coach in both Canada and the United States will be invaluable.
Brad Saxe will the Head Intermediate coach . Brad has a similar background and is presently Head Coach of the Jackson Hole Ski Club, a prominent alpine programme in North America.
His previous appointments include assistant coach roles with the US Ski Team men’s regional team and the women’s A team in downhill and Super-G He has personally trained three current members of the US Ski team and one former member. He has also been closely associated with the US Men’s Europa Cup technical and speed teams as well as the US Men’s Word Cup speed team, as guest coach, over the last three years.
Scott and Brad are both highly ranked Level 5 coaches and they will form the nucleus of a strong coaching structure.

Summer Dryland Programme:
This has been run successful by Guy Hills since last November. He will continue to work with the athletes throughout the winter along with Niall Magee of Back on Track Physiotherapy. Together they will work with the NZ Academy of Sport to support our SRNZ Team athletes and will attend the first SRNZ camp to be held in Dunedin over 4 days commencing 21st April.

Northern Hemisphere Training:
This year 26 of our athletes travelled overseas during the summer to train
Switzerland/France/Italy/Spain (Juliet Satterthwaite)
Erika McLeod
Alana Gould
Sarena Harper
Engelberg, Switzerland (Adi Bernasconi)
James Arnott
Tyson Lynes
Airini Robinson
Jamie-Lee Dennison
Lofer, Austria (Victor and Arles Dockal)
Andrew Greig
Mark Bridgwater
Rupert Ralston
Tim Cafe
Michael Eyles
Philippa Greig ((Philippa also trained at the Benny Reich Acadamy in Pitzal in Austria))
Baqueira, Spain (Angus Rose and May Peus )
Michelle Greig
Ella Spittle
Annie Café
Alice Ralston
Phillip Bennett
Rory Hill

Morgins, Switzerland (Yannick Bellon and Marco Rigat)
Billy Lynes
Matt Johnson
George Spittle
Rhys Grimmer
Christopher Lamb
Oscar Rodwell
Whistler, Canada (for Whistler Cup) (Adi Bernasconi)
Daniel Eyles
Alice Ralston
Ella Spittle
Jamie Lee Dennison

They will all have many stories to tell about their time away from home and results from training in a different environment.

GS Suits/Equipment:
I have had my first request for Junior GS suits. If anyone has a GS suit to fit a 12yr old boy weighting about 38-40 kilos please contact the office if you would like to sell this. Any other junior suits for sale can be left at the office for display from now on.
Please call Mark on 021 262 9964 if anyone has the following race stock skis for sale -
GS 185cm, SL 165cm. Thanks

50’s of Coronet event:
We are looking forward to another mighty 50K downhill endurance ski event this year with an exciting line up of new teams and old favourites who have applied for selection. The successful teams will be announced in the soon as the momentum builds for this year's race. We will have access again to HP's sophisticated timing system and support staff to give us those precise and instant results. The event organisers are very grateful for all of the volunteer help from Qasties and supporters and they look forward to a good turn out again this year. Of course it is a huge fundraiser for us as well as a very exciting event to be involved in. Watch this space and the media in the coming weeks for news on a new participation programme for event supporters.

Data Projector Hire:
Our Data projector is available for hire at the following rates:
½ day - $100 +GST 1-2 days $180+GST 3-5 days $150+GST
Please call Stevie in the office if you need more details on hiring our Data projector.

Coaches Accommodation:
Please notify Stevie in the office if you have any leads on accommodation for this winter for our coaches. The QAST Board and office would appreciate any help in this area.

Rossignol Sponsorship 2004:
Outlined below is an application form for sponsorship of Rossignol equipment. This is a great opportunity for Junior atheltes.

Rossignol New Zealand is proud to announce the launch of its Junior Sponsorship program for the 2004 season.

If you are in the J4 age group or a 1st year J3 and wish to apply to be a part of the programme for 2004 please complete and return the following form.

Name:

D.O.B.

Address:

Home Telephone: Email Address:

Goals – 2003 season:

Long term Goals:

Why should Rossignol select you?

Athletes who apply will be watched over the 2003 season and their results commitment and improvement taken into account
when selections are made.

Applications to: Richard Mcleod
880b George Street
Dunedin

Applications close 1st May, 2003

For further information call Richard on 0274 427 352 or email [email protected]

SRNZ teams 2003:
Qast athletes who have been successful in gaining placement in national teams are:
National Team: Erika McLeod
NZ National Squad: James Arnott, Alana Gould
NZ National Junior Team: Andrew Greig, Mark Bridgwater, Airini Robinson, Sarena Harper
NZ Youth Team: Michelle Greig, Jamie Lee Dennison, Annie Café, Rory Hill AndrewWylie, Daniel Eyles, Bridget Carter,Tom Johnson, Ella Spittle, Alice Ralston
Congratulations to you all, Well done.

See you at the AGM, enjoy our beautiful Autumn

Rob Greig (Chairman)
Queenstown Alpine Ski Team Board

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