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Old Collegians, Parents and Friends of St Leonard’s Snowsports

Have you been involved in the Victorian or Australian Interschool Snow Sports Championships

either as a Competitor, Race Official, Committee Member, Team Manager?

We would like to know!

We want to create an opportunity for our community to continue their involvement in Snow Sports! 

What will it look like?

Do you want to contact past students and friends?

Would you like to see social events?

Would you like to be involved in the program assisting the students in

training/lodge bookings/on the snow help….etc

Do you want to see a newsletter?

Please contact us with your ideas!

St Leonard’s College Presentation Night, Thursday 15 September, 7.00 pm, Harefield Dining Room

Belinda Price to Speak and Present at the Dinner

After finishing at St Leonards in ‘99, I started uni at Deakin and finished in 2003 with a Bachelor of Health Sciences after deferring for a year to follow the snow to Canada and Perisher, NSW to teach skiing.

In 2004/2005 I did an 18 month sports science traineeship with the VIS, where I met some of the people that have shaped my career.  After approaching the Olympic Winter Institute of Aust. for employment with any of the snow sport disciplines, I was able to obtain casual camp-based work in 2006 with the aerial skiing program at Mt Buller.  As the months and years progressed, I gained a more full time role with the program.  In the mean time I have also been employed by the AIS, and now I am full time with the VIS in a very similar role to what I started in, with increasing responsibility as the years go by.

Belinda’s role at the VIS –

As coordinator of the Aerial Skiing program, I manage the athletes’ transition and development to World Cup level aerial skiing.  Throughout the Australian winter I take athletes up to Mt Buller where they often see snow for the first time.  Apart from teaching them how to balance on 2 planks and slide down snowy hills, I help develop other domestic and life skills to prepare them for overseas travel, as this is often an unfamiliar forthcoming experience.  

I then organise and run the major overseas winter training camp in Utah, coaching the athletes on snow and teaching skiing and basic jumping skills specific to successful aerial skiing.  I manage the athletes overall development and aim to get as much training done on snow as possible so they are strong and skilled and able to practise aerial tricks on the water ramps, and then prepared for aerial training on snow.   

Essentially, my role is to prepare athletes for successful transition into the AIS/World Cup program by developing skiing, water ramping and overall ‘elite-athlete’ training and life skills. 

All past participants are welcome to attend the evening – speak to Simon Gould for further information.

 

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