| Posted 8 February |
| I hope our members’ skiing has been as enjoyable as mine. I cannot remember the last time snow conditions were so perfect – and my skiing feels as if it has taken a great leap forward – not bad considering I have just had my 70th birthday!
A lot has been going on in the club. We raised about £30,000 last year by various means – mostly at the City event we held in October, kindly hosted by Smith & Williamson. This year’s British Schoolgirls’ Races in Flaine were fully subscribed and many people told me they thought they were the best we’ve ever run. The children, their teachers and parents were such a lovely, happy lot and made the organisers’ lives so easy and enjoyable. Well done to Anne Taylor and her team.
Due to the insolvency of the SSGB, our Olympic athletes are having a very worrying time and we decided that we could at least help Chemmy as a member of the Club. We gave her £10,000 so that she could concentrate on her racing, rather than her finances. We wish her all the very best of luck and will be watching her every move.
Yesterday I attended Myles Robinson’s memorial service at Charterhouse. He was the son of Sarah whom many of you know and who organised our races in Flaine for many years. He died in a tragic accident in Wengen over Christmas aged just 23 and we send our sympathy and condolences to her, Michael and Cara.
Members will soon be receiving our spring mailing and I hope that some of you will be able to join us on our walk in the autumn.
Ski heil. Jill
7th February 2010. |
| Listen to Chemmy's interview featured on Woman's Hour go to www.BBC.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00qb8yc Chemmy was interviewed by telephone from her London home whilst waiting for a taxi arrive to take her to the airport to fly to Vancouver. |
| There is a link now the the action photos. If you click here you will go to Yoann Marot - Photographie. Then click the left hand button ACCES AUX ALBUMS PUBLICS and there are 2 albums from the event |
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CLUB MEMBER CHEMMY ALCOTT HAS QUALIFIED FOR THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS NEXT MONTH IN VANCOUVER.
Chemmy has said, 'The Winter Olympic Games are, without doubt, the biggest event in our sport, so its a massively exciting prospect for me to be going as part of Team GB. Last time in Turin four years ago, I came 11th, but this time my aspirations are higher. I don't just want to break into the top ten. I do believe I've got the talent to challenge for a medal, a gold one would be fantastic!'
'Representing your country is something very, very special. I've hugely enjoyed my previous experiences, but I hope this will be the best of them all'. |
| Please click here to access the results page |
| You can keep up with Emily Sarsfield's blog by clicking this link. Great reading and an interesting insight into one of our great snoiw athletes. Please click here to access it. |
| LSC Member Emily Sarsfield has pre-qualified for next year's Winter Olympic games which will be held in Vancouver, but she will have to wait until the end of January to hear whether her place has been confirmed. However in the meantime you might like to watch a video of Emily filmed last week at Bisham Abbey. Please click here to see it. |
 A special Marc Hodler Award was presented to Elizabeth Hussey on Friday 20th November at the 85th Annual General Meeting of the Kandahar Ski Club at the Royal Yacht Club, Knightsbridge, london. This first-time award was presented by the Marc Hodler Foundation to recognise Elizabeth Hussey's lifetime of contributions to documenting the history of skiing. It was presented by Beat Hodler on behalf of the institution honoring his father.
During the presentation, FIS General Secretary Sarah Lewis read some tributes received from all over the world, such as one from American historian John Fry. ''Elizabeth Hussey is like Niagara Falls, without the noise, a person of immense quiet energy. She invented multi-tasking. A few years ago, my wife and I visited her at Warren Rise in Surrey. Within a span of 18 hours she furnished me with enough Arnold lunn facts to write most of an article; she served a classic English tea with crumpets, and a roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding; took us on an extensive tour of houses and gardens; and lead us halfway to Heathrow in her car so that we would not get lost. Then she went home to edit more material for the FIS historial timeline. Elizabeth is one of skiings treasurers!'' |
The Ladies Ski Club is very pleased to announce a new trophy called the British Car Registrations Trophy which will be awarded for the best Junior 1 combined.
The Trophy has been presented by Mr and Mrs Brian Bell. |
The Club would like to offer its thanks to two companies who have generously sponsored awards for 2010.
DBM Holdings stockists and distributors of food packaging and hygiene and cleaning chemicals respectively. For more details visit their website www.dbm-ltd.co.uk
The ABC Group based in Surrey covers a wide range of construction and development requirements from Film Sets to Ski Chalets. We also develop property in the UK and Europe including the French Alps. We are keen to continue supporting British Skiing through our Alpine business interests. For more details visit their website www.abc-group.com
Details of all the clubs awards can be found in the awards section. |
10 Notelets for £5 including Post and Packaging
These two cartooned notelets are from a series of cartoons drawn in 1947 especially for Evie Piniching by Alan D'Egville (Deggero) a founder member of Kandahar, brilliant cartoonist and Gold Medal skier of the 1920's and 1930's. Evie donated these two cartoons to the Ladies Ski Club.
Please email your order to kay@ladiesskiclub.org with postal details, payment will be required by return on reciept of the cards.
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| Great pic of (l to r) Chemmy, Pam, Louise and Mel taking a break during training in Chile |
| The Board would like to thank Luxmi Selarajah of Airborn Products for sponsoring the latest Club award. The award will be presented to the Ladies Children's 2 winner of the National Junior Slalom Event at the British Championships 2010. For more information and how to order The Skizmo, please visit the website |
The third Amateur Inter-Club Team Championship will be hosted by SCI Club18 and will take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo over the weekend of March 5th-7th 2010.
The aim is to have at least one hot-shot team and maybe two teams of keen members who would enjoy the slalom and GS. There are two age categories, those born 1965 – 1992 and those born before 1964. Ideally we would like at least a top team and a second team in each category.
The Italian teams have a great sense of fun and it promises to be a really enjoyable weekend, and of course one flies to Venice so a detour en route is easily managed?
You can click here to see the report on this year's race. The weekend was great fun and all three of us vowed to race next year and to enter several Ladies Ski Club teams.
Can anyone interested in coming to Cortina next year please get in contact with Joanna Milner-Percy by email - click here or Tel 020 7286 6048. |
| A huge Thank You from all at the Ladies Ski Club to our hosts for the night on 8 October 2009. |
| Members requiring copies of last year's AGM Minutes and Year End Accounts are asked to email Anne Taylor by clicking here and she will send you a copy |
| Amanda Pirie and Lynn Sharp, both Ladies SKi Club members and ex-GB Ski Team athletes, are running a race training camp in Sas Fee, Switzerland, this November. The camp is open to adults who would like to give ski racing a go as well as to those who are experienced master racers. It is an excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to experience and gain from this exhilarating, challenging and rewarding ski discapline. Please find more information at www.amandapirie.co.uk and send all enquiries to ski@amandapirie.co.uk |
| Please check out our Noticeboard. We've had our first posting on it from Amanda Pirie offering some great personalised ski courses. The board could be a great asset to you - advertise something, sell something, buy something - the list is endless. It is your board - please use it! In the meantime please click here to see the Board Area. |
The President and Board would like to thank Isabel Kite for her generous sponsorship of a new annual Ladies Ski Club award. The award of £800 will be made to the LSC junior with the best FIS slalom points at the end of the season.
Isy Mabey began skiing at the age of six and continued to ski throughout her school years with DHO in Wengan. During her A level year she competed in the English Schools Ski Championship where she was selected to be a British Ladies Team member and for three seasons competed on the European FIS circuit. Isy's strongest and most favoured discipline was slalom. For those of you that have noticed the Mabey link, yes Isy is Penny Mabey's daughter. |
Many thanks to Lynn Sharp for this exciting account of the Villars 24 Hour race. Picture shows Lynn on the left with Amanda on the right.
"On the 16th January this year I took a weekend off from coaching at the BSA and made my way to Villars in Switzerland to take part in the 11th edition of the BCV Villars 24 hr race" ....continued
It's quite long and a fascinating read. You can read it all by clicking here.
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| Member Jacqui Crawford and her husband Gordon have put together a Ski Parent's Guide booklet - please click here to find out more |
 Then it's worth checking out the website from one of our main sponsors and supports, MTGY. They offer a broad range of GAP Year related insurance. Please click on the logo to go to their site - and they have written a very informative article about GAP Year travel. Click here to download it. |
| As we have been asked by many members whether it is possible to send the details of LSC events electronically rather than by post in order to save both money and trees, we are proposing to send all future newsletters by email. If you would like us to use a different email address, you would like us to continue to post these to you, or if you have changed your postal address, please contact Ros Humphrey, the Hon. Secretary at Ros@ladiesskiclub.org |
