Regrettably we have had to cancel the British Schoolgirls’ Races scheduled for January 2021 due to the current Covid situation and advice from the resort.
We WILL be back 2022 and look forward to welcoming the schoolgirls back in Flaine; please save the dates in your diary:
Training Day: Sunday 30th January 2022
Race Days: Monday 31st January and Tuesday 1st February 2022
Please visit the BSR website for further information
Congratulations to a number of our members who have been selected to join GB Snowsport’s World Class Programme; the programme supports athletes to reach World Cup podiums and win Olympic and Paralympic medals.
Best wishes for the 2020/21 season to the LSC members in the programme
Charlie Guest & Alex Tilley
Kirsty Muir (one of our newest members)
Menna Fitzpatrick, Kelly Gallaher & Millie Knight
Jen Kehoe
The Annual General Meeting of The Ladies’ Ski Club Limited will be held on Wednesday 9th December 2020 at 6 pm; it will be a virtual meeting held by Zoom. Please refer to the attached full notice for further details
Members are asked to confirm their attendance by email to secretary@ladiesskiclub.org by Monday 7th December 2020
Blues Ski have been serving Scottish Skiers for over 30 years and are committed to providing the top brands of ski clothing, equipment and essential ski accessories across the country. We offer the latest in technological product developments, expert product knowledge and the highest quality maintenance and advice in our stores and online.
Blues Ski are committed to supporting the Junior Race discipline and would like to offer all LSC members a 30% discount on race skis and 20% discount on all other race products for both on-line and in-store purchases. Please visit the members area here to obtain the LSC discount code.
The link to Blues Ski on line shop is here
LSC members (and a few husbands/partners) got together for a socially distanced late summer walk and picnic at Studland, on the Dorset coast, hosted by our Vice President Joanna Milner-Percy. With members coming from Cheshire, Suffolk, London and Bournemouth, many chose to make a weekend of it and had dinner together, albeit in their bubbles at well spaced tables, at the Purbeck Golf Club on Saturday evening. There was fine weather for the walk, so much so some even ventured into the sea for a dip…. The walk was followed by a picnic with small groups of picnickers relaxing on the outfield of the cricket pitch in the grounds of Studland Bay House, the old family home of one our members Sarah Ferguson; this was topped off with a tour of the house and gardens. There will be a more detailed account in this year’s bulletin, but a selection of pictures from the day are below:
Applications are now open for LSC awards for the 2020-21 season and will be open until 1 November 2020. Please visit the awards section of the website for further details and to access the application form.
Sadly LSC has had to cancel this year’s event due to COVID-19, however we are delighted to announce that we will hold the races again in 2021 as follows
Date: Sunday 12 September 2021
Time: 11 am to 6 pm
Location: Milton Keynes Snozone
Entries will open in early 2021
Please contact usat events@ladiesskiclub.org with any queries.
We have now received a wide selection of photos of the event from the official photographer which are on the AICC page under Races. If you click on each of the photos it will let you scroll through the full collection. Photos can be accessed here
One of our members is offering a free online taster of her "Pilates for Performance" class to LSC members; further details and the link to book your class are on the members area of the website
The Racer Ready awards recognise the achievements of the athletes, clubs, academies, sponsors, resorts that held British races and Governing Bodies from last season.
It is fantastic to see Flaine, LSC’s home in the mountains, on the short list for the “Best Racer Resort” and it would be great if members could support the resort by voting for them in the awards.
One of our members, Leasa Bullock, has been nominated for “Race Volunteer of the Year” and a number of the LSC racers, Jaz Taylor, Alex Tilley, Charlie Guest, Cara Brown, Daisi Daniels, Millie Knight and Menna Fitzpatrick have also been nominated for various awards.
Please support Flaine and our LSC members by voting. Voting is open until 14 June 2020 and can be accessed here
Further information about Racer Ready and the awards can be found on their website: www.racer-ready.co.uk
The 2019/2020 season may have only finished recently, but GB Snowsport are already planning next season and have announced some of their squads. Three LSC members have been selected for the 2020/21 season squads as follows:
Alex Tilley
Charlie Guest
Cara Brown
Congratulations to you all and best of luck for next season
Further details are on the GB Snowsport website here
Read the latest news about the club here
LSC are delighted to report that Jaz Taylor, one of the girls we support, is officially the most successful British skier of all time having had more World Cup podiums than any other GB skier.
Jaz, a telemarker based in Chamonix in the winter, now has an incredible 30 World Cup medals. She has beaten the record set by Jilly Curry, the freestyle (aerials) skier, who competed for GB between 1984 and 1994.
If Jaz was competing in almost any other discipline, her achievement would be all over the sports pages of the mainstream media; sadly telemark skiing gets little coverage and is not in the Olympics – though not for want of trying.
Congratulations Jaz on your tremendous performance from all the members of LSC!
LSC hosted a very successful AICC race event in Flaine on 12th and 13th March 2020. Despite the Corona Virus threat preventing some teams from attending, we had 115 racers across 30 teams and the competitors enjoyed two excellent days of competition. On Thursday we had the Super G followed by tartiflette lunch before the afternoon team parallel race accompanied by drinks flowing at the ice bar. Thanks to the hard work by ESF and a lot of salt, we managed two fast and furious runs of GS on Friday, despite all waking up to thick fog and soggy snow from overnight rain. Watch the video of the racing here
In keeping with AICC traditions, the social events were a key part of the event; welcome drinks were held in Flaine’s fabulous auditorium on Wednesday and alpine dinners on Thursday at Lapiaz and Le Bissac. On Friday evening we held the prizegiving at L’Eloge, followed by a sumptuous gala dinner at Le Michet. Rumour has it that guests were entertained by members of the committee singing and dancing in pink tutus…. please follow this link
Please follow this link to get a taste of the social side
Thank you to all our sponsors, Club des Sports Flaine, Flaine Tourism and Flaine ESF, without whom it would not have been possible to host the event
Full results and more photos are available on the event website https://www.aicc-ladiesskiclub.org and full list of medal winners can be found here
Category winners were:
Mixed 70+ DHO
Ladies 60+ Kandahar
Ladies 45-59 Kandahar
Ladies 18-44 SAS
Mens 60+ Alpbach Visitors Ski Club
Mens 45-59 Marden’s
Mens 18-44 SAS A
Many thanks to all our sponsors
Entries are now open for the second British Schoolgirls’ Indoor Races which will be held on Sunday 13 September 2020 at the Snowdome in Milton Keynes.
Full details and application form are on the BSIR page under races
One of our regular AICC racers and Committee Member, Caroline Brown, has just returned from competing at the Winter World Masters Games in Innsbruck where she took the opportunity to test out one of the new LSC catsuits.
Caroline said “The Winter World Masters Games was a great opportunity to socialise with and race against alpine skiers from all over the world. The Canadians and Australians both had large teams but there were also competitors from South America and Africa as well as 100s of 'local' Europeans!
There were over 3500 athletes competing in 12 different winter sports - larger than the winter Olympics - spread across four different venues, so Innsbruck didn't feel overrun.
I had a great time and hope to still be racing when the next Winter World Masters Games comes around in 5 years time…”
Hopefully she will be joined by a few more LSC racers in 5 years time!
The 61st British Schoolgirls’ Races were held in FLAINE, 27-28 January 2020, run for the LSC by Anne Taylor’s amazing and experienced team of officials.
Among 59 Schools entered this year, four were new to the competition, and a total of 159 schoolgirls took part.
Full results and photos are now available on the BSR website
A few of our members tried out the new catsuits in Hintertux yesterday; we all agreed they made us ski much faster…..
The official launch will be at the AICC races in Flaine in March 2020.
Catsuits will be available for members to buy or rent in future -full details will ba added to the website soon
The Ladies’ Ski Club is holding a raffle to raise funds for Myeloma UK, the chosen charity for the 2020 British Schoolgirls’ Races
Please follow this link to buy tickets
LSC organised the first British Schoolgirls’ Indoor Races on Sunday 15 September. 120 schoolgirls joined the competition which was held at the Snozone in Milton Keynes. There were individual races first with each competitor taking part in two runs of the slalom; this was followed by a parallel slalom knockout competition for those in school teams. Individual results are available at:
https://gbski.com/competition.php?ID=665
Wycombe Abbey won the team event for the slalom and after very exciting final race in the parallel slalom, Wycombe Abbey took the trophy ahead of Sherborne School.
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