Dear Park and Pipe Community,

As the 2024-25 World Cup season begins to pick up, our Aussie Park and Pipe athletes will make the journey north for the Stubai Freeski Slopestyle, Beijing Freeski and Snowboard Big Air and Secret Garden Snowboard Halfpipe World Cups.

First up will be Daisy Thomas this weekend competing in Austria at the Stubai Freeski Slopestyle World Cup. This will be Daisy’s first World Cup for the season and her first action since her silver medal performance at this years’ Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon.

You can follow along with the action at Stubai, Austria on SnowLive from 9:30pm (AEDT) on Saturday 23rd November.

Following Stubai, our athletes head to Beijing, China for the second Big Air event of the season. Valentino Guseli and Joshua Robertson-Hahn will compete in the Snowboard World Cup with Joey Elliss making his World Cup debut in the freeski event.

The Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup Season will kick off at Secret Garden, China in December with Scotty James looking to defend his win in China last season. Scotty will be joined in the pipe by Valentino Guseli, alongside Misaki Vaughan in the womens competition.

The times and streaming links for Beijing and Secret Garden will be released shortly on SnowLive so stay tuned so that you can watch Australia’s athletes contest for gold!

Also covered in this discipline newsletter is the recent restructuring of Snow Australia's National Discipline Committees (NDC's). After an extensive review and a call for expressions of interest to the wider community, the Snow Australia board has appointed committee and conference members for the Park and Pipe NDC. You can read more about the National Discipline Committee review and meet the members of the Park & Pipe Committee in the article below.

There has been a lot of activity at the NSTC recently with members of the NSWIS Park & Pipe Team spending time at the facility training over the past couple of weeks (read the article below for more details). This activity continues with the NSTC hosting the Park and Pipe ETP camp over the next two weekends. Lead by expert coaches and staff our emerging athletes will use all the NSTC has offer with time on the airbags, in the acro centre and training in the high-performance gym. We look forward to hearing about the development of the ETP athletes over the coming weeks.

Finally, we are excited to announce the Park & Pipe National Team and National Development Team members for 2024/25. Highlighted by Olympians Scotty James, Valentino Guseli and Tess Coady, read on to see which athletes were named to the team. 

Best of luck to all those competing, we look forward to seeing some strong Aussie results.

Pipe and Park National Discipline Committee

Snow Australia is pleased to announce the Park and Pipe National Team for the 2024/25 season. 

Four time Olympian Scotty James returns to the team, achieving an impressive 15 World Cup podiums throughout his years competing at the World Cup level, including 9 golds and silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.

Nineteen-year-old Valentino Guseli is the back to back overall Park and Pipe Crystal Globe winner, and following his Olympic debut in 2022, is getting ready to take on Milano Cortina in 2026.  

A bronze medalist in Beijing 2022, Tess Coady is looking to add to her success this season, she has landed herself on the World Cup podium seven times, picking up two gold medals. 

New recruit, Daisy Thomas is a recent addition to the OWIA athlete group and is hunting to continue her run of impressive results, placing 2nd at the Youth Olympic Games in 2024. 

Hosted at National Snowsports Training Centre in Jindabyne, the NSWIS Park and Pipe Camp has been flying high as athletes are hard at work sharpening their skills. 

The camp provides its High Performance Athletes an additional 29 airbag training sessions throughout the month of November to increase their degree of difficulty, ensuring that their tricks are competition ready as they prepare for the northern winter season. 

The camp sessions also cover key themes such as ‘Prepare and Train like a Pro’ and ‘Gaps to Podium Sessions’. 

Following a comprehensive 12-month review, the Snow Australia Board, with support from the Management Team, completed a refresh and restructure of our National Discipline Committees (NDCs). 

The following committee members and conference members have been appointed for the Park and Pipe NDC.

National Park & Pipe Committee - Members

• Scott Kneller (Chair)
• Charles Beckinsale
• Adam Begg
• Holly Crawford
• Josh Lyle
• Anna Segal
• Davina Williams

Conference Members are Tim Gale, Greg Janneau, Luka Sinhart, Leon Tarbotton and Ryan Tiene.

The Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) is seeking a well organised, self starter to join their team in Melbourne.