Dear Park and Pipe Community,

It’s been a busy month with our Aussie athlete’s crossing the ditch to compete in the ANCs for Freeski and Snowboard at The Remarkables and Cardrona.

Kai Martin and Ally Hickman each topped the podium at the first Slopestyle ANC for Freeski and Snowboard respectively at The Remarkables last month. To see the full results for each discipline click the links below.

Snowboard: FIS Snowboard - The Remarkables (NZL) - Event Details

Freeski: FIS Freestyle - The Remarkables (NZL) - Event Details

Amid challenging conditions at Cardrona, the first Park and Pipe World Cup event for the 2024-25 season got underway with Snowboard Slopestyle. Aussie athletes Mela Stalker and Jesse Parkinson were there to represent Australia finishing 11th and 27th respectively as finals were ground to a halt due to poor weather conditions with the qualification scores being used as the final result.

See the full results for the World Cup event below.

FIS Snowboard - Cardrona (NZL) - Event Details

The ANC Premium Freeski event at Cardrona kicked off this week, follow the link below to check out the results as they’re updated.

FIS Freestyle - Cardrona (NZL) - Event Details

Coming up later this month are the final ANC events at Cardrona beginning on the 30th of September. This stop will see events for all three Park and Pipe disciplines across Freeski and Snowboard. Keep up to date on the event with the result links below.

Freeski: FIS Freestyle - Cardrona (NZL) - Event Details

Snowboard: FIS Snowboard - Cardrona (NZL) - Event Details

There has also been plenty of Interschool activity at the National Intereschools Championships at Perisher this week with Division 1-3 Slopestyle Skiers and Snowboarders showing off their best tricks to claim National Interschools victory. To check out the results, follow the link below.

Results - Snow Australia Interschools

We hope you enjoy the remainder of the season as it begins to wind down!

Pipe and Park National Discipline Committee

Snow Australia are excited to announce that the registrations for Park and Pipe FUTURES are now open for 2024.

This year we will run a Snowboard day and a Freeski day at the NSTC on the 19th and the 20th September respectively.

Places are capped for the camp due to the capacity constraints at the NSTC, so get your registrations in quick!

Snow Australia is excited to announce it will host a Park & Pipe Judging Clinic for Snowboard & Freeski, at the National Snowsports Training Centre (NSTC) in Jindabyne on September 7th 2024.

The clinic is suitable for first time judges wishing to get into judging at NATIONAL level events such as the Thredbo Series / Interschools / Perisher Showdown, as well as experienced judges looking to refresh and potentially re-certify their FIS Level C for the coming year. 

Prior experience in judging, coaching or as an athlete is required, with a minimum of five years experience in snowboarding or freeski, and an intermediate knowledge of tricks.

Snow Australia has routinely reviewed the role and effectiveness of the National Discipline Committees (NDC’s) against the backdrop of a changing sport and community landscape. The most recent review, finalised in August 2024, again sought to address various challenges and enhance the governance and operational efficiency of the NDC’s. 

One of the key issues that emerged was a need (in some NDC’s) to drastically improve gender diversity on the NDC’s, prompting a targeted approach to increase female membership, aiming for a minimum of 40% representation of each gender by 2026. This initiative, along with the establishment of athlete representatives on each NDC, aims to ensure that the committees better reflect the broader community of athletes, coaches, and officials. Moreover, the creation of a Snow Australia Selection Committee that is independent to the NDC's is expected to bring increased transparency, independence   and efficiency to the selection process.

Learn more about the Expression of Interest process here

One of the most anticipated events of the winter calendar is underway with the commencement today of the Suburu Australian Interschools Snowsports Championships.

More than 1700 competitors and their families, teachers, coaches and supporters are have descended on Perisher for six days of competition running through to Sunday.

This week sees a record 335 schools taking part, with over 3500 race entries to hit the starting gates.