British Schools’ Indoor Snow 2010

May 10, 2010   //   by Esskia   //   British Schools, Results  //  Comments Off

The idea of this new venture was floated to the schools at the British Schools’ Artificial Slope Championships at Pontypool last November.  Much planning through the winter culminated in the inaugural competition, held at Chill Factore on Sunday 9 May 2010.

It was agreed that invitations to the Championships should be given to the first twelve Girls’ teams and the first twelve Boys’ teams in the races at Pontypool.  This would then form the peak of a school team racing pyramid which starts on the dry slopes in September each year.

The call of early examinations meant that no Scottish teams were able to accept the invitation; this was very sad but four teams from Wales and fifteen from England congregated in Manchester for this first international schools’ event on indoor snow.  We hope it will be the first of many.

The help given by Chill Factore was immense; it was especially good that the Head of Racing there (Dean Rawlings-Brown) is an ex- ESSKIA Squad member and his hard work did much to ensure the success of the event.  Thanks are also due to the teachers and parents who officiated, and to the racers for providing such high quality racing.  As well as the usual timed runs we were able to organise a knock-out team parallel slalom.  This was enjoyed by all and culminated in a challenge race between the girls of Surbiton High School and the boys of Reed’s School – no winner, both teams disqualified for false starts!

We look forward to future events . . . .

 

Girls

Rank School 1st Run 2nd Run Combined
1 Surbiton HS 42.79 43.15 85.94
2 Surbiton HS B 45.02 45.02 90.04
3 Cowbridge 47.27 47.47 94.74
4 Abbot’s Hill 47.21 48.03 95.24
5 Millfield 50.04 50.42 100.46
6 Abbey Gate College 53.06 53.11 106.17
Rydal Penrhos DNF 52.64 DNF
Reed’s DNS

Boys

Rank School 1st Run 2nd Run Combined
1 Reed’s 39.83 39.32 79.15
2 Reed’s B 41.08 41.11 82.19
3 St Albans 41.73 40.9 82.63
4 Berkhamsted 41.61 41.48 83.09
5 Cowbridge 42.87 42.95 85.82
6 St. Peter’s HS 43.39 44.13 87.52
7 Chaucer TS 42.07 45.64 87.71
8 Millfield 43.86 44.52 88.38
9 Princethorpe College 45.77 46.65 92.42
10 Clitheroe RGS 46.96 46.84 93.8
11 Rydal Penrhos 52.79 52.88 105.67

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