Snow Sports
NSW Regional Snow Sports Day 1
Ski Cross Division 4
Competitors: Aurora Zhang (Year 6), Eloise Gavagna (Year 5), Hilary Eyers (Year 5), Imogen Jones (Year 6), Estelle Macolino (Year 5)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 2nd Regional Team Champions
- Pymble B Team 16th
- Pymble C Team 14th
Our first event for interschools took place on High Noon course at Thredbo. It has been two years since an interschools event and our outstanding Pymble girls were strong down the course.
Congratulations to our Pymble A Team for coming second place overall team.
Alpine Division 5
Competitors: Amélie Rahme (Year 4), Zoe Liang (Year 4), Zara Younger (Year 4), Christina Yang (Year 3), Ellie He (Year 3)
Result:
- 4th Team
It was a great start to the morning session with Amélie Rahme (Year 4) being the first athlete down the mountain. The busy lifts early in the morning made it a challenge between runs but all our Division 5 athletes made clean runs in the event – well done, girls!
Alpine Division 6
Competitors: Kimberly Zhao (Year 2), Michelle Zhang (Kindergarten)
The first event for our two Division 6 athletes, both were confident and were all smiles at the end of the event! Well done, Kimberly and Michelle.
NSW Regional Snow Sports Day 2
What a great day for team Pymble! Firstly, we wanted to give a big shout out and thank you to all our parent volunteers on the snow today and yesterday: Simon Clifford, Elie Rahme, Percy Yang and Ke Zhao. These events would not run without your assistance, so well done team!
Alpine Divison 4
Competitors: Aurora Zhang (Year 6), Eloise Gavagna (Year 5), Hilary Eyers (Year 5), Imogen Jones (Year 6), Cienna Heald (Year 5), Grace Akers (Year 5), Ashleigh Du (Year 5), Bella Xu (Year 5)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 1st Regional Champions
- Individual: Aurora Zhang (Year 6) 2nd Individual Athlete
Rossignal race course opened the full course for our Division 4 alpine skiers. There was a delay in the race start due to competition organisers judging the challenging and icy conditions on the mountain. In true Pymble fashion our athletes took the delay in their stride and made strong runs down the mountain. A big congratulations to our Pymble Team A who finished champions of the event and were overall winners of both the boys and girls divisions.
Ski Cross Division 5
Competitors: Amélie Rahme (Year 4), Zoe Liang (Year 4), Yixin (Christina) Yang (Year 3), Ellie He (Year 3)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 4th
- Pymble B Team 10th
It was a tricky start to the day with a delay in chairlifts and icy conditions much like the alpine course on High Noon. Well done to team Pymble’s final event for the regionals campaign and thank you to our course officials who assisted on this event
Ski Cross Division 6
Competitors: Kimberly Zhao (Year 2), Michelle Zhang (Kindergarten)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 1st Regional Champions
Kimberly and Michelle had another fantastic day on the slopes for the beginning of the Regional Interschools competition. This time they were named Ski Cross Division 6 Champions and finished in first place as a team. Amazing work to both stars for a fantastic start to your interschools journeys.
Snowboard X Divisiom 5
Competitors: Ashlee-Rose Saba (Year 4)
Result:
- 4th Individual Result
This was Ashlee’s first snowboard event for Interschools and she gave it her all in very tough conditions. Well done, Ashlee!
Moguls Division 4
Competitors: Hilary Eyers (Year 5), Eloise Gavagna (Year 5), Bella Xu (Year 5)
Result:
- 2nd Team
Our Division 4 Moguls team finished off Day 2 of interschools on the Hump Run course for the first Moguls event of the week. Hilary, Eloise and Bella had a fantastic team finish of second place. Hilary finished first place overall individual and was offered a two-day training camp scholarship at Perisher in August – great work team!
Great moment around the grounds Day 2
Finally, a shout out to this dad whose daughter fell asleep on the mountain for one hour and he made sure she didn’t slip down the mountain.
NSW Regional Snow Sports Day 3
Day 3 was snowboarders’ day. Conditions improved from Day 2 and the sun was shining in Thredbo!
Snowboard GS Division 3
Competitors: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10)
It was Team Braysich on the mountain to start the day with snowboard athlete Sasha competing in the Snowboard GS event on Rossignal race course, Jeff Braysich as the start official, Claudia Braysich as team coach and Michelle Braysich as chief supporter. In the icy and steep conditions, Sasha did a great job and improved on her first run by 21 seconds in her second attempt – well done Sasha on stepping up and giving a new event a go to help team Pymble in the snowboarding events.
Snowboard GS Division 5
Competitors: Ashlee-Rose Saba (Year 4)
Result:
- 2nd Individual Champion
In the Division 5 event, Ashlee-Rose Saba (Year 4) competed, finishing off the day’s events with two great runs down Rossignol race course. In great team spirit, the Braysich family and Sasha all came along to cheer and support Ashlee down the mountain. Ashlee finished second place individual champion.
Great moment around the grounds Day 3:
Snow angels were created by Co-ordinator Megan and Ashlee.
NSW Regional Snow Sports Day 4
Day 4 was yet another sunny day in Thredbo and our skiers returned to the mountain for a very successful and enjoyable day. A big thank you to alumni Claudia Wheatley for filling two volunteer positions today and doing Pymble proud. Also thank you again to Simon Clifford for another day of assisting on the mountain.
Alpine Division 3
Competitors: Arabella Wheatley (Year 8), Georgia Yuen (Year 7), Winter Shirvington (Year 8), Athena Chen (Year 8), Alessia Macolino (Year 8), Amber Wang (Year 8)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 3rd
- Individual Result: Arabella Wheatley (Year 8) – 1st Individual Champion
Alpine returned to Rossi for our Skiers and Alpine Division 3 kicked off the day. Today it was Team Wheatley on the mountain: Arabella competing, Kyra as team coach, Claudia Wheatley as finish line official and Simon ferrying equipment and assisting at the top of the race course. In a very successful morning Arabella Wheatley (Year 8) was first placed individual champion after posting the same time in her two runs. Winter Shirvington had a great first race for Pymble today and well done to Georgia, Athena, Alissa and Amber on the mountain – great job team!
Alpine Division 1
Competitors: Sienna Stephens (Year 11), Catherine Gavagna (Year 11), Rhiannon Castle (Year 11)
Result:
- Team Result 1st Champions
- Individual Results: Sienna Stephens (Year 11) 1st Individual Champion, Catherine Gavagna (Year 11) 4th
Alpine returned later in the day on Rossignol race course. The conditions continued to be icy but our Division 1 skiers raced down the mountain. Congratulations to Snow Sports Captain Sienna Stephens (Year 11) who finished first and Catherine Gavagna (Year 11) who finished fourth. Also a big shout out to our Cross Country ski superstar Rhiannon for two great runs down the mountain.
Ski Cross Division 2
Competitors: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10), Olivia Clifford (Year 10), Louise Lovell (Year 9), Sarah Lovell (Year 9), Evelyn Zhu (Year 9)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 3rd
- Pymble B Team 12th
- Individual: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10) 1st Individual Champion
Ski Cross returned to High Noon. Sasha had an amazing two runs and finished as first place overall champion. It was panic stations to begin with when Sasha did not have her Leki straps, however Clem Yuen (pictured below) saved the day. The combined team finished third place. Shout out to Liv, Louise, Sara and Evelyn for clean runs and having a great attitude for a fantastic team effort.
Moguls Division 3
Competitors: Arabella Wheatley (Year 8), Winter Shirvington (Year 8)
Result:
- Team Result 1st Overall Champions
- Individual: Arabella Wheatley: 2nd, Winter Shirvington (Year 8) 3rd
Well done to both Arabella and Winter who both had great runs down the course and finished second and third respectively with a first place overall team win.
Moguls Division 2
Competitors: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10), Olivia Clifford (Year 10)
Result:
- Team Result 2nd
- Individual: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10) 4th, Olivia Clifford (Year 10) 7th
It was a great time at Division 2 Moguls; there were smiles all round and it was a great sunny day at Hump Run. Well done to the dream team of Division 2, Sasha and Liv, for another great performance.
Moguls Division 1
Competitors: Sienna Stephens (Year 11), Catherine Gavagna (Year 11)
Result:
- Team Result 2nd
- Individual result: Sienna Stephens 3rd, Catherine Gavagna (Year 11) 4th
Snow Sports Captain Sienna Stephens (Year 11) finished in an amazing third place after only one run on the event as she had to rush over to Alpine and a fantastic fourth place finish for Catherine Gavagna (Year 11).
Great moment around the grounds Day 4
A shout out to our super coaches, Kyra, Claudia and Will. Our coaches had a busy day at Hump Run assisting with carrying skis up the moguls course between runs. Best of luck to Will with the leg cramps after more than 15 trips up the hill!
NSW Regional Snow Sports Day 5
Final day and what a day it was! The sun left and the snow and wind came back for the last events at Regional Interschools for 2022. We would like to thank all our team members for such an amazing effort. You all did Pymble and more importantly yourselves proud in the way you competed throughout the week. It would be amiss not to mention the support and dedication of all our amazing parents putting in countless hours of effort (and even more driving) to make this all possible, so thank you!
Alpine Division 2
Competitors: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10), Olivia Clifford (Year 10), Louise Lovell (Year 9), Sarah Lovell (Year 9), Evelyn Zhu (Year 9)
Result:
- Individual Result: Alessandra Braysich (Year 10) 1st Individual Champion
The final Alpine event on Rossignol race course saw windy and fast conditions down the mountain, but nothing our Division 2 dream team couldn’t handle. Amazing efforts from all four competitors with Alessandra taking out first place with a sub 22 second run! In some tricky icy conditions, the girls all found their groove in their second attempt, all bettering their first run times. Well done team Pymble.
Ski Cross Division 1
Competitors: Sienna Stephens (Year 11), Catherine Gavagna (Year 11), Rhiannon Castle (Year 11)
Result:
- Team Result 1st Overall Champions
- Individual Results: Sienna Stephens (Year 11) 4th, Catherine Gavanagh (Year 11) 5th, Rhiannon Castle (Year 11) 26th
Kicking off the final morning at the High Noon Ski Cross we had our champion team of Sienna, Catherine and Rhiannon giving it their all in their final event. With a dusting of snow overnight, our Pymble skiers definitely looked at home on the course which showed as they were able to take out first place in their final event of the week.
Ski Cross Division 3
Competitors: Arabella Wheatley (Year 8), Georgia Yuen (Year 7), Winter Shirvington (Year 8), Athena Chen (Year 8), Alessia Macolino (Year 8), Amber Wang (Year 8)
Result:
- Pymble A Team 1st Champions of Arabella Wheatley (Year 8), Georgia Yuen (Year 7) and Winter Shirvington (Year 8)
- Pymble B Team: TBC
- Individual: Arabella Wheatley (Year 8) 1st Champion, Georgia Yuen (Year 7) 2nd
Our second event of the day at the High Noon Ski Cross course. By the time the race was underway we had some heavy snow falling and less than ideal visibility for the event, but an amazing effort from both teams to finish off the week with some amazing results. A special mention to Arabella Wheatley (Year 8) who after a nasty tumble over the finish line in her first attempt, was still able to take out first place in the event. We were all very relieved to hear that Arabella was okay and sustained no major injuries. Also, an amazing effort from Georgia Yuen (Year 7) to come back from a tough day to take out the silver medal and second place.
Great moment around the grounds Day 5
A rare sight! Pymble team parents stepping into the limelight for a sneak peek into the behind the scenes of Snow Sports.
Mr Edward Ellwood-Hall