An all-round top school ski race

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 306, 26 September 1989, Page 20

An all-round top school ski race

Ruapehu's home town College won the annual North Island Secondary Schools Skiing Competition last week. Ruapehu College amassed 78 points to edge out Wellington's Queen Margaret College on 74, with Auckland's Kings College on 73 points in third position. Teams from 106 schools comprising 530 individuals, took part in the annual Turoa event, which involved a giant slalom and a dual slalom run on Monday and Tuesday. The huge event thought to be the largest ski' race event in the southern hemisphere, was conducted under clear skies and five knot winds on an average snow base of 1 1 1cm. First was the Ruapehu College team of; Craig Buckingham, Bruce Lilbum, Mathew Bramley, Sondrya Dixon, Dean Drayton. Second was Queen Margaret College of Wellington; George

Bremner, Pamela Bell, Tiffany Brown, Sarah Andrews, Sarah Small. Third was Kings College of Auckland; Fraser Brown, Richard Hansen, Sophie Clark, Jeremy

Vilrich, Charles George. Thanks went out to a number of people for behind-the-scenes hours of work in running the event, including to co-

ordinator John Laurenson and chief of race Lee-Anne Kane, Kath Campbell, Heather Montgomery, Rick K n i g h t , G u s Pretscherer, Sven Jo-

hannessen and lan Gray. Turoa Skifields and their race department were commendcd for their help and for their course setting.