Turoa skiers on the move

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 27, 26 November 1985, Page 24

Turoa skiers on the move

Several young Turoabased skiers are heading overseas during summer for ski training. Seven members of TASC1 (Turoa Alpine Ski Club Inc), aged between 13 and 17, will be travelling to Japan, accompanied by Cassandra Wright and Petra Specht, two trainee instructors from Turoa. They will spend three weeks at Mt Shiga Kogen billeted by members of the Mt Shiga Kogen Ski Club, and in return Japanese skiers will come to Ohakune next year. Those in the team are:

Huntly Wright, Warren Scott, Jacqui Wilde, Tina, Jeff and Dean Drayton of Ohakune, and Shawn O'Malley of Auckland. Other TASC1 members, Bruce Lilburn of Raetihi, Jacyn Bramley and Matthew Bramley of Ohakune, and Annika Haywood, James Cook and Anthony Cook of Auckland, will be training at Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, for six weeks over the summer. They will be accompanied by John Ball, director of the Turoa Ski Academy, and his wife Alison, and will be leaving on 30 December. Shirine Mosaed of Raetihi, will be spending ten weeks at Calgary, Canada, training with the Whakapapa Ski Team. Chris Mosaed will be coaching the team for the first three weeks, and then American Rick Reitter will take over.

Chris will later join the New Zealand Ski Team in Europe and will train there until March. Gold medalist at the Disabled Nationals at Turoa this year, Patrick Cooper will be going to the Disabled World Games in Sweden next year. TASCI's ski programmes to train young skiers began five years ago and these trips are the result, said the ski race training organiser, Dave Scott. As all the children have to fund their trips themselves, they are looking for ways of raising money by doing odd jobs. TASCI members who did well in the New Zealand ski race circuit for juniors this year are: 1st in J2 class, Jacyn Bramley, 3rd in J2 class, Shirine Mosaed, 1 st in J3 class, Annika Haywood, 3rd in J3 class, Sonya Dixon.