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Ski & Snowboard Australia 2006 07 Annual Report 3

Message from the Australian Sports Commission

Australia, for its small population and remoteness of location, continues to confound the world with itsachievements on the international sporting stage. This position has been reached by the development ofa comprehensive and effective national sport system that encourages sport and physical activity for allAustralians and creates opportunities to enable those who are talented and motivated to reach their potential. This system has evolved with the strong support of the Australian Government, State/Territoryand local governments, the private sector and sporting organisations at all levels.

At the national level primary responsibility for developing and directing sport lies with national sportingorganisations. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Sports Commission plays centralleadership, co ordination, funding and advocacy roles in the operation of the Australian sport system,largely through the national sporting organisations. Indeed the Australian Government, through the Commission, is the major investor in Australian sport.

In 2006 07 the Australian Government, through the Commission, provided Ski and Snowboard Australiawith funding of more than $850,000 for the development of the sport and the continued enhancement atthe grass root and elite levels, including an allocation of $300,000 for the Australian Institute of SportWinter Sports program for those disciplines within the jurisdiction of Ski and Snowboard Australia. In addition, the Commission also provided direct support of $54,000 to targeted athletes under the AustralianGovernment Sports Training Grant to assist in their preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic WinterGames.

The Australian Sports Commission recognises that Ski and Snowboard Australia has embraced significantstrategic and structural change during the past year, following a prolonged period of consultation and negotiation with all key stakeholders. The adoption of the new Constitution in June 2007, followed by a newBoard of directors, marks a watershed for the sport. With better alignment between the new Constitutionand the interests and expectations of major stakeholders, the sport is now much better placed to providenational leadership, programs and support for the future.

On behalf of the Commission, I look forward to working with Ski and Snowboard Australia in future for thebetterment of Australian sport.

Mark A PetersChief Executive OfficerAustralian Sports Commission

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Board Members, Staff & Committees

Board MembersDean GosperGreg McCormackJacqueline Cooper (appointed 23 October 2007)Nicholas Kennedy (appointed 23 October 2007)Peter Cunningham (appointed 23 October 2007)Kim Clifford (appointed 4 December 2007)Rodney Payne (appointed 4 December 2007)Suzie Warwick (appointed 4 December 2007)Hugh Whan (resigned 23 October 2007, appointed 4 December 2007)Andrew Evans (resigned 23 October 2007)Clifford Mason (resigned 23 October 2007)David Fouvy (resigned 23 October 2007)John Pinkerton (resigned 23 October 2007)Philip Teitzel (resigned 23 October 2007)Zali Steggall (resigned 23 October 2007)

Discipline Committee ChairsStephen McKittrick—AlpinePeter Cunningham—Cross CountryDavid Speirs—FreestyleSnowboard—Michael Kennedy (Interim)

StaffMichael Kennedy—Chief Executive OfficerRyan Taylor—Executive AssistantJohn Hallinan—Accounts


ContentsMessage from Australian Sports Commission ................ 3

Board Members, Staff & Committees .............................4

President’s Report ..........................................................6

CEO Report .....................................................................7

National Team Athletes .................................................13

2007 Australian Ski & Snowboard Awards .....................14

Financial Reports ...........................................................16


PRESIDENT’S REPORTTo be included after AGM


CEO REPORT 2006/07

The 2006 2007 reporting period will long beremembered as a historic chapter in the history of Ski & Snowboard Australia

While our athletes continued to exceed expectations in their respective competition arenas, the sport was able to unite and collectively usher in a new era of cooperation byadopting a new constitution for SSA on the4th of June 2007.

Following several years of hard work and collective resolve by all stakeholders, the key recommendations from the Costello review wereadopted at the Special General Meeting heldin Sydney in June 2007.

An AGM to elect a new board was subsequently held in October 2007. SSA’s newboard comprises 6 of 9 new directors, and forthe first time has a representative of the athletes by way of the athlete’s commissionchair.

The new structure will not be without its ownchallenges; however the sport has its best opportunity in recent memory to move forwardwith a spirit of cooperation and with a clearmandate to improve and manage the athletepathways in all our sporting disciplines. Whilethe overall responsibility for competitive snowsport now clearly rests with SSA, the deliveryof each pathway is managed in partnershipwith Institutes of sport, SSO’s, Clubs and otherservice providers. We look forward to managing these partnerships in the future.

On snow our programs at all levels continuedto deliver outstanding performances in thefirst year post the Torino Olympic WinterGames.

Some of the highlights include:

FREESTYLE SKIING

AERIAL SKIING

Jacqui Cooper stood alone as the greatestwinner in World Cup aerial skiing history aftertaking the 18th victory of her career with aworld record points score in Deer Valley,Utah. Cooper is now the first woman to winfour World Cup titles, after taking home herfourth title from Madonna di Campiglio, Italyin May.

Liz Gardner produced oneof her career performanceswith a 4th

place finish inMontGabriel, Canada and finished in 10th place atthe World Championships.

The Development Aerial program was onceagain based at Snowbasin in Utah. Snowbasinis the Northern winter home of the aerial skiing program and provides tremendous facilities for our athletes to train at.

MOGUL SKIING

Dale Begg Smith continued to dominate thesport of mogul skiing; winning a gold and silver medals at the World Championships inmoguls and dual moguls respectively, he wascrowned the World Cup Mogul Champion anddominated the World Cup circuit collectingseven World Cup medals, including six wins.Dale was also crowned Ski and SnowboardAustralia Athlete of the year.

The youngest athlete of the SSA nationalteam, Ramone Coopermanaged to establishhimself as the leading junior snowsports ath

Jacqui Cooper (centre) after winning her fourth World Cup


lete in Australia, aftercompeting in his firstever World Cup season. Ramoneachieved some outstanding results,none more so thanthe 2007 WorldChampionshipswhere he qualified6th for the Mogul final and finished in15th place in both thesingle and dual moguls. Ramone alsoplaced 4th in theWorld Junior Free

style Championships.

The NSWIS SSA Development mogul programhad a successful season with Robert Lovickmaking the final of the Europa cup event inAirolo, Switzerland, and finishing 10th afterperforming a back full for the first time incompetition.

The Sub Development team, operated by SSAfor the first time, had very promising resultswith three athletes being invited into theNSWIS program for the southern season,Nicole Parks, Matt Graham and Hamish Cox.

HALF PIPE SKIING

Former National Mogul Team member DavinaWilliams won her and Australia’s first worldcup medal in Ski Half Pipe at Apex Mountainin February finishing second.

SNOWBOARD

HALFPIPE

Halfpipe Snowboarder Holly Crawford gainedher first World Cup victory and completed thenorthern season with five other podium

places. The 23 year old from Perisher Bluemissed the podium just twice out of the eightevents that she competed in and finished theseason ranked second on the World cupstandings.

Andrew Burtonearned his firstpodium finish bycollecting abronze medal atthe World Cupevent in Sungwoo, Korea. Inaddition, OWIAteam mate, Halfpipe snowboarder HannahTrigger completed her firstseason on theWorld Cup tour,finishing in 12thplace on 27.3points at Lake Placid, New York State, USA.

20 year old Torah Bright had an exceptionalyear on the pro circuit, her results includingwinning the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado; winning the World Superpipe Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah and the biggestof them all, taking home a $100,000UScheque and a Volvo C30 T5 for being the Burton Global Open Series Champion and itsMost Valuable Female Rider.

The NSWIS SSA Halfpipe development teambegan the year training in Mammoth Mountain, California before relocating to Coloradodue to poor snow conditions. The athletescompeted in the Breckenridge Grand Prix andRevolution Tours at Copper Mountain.

SNOWBOARD CROSS

In an interrupted season due to poor snowconditions, Snowboard Cross veteran Damon

Dale Begg Smith with his World Cup Globe

Andrew Burton with his 3rd place


Hayler competed in just four World Cupevents where he managed a season best 7th atStoneham, Canada. World Cup rookie AlexPullin had an impressive debut season finishing in the top 20 twice from four starts. How

ever the highlightwas his 3rd place at the World Junior Championships at Bad Gastein, Austria a result thatalso earned him the Ski & Snowboard Australia Junior Athlete of the Year Award.

ALPINE SNOWBOARDJohanna Shaw continued to improve and gainpersonal best results during the eight WorldCup events she competed in this season.Johanna had three top 20 finishes including a12th at Shukolovo, Russia and a career best atSungwoo, Korea. She also took part in threeEuropa Cup events with the best result of 2nd

at Nendaz, Switzerland and the World Snowboard Championships in Arosa, Switzerlandcoming in 24th place.

SSA TALENT IDENTIFICATION CAMPS

Ski and Snowboard Australia conducted TalentIdentification camps at Mt Buller, Mt Hothamand Perisher Blue during August and September. The camps PGS, Snowboard Cross andHalfpipe respectively were conducted with theaim of discovering talented up and comingsnowboard athletes and providing them withan opportunity to learn about the athletepathway. The camps were each attended byaround 25 attending athletes that ranged be

tween 13 to 24 years of age.

ALPINE

After a solid start to the Northern Winter ourtwo World Cup Alpine Skiers Craig Branch andJono Brauer, both experienced season endinginjuries in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Craig torehis ACL, while Jono ruptured his Achilles tendon, ending their international seasons. Fortunately both skiers were able to resume onsnow training during the 2007 Australian domestic season.

The newly formed SSA/NSWIS National Development Team comprisedWill Clifford, Brenton Fetterplace, Christian Geiger and DemianFranzen and was coached by Mike Gould. Themen’s team trained and competed in Europewhile the women’s team of Tomi Crewes andKatya Crema was coached by Matt Lyons andwas based in Canada.

UnfortunatelyTomi, after a very strong start to the seasonsustained a number of injuries while competing at a FIS event in Apex, British Columbiaunfortunately ending her international anddomestic seasons. Katya continued to trainand compete at various Nor Am Cup eventsand the World Junior Championships alongside Team members Michael Rishworth andChristian Geiger.

Katya Crema

Damon Hayler (far right) in action


CROSS COUNTRY

The World Cup season saw National Teamskier Ben Sim get off to a great start with apersonal best result with a 64th in the 15kmFreestyle event at Gaellivare in Sweden. Thisresult qualified him to compete in the remainder of theWorld Cupseason.

At the 2007Nordic WorldSki Championships inSapporo, Japan, Australia was represented by ateam of sixathletes, BenSim, PaulMurray, AndrewWynd, Esther Bottomley, Clare LouiseBrumley and KT Calder. Leading the way forAustralia was Paul Murray, who finished in37th place in the men’s sprint event. In themen’s team sprint, Paul Murray and Ben Simteamed up to finish in 16th place out of 21teams.

Australia was also well represented at theWorld Junior/U23 Championships in Tarvisio,Italy, Ben Sim was best for Australia finishingin 37th place in the U23 15km freestyle event.Also competing for Australia were Alex Almoukov and Aimee Watson.

PARTNERSHIPS

The key to sustained success remains relies onstrong program partnerships and pathways.

The aim is always to improve and maximise

resources to these pathways, and to continueto leverage the support and involvement ofour many program partners.

It is important to recognize the partnerships,which are key to the ongoing delivery and success of our elite and sub elite athlete programs.

Australian Sports Commission

The AustralianSportsCommis

sion is the principal sponsor of SSA. The financial support provided by the ASC is critical to the sustained success of the sport. In the past year, the ASC providedsignificant support via high performance and sport development funding to SSA.

The relationship between the organisations continuesto strengthen and SSA remains committed to sustainedhigh performance success into the future, which is theultimate benchmark.

To the commission’s Chairman, Peter Bartels; and itsChief Executive Officer, Mark Peters, thank you for yoursupport of SSA Thank you also to Peter Sharpe, the senior sports consultant assigned to assist SSA.

Australian Olympic Committee

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has the exclusive responsibility for the representationof Australia at the Olympic WinterGames.To help achieve Australian Olym

pic Winter Team objectives, the AOC provides funding(AOC Funding) to its member National Federations(NFs), athletes and coaches.AOC Funding is derived from income distributions fromthe Australian Olympic Foundation, grants from theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC), the licensingand sponsorship activities of the AOC and fundraisingby the AOC, State Olympic Councils and their CorporateAppeal Committees.AOC Funding for the 2010 Olympic Winter Team preparation is determined in accordance with its Programand Funding Guidelines for the 2010 Olympic WinterGames, Vancouver (Guidelines). Specifically, AOC Funding is provided through one of three programs:

Katie Calder


AOC Funding for International Competitionadidas Medal Incentive FundingOlympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) support

The Guidelines are available on www.olympics.com.auFor the calendar year 2007, the AOC provided the following support to Ski and Snowboard Australia, its athletes and coaches:

AOC Funding for International Competition$102,000adidas Medal Incentive Funding $20,000

Dale Begg Smith $10,000Jacqui Cooper $7,500Steve Desovich $2,500

In addition, the AOC supported the OWIA to the extentof $750,000 during 2007. The scholarship holders fromthe discipline of Alpine Skiing, Freestyle Skiing andSnowboard have enjoyed some of the benefit of thissupport.The AOC’s current budgeting for the 2010 Olympic Winter Team to Vancouver is $2.3 million.The AOC is proud to be able to support Australian athletes to realise their Olympic dreams.

Olympic Winter Institute

The Olympic Winter Institute(OWI) is Ski & Snowboard Australia’s major high performance program partner, operating elitelevel programs in Mogul Skiing,

Snowboard Half Pipe, Snowboard Cross and Aerial Skiing.The aim of the programs are, to develop and prepareelite Australian athletes for selection and competitionat the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, in Vancouver Canada.

The Institute was created by the AOC in 1998, to enablethe development of elite performances in winter sportsby Australian athletes, through the provision of adequate funding, world class sports programming andtechnical coaching.

The Australian Olympic Committee provides over 50%of the total funds for the operation of the OWI.

The OWI is a partnership program of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and receives considerable supportfrom the Australian Sports Commission and benefitsfrom the sport programs and from the many experts

based at the AIS in Canberra.

At present, the OWI employs eight coaching staff andprovides sport program opportunities for up to 35 athletes across eight winter sport disciplines: alpine skiing,mogul skiing, aerial skiing, half pipe snowboarding,snowboard cross, short track speed skating, figure skating and skeleton.

The OWI also works with Ski & Snowboard Australia andthe State Institutes of Sport, to supply an overall National technical direction for the individual sportthroughout the athlete pathway in Australia.

While it is clearly the role of the OWI to operate eliteprogramming, the OWI will provide technical assistanceto SSA for the task of developing the elite athletes oftomorrow with the very best technical assistance possible.At a management and administrative level, SSA worksclosely on a day to day basis with the OWI, and enjoysthe productive and interactive nature of our organizations. This is a key element to the ongoing success ofour programs.

NSW Institute of Sport

The expanded National Alpine Teamprogram was operatedby NSWIS under ajoint agreement be

tween SSA, NSWIS & the OWI.

SSA, together with the OWI, contributed in excess of$400,000 in cash and kind to the National Alpine Teamprogram in 2006/2007.

SSA remains in partnership with the NSW Institute ofSport (NSWIS) to operate National High Performancedevelopment programs in Mogul Skiing and SnowboardHalf pipe. SSA contributes a further $50,000 for MogulDevelopment and Snowboard Half Pipe developmenteach year.

NSWIS contributes over $180,000 in cash and kind perannum to operate and manage the development andelite level programs on behalf of SSA.

The sport program operations are managed by PeterTopalovic and based out of Jindabyne Sport & Rec. Thesouthern hemisphere on snow training is conducted atKosciusko Thredbo and Perisher Blue ski resorts.


SSA would like to acknowledge the tremendous supportand enthusiasm of NSWIS, in particular CEO CharlesTurner and the dedicated and passionate staff at NSWISheadquarters at Homebush.

Victorian Institute of Sport

The Victorian Institute ofSport (VIS) is a programpartner of SSA for the delivery of the highly successfulAerial Development & Transition Program.

The VIS/SSA Aerial development program is a world leading acrobatic transitionalprogram that continues to produce a talented stream ofelite level athletes to the OWI aerial program. The program is funded largely by SSA, and is based at Snowbasin Resort in Utah. Snowbasin is an important partnerin the Aerial Program.

The VIS provides around $24,000 in cash support to theAerial Development program along with use of thetraining facility at Olympic Park. SSA contributes in excess of $90,000 to the operation of the program, whichis managed day to day by the OWI.

FALLS CREEK RMB

Falls Creek is the National Training Centrefor the SSA CrossCountry Program.

SSA Southern WinterCross country activities take place largely at Falls Creek,and in return the resort has agreed to contribute$20,000 per annum to the National Team program. SSAcontributes a further $40,000 to the National Teamprogram which is operated by Finn Marsland. Finnscontribution to both the National Team and the sport ingeneral remains pivotal.In September of 2007, Falls Creek recommitted to another 3 years as sponsor and National Training centerfor Cross Country. Our thanks to Ross Passalaqua andthe Falls Creek RMB.

Conclusion

Finally I would like to thank the hard working administration team at SSA. For a small administration we con

tinue to “punch above our weight” much like our athletes!

SSA remains committed to efficiencies and maximisingavailable resources for athletes and coaches.

As always I would like to acknowledge Ryan Taylor forhis continued dedication and hard work on behalf ofSSA athletes and programs. Ryan has been with SSAnow for over 7 years and his contribution and retainedknowledge remains pivotal to the efficient and successful administration of our sport.

To Dean Gosper, who as President has shown exceptional leadership and patience through the transition toa new constitution and a new board.

I look forward to another fantastic year ahead, to narrowing our focus towards Vancouver 2010 and to working with all sport stakeholders to deliver on the responsibility of overall management of the athlete pathways.

RegardsMichael KennedyCEO Ski & Snowboard Australia


Alpine National Team Jono Brauer Craig Branch

SSA/NSWIS Alpine Development Team Tomi Crewes Will Clifford Brenton Fetterplace Demian Franzen Katya Crema Christian Geiger

Alpine Children's Squad Emily Bamford Elizabeth Pilat Lucy Nettlefold Samantha Biilman Maddie McMahon Toni Hodkinson Caitlin Allnutt Rebecca Wyatt Bennett Norbury Max Hennessy Luke Laidlaw Jackson Coull Nick Payne Daniel Boyd James Easton Declan Haufbauer Kristofer Evans Greta Small Ewa Potoczny Callum Brown Oscar Johnstone

National Cross Country Team Ben Sim Paul Murray Claire-Louise Brumley Esther Bottomley Katherine Calder Leon Spiller Nick Grimmer Chris Darlington Mark Raymond Duane Butcher Mark van der Ploeg James Rickard

National Cross Country Junior Team Neil van der Ploeg Simon Flower Alex Almoukov Aimee Watson Chloe McConville d'Arcy Baxter Callum Watson Ewan Watson Chris Cook Phillip Bellingham Jaffa Withers Georgia Merritt Juliette Booth

Freestyle Aerials National Team Jacqui Cooper Lydia Ierodiaconou Liz Gardner Jen Schaefer Bree Munro

Freestyle Aerials Development Team David Morris Denita Mudge

Freestyle Moguls National Team Ramone Cooper Nick Fisher Michael Robertson Dale Begg-Smith

Freestyle Moguls Development Team Rob Lovick Sam Hall David Graham Emma Chapman-Davies Rohan Chapman-Davies

Freestyle Moguls Sub-Development Team Nicole Parks Hugh Norton Katie Blamey Eliza Graham Matt Graham Hamish Cox Tom Thorburn

Snowboard National Team Andrew Burton Damon Hayler Holly Crawford Torah Bright Emmanuel Oppliger Alex Pullin Johanna Shaw

SSA/NSWIS Snowboard Halfpipe Develop-Nathan Johnstone Hannah Trigger Simone Pritchard Sam Murphy Charlie Steinbacher Ben Johnson

Snowboard Sub-Development Jarryd Williams Patrick Davis-Meahan Michaela Davis-Meahan Max Mclachlan Jason Maxfield Jye Kearney Scott Allen James Gina Hartican

Snowboard Sub-Development SBX Squad Scott Allen Allen Cameron Bolton Julia De Campo Jackson Hewitt Annabelle Hickey Daniel Morrissy Emma Pullin Bryan Taylor Kaitlyn Wilton

NATIONAL TEAMS

DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

SUB DEVELOPMENT/JUNIOR/CHILDREN TEAMS


AWARD WINNERAthlete of the Year Dale Begg SmithAlpine Athlete of the Year Demian FranzenCross Country Athlete of the Year Ben SimFreestyle Athlete of the Year Dale Begg SmithSnowboard Athlete of the Year Holly CrawfordJunior Athlete of the Year Alex PullinJnr Alpine Athlete of the Year Katya CremaJnr Cross Country Athlete of the Year Aimee WatsonJnr Freestyle Athlete of the Year Ramone CooperJnr Snowboard Athlete of the Year Alex PullinCoach of the Year Steve DesovichSpecial/Outstanding Achievement Jacqui CooperSchool Snowsports Club of the Year— Southern Bright P 12

Northern Presbyterian Ladies College

School Club Outstanding Achievement of the Year Newport Public SchoolOverall Presbyterian Ladies College

2007 National Team Athletes and Coaches

2007 SKI & SNOWBOARD AUSTRALIA AWARDS


Coach of the Year Steve Desovich with OWI Chairman Geoff Henke

Junior Athlete of the Year Alex Pullin with SSA Presi-dent Dean Gosper

Cross Country Athlete of the Year Ben Sim with Australian Sports Commis-sion Chairman Peter Bartels

OWI Chairman Geoff Henke with Jacqui Cooper and her Outstanding Achievement Award

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