British Alpine Children’s Team review – update

In late December BSS made its first response to the Review of The British Children’s Ski Team conducted by Tim Fawke, Director of BSS. That document provided an outline of discussions involving the Home Nations and BSS on the establishment of Home Nations squads at U14 and U16 levels. It also discussed the establishment of a BSS U16 squad and the programme of international racing at both U14 and U16 level.

Today BSS would like to outline further detail on the structure of squads and international racing for 2014-15. This announcement covers in detail those aspects that BSS is directly involved in: the BSS U16 squad; U16 international race allocation; and U14 international race allocation.

In essence the U14 squads are Home Nations based and the Home Nations will nominate skiers to the BSS for International Race selection.  There will be a BSS U16 squad. Being in this squad will qualify athletes for international race allocations but will not guarantee that. There will be provision to consider non-squad athletes who perform exceptionally at Christmas races.  Further detail can be found in the document following the link below:

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