Profile - Alice MacAulay

Name: Alice MacAulay

Year of Birth: 1995

Hometown: Thames Ditton

Career Highlights: Representing GB at WJC 2015, 14th at Winter Universiade 2015 

Goals: 2017 world champs, 2017 Winter Universiade top 10

Personal Sponsors: Ladies Ski Club, Ski Club of Great Britain

Shout Outs: A huge thank you to my coaches Marc and Jo without whom none of this would be possible, my parents who always encourage me to work hard for what I want to achieve and my team mates who are there through the good and the bad.

Twitter: @alicemac_ski

Short Bio:

I started skiing on a family holiday when I was 3. From then on I went on yearly family ski holidays always doing my best to try to keep up with my big brother and sister. Whilst at home I joined my school (Surbiton High) ski club and skied on dry slope weekly from the age of 4 . I did my first schools dryslope race aged 7 and was hooked. Soon after that I joined Sandown Park Ski Race Club through which I participated in regional dry slope races, progressing onto snow racing at the age of 11.

I followed the British system, training in school holidays and racing in British races through which I was selected for the GB children's team in 2008. From then on I continued training and racing whenever possible and represented GB at a few children's international races.

As I progressed into FIS I trained with the England Alpine ski team whilst still completing my GCSEs and A-levels at Surbiton High. For the 2012/13 season I joined Ambition Racing where I was trained by Marc Telling and Jo Ryding alongside the rest of their FIS team.

After finishing my A-levels in 2013 I took a year out of studying and spent the 2013/14 season skiing full time, based in Leogang, Austria, with Ambition. I focused all my energy on skiing as fast as I could, training as hard as possible and getting plenty of race practice. I made significant improvements over the season and lowered my FIS point despite struggling to put everything together in races.

The 2014/15 season was a bit of a change as I started my first year studying Natural Sciences at Bath University. I worked around my studies to keep training in the gym and getting on snow as much as possible. Despite training much less over the season, with a more relaxed attitude, my racing seemed to catch up to my training and I managed to produce my best results to date. I lowered my FIS points, competed in major championships achieving some credible results and topped it off at the British Championships winning the U21 SL title and being on the podium in numerous events. I am now hoping to build on this by continuing to train with ambition alongside my studies for the 2015/16 season.