by The Academy Team | Jun 21, 2018 | Academy, Rollerski Race
On July 5th the Alpine Insurance Alberta World Cup will be hosting the very first sanctioned rollerski race in Alberta! We’re still looking for a few more volunteers, mostly as marshals for the course, which will be run around the Bill Warren Training Centre. If you...
by The Academy Team | Mar 12, 2018 | Academy, Academy News, Start Ski Wax
This is an edit of a wax article I wrote a few years ago. The goal was to share some of our processes and highlight some of our favourite waxes. We work very closely with Start ski wax, a sponsor of ours, and this line has become a cornerstone of our wax box. Over the...
by The Academy Team | Dec 5, 2017 | Academy, Academy News, Coaches
Alpine Insurance Alberta World Cup Academy announces Allison McArdle as new High Performance Coach The Alpine Insurance AWCA is very pleased to announce that Allison McArdle will be joining our organisation starting January 1st, as a High Performance Coach. Allison...
by The Academy Team | Nov 26, 2017 | Academy, Academy News
The rest of the AIAWCA skiers followed snow into the west for a mini-camp at Silver Star resort in Vernon. The result was days of solid, consistent training, and a trip down memory lane for Jeffries. “I haven’t done a camp in Silver Star since I was an athlete in...
by The Academy Team | Nov 22, 2017 | Academy, Academy News, Jack Carlyle
Jack Carlyle pulled off the best European result of his young career with a 38th place finish in Bruksvallarna, Sweden on Nov. 11, and performed well in the men’s 10 km freestyle race on Nov. 17 against a field of World Cup calibre skiers. Carlyle finished 67th, about...
by The Academy Team | Nov 22, 2017 | Academy, Academy News, Dahria Beatty, Emily Nishikawa
AIAWCA women are super troupers in Sweden Deep in the land of ABBA, two athletes completed their last tune up before embarking on the final leg of their Olympic journey. At a glance, head coach Chris Jeffries believes his skiers are on track for a successful ‘winner...
