Local Sports

This weekend, Cross Country B.C. will host an all-day tournament event for children aged 5 to 13 at the Coast Mountain Outdoor School. The Coast Ski League Tournament is sponsored by 2010 LegaciesNow and organized by Cross Country B.C.

On Jan. 14, Whistler Freeride Team member Candice Drouin and Wendy Lumby of Alberta teamed up up to the win the sixth annual Paul Mitchell Ultra-Cross at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Ultra-cross puts both skiers and snowboarders on a single snowcross course.

Whistler’s great outdoors just got a lot more accessible last weekend with a coaching clinic held in support of the Whistler Adaptive Ski Program’s new cross country ski program.

The second annual Sprite Park Rider Series kicks off this Saturday, Jan. 18 with a halfpipe contest on Blackcomb Mountain.

The first of what organizers hope will be an annual Randonnee Rally on Whistler Mountain attracted a group of 40 backcountry skiers, eager for the opportunity to show off just how fast they could skin up and ski down our local peaks.

A group of Whistler skiers and Whistler Mountain Ski Club alumni cracked the top-10 in the Pontiac GMC Cup race series last week in Nakiska, Alberta. In the men’s GS on Jan.

Grandi, Cousineau top-15 in GS; Guay, Lavoie top-30 in downhill Thomas Grandi is on a roll these days. A week ago the 30-year-old from Canmore, Alberta, finished ninth in a slalom, his best World Cup result in the discipline in three seasons.

A quick trip to Lake Tahoe last week netted Ashleigh McIvor a spot in the skier cross at the Winter X Games in Aspen at the end of the month.

There are still spots available for the second annual Lost Lake Shuffle, a four-hour endurance and relay race around the Lost Lake cross-country ski trails.

For the past two months, the Whistler Mountain Ski Club K2s, aged 13 and 14, have been training for race season.