LSC Awards 2023/24

The Ladies’ Ski Club committee are delighted to announce that the following athletes were successful in their applications for an award for the 2023/24 season:

  • Abi Bruce - Alpine

  • Alexa Elliff - Alpine

  • Amy Stokoe - Alpine

  • Autumn Train - Alpine

  • Charlie Guest - Alpine

  • Charlotte Holmes - Alpine

  • Elena Blaikie - Alpine

  • Giselle Gorringe - Alpine

  • Holly Tutt - Alpine

  • Honor Bartlett - Alpine

  • India Cairns - Freeride

  • Isla Ward - Alpine

  • Jaz Taylor - Telemark

  • Lois Jackson - Alpine

  • Molly Butler - Alpine

Congratulations to all and very best wishes for the season!

New book release - "Going Downhill A Retiree's Guide to Ski-Bumming"

One of our LSC members, Linda Fawke, has just published her latest book which is a light-hearted look at life in the Alps, in Summer and Winter, during retirement. A perfect Christmas present! You can buy the book at Amazon here

Linda will kindly donate £1 to the LSC racing fund for each book purchased by LSC members; when you have purchased your copy (or copies) please drop an email to secretary@ladiesskiclub.org advising how many copies you have bought and we will send the details to Linda for her to make her donation

LSC centenary featured in US SNOW magazine

There is an excellent article about the LSC and our centenary celebrations in the glamorous US SNOW magazine which can be accessed here. The journalist who joined us in Mürren describes the club as;

Adventurous, aristocratic, and proudly British, The Ladies’ Ski Club was the original alpine disruptor, rocking the boat in a very male-dominated sport with a decidedly can-do attitude

The article is on pages 46 to 48.

Jaz Taylor of GB Telemark launch a crowd funder to raise funds for the upcoming season

Jaz Taylor, GB’s most successful telemarker with 45 World Cup podiums to her name, and an LSC supported athlete, has launched a crowd funder in conjunction with the other GB Telemark squad members to raise funds for GB to raise funds to support the GB Telemark athletes in competition and the performance development programmes on which they depend and also to encourage more athletes to become competitive telemark skiers for the future of the sport.

British telemark skiing is one of the great snowsport success stories and currently lies fifth internationally in the FIS Telemark World Cup tour national rankings. Telemark skiing receives no UK Sport funding, as it is currently not an Olympic sport, and as amateur competitors, all British telemark skiers are self-funded and have to find the money to cover training and competition costs themselves.

Please follow this link to find out more and to donate.

LSC athletes making a mark in New Zealand

A number of our LSC athletes have headed down under to get a second winter season in and there have been some fantastic results. Isla Ward came first and second in the NZ national champs slalom races and gained PBs in both. Isla is over there with team mates and fellow LSC athletes Charlotte Holmes and Honor Bartlett.

LSC centenary auction to raise funds for LSC athletes

As part of our centenary celebrations the club has very kindly been given a small number of items which we are auctioning to raise funds for our athletes. Donations include a day or half day’s skiing with some of our World Cup athletes, a painting of Flaine, a Ski Mo-Jo including personalised fitting, holiday apartment rental in Grindelwald, 2 Glyndebourne tickets with B&B accommodation, 3 night stays in a flat in Clerkenwell and a mews house in Stamford and 12 bottles of Swiss sparkling wine.

The auction is now open on line and can be accessed through the link on the members area here.

The auction will close at 10pm on Friday 22 September 2023 and highest bidders will be announced during the Centenary dinner celebrations.

Many thanks to all those individuals and organisations who have donated items for the auction.

LSC athletes selected for GB Snowsport Telemark and Freestyle Squads for 23/24

We are delighted to report that a number of our athletes and members have been selected for GB Snowsport squads as follows:

Telemark World Cup Squad

  • Jaz Taylor

  • Sissi Compton

Freestyle - Free Ski A Squad

  • Kirsty Muir

Freestyle - Ski Cross Europa Cup

  • Emma Peters

Congratulations to you all and best wishes for a great 2023/24 season!

Applications for tickets for the Centenary Gala Dinner are now open

Members and their guests are invited to our Centenary Gala Dinner on Friday 22 September 2023. Tickets cost £100 each which includes an aperitif, 3 course dinner and 1/2 a bottle of wine. The application form can be found in the members area here

Please get in touch at secretary@ladiesskiclub.org if you have any queries or are having any issues accessing the members area

Ski Instructor Training in Queenstown New Zealand - Summer 2023

One of our members, Emily Pocock, runs a ski instructor training business, Alpine Academy. Emily is a fully qualified Ski Instructor and BASI Examiner who splits her time between Verbier and Queenstown chasing winters!  Alpine Academy are offering a 9-week Level 1 & 2 Ski Instructor Course from 2 July to 1 September 2023 in Queenstown. This course is an incredible opportunity; it will improve your skiing, allow you to explore and live in New Zealand, gain a Ski Instructor qualification and obtain work experience. Further details can be found on the flyer and on their website

Entries are now open for British Schoolgirls' Indoor Races

Entries are now open for the British Schoolgirls’ Indoor Races which will be held on Sunday 1 October 2023 at the Snozone in Milton Keynes. Entries will remain open until 31 July 2023 or when we have reached capacity if that is earlier. Please note your entry will only be confirmed once full payment has been made. Please visit to British Schoolgirls’ Indoor Races page here to submit your application.

LSC athletes selected for British Alpine Squad for 2023/24

Summer might not have even started but GB Snowsports has already announced their Alpine Squads for next winter. We are delighted that 11 of our athletes have been selected for the squads as follows:

World Cup SQUAD

  • Charlie Guest

FIS SQUAD

  • HONOR BARTLETT

  • CANDICE BOMBERG

  • ABI BRUCE

  • Molly Butler

  • DAISI DANIELS

  • ALEXA ELLIFF

  • GISELLE GORRINGE

  • CHARLOTTE HOLMES

  • LOIS JACKSON

  • ISLA WARD

Congratulations from us all and very best wishes for your training over the summer

Zermatt to Verbier ski touring challenge to raise funds for The Intensive Care Society

Members are invited to join The Intensive Care Society, a charity which supports intensive care staff across the country, in its 4 day Zermatt to Verbier challenge in March 2024. The costs of the challenge have been paid for by the lead sponsor, but each participant will be required to raise £5,000.

Further details can be found on The Intensive Care Society website here and on the attached flyer

Jaz Taylor on the Telemark World Champtionships Podium

Jaz Taylor, one of our LSC athletes, had a fantastic performance at the World Championships in Mürren in March, getting a silver medal in the parallel sprint and a bronze medal in the Classic, giving her her most successful World Championships to date.

Congratulations Jaz from all of us at the LSC!

LSC Success at the 15th AICC in Cortina D'ampezzo

Over 35 LSC members visited Cortina last week for the 15th Amateur Inter Club Championships. LSC entered 5 teams across the different age bands. The LSC Over 60s team of Gayle Parsons, Marguerite Nice, Nikki Reed and Sheridan Killwick came first in their category. Sheridan Killwick was also the overall winner for the Ladies Over 60 category. Whist she was racing for Kandahar, LSC member Anna Griffin came first in the Ladies 45 to 59 category. Congratulations to you all!

A great time was had by all with some great skiing, good racing and wonderful hospitality from our hosts, the SC18 club!