Overview

Many students at WHS enjoy easy access to the local mountains and take part in recreational skiing and snowboarding on a weekly basis.

We are proud to have a number of New Zealand's top secondary school-aged alpine skiers, freeskiers and snowboarders. Some of our top snow sports athletes have gone on to represent New Zealand at the highest level, including former students Cool Wakushima and Alice Robinson, who both competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Both were members of the WHS Winter Sports Academy.

Competitive snow sport athletes can opt into the Winter Sports Academy, which enables students to train during school time and provides academic and pastoral support after school three days a week during the winter months.

There are a variety of alpine, freeski and snowboard training programmes based at Coronet Peak, The Remarkables or Cardrona that students can opt into or be selected for. Students can also compete for WHS at the Otago/Southland Secondary School Champs and the SISS Champs.

QAST (Queenstown Alpine Ski Team) runs in conjunction with the Alpine Ski Academy at WHS. Ski racing is on weekends.

Season Details

• Begins when the mountains open in mid June and runs until the end of the Term 3 holidays.
• Freeski and snowboard athletes train three to four days a week on snow and compete on weekends at various competitions.
• The New Zealand Junior Freeski and Board Champs are in the Term 3 holidays.
• A number of students spend Term 1 training and competing in the Northern Hemisphere.

Notice Board

To get involved with snow sports, join the Snowsports Google Classroom. Key information and opportunities are posted there throughout the year. You will need to sign in with your school email.

You can also join manually with the class code 5kegdb3.