Pete, (nicknamed ‘PCB’) is the President of the NZSIA. He’s been in the role for past few years and, as the President, he’ll be attending Interski 2011 with our teams.
Current Position with NZSIA: NZSIA President, sitting on the Executive Committee.
Experience at Interski: 1987 in Banff, Canada.
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Rache is the Instructor Training Centre Manager at Cardrona Ski Resort and spends the off-season teaching at Park City, Utah.
Current Position with NZSIA: Childrens’ Rep on the Ski Committee and an Examiner.
Experience at Interski: This will be Rachael’s second Interski. She was on the team that went to Korea in 2007 and presented a clinic on the NZSIA Childrens’ Certification process.
Sponsors: Nordica from Jones Brothers.
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Matt Phare, or Fanta as he’s known to many, is the SBINZ Divisional Representative on the Executive Committee and one of our Senior Snowboard Examiners. He also runs his own instructor training company Snow Trainers.
Current Position with NZSIA: Snowboard Division Representative
Experience at Interski: Korea in 2007
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Sean Thompson (more commonly known as “Thomo”) is a Queenstown-based Snowboard Trainer for Coronet Peak and one of our main Freestyle Examiners.
Current Position with NZSIA: Freestyle Examiner
Experience at Interski: Nil!
Sponsors: 3CS Outerwear, Flint Clothing, Nitro Snowboards, Ashbury, BSA snowboarding.
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Steph is the Ski Division Course Director for NZSIA and, as a result, runs all the ski courses throughout NZ.
Current Position with NZSIA: Ski Division Course Director.
Experience at Interski: Switzerland in 2003 and Korea in 2007.
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Garett is a Senior NZSIA Examiner who sits on both the Ski Technical Committee and the Executive Committee. He’s also one of the Directors for Rookie Aademy at Treble Cone, Wanaka.
Current Position with NZSIA: Senior Examiner and Ski Divisional Rep.
Experience at Interski: Korea in 2007.
Sponsors: Volkl, Icebreaker and Oakley.
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Kyle is a longstanding Snowboard Examiner and almost part of the woodwork at Cardrona these days, where he runs the Snowboard Training.
Current Position with NZSIA: Snowboard Examiner and Committee Member.
Experience at Interski: None as yet.
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Karl (aka ‘Dutty’) is a Queenstown-based Snowboard Trainer for Coronet Peak, a Freestyle Examiner and SBINZ Committee Member.
Current Position with NZSIA: Freestyle Examiner and Committee Member
Experience at Interski: Korea in 2007.
Sponsors: Ride Snowboards, Smith Optics and Lower.
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Peter is NZSIA’s freeski guy. Based at Cardrona, Pete coaches freestyle skiing to NZ’s up-and-coming freeski athletes.
Current Position with NZSIA: The voice of freeski
Experience at Interski: Interski in Nozawa Onsen, Japan with the Slovak Demo Team. Interski in Pchyong Chang, Korea, as the Freeski Presenter for NZ.
Sponsors: Atomic
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Matt is a Senior NZSIA Ski Examiner and a member of the Ski Technical Committee. He’s also a part owner in a mountain bike shop in Wanaka called Thunderbikes.