ULLADULLA’S Christina Taylor was in the thick of the action when the South East Regional Academy of Sport (SERAS) Snowsports Program held its first training camp for the 2015 season at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).
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She was one of 20 scholarship holders attending the camp and they were given an introduction workshop on the principles of training by SERAS senior intern Scott Reaper.
After this the athletes participated in activities including tumbling and trampolining under the supervision of former SERAS scholarship holder and Sochi Olympian, Nicole Parks, and NSW Cross Country head coach, Alasdair Tutt.
Scholarship holders were then issued with their strength and conditioning programs after receiving exercise instructions from the academy’s intern students.
The first day finished with the first of three workshops on resilience from sports psychologist, Richard Keegan.
Day two of the camp started with the athletes attending a time management workshop provided by Craig Hammond before undergoing movement screenings and fitness testing.
Run in partnership with NSW Snowsports and Snowsports ACT, the program is designed to focus on the physiological, psychological and personal development of scholarship holders.
The young athletes are drawn from across NSW and the ACT and represent the disciplines of alpine skiing, ski cross, freestyle moguls, cross country skiing and snowboarding.
The scholarship holders will come together for a second training camp in late September after the domestic ski season is completed.
