Saints Snowsports

Saints Snow sports caters for those those looking to hit the slopes in Scotland and abroad.

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Saints Snowsports

The University of St Andrews Snowpsorts Team caters to a broad membership base of competitive, recreational and social members.

From relatively small beginnings, we have grown to be one of the university’s biggest sports clubs: offering students the opportunity to join our thriving race, freestyle or recreational teams, to improve skiing or snowboarding skills or start from the beginning and learn something completely new.

Club sessions

Day	Time	Location
Monday	19:30-21:30	Midlothian Snowsports Centre, Edinburgh

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The race team has weekly training sessions, where they travel to either a dry slope or an indoor snowdome. They also take part in regular fitness classes at the University Sports Centre, including spin and Zumba. The race team receives coaching at their Hillend training sessions by experienced and qualified coaches, who are also often ex-national team members. They set the courses, assign drills and exercises, and give individual feedback to help all members of the team improve their technique, confidence and speed.

Training with the Freestyle Team is conducted weekly at one of two locations: Adventure Aberdeen Snowsports or Glasgow Snow Factor. Freestyle training sessions are held for two hours, and the journey to each location is approximately a four-hour round trip. Freestyle training sessions will often include coaching for both skiers and snowboarders. Our coaches make it possible for the team to learn new tricks and skills, pushing people outside of their comfort zone in a safe and measured way.

For recreational members, we’ll be hosting ‘give it a goes’ and ‘Skiing in 3’ in the first semester to give people a chance to get on the snow and meet the crowd.
The University of St Andrews Snowsports Teams consist of three individual teams; race, freestyle, and recreational. Each of these teams is made up of both novice and advance skiers. Both the race teams and the freestyle teams compete in numerous competitions throughout the year while the recreational team is non-competitive.
- Race Team: The race team consists of experienced and novice racers, who enjoy training and competing together. As well as continuing and developing the competitive nature of the team, there is also a focus on building on everyone’s individual skills and potential. This year the race team will be competing in SUDS, BUDS, and SUISC.Freestyle Team: Over the course of each year, the freestyle team competes in four competitions: SUDS, BUDS, SUISC and Granite City. This coming year, we plan to take the team back to these four unique and outstanding opportunities to compete.Rec: When the snow’s there, Snowsports starts running trips out to the 5 fully fledged outdoor ski resorts for those wanting to have a laugh and ski the best Scotland has to offer. By November all eyes are focused on the forecast and possible dumps that the mountains may be receiving. These trips are for all abilities, so all are welcomed, just keep your eyes out for a post about trips running.
Whether you are new to the sport or an experienced skiier, already attend the University or if you are thinking about attending, please get in touch to register your interest and find out more about our club.

The University hosts a Sports Fayre at the beginning of each academic year during Orientation Week, giving prospective members the opportunity to talk to club members and sign up to ‘Give It A Go’ sessions.

Please email the club to register your interest: snowsports@st-andrews.ac.uk

Club Membership

All matriculated students at the University can join the Snow Sports Club.

Please visit the Saints Sport website for a full list of club membership options, prices and information on how to purchase your membership.