![Photo of senior XC team in 2006 Illawarra Interclub races [photo Deb McCulloch]](images/HoriSliceV.jpg)
To assist with your bookings for this year please refer to schedule of events.
2009 was a great season for the club. Our Race teams performed extremely well and proved superior on race days. Both Junior and Senior teams were victorious in winning the major trophies respectively. Well done Illabunda.
As well as being a constitutional requirement, the training program also proves to be a strong base to the racing commitment of our club.
The Club supports racing by the following:-
Helmets are not compulsory but most racers are now competing in them.
Each participant and official is required to complete Waiver forms for Perisher Blue and Illabunda.
These dates are subject to confirmation of the dates of the Illawarra Interclub Race meetings.
Dates |
Senior Event |
Sat 24 - Sun 25 July |
Downhill Training, Snowboarding? |
Sat 14 Aug |
Illawarra Senior Interclub Races |
Note: The Illabunda Senior Club Champions are determined from the Illawarra Interclub Races.
![Photo of the Illabunda Senior Racing Team 2009 at the Cross Country Course - [Photo: Terry Dryburgh]](images/2009W_SeniorXCTeam_TerryDryburgh.jpg)
The 2009 Illawarra Interclub Senior races were fought out on August 15th on the popular ‘Upper Rollercoaster’ race course at Blue Cow in fine weather.
We went into this year’s races reasonably confident of a victory due to the strength of our team in the multi discipline format and the depth of which comprises many of our recent junior competitors.
Sixteen year old William Edmonds was eligible to race both juniors and seniors this year and performed very well as expected.
The Snowboard event was run first with Matt Geercke missing out by 0.04 of a second of winning the individual boarding event. However, Matt, Ben Dryburgh and Todd Fairbrother lead our team to victory in the team event for an early points lead.
The Giant Slalom followed with Graeme Williams posting the fastest time at the end of the first run. However a spectacular crash in the second run ended his campaign for 2009. Mick Livermore was also ruled out of contention by a nasty crash in his first run which left him bleeding but far from disgraced as he backed up to post a very fast second run time. Todd Fairbrother, Liam Zeller and Ben Dryburgh with two great runs each, won the GS event for us to further extend our lead.
After lunch, the 2.5 km Cross Country event was conducted over on the Nordic track. We knew that the red hot Maranatha contingent were going to be extremely hard to beat. And they were. Although we played hard we could only manage a third placing in the Cross Country team’s event.
This was still good enough for us to take out the overall Champion Team Trophy which will hang proudly on the wall at Illabunda until next year.
There were some fantastic individual performances from some of our team which will be highlighted in the results listed in this report.
Thank you to our entire Senior Team for 2009. Our team spirit and behaviour at the presentation was outstanding. Go the Bunda!
Thank you to Rhythm Snowsports who equip many of us out for the races and also to Matt and Luanne for their outstanding tucker and effort that they put in for the race weekend.
The Illawarra Interclub results are as follows:-
The Illawarra Interclub Race results also determine our own Illabunda results:-
Club Captain
Terry Dryburgh, Committee Member
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