Roxy girls rock in NZ Winter Games

Aimee Fuller on the podium in Queenstown

The Roxy snow team have been laying down some great results in the NZ Winter Games in the South Island of New Zealand this last week. Top trumps goes to Aimee Fuller who landed herself a well deserved 3rd place in the ladies slopestyle competition in the Remarkables resort coming just behind TTR star Jamie Anderson and local hero Shelly Gotleib. Roxy team mate Britte Van der Pouw also put down a great performance to take 4th spot showing that the up and coming Roxy riders are a force to contend with.

Meanwhile, in the halfpipe, with doubled up as a FIS World Cup and Olympic Qualifier, Roxy riders Kendall Brown, Lisa Wiik, Mirabelle Thovex and Lesley McKenna battled with horrendous weather conditions in the form of 80km an hour winds and driving snow. Somehow the competition went ahead in the windows of weather where the riders could see the pipe and down to some pretty impressive organisation on the part of Cardrona Alpine Resort and the NZ Winter Games Team the competition was rescued from weather oblivion. The standard of riding was exceptionally high with riders from all over the world trying to secure their Olympic spots. In the ladies competition it was Chinese ripper Jiylui Lui who took the top spot with Kelly Clark and Gretchen Bleiler taking second and third. Team Roxy put on a good performance with the scores of the riders between 10th place and 30th place being very very tight. Kendall, Mirabelle and Lesley all finished well inside the top 30 they need to be in for Olympic qualifications, although none of the girls had the best day of their riding careers. Lisa was well on track to be inside the top 30 as well but had a few sketches which saw her finish just outside the top 30 cut in the end. Roxy team riders Torah Bright, Kjersti Buaas and Paulina Ligoska were conspicuous by their absence, being the only other top pipe riders in the world not at the contest due to injury or prior commitments. They are all already well inside the top 30 though so with a bit of luck Roxy will be very well represented come the Olympic Games!

Lesley flying through the blizzard in the pipe

In between training for the NZ Games Aimee and Lisa took some time out to do a bit of sight seeing. From very high up! They had the time of their lives sky diving with Wanaka Ski Diving, getting to view the amazing NZ scenery from a very different perspective.

Lisa in her flying suit.

The girls are heading back to Europe now to catch the end of summer back home before hitting up the European glaciers for the autumn training sessions.