Founded in 1748, UCL Snowsports is one of the largest sport clubs in London with over 500 members! Whether you’re interested in fun weekly socials or are looking for a way to hone your skills in preparation for the slopes we have an event for you.
Ski Trip
The highlight of the yearly UCL Snowsports Calendar is our annual winter ski trip! Here, we take over the Alpes for a week, ripping it down the slopes all day, dancing on tables at apres and partying all night. We have some exciting new partnerships this year, including some MASSIVE festival headliners, unmissable events and of course lots and lots of snow and skiing. We're taking 600 of you to to Les 2 Alpes in France from the 16th-23rd of December. You don’t want to miss the biggest and best ski trip yet! Keep an eye out on our socials for information on ticket drop. We’ll be partying in the alps and cruising the slopes in no time, and we're so excited to see you there!
Competitions
The competitive side of UCL Snowsports Club compete in three disciplines: Ski racing, snowboard racing and freestyle (both ski and board). All disciplines compete at both the regional and national levels, with competitions up and down the country, including a weekend snowsports festival competition up in Edinburgh during the November reading week, our local regional dryslope league KINGS with fancy dress themed competitions happening throughout the year, the DOME series, which is the indoor skiing competition (on indoor snow!). And finally, we also compete in the AJAM freestyle competition during term 2. Even if you're not into freestyle, AJAM is an absolute blast, with DJs and the afterparty of the year. You don't want to miss this.
Weekly Events
Trainings
Every week, we run ski and board race training sessions where you can try out racing with designated coaches and slaloms set up to help you improve your skills. Whether you just want to try out racing or you’re looking to perfect your technique in preparation for regional and national competitions, as long as you can link turns all levels are welcome! We also offer freestyle (indoors) sessions for both skiers and boarders, with rails and jumps of varying sizes set up to help you catch air in no time. If any of this interests you, make sure to come to one of our taster sessions and try it out for free without membership, or tag along to our weekly sessions once term is underway! For more info about dates, check out our Facebook page.
Socials
Socials are a massive part of the club and as such we organise themed sports night socials every week. In traditional snowsports style, we have calendar full of curry nights, bar crawls, fancy dress events, charity socials, friendly society competitions as well as our annual ball planned to keep us busy throughout the year. Each one of our Wednesday Sports Night socials usually culminates in dancing the night away with the rest of TeamUCL at Scala. Here in snowsports, we consider ourselves one big fat family, and everyone in the club gets given parents and siblings at the beginning of the year - giving you both someone to talk to if you need anything as well as setting us up for friendly family rivalry and competition. Our socials offer something for everyone so whether you’re looking for a discussion or a dance, get involved in the club and get to see just how good Snowsports at uni can be! Welfare is extremely important to us and we want our club to be as inclusive as possible. We have lots of non-alcohol related events organised for the upcoming year including picnics, trampolining socials and scavenger hunts. Our ultimate goal is to be an inclusive community and we are so happy for everyone with a love of snow to join us.
Make sure to message our Facebook/Instagram or Email with any questions or queries. And don't forget to come visit us at freshers fair (we'll be there both the 1st and the 2nd of October! Catch you on the slopes!
xoxo, your Snowsports Committee
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