JIB ACADEMY SUNSHINE VILLAGE, BY NOAH BOWMAN

The second stop of the Jib academy went down last week at Sunshine Village, AB. Sunshine held up to its name and gave us a beautiful sunshiny day, while we shredded their amazing park. The coach list consisted of Iannick B., Drew Wittstock, JD Zicat, Luke Kary, Kris Atkinson, and myself.

When everyone showed up in the morning they were all pumped and ready to show us what they’ve got. We hit the slopes around nine o’clock, shredded for a few hours until it was time to enjoy our delicious burgers. Once everyone was refueled, it was back to the park where they had one more hour to make their mark before we decided who made finals.

The level of skiing this year was insane. It was obvious that every body there was killing it and wanted that trip to Mammoth. This made it really difficult for us coaches because everyone there deserved to be in the finals, but after some long hard decision making, we came up with our 17 male and 2 female finalist list.

17 Male finalists

#4 – Tom Nelder

#9 – Brendan MacKay

#10 – Alex Mochan

#11 – Aaron MacKay

#14 – Garett Northey

#17 – Mike Rogne

#22 – Colton Halwa

#28 – Logan Dobson

#29 – Noah Morrison

#30 – Mark Hendrickson

#32 – Jay Heule

#42 – Mitchell Graham

#44 – Hunter Visser

#46 – Danny Phillips

#52 – Matty Herauf

#53 – Jaeden Schneider-Clark

#58 – Brett Erickson

2 Girls finalists

#12 - Jackie Atkinson

#56 - Meagan Fiselier

For finals it was a two run format. Run one was on the jump line, and run two was on the rail line. The girls were killing it and demonstrated a variety of tricks including some good looking front flips. All the guys were pushing hard. The craziest trick of the day went to Danny Phillips with his rodeo 5 screamin seaman, but the top four places went to Logan Dobson in 4^th for grabbing the hell out of his tricks, Aaron Mackay in 3^rd for showing he’s one of the steeziest 14 year olds out there, Noah Morrison in 2^nd with his effortless rodeo 5 off the launch box, and taking the number one spot and a trip to the amazing Mammoth California is Garett Northey for showing us that he not only has a huge bag of tricks, but he’ll do it all with ease.

PODIUM BOYS

1 – Garett Northey

2 – Noah Morrison

3 – Aaron Mackay

4 – Logan Dobson

PODIUM GIRLS

1 – Meagan Fiselier

2 – Jackie Atkinson

BEST TRICKS

# 46 – Danny Phillips -> Rodeo 5 Screamin Seaman