Alpine Coaching Race Academy

Our Coaching Team

Who We Are

“All of our coaches are Canadian Ski Coaches Federation qualified”

Our coaches are all highly qualified and have many seasons experience. The coaches keep abreast of modern techniques and new approaches, using coaching updates, university courses, nationally recognized sport specific courses and further their experience by working with other world class coaches.

Our coaches are all CSCF qualified and coach under the direction of the head coaches. Coaching philosophies and program continuity are carefully monitored by the Head Coaches as these are essential elements to the success of our programs.

Head Coach - Simon Brown

Head coach for Alpine Coaching Race Academy for the past 4 years. Simon has been running camps in both Europe and Canada. He has recently coached at Mt. Hotham Race School (Australia) and has 26 seasons of ski coaching experience.

Coach - Gustav Fichnaller

Gustav has a background in Austrian Ski Racing, including speed events at the highest levels. He has a life-time of Ski teaching and coaching experience in Scotland and Austria. He is a BASI 1 ski instructor, an Ex-BASI Trainer,and is a BASI Race Trainer.

Visting Coach - James Puckett

James is a Canadian CSCF level 2 qualified high performance coach, a BASI top level ski instructor and a Swiss Patente (top level) instructor. James has many years of experience coaching and ski teaching at all levels. He has coached with Alpine race coaching regularly over the last three years and has achieved good results with our athletes.James joins us in Australia and for the Autumn season in Austria.

Coach - Tom Laidlaw

Tom continues with us as Coach . He continues to enhance the program with his enthusiasm and organizational skills. Tom will be coaching with us in Austria and again returning to the southern Hemisphere. Tom achieved county and national development team selections at Roller Hockey and also has a BTEC in Sport. Tom has been busy over the last year and passed exams in ski coaching achieving Canadian ski coaching Federation level 2, ski instructing: BASI Level ISIA and Strength and Conditioning Level 1. He also passed his Eurotest in 2006.

Assistant Coach - Pete Jesse

Pete adopts a part time roll with ACRA. He has the Canadian ski coaching Federation level 1 qualification and APC level 1.