TRACK REBUILD
We will be re-building all four straights of the track in preparation for the upcoming season. Weather permitting we expect to get started on Thursday March 11 and be finished by Sunday March 14. The track committee has put together an awesome plan for the track.
We could always use more volunteers to rake and finish the track. Call Dean Botterill at 250-545-0640 if you can help out. Even a few hours would be very much appreciated.
The track will be closed during the renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience.
March 8, 2010
2010 PLATE NUMBERS
Click here to see the number you will need to run on your number plate for the 2010 season.
Numbers are available at the motoshed for $0.75 each or 3 for $2.
March 6, 2010
TRACK IS OPEN
The track is now open on a limited basis. It is still very soft in turn 1 and 3 so please be careful and try not to leave ruts.
February 10, 2010
CHILDRENS' FITNESS TAX RECEIPTS
Tax receipts for the 2009 season are available by emailing webmaster@vernonbmx.com.
Please put "tax receipt" in the header and a pdf receipt will be emailed back to you.
February 2, 2010
WINTER CARNIVAL PARADE
Many thanks to all the riders and parents that took part in the carnival parade on Saturday. That was an impressive turnout with
almost 40 riders. There were thousands of spectators out for the parade so we represented our club very well. I heard many kids
say "I want to do that" to their parents as we went by. And even more comments about the trophies. We should see a lot of new
riders this year just from the parade.
Special thanks to: Peter and Dave Robson of Douglas Lake Homes for the use of their trailer and for building the float; Gerald Fitt and Doug Buchholz for donating the decorative garland and their time to build the float; Lenard Winslow from Vernon Hyundai for donating the balloons; Briteland Agricultural Services and Supplies Ltd. for the bags that we handed out; to Keith, Tanya, Kathy and Shylo for preparing the handout bags with the Vernon BMX flyer; and last but not least an extra big thanks to Shylo Orchard for all her hard work to organize an awesome parade entry.
Pictures are posted in the Photos under Winter Carnival 2010.
We are always looking to post pictures. Email to webmaster@vernonbmx.com if you have some pics you'd like to share.
January 30, 2010
WINTER CARNIVAL - FREE TRIAL OFFER
Please present your coupon at the motoshed on a Monday night (follow the 2010 schedule link for when the season starts) and we will show
you around the track, answer all your questions and get you started. There will be an insurance waiver form to fill out so please allow a bit of
time.
The free trial offer is limited to one time per rider and is available for our regular Tuesday night race events only. Follow the contacts link if you have any other questions.
Join us to experience the thrill of BMX racing. See you soon.
January 21, 2010
KEVIN HILL SNOWBOARD CROSS
Kevin finished 6th overall in today's race in Stoneham, QC and still has a chance at an Olympic spot on Canada's SBX team.
Congratulations on a career best finish!
January 20, 2010
2010 PLATE NUMBERS
Year end district points are finalized. Click here and then select the appropriate class to see your new number.
The position number to the left of the rider's name will be their earned District plate number for the 2010 racing season. A rider’s current earned District or ABA issued number (see below) must appear on that rider’s number plate during all competitions. This identification can appear in the following forms only:
a) District number—solid black number (minimum 3” high) on a white
background.
b) NAG/National age group number—solid black number.
c) Overall national number—solid white number.
d) Redline Cup Championship number—solid black #1 - 3 on a yellow background.
e) Race of Champions number—solid white #1 on a red background.
For more information please email Dean or phone 250-503-1428.
June-uary 17, 2010
2010 SCHEDULE
The 2010 racing schedule has been uploaded. Follow the 2010 Schedule link for a printable pdf version.
December 27, 2009
KEVIN HILL - WORLD CUP SNOWBOARD
Our local Pro rider Kevin Hill is looking for a spot on the Canadian Olympic snowboard cross team for the 2010 Olympics on Whistler. Let's wish
him luck as he travels to Europe in January to continue his quest for a spot on the Canadian team!
A report from Kevin follows:
Hi everyone,
With a good finish to the end of my BMX biking year, finishing up the year with a #2 Pro Plate in the ABA Canadian race circuit I was ready to get into the snowboarding race season and start it off right.
Starting off the season with the National Team camp in Powder King Mt 1.5 hrs North past Prince George Dec 1-7 was the testing grounds for all the up and coming National Development Team riders to show their skills. 2 riders out of the 10 would earn a spot at the 2nd World Cup of the season in Telluride Colorado Dec 17-20 and then earn further spots for the next World Cups in Austria, Switzerland and Stoneham, Quebec the last World Cup before the Olympics! The time trial day came and we were doing 2 timed runs in the morning and 2 timed runs in the afternoon. They were taking the best 2 combined runs and deciding which riders move on to the next World Cups. After the day was finished the coaches sat us down for a team meeting and told us who the two riders were. I was kind of shocked when they called out my name because I hadn't been feeling very well that day but I got 1 of the 2 spots and I was really excited to move forward on this very important Olympic season!
So last weekend Dec 17-20, I raced in the 2nd World Cup snowboard cross race held in Telluride Colorado. Friday held time trials with only the top 32 out of 64 racers being able to move on to Saturday's finals race. I qualified 15th my first run and some riders bettered there time the second run and I was moved to 19th and moved on to the finals Saturday. In Saturday's first qualifying round I had a stacked heat with France, Swiss and USA's top racers. Getting a great start out of the gate and side by side coming into the first turn I was able to come out in second, while trying to make a pass along the fastest part of the course, the US rider and I bumped and both of us lost some speed and the France rider passed us leaving me in 3rd place; where I finished the race not being able to catch them on the rest of the course. With only two riders advancing I had to sit it out for the rest of the day putting me in 24th after all was said and done. NBC which is the Olympic network, will air the Visa Snowboardcross Cup in Telluride Dec. 26th at 1:30 p.m. ET.
To move on to the Europe World Cups the coaches wanted a top 16 or an exceptional performance from me and the other rider that had raced the Telluride World Cup and they would decide after the race was over that night. At dinner that night the National Team coach informed me that I was going to be moving on to the next 2 European Cups because of my exceptional performance. I was very excited to be picked by the coaches because it was such a tough field. It will be another development team rider and myself travelling to Europe for these next 2 World Cups!
Picture Caption: TELLURIDE, CO - DECEMBER 19: (Front to Rear) Kevin Hill of Canada, Nick Baumgartner of the USA, Pierre Vaultier of France and Fabio Caduff of Switzerland go head to head in their heat in the FIS Snowboardcross World Cup on December 19, 2009 in Telluride, Colorado.
Kevin Hill
December 12, 2009
2009 ABA GRAND NATIONALS
The final National event of the season in Tulsa, Oklahoma saw six Vernon riders
and one Kelowna rider representing the Okanagan clubs.
Great results for everyone that went. The competition level was top shelf with 2,630 riders competing in 461 motos over the three day event.
Grand Nationals Results
| RoC | Grands | ||
| Arleigh Hill | 28 & Over Girls | 2nd | 6th |
| Chris Spence | 36-40 Cruiser | - | - |
| Dean Botterill | 41-45 Cruiser | - | - |
| Dean Botterill | 41+ Intermediate | - | ? |
| Don Hill | 51-55 Cruiser | 1st | 8th |
| Ken Botterill | 56 & Over Cruiser | - | - |
| Shylo Orchard | 31-35 Girls Cruiser | 2nd | 2nd |
| Arleigh Hill | 46 & Over Girls Cruiser | 2nd | 2nd |
| Don Hill | 41 & Over | 4th | - |
| Alex Milnes | 13 Cruiser | - | - |
| Alex Milnes | 13 Expert | - | - |
Click the links on the placings above to see the videos. Links will be updated as more motos are posted.
Both Dean and Chris were up against very tough competition with 30 riders each in their cruiser classes. Dean was looking good in 20" until he got rubbed out in turn #1. Don was in second place in cruiser and challenging for first when the first place rider crashed and took Don out. Congrats to Arleigh and Shylo for their fine finishes. Alex Milnes from Kelowna had some tough luck with crashes in his qualifying rounds in both classes. Until then he was running well enough to make his mains. Next year.
Videos of the mains will be posted in the next few days at go211.com here
November 15, 2009
TRACK IS CLOSED
Looks like winter is here. The track will be closed until spring unless the
weather changes drastically. See you then.
October 31, 2009
EMAIL LIST
We have had a lot of people tell us they don't get our e-mails keeping them up to date on the club's events. But in checking we see
they are on the list with the correct address. What this means is that your anti virus or email program is blocking the mail and sending it
to your deleted items folder or junk mail folder or possibly just deleting it totally. Check in your anti virus for the list of blocked senders
or put "vernonesso@shaw.ca" in the "allowed addresses folder" and this should fix the problem.
October 25, 2009
AWARDS & YEAR-END CELEBRATION
Thanks to everyone who attended and a special thank-you to Leanne, Shylo and the rest of the banquet committee
for organizing a great event.
It was another great year of BMX in Vernon. See you all in the Spring!
October 12, 2009
CANADIAN GRAND NATIONALS – October 10-12
Another spectacular indoor race to end the Canadian National season! We had 44 riders make the big trek to Chilliwack. Awesome turnout!
Congratulations to Shanda Hill for earning the #1 Canadian Girls Cruiser title.
And in other breaking news, both Chris “the Monsoon” Spence and Dean Knopf are tired of being “Nashed” in 36-40 cruiser and have agreed that “things have gotta change”. Stay tuned for more bar bashing, elbow rubbing action...
The Vernon Morning Star write up is here .
| Canadian Grand Nationals - Chilliwack, BC | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
| AARON BOTTERILL | 10 EXPERT | - | - | - |
| ARLEIGH HILL | 41-45 GIRLS CRUISER | - | - | 2 |
| ARLEIGH HILL | 28 & OVER GIRLS | - | - | 1 |
| BECK CORKLE | 7 NOVICE | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| BRENDEN DAVIES | 16 EXPERT | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| BRENDEN DAVIES | 17-20 CRUISER | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| BRITTANY LUCHENE | 10 GIRLS | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| CAMERON JONES | 11 INTER | 6 | - | - |
| CHRIS "THE MONSOON" SPENCE | 36-40 CRUISER | - | 7 | 5 |
| COLIN (HARDCORE) HILDEBRANDT | 15 CRUISER | - | 4 | 1 |
| COLIN (HARDCORE) HILDEBRANDT | 15 EXPERT | - | 2 | 1 |
| CONNOR MANAHAN | 10 INTER | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| DAWSON LUCHENE | 7 INTER | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| DEAN BOTTERILL | 41-45 CRUISER | - | 4 | 5 |
| DEAN KNOPF | 36-40 CRUISER | - | 8 | 6 |
| DON HILL | 41 & OVER EXPERT | - | - | 1 |
| DON HILL | 51-55 CRUISER | - | - | 1 |
| ERIK URQUHART | 7 INTER | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| FAITH RIDDICK | 8 NOVICE | - | 6 | 5 |
| GAVIN MEDEMA | 7 INTER | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| IAN KNOPF | 10 CRUISER | - | 5 | 3 |
| IAN KNOPF | 10 EXPERT | 4 | 5 | |
| ISYK LEE | 8 INTER | - | - | - |
| JADON RIDDICK | 10 NOVICE | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| JAKE "THE RATTLESNAKE" SPENCE | 11 NOVICE | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| JAMES KRAHN | 13 EXPERT | 7 | - | - |
| JAMIE BOTTERILL | 13 GIRLS | - | - | 7 |
| JARED (J-ROCK) HILDEBRANDT | 8 & UNDER CRUISER | - | 4 | 3 |
| JARED (J-ROCK) HILDEBRANDT | 8 EXPERT | - | 3 | 2 |
| JARED FITT | 8 EXPERT | - | 8 | - |
| JEREMY DESCHAMPS | 10 CRUISER | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| JEREMY DESCHAMPS | 10 EXPERT | - | 6 | - |
| KARL URQUHART | 5 & UNDER INTER | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| KEENON JEBERG | 8 EXPERT | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| KEITH WOOD | 46-50 CRUISER | - | 3 | 3 |
| KEVIN (K-SKILLS) HILL | A PRO | - | 6 | 3 |
| KOLTEN JOHNSON | 10 NOVICE | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| LANDON FITT | 9 EXPERT | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| LEANNE BOTTERILL | 41-45 GIRLS CRUISER | - | 1 | 1 |
| LENA URQUHART | 36-40 GIRLS CRUISER | 2 | 3 | - |
| LENNOX WINSLOW | 9 INTER | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| MANI KAWAGUCHI | A PRO | - | - | - |
| MARK KRAHN | 41-45 CRUISER | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| RICHARD WOOD | 16 EXPERT | - | 6 | 6 |
| SHANDA HILL | 26-30 GIRLS CRUISER | - | 1 | 1 |
| SHYLO ORCHARD | 31-35 GIRLS CRUISER | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TANNER "TAZ" WITT | 7 INTER | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| TANNER "TRAILBLAZER" BROWN | 6 INTER | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TYE KURY | 15 NOVICE | - | 3 | 3 |
| TYLER RIVA | 10 CRUISER | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| TYLER RIVA | 10 EXPERT | 7 | - | - |
| ZOE (ZOOM R) NYGAARD | 10 & UNDER GIRLS CR | - | 3 | 3 |
| ZOE (ZOOM R) NYGAARD | 8 GIRLS | - | 1 | 2 |
Borderline Nationals
Last weekend, August 28th to 30th, Langley BMX hosted the Borderline Nationals races #5 and #6 on the Canadian National schedule. The Friday pre-race featured 52 motos with 236 riders;
Saturday saw 89 motos and 470 riders; Sunday had 87 motos and 469 riders.
34 Vernon racers (7 doing the double in 20" & cruiser) competed and took home 15 gold medal finishes, 19 silver and 16 bronze combined over the weekend, making this National one of the most successful of the 2009 season for Vernon's racers.
Tanner Witt, Leanne Botterill and Shanda Hill were consistent with 1st place finishes on Saturday and Sunday and despite a spectacular crash on Saturday (15X) Colin Hildebrant still managed to join the spectators on Sunday even though he could not race.
Biggest comebacks of the weekend went to Jeremy Deschamps and Jared Fitt, who despite pulling in 5th and 8th place on Saturday, came back on fire Sunday and both pulled in first place finishes.
Aaron Botterill and Keenon Jeberg raced hard but were unable to transfer to the main due to extremely tough competition in 10 expert and 8 expert respectively.
Congratulations to all the racers that made it to Langley!
| Borderline Nationals - Langley, BC | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
| ARLEIGH HILL | 41-45 CRUISER | 1 | - | 3 |
| ARLEIGH HILL | 28+ GIRLS | - | - | 1 |
| BECK CORKLE | 7 NOVICE | - | 3 | 4 |
| BRENDEN DAVIES | 16 CRUISER | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| BRENDEN DAVIES | 16 EXPERT | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| BRITTANY LUCHENE | 10 GIRLS | 3 | - | 2 |
| CAMERON JONES | 10 INTERMEDIATE | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| CODY STINN | 17-18 EXPERT | - | - | 6 |
| COLIN (HARDCORE) HILDEBRANDT | 15 CRUISER | - | 6 | - |
| COLIN (HARDCORE) HILDEBRANDT | 15 EXPERT | - | 8 | - |
| CONNOR MANAHAN | 10 INTERMEDIATE | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| DAWSON LUCHENE | 7 INTERMEDIATE | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| DEAN BOTTERILL | 41-45 CRUISER | - | 2 | 3 |
| DEAN KNOPF | 36-40 CRUISER | - | 3 | 5 |
| DON HILL | 51-55 CRUISER | - | - | 1 |
| DON HILL | 41+ EXPERT | - | - | 2 |
| IAN KNOPF | 9 EXPERT | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| IAN KNOPF | 9 CRUISER | - | - | 4 |
| JAMES KRAHN | 13 EXPERT | 5 | 5 | - |
| JAMIE BOTTERILL | 13 GIRLS | - | - | 8 |
| JARED (J-ROCK) HILDEBRANDT | 8 EXPERT | - | 4 | 3 |
| JARED FITT | 8 INTERMEDIATE | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| JEREMY DESCHAMPS | 10 CRUISER | 2 | - | 7 |
| JEREMY DESCHAMPS | 10 INTERMEDIATE | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| KEITH WOOD | 46-50 CRUISER | - | 5 | 5 |
| KOLTEN JOHNSON | 10 NOVICE | - | 4 | 5 |
| LEANNE BOTTERILL | 41-45 GIRLS CRUISER | - | 1 | 1 |
| LENNOX WINSLOW | 9 INTERMEDIATE | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| MANI KAWAGUCHI | A PRO | - | 5 | 7 |
| MARK KRAHN | 41-45 CRUISER | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| PORTER TREVELYAN | 6 NOVICE | - | 2 | 3 |
| RICHARD WOOD | 16 EXPERT | - | 7 | - |
| SHANDA HILL | 17-27 GIRLS | - | 3 | 2 |
| SHANDA HILL | 31-35 GIRLS CRUISER | - | 1 | 1 |
| SHYLO ORCHARD | 31-35 GIRLS CRUISER | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| TANNER "TAZ" WITT | 7 NOVICE | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| TANNER "TRAILBLAZER" BROWN | 6 INTERMEDIATE | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| TEEGAN DESCHAMPS | 6 NOVICE | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| TYLER RIVA | 10 CRUISER | 3 | 8 | 6 |
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