Staff

Year at Ambition: 5th

Position: Program Director / Ambition Junior Team Coach

Marc heads up the Ambition Coaching Team for the 5th successive season following the teams’ most successful season to date. As a former British Development Team skier and Youth Olympian, Marc knows and understands what it takes to compete at the highest level as a junior athlete. His work ethic and passion for the sport are 2nd to none and it is this attitude that has led the Ambition Junior Team to great success during the last 3 seasons.

Before Ambition, Marc learnt his trade as a coach running programs for CH1 and CH2 athletes under Ross Green at the British Ski Academy. During this time Marc worked through his coaching and instructing qualifications and spent time on placements with the British Senior World Cup Team and British Children’s Team.

Marc now holds the highest level of qualifications for a British Coach and Instructor as a BASI Level 4 Elite Coach and BASI level 4 ISTD, he is also an examiner for BASI, delivering courses to young aspiring coaches during the off season. Marc is hugely involved in the British Ski Racing scene, sitting on both the British Junior Team selection committee and LSERSA executive committee.

In 2010, Marc was voted ‘’High Performance Junior Coach of the Year’’ by his peers at the Snowsport England coaches’ conference.

Year at Ambition: 4th

Position: Ambition Junior Team Coach

Justin goes into his 4th season as Ambition Children’s Team coach, following a brilliant winter in 2009/2010, where the Ambition Race Team took the Club Team award at the English Champs for the 2nd successive year. Justin has a wealth of experience of working with this age group - prior to his 4 years with Ambition, Justin spent 5 years working with up and coming child athletes at the British Ski Academy in France and has coached British Children's Team athletes on numerous occasions at international events.

Back home Justin is just as heavily involved in the sport, coaching and competing at any and every opportunity. Justin has been a key figure in the development and success of the Norfolk ski club over the years and has represented England himself for nearly a decade.

Justin has the qualifications to go with his experience and currently holds the Alpine Performance Coach Level 1 & 2, Canadian Coaching Levels 1 & 2 and the BASI Level 3 ISIA. Justin brings enthusiasm and energy to the team along with a great work ethic and 100% commitment to his athletes.

Year at Ambition: 1st

Position: Ambition Children’s Team Coach

Aaron Tipping has joined the Ambition coaching team for the 2011/2012 winter season following his brilliant work on the Atomic Race Camps this summer. Aaron's recent racing experience combined with his coaching skills and qualifications put him in the perfect position to partner Benn Hall in running the Ambition Children's Team program. Aaron is no stranger to hard work himself, having worked his way back to racing after a horrific injury that saw him undergo 3 operations and a couple of years of rehab.

In 10 years of racing Aaron spent 4 years on the British Children's Team and another 5 on the British Junior and Senior teams. His best achievement was the Under-18 GS title he won at the British Senior Championships in 2005. Aaron holds BASI coaching qualifications - Level 1+2 and is also an ISIA level instructor, having worked through his qualifications while racing over the past 2 years..

Year at Ambition: 1st

Position: Ambition Children's Team Coach

Coming fresh out of his degree in Politics at Newcastle University, Benn is the latest addition to the Ambition setup. Benn joins the team having been a successful skier himself in his day, with English, Scottish and British Alpine championship titles all under his belt from his early years in FIS racing. Throughout his racing years from the age of 12 to 18, Benn was consistently one of the top British racers of his age and was no stranger to the heights of success in British skiing. Having been a member of both the British Childrens and England Alpine Junior teams, Benn has both the experience and the knowledge of what it takes to reach the highest echelons of ski racing.

Having chosen to go to university instead of the British Development team, Benn decided to invest this knowledge and experience into his coaching, and has done his first Canadian coaching qualification along with the Level 3 UK Snowsports performance coaching award. Last year, Benn also began the Level 4 qualification, the aim of which is to develop national team coaches. Building on his many years of ski racing himself, combined with his recent years of coaching development, Benn will be striving to build on the already fantastic achievements of the Ambition children’s team to make the 2011/2012 season even better still.