Second winter for ski director

Press, 7 June 1983, Page 17

Second winter for ski director

The New Zealand Ski Instructors’ Alliance has reappointed Mr Scott Callaway as its executive director for a second term. Mr Callaway, who also worked as the alliance’s director last winter, has just returned to Christchurch to take up his position for another five-month term. Over the northern winter, Mr Callaway runs his own ski-racing team in California, and last January and February members of the New Zealand ski team joined the programme as well. The N.Z.S.I.A. is involved mainly with the training and certification of ski instructors within New Zealand, but is also involved with the general promotion of the sport here and overseas.

In reappointing Mr Callaway ta his position as director at a N.Z.S.I.A. meeting in Christchurch, Mr Tony Graham, president of the

alliance and ski school director of Mount Hutt, commented on the outstanding success of the alliance’s Inter-ski team at the international meeting in Italy in January, Without the big task of sending a team overseas to Europe, Mr Callaway expects this winter to be able to concentrate more on the “local” instructors and the “local” skiers and work to improve the sport. “Particularly those programmes that we organise together with the New Zealand Ski Association to help the recreational skiers, such as ‘Test International’ will gain from my having more time to work at this level,” Mr Callaway said. The New Zealand Ski Association has now appointed a similar executive and Mr Callaway thinks they will be able to work together for the development of the sport generally..