With Kira Weidle, the Starnberg Ski Club not only has a reigning vice world champion, the club is also top in popular sports.
There was now an award for this.
Starnberg - The Starnberg Ski Club has already received several awards for its excellent youth work.
But the latest award is a novelty: “We were awarded our ski school for the first time,” says Helge von Hirschhausen, chairman of SC Starnberg.
And then also directly from the German Ski Association (DSV).
In the future, the association will be able to adorn itself with the title “DSV Ski School of the Year 2020”.
"This is a great award that we are very happy about," says von Hirschhausen.
"This award is a confirmation of our commitment at all levels of skiing and shows how versatile SC Starnberg is."
The award-winning SC Starnberg ski school relates to popular sports
Within the club, the ski school must be clearly separated from the racing teams.
With its “mobile ski school”, the so-called Ski Academy, the SCS serves popular sports.
Primarily children use the daytime offers there with full care.
The racing division focuses on talent development and competitions.
In order to better network the two branches of grassroots and competitive sports, the club developed the digital magazine “Carve” last year with the former BR television reporter and SCS press spokesman Axel Müller.
This is one of the reasons why the Starnbergers have now secured the DSV award, endowed with 2000 euros.
DSV praises the bridge between mass sport and competitive sport in the SCS
“The aim is to build a bridge between the competitive and popular sports pillars of the club.
At the same time, the magazine creates a platform through which the sponsors are given the opportunity to present themselves to the members, ”writes the association in its laudatory speech.
According to DSV President Dr.
Franz Steinle "those associations and cooperations in which on the one hand responsible, but on the other hand also courageously thought and acted".
Helge von Hirschhausen attaches the award to other advantages of his ski academy.
"With us you can also take racing courses, so gates are staked out on the slope." Organizationally, this is not always easy on site, which is why hardly any ski schools make this effort.
But the fun factor is enormous.
Internal races with gate judges and moderators would also take place as part of the ski school courses.
Kira Weidle is the “top of the pyramid” - the foundation is the ski school
“That is important for attracting talent,” says von Hirschhausen.
Thanks to Kira Weidle, SC Starnberg now places athletes up to the top of the world (see below).
"But Kira is only the tip of a pyramid, the bottom foundation of which is the ski school," explains the club chairman vividly.
Weidle, meanwhile vice world champion, was once discovered there.
Von Hirschhausen is all the more sad about the current winter.
The corona pandemic thwarted skiers and all athletes.
The ski school in particular was hit hard by the lockdown, and the children and young people were not allowed on the slopes.
"That was one of the bitterest consequences of the Corona winter for us," emphasizes Helge von Hirschhausen.
Next SC Starnberg project: Organization of the German championship
However, the chairman of the Starnberg Ski Club does not have much time to regret these days.
He is right in the middle of organizing the next project: In just over a week, the SCS will host the International German Championships in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom.
“We are currently very much in the process of doing this, it ties up our strength,” says von Hirschhausen.
After all, the association wants to give no less than 100 percent here - as in youth work.
Excursus: Kira Weidle fifth in the Downhill World Cup after the season finale
That's it with the downhill races for Kira Weidle this World Cup winter.
What had been announced by the canceled training sessions on Monday and Tuesday at the season finale in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) became a certainty yesterday: the descent had to be canceled due to heavy snowfall and will not be made up for.
"That was not surprising," commented the vice world champion from Starnberg.
She didn't let that spoil her fun and without further ado started a giant slalom training session.
Weidle finished the Downhill World Cup in fifth place.
Her conclusion: “That was a really decent season, even if the victory wasn't there yet.” Sofia Goggia (Italy) secured the small crystal ball ahead of the two Swiss Corinne Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami.
Weidle could have pushed past the American Breezy Johnson to fourth place.
Even if the downhill run in Lenzerheide didn't work out, the 25-year-old from the Starnberg Ski Club hopes that she will be able to hit the slopes again today, in the Super-G.
The start is scheduled for 9.30 a.m. - if the weather cooperates.
As is well known, the Super-G is not Weidle's favorite discipline.
In the World Cup ranking she is currently in 23rd place, but could fight her way into the top 20 with a good performance.
In the overall World Cup, in which the Starnberg woman is currently 18th, hardly any improvements seem to be possible.
mg / (sid)