The VIS Aerial Skiing Continental Cup Team have competed in their first event of the season, taking part in a Nor-Am competition in Lac-Beauport, Canada.

With the World Cup tour currently on a break, a number of top end World Cup athletes also competed, giving the developing athletes great experience competing against some of the best in the sport.

Sidney Stephens had the best result in the women's event, just missing out on the top-six women's final in seventh place on day one, while Miriana Perkins was the highest placed finisher on day two in ninth.

Elise Coleiro made her on snow competition debut, finishing in 20th on day one.

In the men's event, Reilly Flanagan finished in 19th and 16th place.

Women's Results Day One
7th - Sidney Stephens
19th - Miriana Perkins
20th - Elise Coleiro

Men's Results Day One
19th - Reilly Flanagan

Women's Results Day Two
9th - Miriana Perkins
12th - Sidney Stephens

Men's Results Day Two
16th - Reilly Flanagan

Danielle Scott made it a double podium weekend for the VIS aerial skier on day two in Lac Beauport, with a bronze medal performance to add to silver medal from the previous day. Abbey Willcox also continued her strong recent form with her third straight super-final performance with another fifth place finish.

In the qualification round, Scott advanced in fifth place and Willcox in ninth to the 12-woman final. In the first round of finals both athletes performed full-full double twisting double backflips to make it through to the top six super-final in first and second place with 84.73 and 80.32 points respectively.

In the super-final medal round, Scott performed the more difficult double full-full triple twisting double back somersault jump, scoring 81.42 points to take the bronze medal, her 20th career podium.

“It was frustrating, I really wanted to put down a better jump today, but the speed was all over the place," said the 33-year-old Scott.

“It’s been really tricky with these conditions, so frustrated with that unfortunately, but very grateful to still be on the podium.”

Willcox jumped a lay-full single twisting double back somersault to score 66.41 points in the super-final, giving her a final ranking of fifth, extending her career best super-final streak to three appearances.

In first place was American Winter Vinecki who scored 97.88 points on her triple back somersault, with Meiting Chen of China in second with 88.12 points.

With one World Cup event remaining in the season, Vinecki has now moved back into first place on the rankings on 352 points, with Scott trailing by 12 points.

Brisbane based Willcox moved up one place to be ranked a career best seventh.

The final event will take place on March 10 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where Scott can secure back-to-back Crystal Globes with a good performance in the super-final, and if she finishes ahead of Vinecki.

Australian aerial skier Danielle Scott has finished in second place at the World Cup event in Lac-Beauport, Canada, her third podium result of the season, moving her into first place on the World Cup rankings.

In difficult conditions featuring rain and sticky snow at the French Canadian resort, Scott qualified for finals in second place scoring 86.62 points for her full-full double twisting double back somersault jump. In the first round of finals Scott performed the same jump, this time scoring 83.47 points in third place to advance to the super-final medal round.

Scott increased her degree of difficulty in the super-final, with a double full-full triple twisting double back somersault and had the best form in the air of all jumps in the medal round, but unfortunately had trouble on the landing to finish with a final score of 84.24 points, with the silver medal the 19th career podiums for the three-time Olympian.
Finishing 4.94 points ahead of Scott in first place with American Kareena Elliott, with Marion Thenault of Canada in third with a score of 83.19.

“Super excited, the yellow bib was obviously the most important thing, and I am super happy with that,” said the 33-year-old Scott from NSW, who trains in Brisbane at the Geoff Henke Olympic Winter Training Centre water jump facility.

“It’s been a really tricky day, I think everyone struggled at the beginning, the jump shape changed, so we had to make that quick adjustment. But I got my jumps done and I am pretty happy with them and still have room for improvement, so let’s hope we can bring that out tomorrow.”

Also in action for Australia was Abbey Willcox, who reached the top-six super final in back-to-back weeks for the first time in the 27-year-olds career. Wilcox finished in fifth place and moved her ranking up to eighth, a career best for the Brisbane based skier.

With two World Cup remaining, Scott is on top of the standings on 280 points, narrowly leading American Winter Vinecki by 28 points, with Thenault of Canada further back in third on 182.

A second World Cup takes places in Lac Beauport tomorrow morning, with the final event of the season in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on March 10.

VIS aerial skiers Danielle Scott and Abbey Willcox have made it a double podium celebration under lights at the prestigious World Cup event in Deer Valley, USA.

Competing on the Olympic course where Alisa Camplin famously won gold in 2002 and in front of the biggest crowd of the season, Scott was extremely unlucky not to claim victory, finishing with the same score in first place with Winter Vinecki of the USA on 77.90 points, but losing a tiebreak from their form scores 10.3 points to 10.2, giving Scott silver and the 18th podium performance of the three time Olympians career.

Rounding out the podium with her second career podium, which was also in Deer Valley four years ago, was Abbey Willcox who scored 76.85 points.

“Pretty happy, it has been an absolutely crazy day with extreme weather, a bit of rain and super soft snow falling, it’s really hard conditions so to walk away with a podium very happy” said the 33-year-old Scott from NSW, who trains in Brisbane at the Geoff Henke Olympic Winter Training Centre water jump facility.

“It’s so awesome (to have teammate Willcox on the podium), she has worked so hard and it’s well deserved.”

“It’s been four years in the making, so happy to back on the podium and such a beautiful night to be jumping in front of everyone in Deer Valley,” said the 27-year-old Willcox, from Brisbane via the NSW Central Coast.

Willcox was also thrilled to match her previous best World Cup finish.

“It’s pretty much an exact repeat of four years ago, it’s co incredible to share the podium with Dani as well, two Aussies on the podium is amazing.” With three events remaining Scott is ranked second on the World Cup standings on 200 points, trailing Vinecki by 32 points, with Canadian Marion Thenault in third on 122 points.

Triple Olympian and Dual world champion Laura Peel, did not compete in Deer Valley, electing to take a break for the remainder of the competition season to freshen up in advance of 2026 Olympic qualifying commencing next season.
Next on the schedule for the aerial skiers is a double World Cup next weekend in Lac-Beauport, Canada.