NAKISKA, ALTA.- In the first ski cross World Cup of the season, Canada’s Kelsey Serwa was right in the mix in the quarter-final.
The reigning world champion did not advance to the final, but just racing strongly in this rough-and-tumble sport, often called a roller derby on snow, was a big victory for her.
The native of Kelowna, B.C., is just […]
Olympic women’s ski cross champion Ashleigh McIvor may have retired, but the Canadian women still have weapons heading into the next Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
“Fierce,” is Kelsey Serwa’s description of the women’s team.
“We’ll be a force to be reckoned with for sure,” the reigning world champion said Thursday following training for the season’s first World Cup (CBC, CBCSports.ca […]
Being a world champion at something, at anything, is quite a feather in anyone’s cap. Whether his or her area of expertise be cribbage, stone-skimming, rock-paper-scissors, heavyweight boxing, grape-growing or pipefitting.
The best, on a planet of seven billion inhabitants? Take a bow. A low, deep bow.
“It’s funny,” muses Kelsey Serwa, “but in my eyes I’m still some little squirt […]
Olympic women’s ski cross champion Ashleigh McIvor may have retired, but the Canadian women still have weapons heading into the next Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
“Fierce,” is Kelsey Serwa’s description of the women’s team.
“We’ll be a force to be reckoned with for sure,” the reigning world champion said Thursday following training for the season’s first World Cup (CBC, CBCSports.ca […]
Weeks after an awkward landing in a race last January ripped apart her left knee, ski cross racer Kelsey Serwa received a short letter in the mail at her home in Kelowna.
It was in child’s writing, from eight-year-old Kaleb of Fernie.
“He said he was really sad that I blew my knee and that I couldn’t win any more medals,” […]
The first World Cup races of the 2012/2013 season are just days away. This saturday, December 8th, will mark the first World Cup race since Nik’s tragic accident last March. It’s been a struggle - losing such a close and inspirational friend but I feel that all of us Canadians want to perform our best in his honour. Both […]
Clothes, it’s said, make the man. They can also, in certain special cases, pay homage to a man, too.
“It’s a big day for us, unveiling these,” said Calgary’s Brady Leman, decked out in the Canadian Ski Cross team’s Nik Zoricic-inspired outfits on Monday at Canada Olympic Park. “A lot of people know the story by now, of how Nik […]
She’s an athlete with an international profile, but this Okanagan woman is most at home where she grew up, in the orchards of East Kelowna.
“Embrace being a woman, it’s a powerful thing. Be beautiful, be confident, be strong, be brilliant, be assertive….be you!”
She may be only 23 years old, but Canadian superstar ski cross racer, Kelsey Serwa, has collected […]
The return to snow protocol after my injury has now turned into a return to race protocol. The last two camps, one in Switzerland and one in Alberta, have been phenomenal in terms of progression and getting comfortable again on my boards. I have had zero complications with my knee thus far and am thrilled with the way it […]
I first started talking with Graham Jenkins a few months ago to ask permission if he could use one of my action photos. He wanted to surprise his daughter Hallie for her 10th birthday by having it blown-up, printed to vinyl and pasted on her wall. I sent him a few options not really understanding how the whole thing […]