Private School News

BMS skiers prepare for British Schoolboys International Races

Bedford Modern School’s Year 10 student, Edmund Fenton Fowler will be watching the action in the Winter Olympics closely next month. Ed spent last winter training with the prestigious Red Mountain Racers Ski Racing Academy in British Columbia and came home with a clutch of medals, including winning the 2009 British Columbia U15 Male Ski Cross Championship and reaching the quarter finals of the Western Canada U15 Male Ski Cross Championships.
However ski cross, a new sport in the Winter Olympics for the first time this year, was just a fun distraction for Ed who had never tried it before. Ed, whose favourite alpine skiing disciplines are Giant Slalom and Super G, trains locally at Xscape Milton Keynes with the Bedford Modern Ski Club and the SkiMK Race Team and in the Alps with a former England children’s team coach and selector and he has a busy schedule of competitions lined up this winter in Europe with the aim of qualifying for selection to the England Alpine Team.
Ed and his colleagues in the Bedford Modern Ski Team are heading for the mountains of Switzerland this weekend to compete in the British Schoolboys International Races in Meiringen. Ed will be racing in the English Championships in Italy over the half-term break hoping for some excellent results to lead into the British Championships in France in April.
Patrick Jerram, Director of Sport at Bedford Modern School said, “Edmund has worked really hard over the past 12 months which is starting to pay dividends. I am confident he will be able to transfer his recent good form into success both for the School next week and in his personal quest to make the national team. I wish him and all our excellent young skiers at BMS the best of luck in Meiringen next week.”

Photo: Edmund Fenton Fowler in action in Canada doing speed training