Meet The Head Coach!
I feel im the luckiest person on the planet to be doing a job I love so much! Skiing has always been my passion and this passion seems to be growing more every year. Even though my main focus are my athletes , there is still nothing more I love doing than skiing fresh pow in the backcountry with my friends. However I have fully dedicated myself to this job as head coach and manager for the British Freeski team and the biggest reason for this is I truly believe 101% in my athletes and what they are capable of! Over the last couple of years we have shown the ski industry that some of the worlds best Freeskier’s are from the UK, now its time to show the world!
Pat Sharples, TeamGB Freeski Head Coach & Manager
Biography
Pat has been involved in the British ski industry for many years and has competed in lots of different ski disciplines including Alpine where he was on the British childrens ski team, Moguls where he was selected as the England ski team captain and then moved into Freeskiing which he was one of the leading British figures and competed in Big Air, slopestyle, Halfpipe, Ski cross as well as Big mountain Freeride events.
Hes main passion in his career has been coaching and developing athletes from grass roots right up to World class athletes and he has been award coach of the year for the last 2 years by Snowsports England. Pat is also the first ever official and full time British freeski coach and has travelled with his athletes to events such as X Games, World championships, the first ever Youth Olympic Games and many more.
Career Highlights
Former British children’s ski team member
Former England Freestyle ski team member
Selected as England Freestyle ski team captain
Former European amateur mogul champion
Former England moguls champion
Competed on the World Freeride world tour
Coaching Career Highlights
2011 – Coach of the year award – Snowsports England
2012 – Coach of the year award – Snowsports England
Head Basi Freeski tutor & examiner – www.basi.org.uk
Head Snowsport England Freeski tutor & examiner – www.freestylesnowsports.co.uk
Co created the British Freeski camps – www.britishfreeskicamps.com
Creator of the Salomon Grom camps – www.salomongromcamps.co.uk
2011 to current – Selected as the British Freeski head coach
2012 – Youth Olympic freestyle ski & snowboard coach
