Nottingham snowsports athletes take to the dryslopes for BUDS 2024

Taking place at Midlothian Snowsports Centre, the longest dry slope in the UK, sixteen competitors from Nottingham entered both the freestyle and racing categories, including 2023 BUCS medallists Ebba Cotton and Hermione Gray.

This year, the freestyle teams partook in both Big Air and Slopestyle, where the University of Nottingham came home with a gold in snowboarding Big Air, as well as a silver and bronze in snowboarding Slopestyle. It would be Ebba and Hermione taking home the hardware in 2024 with Ebba Cotton winning the snowboard Big Air BUCS title, whilst finishing just behind her team mate in third place in the Slopestyle, as Hermione claimed silver. 

The ski category also had a 5th place for Nottingham's Anna Morgan in the slalom and a 6th place finish in the Ski Big Air category for Olli Crichard. The snowboard duals team of Hermione Gray, Ebba Cotton, Sam Massey, and Dan Searle also placed 4th, whilst the ski duals 1s and 2s placed in the top 30.

Nottingham’s race captain, Els Eaves, reflected on the performances by saying "I am incredibly proud of the race team for achieving some brilliant results despite the challenging conditions", whilst Rory Tann, freestyle captain, mentioned how incredible the standard of tricks in the freestyle was. The very cold and windy weekend didn’t stop Nottingham from bringing back a plethora of excellent results.

We would like to congratulate everyone involved in the success of University of Nottingham athletes at the 2024 British University Dryslope Snowsports Championships.

For a full rundown of the results from the event, please click here.

Next up for the University of Nottingham Snowsports club will be BUISC (British University Indoor Snowsports championships), which will be held at the beginning of next term. The team are said to be practicing hard to try and achieve the same levels of success as last year.

You can keep up to date with the University of Nottingham Snowsports club by following them on social media here.

Notes for editors

University of Nottingham are the top UK University for team sport, placing 2nd in the overall British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings in the 2023/24 season. For more information on our performance sport offer, including scholarships and support for student athletes, please click here.