Despite three times having her first event delayed, Jessica Anderson, 8, started the competitive ski season in style while racing in the Inter-Schools Challenge in Les Houches, Chamonix in March and carried her form on throughout the summer.

Representing Warmington Primary School, Jessica, competing in the Mini 1 category, achieved first position in both the Slalom and the Giant Slalom, whilst setting the fastest times for both the girls’ and boys’ competition. After this great start Jessica moved on in early April to Meribel, for the British Land Ski Championships, competing in the Giant Slalom and the Combined. She took the bronze medal in both events, progressing from 5th in the same competition last year. For Jessica the ski season never stops and despite the fact that the season was over in the Alps, she continued throughout the summer, competing in the Xscape Race Series in Milton Keynes, Castleford and Glasgow.

As if being the Overall Series Champion in these events wasn’t enough, she was also the only person to win every race in their age group. She continued to impress in her last race of the summer, winning her category at the British Indoor Championships.

Jessica commented on her successful summer saying, “I have had a great indoor season this year as I stepped up to the next age group, so to be the only competitor in the whole Xscape Series to win all five races in their age group was brilliant. Then to finish the season by winning the British Indoor Championship was fantastic.”

Jessica started skiing in La Plagne, France, at the age of two and from that point she has rapidly improved ahead of her age group. At the age of six she was competing with twelve year olds in slaloms when most of her peers would only be starting out in ski school. When not in the Alps Jessica skis in Milton Keynes for the Xscape Race Team. The Sno!Zone is a good place for a budding skier to train; the real snow slope is the longest in the country, at 170m with 1500 tonnes of real snow.