KAMLOOPS – TRU business student Carly Thorp had an outstanding race at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, the site of the year’s 3rd snowboard cross race for the BC Snowboard team on the Canadian Open Snowboard Tour (Nor-Am Tour), on Sunday, Jan. 28.

Carly Thorp had the top result on the BC team, placing 4th, her best finish yet as a FIS racer (open-age international points system) in the Women’s Snowboard cross event. Complete results for this race can be found at: http://www.csf.ca/cost/sbx-tremblant-results.php

The TRU Ambassador Entrance Award winner from Nakusp, who has been a top scholar-athlete since high school, is back in class this week at TRU. She will head for Big White in Kelowna on Feb. 4 for another BC Snowboard Association race before she represents BC in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding event at the Canada Winter Games, to be held in Whitehorse, Yukon, Feb. 24 through Mar. 10, when snowboarding will be debuting as a demonstration sport.

For a photo of Carly snowboarding: http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h6/Psukan/snowboard_prov.jpg

For more information, please contact Carly Thorp at (250) 377-0732 or by email.