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Teen Enjoys Snowboard Success

Local teenager Bonnie Williams has just become the champion of the Perisher snowboarding competition, which takes place every year in August. Bonnie, who has been a member of the Snow Mountain Local Club for the last two years, took part in the national event at just 14 years and three months. She was competing against much older girls, who are among the best in the country.

But that isn’t all that this young girl has achieved. At the age of ten, she was signed up by the sportswear designer label, Booyong. ‘That was really important,’ she says. ‘After that, I was certain that I could be really good because people outside my family believed in me. It was fantastic.’ Her parents, Johnny and Kath, who live in the Snowy Mountains, own a shop that sells new sports equipment. Bonnie started snowboarding at the age of four, after her father gave her a snowboard.

‘I let her watch her older brother, who never took snowboarding very seriously! Bonnie knew just what to do. She had real talent from the start!’ her proud father Johnny told the Snowy Gazette. But Bonnie has worked hard. She began with lessons from local snowboard instructor, Jim Higgins. Then, two years ago, international coach Millie Furilly started working with Bonnie and was much more demanding of her, both in the amount of training they did and in improving her technique. “There were days when it was so hard to keep going, you know, I was so tired and so cold. But I’m so grateful to Millie!’

Bonnie has also competed in the USA, including in a competition in Copper Mountain, Colorado where she finished in first place. We asked her how she managed that, because there is a lot of strong competition in the States. “I know, there are a lot of really good boarders out there. I don’t know how I did it. I just always try my best!’ she told us.

Bonnie attends her local school, but aims to get a grant to go to the Australian Institute of Sport. ‘I dream of going to the Winter Olympics and the X-trail Jam, an Asian competition held in Japan. It’s really hard, but I believe that if you want something like that then you’ve got to go for it. I can definitely see myself as a champion!’ We think she already is a champion. Well done, Bonnie!

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Bonnie joined the Snow Mountain Local Club three years ago.

Bonnie earned lots of money signing a contract with the sportswear designer.

Bonnie's parents sell medical equipment.

Bonnie wants to take part in the Winter Olympics and the X-trail Jam.

Bonnie didn’t like her international coach because she made Bonnie train a lot.

There were hundreds of sportsmen who took part in a competition in Copper Mountain.

The Perisher snowboarding competition is an annual event.