My Story

On skis when I was 4, on a snowboard when i was 10. I think this was in Les Arcs, My first snowboard competition was the 1996 Brits at Meribel, France. Things started to get good when I came 3rd overall at the 1998 Brits in Saas Fee.

Had a great time when I went as part of the GBR Youth Olympic Team to Vuokatti, Finland, 2001. That was my first international snowboardcross event. It was super fun being there in a team with other sports too. I remember Finland as being just snow and trees and wearing 2 jackets a lot of the time because it was so cold...

..then I went to Canada - where it is really cold - minus 35 degrees Celsius, lucky for me Thaw has sponsored me for ages with thermal underwear - and I needed it!! Got to travel around Canada and the US a lot sometimes it was interesting but usually it was just miles and miles and miles of roads. We often had to have one of us on 'Moose watch' so we didn't run over any wild animals!

I went to Canada because that's where my coach Craig Smith was, and he ran a team with a lot of girls my age. There just wasn't anything like that in the UK at the time. It was a bit scary at first as I didn't know anyone but Canadians are all really friendly and I've made some great friends there. Of course they all thought I talked funny - but now at home all my friends, here, think I talk funny - sometimes you just can't win!!

So we were all based in France last season and Switzerland this season. It was nice coming back to warm Europe after the cold of Canada. We spent most of last summer in Saas Fee, Switzerland training on the glacier there.

Also I get to go home occasionally, it's such a contrast to being in the mountains - I just love the green-ness of the Isle of Man. And of course I get to see my family and the dog and cat and fish and my friends so I can catch up on all the 'skeet' (that's what the Manx people call news/gossip).

So that's me, I do a lot of competitions, you can read about them on the results page.

Please come and see me again soon,

Thanks, Zoë