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Sam Liggins – Ski Trainer

Works for: Rookie Academy My ski career started as a young kid at Mt ruapehu thanks to my father who was a keen skier in his own right, it only needed a good looking forcast to net the week off school and off we would go. This soon progressed to us road tripping...

Nick Browett – Ski Trainer

Works for: Rookie Academy & Cardrona Hailing from the greatest city in the world—Auckland—Nick left it all behind and moved south to Wānaka to pursue a career as a ski instructor. What began as a way to see the world and ski mountains he couldn’t afford on a...

Mereana Wilkie – Ski Trainer

Works for: NZSIA Mereana grew up skiing the (sometimes) sunshine filled slopes of Mt. Ruapehu. She started ski instructing after a futile year of law school and spent the next 10 years working in New Zealand, Canada and Japan. She became an examiner in 2020 and has...

Lena May Peraudo

Works for: Rookie Academy – Treble Cone Lena-May is an Italian Maestra di Sci, NZSIA Examiner, and member of the NZ Tech Team with over 20 years of international experience in ski racing and instructor development. She brings a strong technical foundation and a...

Kirsty Oakes – Ski Trainer

Works for: Cardrona Treble Cone Kirsty is a Kiwi who learned to ski when she was 4, up on the old row ropes of Whakapapa. She and her family did regular ‘mountain missions’ as kid, and that’s where she caught the ski bug. After uni she took a year...

Felix Lempriere – Ski Trainer

Works at: Cardrona / Treble Cone Felix is a New Zealander who was raised on the green rolling farmland of the North Island. Riding horses, fixing fences, shearing sheep and ploughing the land behind the wheel of a red tractor were days spent. He is a skier, a farmer...