Milan Arsovski

Milan is very excited to join our team at the academy he is a young man who already has gained a wealth of race coaching experience whilst working for the Macedonia National team over the last 7 years, he has coached at world cup and Olympic level, Milan likes to work hard and to meet new people so expect to put a lot of hard work in when you are training at the academy. Milan is well educated and is eager to learn more about the British setup and he is looking forward to working with and helping our athletes.

1993 - 1997 Member of the National Alpine ski team, category children, 3 times national champion
1997 - 2001 Member of the National Alpine ski team, category juniors, 2 times national champion
2002 - Coach in the Ski Club "RABOTNICKI" - Skopje, category Children
2002 - 2003 Coach of the National Alpine ski team, category Children
2003 - 2007 Ass. Coach of the National Alpine ski team, category juniors

Sports Education
2000 - 2006 Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University of St. Cyril and Methodius - Skopje
1996 - 2000 Metodi Mitevski - Brico, Sports High School, Skopje#

Nicola Pancevski

Nicola is an all round sports enthusiast who as well as being an experienced ski coach is a qualified swimming instructor and lifeguard. Nicola has spent the last two years as a race coach training children and junior athletes at the "Belo Mece", race club in Macedonia.

When not being on the mountain skiing he also enjoys water skiing and is a qualified speedboat driver. Nicola also has a basic knowledge in:
Windsurfing, Kayak and enjoys all sport activities and classes skating among his hobbies. He is an allround sports man who enjoys all speed events.

Nicola has excellent organisation skills, and has helped in organising and running many ski events inclduing; the Humanitarian Race, Mavrovo, the "Sarplaninski Cup", Popova Sapka the "Europa Snowboard Cup", Mavrovo, and the Ohrid swimming marathon.

Nicola was educated at the Faculty for Physical education and Sports, Skopje.

Melissa Presslaber

Melissa is our first Austrian female race coach who will be joining us on a part time basis and will be a big plus to the academy.

Melissa has traveled extensively and has many years experience of Alpine race coaching and has a varied career resulting in many professional qualifications and life experiences, far to numerous to list here. She has attained the highest qualification for a ski coach in Austria. Melissa grew up in the montains and was on skies from the age of two, her early years of ski racing was in the Tyrolean Alps. She has some experience coaching with the Austrian ski team and the Carinthian Ski team over the years. Unfortunately for us Melissa has returned once more to University and therefore can only work part time this season. However we are hoping to persuade her to spend as much of her free time at the Academy as possible and she will also be with us at the English and British Championships supporting and encouraging our athletes to attain top results. Melissa is looking forward to working at BARA and says "It's great to work with kids and to have the possibility to give them directions to become a good skier and ski racer"

2006 Innsbruck Sports Academy Ski coach (C-Trainer)
2005 Theory, kinematics, body workout, Alpine training coach, St. Christoph, Arlberg, Ski coach SC Lienz . TSU Matrei
2004 National Coach Education, BAFL Innsbruck
2003 Coach Education for children and youth ski racing, BAFL Graz
2002 Snow sport teacher, Tiroler ski teacher association
2001 Ski-instructor education, 1st level, Hintertux, TSLV
2000 University Sports Center, Obergurgl
Languages: Fluent in German / English, and Basic in Italian,
Other Interests include: Skiing, Mountain bike/Race bike, Tennis, Climbing, Inline skating

Rebecca O'Neill

Experienced racer who is still currently competing, Becky has won many British national championships in her career to date on both snow and plastic. Becky is currently ranked 5th in Great Britain in the Super G discipline, 7th in Giant Slalom and 8th in Downhill.

Becky is still competing and will be helping the academy out during the winter season, in her spare time in between the 30 to 40 races she competes in every year, as well as coaching on our summer camps. She is a qualified coach having optained her Alpine Performance Coaching qualification - APC 1 in 2006. Becky who is 20 years of age is currently our youngest coach but more than makes up for that by having "her finger on the pulse" in the ski racing world as a current competitior.

We are currently interviewing for part time coaching staff for the 2007 and 2008 season. We are looking to recruit coaches that will add further technical expertise to our team as well as assistant coaches to assist our main coaching team. Any interested party should email there CV to training@alpine-racing.co.uk. Applicants are advised that travel to FIS races within Europe will be an essential part of the job and a clean driving licence is essential.

Our aim is to combine philosophies and technical skills to bring to our athletes a high level quality of professional training. Not just in terms of on the hill training and fitness programs but also in terms of motivation and confidence building.