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As a toddler at the Kimberley Ski Club, Rebecca Bermel strapped on her first skis at age two and started competitive racing at eight. Now 15, Rebecca was selected to join a high-performance summer and fall training program and spends one-third of her school year racing and training.

Promising winter athletes such as Rebecca are supported through a program called Game Plan Winter BC, funded by 2010 Legacies Now and the Province of British Columbia. Rebecca, a 2018 hopeful, is in Game Plan BC’s Best-to-Best (B2B) development program for 14-to-16 year olds.

B2B has given Rebecca the chance to attend high-caliber training camps with top provincial athletes. This year, she went to three dry-land camps and four snow camps to improve her technique.

“All the best girls and guys in B.C. train at camp,” said Rebecca. “You watch them and push yourself because you want to be as good as them. You try to get a visual image of what they’re doing that works.”

When B.C. won the bid to host the 2010 Winter Games, the Province of British Columbia and 2010 Legacies Now launched Game Plan to prepare winter athletes in 17 sports. The goal: use this investment in winter sport to see more B.C. athletes on national and Olympic teams, and on the medal podium in 2010 and beyond.

Canadian Sport Centre Pacific, which delivers high-performance sport programs, runs Game Plan and works closely with its partners to ensure the investment supports top-level provincial athletes, as well as up-and-coming athletes such as Rebecca. Since 2003, Game Plan has invested $6.3 million to support training and competition for more than 400 athletes.

In alpine skiing, funding has opened up access to high-performance coaches, sport experts for dry-land training, and paid for transportation costs and lift tickets—all significant factors to enhance training. Rebecca will begin to race at an international level through the Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS) in Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super G. She hopes that in the next 10 years she will make it onto Canada’s Alpine Ski Team and expects her experience through Game Plan will help her reach her goal.