Local 12-year-old twins Jarra and Kai Millis have just qualified for the National Interschool Snowboard Championships.
Last week the boys returned to Perisher to compete in the NSW Interschool State Championships, representing Byron Bay Public School.
They were up against tough competitors, particularly those from Sydney’s private schools and the Snowy Mountains local schools where kids train all season and have technical ‘race boards’, mother Sorrell Millis said.
At the state event the boys raced hard and as a team and achieved fourth place in the Boardercross event and fifth place in the Giant Slalom.
They also achieved top-15 placings as individuals in both events.
‘In the GS event they were only 0.5 seconds slower than the bronze medalists and that time is split over four races, so they were just 0.125 seconds per race behind the best,’ Sorrell said.
The boys now have their sights set on competing at the Nationals at Mount Buller from September 7.
To achieve this they have started fundraising to cover the competition costs, and will be selling seafood raffle tickets at Shaz ’n’ Baz in Suffolk or the Suffolk Park Hotel.
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