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Hotham Park Team

The 2010 À La Carte in the Park Series saw us crown four of Hotham's best and most talented riders. Checkout their bios below and keep your eyes peeled for them in the Park or competing in this years À La Carte in the Park Series.

Hannah Studd

Hometown: Jan Juc, VIC
Years Riding: 8
Stance/Set up: Natural +15, -15
Favourite Event Discipline: Slopestyle
Favourite Terrain: Steep pow
Favourtie Features: Step up jumps
Tunes to shred to: Hip Hop and songs from snowboard DVD's and City Wide Krew!
Heroes: Pat Mullins
Advice & Tips: Have fun and ride with ya mates - the rest will come
Goals: Keep riding and learning new stuff and keep getting stoaked! More tricks and go bigger...and become a millionaire
Best day in the snow ever: Bluebird powder day with all the crew, freshies all morning then a sunny fun park arvo topped off with good apres session in the sun. yewww!
Why do you ride Hotham: Hotham has wicked terrain and all my mates are here, plus I love my bosses and my job
When the slopes close at Hotham where can you be found: The General on the dancefloor - always


Wilding 'Wildman' Richardson

Hometown: Swan Reach, VIC
Years Riding: 3.5
Stance/Setup: (Natural) Regular +18 - 15
Favourite Tricks: Any I can do and backside 540 melon grab - still working on that one!
Favourite Terrain: Gullies with natural hits - Race Gully, Gunbarrel, Canyon
Favourite Features: It would be great to try a pipe! Hotham park crew build awesome stuff - always exciting
Favourite Food: Tacos and Butter Chicken
Heroes: Torstein Horgmo & Mark Cowley - he's legendary at Hotham
Goals: Be a pro snowboarder and make it to the X-Games
Advice & Tips: Get back on the horse
Why do you ride Hotham: Hotham has it all. Best snow, best terrain, best village life and best people. I moved from QLD in 2007 just to ride Hotham -I love it!
When the slopes close in Hotham where can you be found: Back in Swan Reach; on the trampoline or in my tinny on the beautiful Gippsland Lakes.


Allie Coates

Hometown: Warrandyte, Melbourne
Years Riding: 11
Stance/Setup: Regular
Favourite Event Discipline: Rails
Favourite Tricks: Back 180, backside spin Japans, Back lips, Bluntslides
Favourite Features: Down flat down rails
Favourite Food: Killer Pythons
Goals: Nail a few tricks every season and have fun riding
Best day on snow ever: It was a Wednesday 
When the slopes close in Hotham where can you be found: Melbourne for a couple of months then Niseko Japan


Nick Gray

Hometown: Maffra, VIC
Years Riding: 5
Stance/Setup: Goofy
Favourite Event Discipline: Slopestyle
Favourite Tricks: Front board
Favourite Features: Rails
Hobbies: Snowboarding, motorcross, mountainbiking, wakeboarding
Goals: To keep having fun and progress my riding
Accomplishments: I won the 2009 Hotham A La Carte in the Park Series
Advice & Tips: Keep having fun
Why do you ride at Hotham: The terrain is sick and the people are rad
When the slopes close in Hotham where can you be found: Chillin in Maffra

 

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