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Resilient Frisch wins 4th national title
 As the first man down the hill in Sunday's super-G, Jeffrey Frisch threw caution to the wind and charged down the course to claim his fourth national title at the GMC Canadian Championships. Frisch took top honours ahead of Dustin Cook and Jan Hudec.
·Erik Read, 6th, is top junior
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Gagnon confirms super-combi dominance
 Marie-Michèle Gagnon completed a hat trick of national super-combined titles Sunday with a dominant performance at the GMC Canadian Championships. The 21-year-old from Lac-Etchemin, Que., finished almost 1.5 seconds ahead of her nearest rival with a combined time of 1 minute, 40.52 seconds in Nakiska, Alta.
·Madison Irwin 2nd, top junior
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Janyk, Halbert scorch Nakiska for DH crowns
 Britt Janyk picked up her 14th national title by winning the women's downhill at the GMC Canadian Championships on Saturday, while Kelby Halbert nabbed national title No. 1 in the men's race.
·Stevens 2nd, Freeman 3rd
·Nella, Hudec, Thomsen trail Halbert
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Shouldice, finally, gets national aerials title
 Canadians national aerials team members Warren Shouldice and Sabrina Guerin earned their first Canadian titles at the Canada Post Nationals on Saturday.
·Jonathan Vellner, Travis Gerrits also podium
·Maude Potvin-Gilbert takes women's silver
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Richards, Kingsbury rule moguls roosts
 In Canada Post National Championships moguls action, Kristi Richards from Summerland, B.C., was crowned Canadian champion for the second year in a row. On the men's side, Mikael Kingsbury earned the prestigious national championship title.
·Dufour-Lapointe sisters take silver, bronze
·Hicks, Pouliot-Cavanagh also podium
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Justine wins sister showdown, claims gold
 Montreal's Justine Dufour-Lapointe earned the dual moguls national championship by beating both of her older sisters Sunday at the Canadian freestyle ski championships. The 2011 FIS Rookie of the Year beat sister Maxime in the quarterfinals, then bested teammate Beatrice Bilodeau in the semifinals to meet up with sister Chloe in the finals.
·Kingsbury tops in men's dual moguls
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Riml leaves Alpine Canada to rejoin USSA
 Athletic director Patrick Riml is leaving Alpine Canada to return to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, ACA President Max Gartner confirmed Friday. Riml came to Alpine Canada from the USSA prior to the start of the 2008-09 season and leaves on a high, only a few weeks after Erik Guay's world championship-winning downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
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Maltais wraps up snowboardcross crystal
 Canadian snowboarder Dominique Maltais of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec, finished fourth Thursday in the snowboardcross race in Arosa, Switzerland, the sixth stop on the 2011 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup tour, and in doing so captured the prestigious crystal globe given to the athlete with the most accumulated points in the discipline over the entire season.
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