Adventure Tourism Management students Mitchey Greig (skier cross and giant slalom) and Sarah Murphy (gravity cross board and cross country skiing) will be lining up with Giles Cooper (gravity cross board and board GS), Mark Jury (gravity cross ski and GS ski), Rhys Cochrane (gravity cross board and board GS) and Charmaine Fitton (gravity cross ski and ski GS).
The team will be managed by Fiona Boyer, a former New Zealand national ski racer and NZSIA Demo team member, who is now the training and development manager at QRC.
Ms Boyer competed in the New Zealand Uni Games in 1986 and qualified for the World Uni Games in the Czech Republic the following year, competing in the giant slalom and slalom.
"It was definitely one of the highlights of my skiing career, especially as at that time we were travelling behind the Iron Curtain," she said.
The entire team is studying for an adventure tourism management diploma.
Ms Boyer said the Uni Snow Games, which started at Treble Cone on Sunday and run until Friday with races at Cardrona, Snow Park and Snow Farm, were a "fantastic opportunity" for the QRC team.
"QRC's delighted to be able to give students like Mitchey and Sarah the chance to pursue their Olympic and other sporting goals while gaining a qualification they can put to good use anywhere in the world.
"We're in a unique position here in Queenstown because there's no other university or college anywhere in New Zealand that has a snowsports athletes training ground so close to where they live and study."
Greig (21) said the QRC course enabled her to continue training at Coronet Peak while providing her with an education and learning the skills to achieve her goals.
"Ultimately, I want to start my own tourism business and attending QRC means I can work towards that while also training to compete in the Sochi 2014 Olympics in Russia," she said.
Murphy (22), who is half-Canadian, competes in the biathlon which combines cross-country skiing and shooting.
She had a 10-year plan which includes the 2014 Olympics and ultimately running her own tourism business.
"As a full-time athlete, in the past I haven't had much time to study. However, the programme at QRC allows me to combine my ongoing training with studies.
"Queenstown is awesome and QRC is a great place to study for me," she said.
