{"id":63255,"date":"2026-03-22T19:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63255"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:02:53","slug":"fall-river-snowboarder-leslie-earns-gold-bronze-in-jr-nationals-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63255","title":{"rendered":"Fall River snowboarder Leslie earns gold, bronze in Jr Nationals debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56557&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HORSESHOE VALLEY RESORT, ONT.:<\/strong> A Fall River snowboarder is returning from a national competition in Ontario with some extra hardware to show off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sammie Leslie competed at the Snowboard Canada&#8217;s Jr. Nationals at Horseshoe Valley Resort in Ontrario last week. The event ran March 15-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leslie, a member of the Ski Martock snowboard team, made her debut at Jr. Nationals in two events. She competed in Rail Jam and Slopestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Rail Jam, Leslie, a Grade 9 student at Lockview High, grabbed the gold medal as the best in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in Slopestyle she earned the bronze medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56560&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of photos from Sammie in competition action that were sent to us here at The Laker News:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5627-1024x729.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63257\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4046822742474916;width:587px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sammie does a trick during the competition. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5622-1024x712.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63256\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4381920272938136;width:593px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sammie Leslie gets some air during the jr nats competition. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56511&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56191&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HORSESHOE VALLEY RESORT, ONT.: A Fall River snowboarder is returning from a national competition in Ontario with some extra hardware to show off. Sammie Leslie competed at the Snowboard Canada&#8217;s Jr. Nationals at Horseshoe Valley Resort in Ontrario last week. The event ran March 15-17. Leslie, a member of the Ski Martock snowboard team, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2,10608,5,10609,10610,10611,10612,10613,10614],"class_list":["post-63255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-jr-nationals","tag-lockview-high","tag-rail-jam","tag-samantha-leslie","tag-sammie-leslie","tag-slopestyle","tag-snowboard","tag-snowboard-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}