Some familiar names earned the title of Yukon champion at the territorial snowboard championships last weekend.

Canada Winter Games teammates Tim Schirmer and Crystal Legoffe claimed gold in the open divisions of the slopestyle championships held Saturday, with fellow teammate Ethan Davy taking gold in boys 13-14.

Sammy Mather claimed gold in the U12 division, while Kyle Koski took gold as the sole competitor in the boys 15-16 division.

“In the older categories, these were the people that dominated all season,” said Snowboard Yukon coach Mary Binsted, who noted Tyler Nichol finished third in the open category.

Nichol has received rave reviews for his construction of the revamped terrain park on the slopes of Mt. Sima.

Slopestyle is a freestyle event that is judged. Competitors take runs through the terrain park and complete tricks on the rails and available jumps.

“The real surprise was the U12 category,” said Binsted. “The skill level that those kids are displaying ... they were hitting all the same features as the people in the open category.”

Binsted said the fact that the ski hill has solidified itself financially has had a “direct impact” on participation numbers among younger athletes.

Furthermore, she believes the low amount of participants in the 15-16 age group is a result of Sima’s instability from years ago.

The slopestyle competition was followed by Sunday’s snowboardcross championships, which saw Gabe Rivest and Mackenzie Davy snatch the open titles.

The snowboardcross event is a race with winners determined by speed. A number of snowboarders race down the hill at one time – typically six – but just four at the Yukon championships.

Gisli Balzer won the masters division, Brody Ryckman and Asher Brault took the boys 15-16 and 13-14 titles, respectively.

Syth Charchun and Riley Boland won the U12 divisions.

The skiercross championships also went Sunday, with Isabelle Gagnon and Sam Reimer claiming the open categories.

Austin Shaw took the boys 13-14 division, while Sullivan Bond and Luanda Pronovost took their respective U12 categories.

Binsted said the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George gave her team a goal to chase after this season.

“It meant that there was a renewed commitment to training,” she said, including trampoline, dryland training and yoga.

“The Canada Games is the definitely the highest level of competition that we send athletes to. They’re competing against the top two athletes from each of the provinces and territories.”

Binsted said she was impressed with the amount of participation Team Yukon received from female snowboarders in the territory.

“We actually had more women vying for spots on that team than men, which is really unusual for the sport of snowboarding and pretty new for us,” she said. “Their accomplishments were really remarkable as well.”

Legoffe was joined by Lara Bellon, Haylie Grant and Reanna Newsome at the multi-sport national event.

Despite being closed for the season to the public, Mount Sima will host several end-of-year weekend events this month.

Yukon Yamaha will host the Uphill Challenge on Saturday, and Snowboard Yukon will hold a rail jam April 25.

“We’ve got a spring terrain park on the bunny hill,” said Cindy Chandler, general manager of Mount Sima.

“We’ll have it open this weekend, and as long the snow stays, we’ll have it the following weekend on the 25th, 26th.”