Mulmur snowboarder competes at Canada Winter Games

Snowboarder Lukas Schlums will represent Ontario at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C.

Schlums, 16, is set to hit the slopes Feb. 27 in the slopestyle competition.

He earned a spot on the team after first place finishes last year at the Ontario Provincial Championships Slopestyle Juniors, Beaver Valley Park Brawl Slopestyle Juniors and the Horseshoe Valley Open – Big Air AM.

In slopestyle, competitors snowboard a course while navigating a number of obstacles including jumps and rails.

Schlums, a Mulmur resident and Grade 10 student at Centre Dufferin High School in Shelburne, is just recovering from a broken collarbone.

He has been off the slopes for two months and had his first training session on Feb. 14.

He trains with Icarus Shreducation and is the son of Debbie Ebanks Schlums, and Dirk Schlums.

Schlums began skateboarding as a child, with his father. Having just moved from Switzerland, where he was born, father and son took to a hill on a golf course near their home in Guelph.

He started competing seriously last year, winning the provincial title and earning a spot on the provincial team.