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AAP Carding Guide
Sport Canada Athlete Assistance Program — plain-language explainer
This page walks athletes, coaches and parents through how Canada Snowboard nominates athletes for federal AAP funding: who's eligible, how the priority tiers work, and how the final ranking order is decided. It summarizes the official Selection Protocol — when in doubt, the source document and the General Selection Policy (linked below) govern.
Senior International & National
Development
Nominations are made by the Nomination Committee: the HPP Directors (Speed, and Park & Pipe) and the HPP Coordinator.
Are you eligible?
Before any result counts toward carding, an athlete has to clear these basics.
Results window: July 1, 2026 – May 31, 2027
Only individual results from that window count — except SR2 carding, which looks at the previous (2025–26) Olympic-season results instead. Eligible events: Para Snowboardcross, Para Banked Slalom, Parallel Giant Slalom, Halfpipe, Slopestyle, Big Air, Snowboardcross and Freeride.
- Team event results do not count toward any carding nomination.
- PSL (Parallel Slalom) results only count toward Senior National and Development criteria — not SR1/SR2.
You're on the 2027–28 HPP roster
You must be named to the Canada Snowboard High Performance Program — either the National Team or the NextGen Team — and meet the General Selection Policy (GSP). Discipline-specific HPP Selection Protocols are posted in the Document Centre at canadasnowboard.ca.
What happens after you're nominated
- Complete the AAP Application Form
- Sign the Canada Snowboard Athlete Agreement for the year
- Sign the UCCMS Informed Consent Form (maltreatment-prevention code)
- Complete Sport Integrity Canada's True Sport Clean anti-doping course
How the card tiers work
Every card level has a ranked list of "priorities." Priority 1 is filled first; leftover cards flow down to Priority 2, then 3, and so on. Switch below to see the Olympic or Paralympic criteria.
Senior International — SR1 & SR2
SR1
SR2
Senior National — SR
Priority 1
B. Named to the HPP and meet the "Health-Related Curtailment of Activities" criteria, having been carded the prior cycle at SR2 or SR.
Priority 2
Development — D
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 3
Priority 4
Senior International — SR1 & SR2
SR1
SR2
Senior National — SR
Priority 1
B. Named to the HPP and meet the Health-Related Curtailment criteria, carded the prior cycle at SR2 or SR.
Priority 2
Priority 3
Development — D
Priority 1
Priority 2
How the final ranking order works
Meeting a priority criterion gets you in line — your position within that line is set by your Athlete Points.
ABuilding the Athlete Points Ranking
Canada Snowboard ranks Olympic and Paralympic athletes separately. Within each, every eligible athlete is placed on one cross-discipline list using the same FIS points scale (1000 for 1st, 900 for 2nd, etc.), pulled from the FIS Points List (Speed), the World Snowboard Points List (WSPL), the FIS Points List (Park & Pipe), and the Freeride World Tour ranking.
- Counts: FIS World Cup+ events, non-FIS FWT events, and 800+ WSPL-point events.
- Your best two results are averaged, the same method FIS itself uses.
- Park & Pipe Continental Cup events (including Rev Tour and Air Nation) use their assigned FIS Points.
- Freeride Challenger-only results are manually scored on the 260-point event scale.
*Slopestyle and Big Air count as one discipline for ranking — only Slopestyle results are used.
BOrder the cards get awarded in
Up to 2 Development cards go to the highest-ranked eligible athlete in each of: Slopestyle, Halfpipe, Alpine, Snowboardcross.
Up to 1 Development card goes to the highest-ranked eligible athlete in each of: Para, Freeride.
All remaining cards are distributed by Carding Level (SR1 → SR2 → SR → D), then by Priority # within that level, then by Athlete Points ranking within that priority — filling each group completely before moving to the next.
Paralympic cards only go to athletes competing in Paralympic-program events, and unused funds cannot move between the Olympic and Paralympic allocations. An athlete also needs at least 4 months of carding support remaining in the year to be nominated.
Good to know
A few extra rules that shape who's eligible for which card, over time.
5-year cap on Senior National (SR) carding+
An athlete can be carded at the Senior National (SR) level for a maximum of 5 years under national criteria. Years carded at SR1, SR2, Development, or on an injury card do not count toward that cap.
Development card age & prior-carding limits+
- Athletes carded at a Senior level (SR1, SR2, SR, C1) for 2+ carding cycles are no longer Development-eligible — unless that carding happened at the FIS Junior age category, or in a different discipline/sport.
- PSL, PGS & SBX: must be under 25 as of December 31, 2027.
- HP, SBS & BA: must be under 23 as of December 31, 2027.
Health-related curtailment (injury) carding+
A 2026–27 carded athlete who falls short of renewal standards because of a documented health reason (pregnancy, illness, injury) or a major unforeseen circumstance (e.g. a global pandemic) may be considered for re-nomination at the same card level, if:
- They missed 15%+ of planned events from their Individual Performance Plan, and
- They did not start in 8 or more events (DNF/DSQ count as a start; DNS does not), and
- They completed all required Canada Snowboard training & rehab.
Key terms
Approved by Tyler Ashbee (High Performance Director, Style Disciplines) and Kim Krahulec (High Performance Director, Speed Disciplines). Effective July 15, 2026. This page is a plain-language summary of the "Selection Protocol — AAP" Carding Nomination Eligibility and Criteria Sheet for informational purposes; the official document and the GSP govern in any case of discrepancy.
