April 4, 2014 (Whistler, BC) - Andrew Matthew's competitive season wrapped up last week with a great event and a strong performance! Matthews finished off his fourth competition in sixteen days with the Dew Tour Am Series - a new event on the TTR World Snowboard Tour. The course, which was at Sun Peaks, was challenging with three jumps and three rail features.

Matthews' qualified for the finals in 2nd place by sticking with the same strategy as Nationals - landing a less difficult run very well. In the finals he was up against 10 invited riders as well as 9 others who made it through the qualifiers. Despite the devil on Matthew's shoulder telling him "try your hardest tricks in finals! Go for the win!" he was fortunate to have his coach Joe reassuring him again that doing easier tricks is perfectly fine when you do them really well. When Matthews landed his second run really clean he knew they made the right decision. His run scored him ahead of some really talented riders including a couple guys on the National Development Team! Good enough for 5th place.

Matthews' congratulates (current and former members of his snowboard club respectively) Molly Milligan as well as Darcy Sharpe for placing first! Another club member Anthony Stefanizzi place just ahead of Matthews in 4th place. Matthews stated that he has "to give credit to my coach Joe helping us do so well this year. The results speak to Joe's ability as a coach as well as his longterm strategy paying off".

Next up for Matthews is to take advantage of the great spring snowboarding conditions and refocus on his progression, "Ah, the never ending quest of pursuing excellence... you've got to love it!" states Matthews.

For information on Andrew Matthews contact:

Andrew Matthews
andrewmatthews4@gmail.com
www.andrewmatthews.ca