Robinson carving a niche

Ski school deal

Robinson was born in Sydney to Australian parents and moved to New Zealand when she was four.

"If that didn't happen I don't think I would have ended up in ski racing growing up in Bondi," she said of the Australian beach town.

In her new home in Queenstown, Robinson and her two siblings were surrounded by mountains and it was "15 minutes door-to-door" to the Coronet Peak ski area.

"My parents just put us in ski school. My mom told me the other day that it was cheaper to put me in the ski creche than to get a babysitter," Robinson said on a recent International Ski and Snowboard Federation podcast.