Anything the boys can do, girls can do even better - just ask Tallulah Tandy!

The seven-year-old became a national ski champion at last month’s National Schools Snowsports Association girls’ event in the under-8 category in Gloucester.

But the time achieved by Ashford’s Tallulah, who trains in Chatham, was better than that of all the boys, too.

Dad Jamie said: “The National School Snowsports Association, basically, run qualifying races throughout the year.

“At six or seven different slopes around the country, they have three different races at each of those venues and, then, the fastest three from each venue get invited to the finals, which were in Gloucester.

“On the Friday, they all met up - the best from each slope - and skied it out to see who would become National School Snowsports champion.

"Tallulah was in the under-8 girls’ category so she won that quite comfortably.

“Just for good measure, she beat all the boys, as well, which was pretty good going.

“She likes winning medals - at least that’s what she’s said to me!”

Jamie supported Tallulah, in Year 2 at The John Wallis Church of England Academy, on the day. Both Tallulah’s mum, Samantha, and dad teach at the school where Jamie is director of sport.

Asked if the family had expected her to perform so well, Jamie, with giggles from Tallulah echoing in the background, replied: “We knew she had a chance, but she won it quite comfortably.

“I think her time was 22 seconds and the closest to her was either 26 or 27 seconds.

“Obviously in that sort of length of a race, that’s quite a big margin.”

Tallulah has already been racing on the slopes for several years despite her tender age.

“She started when she was four,” Jamie said. “She trains with Chatham Race Club every Wednesday.

“There’s a London and South-East Regional Snow Sports Association that train on Saturdays at the Chatham slope so she trains twice a week and then does different race camps in the holidays.

“They’re mainly at Chatham so she’s done really well.”

Tallulah has even been victorious in the under-10 age group and won the Kent primary Schools’ Championship crown, and estimates she has “probably about 20” medals already.

Her father admitted: “There’s a lot hanging up in the kitchen at home.”

Training at the Chatham Snowsports Centre and balancing school commitments takes some juggling, albeit the slope off Capstone Road is the main one in Kent.

Jamie said: “There was a very small slope at Folkestone, but that got closed down when the sports centre closed down.

"There was one years ago more kind of Bromley way but, again, that shut.

“Chatham is the only one, really. The next closest one is Brentwood so Chatham’s the only one (in Kent), apart from a little one in Tunbridge Wells, but she’s doing really well.

“With the travelling and everything, it can get really expensive. There’s so much talent in skiing.

"But I just think the expense of it makes it difficult for some to carry on.

“What’s quite nice is recently a charity has been set up through some of the organisations getting together that’s called Alpine 100.

"It’s like a raffle in a way where you can buy tickets and win prize-money but, then, half of that goes on skiers around the country.

“We’ve been successful and they have funded half the money for Tallulah’s new set of skis that we’ve just picked up, which is really good.

“Obviously the more you push on, you need better equipment to stay at the top of your game.”

Of course, no two dry slopes are the same so what are the differences between the ones Tallulah races on?

She said: “Brentwood is mostly flat and Chatham is quite steep, and then Gloucester is more bumpy.”

As a family, they also go skiing on snow at Samoëns and La Plagne in France - and skiing abroad is something the talented Tallulah might get to do again soon.

Jamie explained: “With the National Schools Snowsports Association, because she’s won in it, now she gets invited to be part of their Alpine squad.

“They have different training camps. I think they go to Pisa in Italy and then Landgraaf in the Netherlands.

"That’s really good.”