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Issue in this issue >>> 52.4 Sectional Champions Club News Gold Feet 2014/15 Events Calendar Thin Ice current topics >>> BC/YK Section Hits the Podium Coaches Corner At Skate Canada Challenge ICE DANCE TEAM A PAIR TO BE RECKONED WITH – Timothy Lum and Brianna Upcoming NCCP Course Dates Delmaestro improved their personal best score by more than 10 points at Skate Canada - Written by Tom Berridge from Royal City Record Listed on Page 22 Challenge When Timothy Lum and partner Brianna matched together in 2013. Registration will be available on our website Delmaestro dance, angels don‘t actually run The match produced instant results interna- starting in Mid January. and hide their wings, like rocker Bryan Adams tionally, with two fifth-place efforts in Inter- implied, but judges sure do sit up and take national Skating Union Junior Grand Prix notice. events last year and a pair of podium results Are you interested in becoming The newest ice dance pair in this season, including a silver- a coach? Find out more infor- Aaron Lowe and Megan Lum and Delmaestro medal skate at the Ljubljana mation on our courses on Wing‘s Champs International Cup in Slovenia in August. Skating Centre stable of up- placed first after the ―(Timothy) definitely brings a www.skatinginbc.com under and-coming national-calibre lot of energy to our sessions. It short dance with a 56.10 coaching > NCCP junior dance skaters recorded really helps and it makes things the highest combined points score and then skated fun,‖ said Delmaestro. total of the season, winning ―Somehow he pulls off being the Skate Canada Challenge in away with gold . confident with being humble at Pierrefonds, Que. last week- the same time.‖ end. The pair‘s Skate Canada totals Lum and Delmaestro, who were partnered were more than 10 points higher than their together less than two years ago, topped the previous international personal best, a tre- junior ice dance at Skate Canada with personal mendous leap in improvement in figure skat- -best scores in both the short and free dance ing circles. programs en route to a best-ever 141.64 total Lum and Delmaestro placed first after the score. short dance with a 56.10 score and then skat- Delmaestro was a singles skater until 2011, ed away with gold at Skate Canada with an and both had different partners prior to being 85.54 total in the free dance. -continued on pg. 8 Inside this issue 18 Welcome Message From Our Chairman Lorraine Mapoles BC Competitors 3 BC Skaters Abroad Our International Skaters and their results 3 Jeremy Ten Brings Hallelujah to the ice for a powerful and emotional last season– article by Beverley Smith Sectionals Champions 18 Challenge Gold Feet Results and photos BC Skaters Achieve Gold All across the Province skaters pass Gold Tests Club News 10 Coaches Corner 22 Castlegar Skating Club An update on their season NCCP Course Dates Upcoming course registration Connaught Skating Club Receives a large community grant Meet Coaches Extraordinaires Karen & Jason Mongrain Kelowna Skating Club So far this season Kootenay Region Events Calendar 25 Participates in CanSkate Training session 2014/15 Calendar Upcoming Competitions and events The Raquet Club of Victoria Skating Camps and the success of the skaters Sannich Skating Club 26 Fun events throughout the season Happy Holidays Merry Christmas Terrace Skating Club From the Board of Directors & Staff of the BC/YK Section An update on their season Vancouver Skating Club Presents the Nutcracker on Ice– December 20th, 2014 A Message From Our Chairman December 2014 You to Bev Viger and her competi- I would really like to congratulate in Kingston, Ontario. Good luck to tion committee for overseeing such a everyone on another great BC/YK all of our BC/YK Section partici- superb competition! Section Championships! Congratu- pants!! lations to all of the skaters and their Congratulations to all of the skaters coaches that participated in this The BC/YK Board of Directors that participated at the National event! Congratulations to the Offi- wishes all of our Clubs, Skaters, Challenge event – you all represent- cials that volunteered their time and Coaches, Officials, and Volunteers ed our Section with style and grace travelled to Prince George to see our a very Merry Christmas and a very and the Section Board is very proud skaters perform! Congratulations to Happy New Year! of your accomplishments!! the City of Prince George and the Northern BC Centre for Skating for Take care and we‘ll see you in the We are looking forward to this year‘s hosting such a wonderful event! arena in 2015! Canadian Championships in January And of course a very special Thank Lorraine Mapoles Chairman BC/YK Section Skate Canada Safe Sport Skate Canada works to ensure a positive, meaningful and enriching experience for all who participate in skating. We strive to create a welcoming sport environment for its members built on the values of fairness, excellence, inclusion and fun. Skate Canada is committed to raising awareness and improving Safe Sport initia- tives throughout the organization. If a member has experienced harassment/ bullying, or has witnessed another member being harassed/bullied, the member may submit a complaint to the Complaint Re- view Officer at the Skate Canada national office. Skate Canada relies on its members to report any harassing behaviours in order to ensure Skate Canada fosters an environ- ment that allows everyone to feel safe and welcomed. —www.skatecanada.ca Page 2 >>> BC Skaters Abroad... BC/YK Section International Skaters Autumn Classic ISU Grand Prix Final Barrie, Ontario Barcelona, Spain October 14-17, 2014 December 11-14, 2014 Jeremy Ten Madelyn Edwards and 3rd Place ZhaoKai Pang Final Results– 5th Place Nicole Orford/ Thomas Williams 6th Place Kevin Reynolds 6th Place More Results... NHK Trophy Rostelecom Cup Osaka, Japan Moscow, Russia You can find more skating re- November 28-30, 2014 November 14-16, 2014 sults on our webpage www.skatinginbc.com or on Jeremy Ten hit the ice once www.skatecanada.ca again and landed his first quad Jeremy Ten– Skated a clean short ever in competition! program and ended up in 10th place. Please check Skate Canada‘s webpage, www.skatecanada.ca For more articles on our skaters. Skate Canada International All the results listed on this page October 31– November 2 are from the ISU website http://www.isu.org/en/home Liam Firus was the only skat- er from BC to compete at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, BC. He skated well with a final standing of 11th place. Page 3 >>> Jeremy Ten brings Hallelujah to the ice for a powerful and emotional last season BY: Beverley Smith October 7, 2014 When he bustles through his final competitive season before Ten even began to train again – was the clinch- in the coming months, Jeremy Ten will stand before er. the Lord of Song with nothing on his tongue but Halle- ―When you look into the future, do you feel that skat- lujah. ing one more time in front of a Canadian audience at Music matters to Ten. And his musical choice for the the national championships is worth it to you – to have long program this season is epic; it‘s Leonard Cohen‘s the adrenalin, to have that feeling, knowing that as you heart-clutching Hallelujah, music that gets under your age, you‘ve never going to have that again?‖ Barton skin. asked him. His final season was born of a difficult decision. After That was enough to convince Ten that he felt it was two national bronze medals, and nary a trip to the worth it, that he wanted that one last performance. It Olympics, Ten had to ponder his future very carefully. won‘t matter if he doesn‘t have a great skate at the Ca- He missed the Vancouver Olympics when he was off nadian Tire National Skating Championships in King- ice for months because of a bone impingement prob- ston, Ont., come January. All that matters, Ten said, lem. Then he suffered a spiral fracture of his left tibia was to enjoy the moment. in a freak fall. He gathered his forces last year for the ―All those nationals leading up to this have been about run-up to Sochi, and had a wonderful run, with his first trying to go to an Olympics, or trying to go to worlds, international medal (bronze at Nebelhorn), two clean and the pressure to be the top three in Canada,‖ Ten short programs on international ice, and some personal said. ―But for me, this time, I just get to go and enjoy bests. It had taken him two years to get to that heady it.‖ point. But he finished sixth at the Canadian champion- Ten was asked: ―What if you were to win nationals this ships and missed the Russia pilgrimage. What was a year and get to go to worlds? What do you do then?‖ 25-year-old guy to do? Ten said nothing will change. At a meeting last summer with Ted Barton, the head of the British Columbia/Yukon Skate Canada section – Continued on the following page... Page 4 >>> Continued... This is his last season. For starters, the Buckley version starts with a breath or a His goal this season, he says, is not about placement, but sigh. Beautiful. Then it goes into an instrumental ar- to be the best he can be. He‘ll do it for himself. It‘s not rangement that Ten uses to get his triple Axel and quad going to be a timid swan song. He wants to land a quad.