I S S U E 4 9 . 3 SEPTEMBER 2011 BC/YT Skaters Hit the Jr. Grand Prix Circuit The BC/YT Sec- , coached by tion is dominating Cana- Joanne McLeod at the Cen- da’s entries on the Junior tre of Excellence. Round- Grand Prix Circuit this ing out the BC entries is season with a record set- who is ting 10 Entries in ISU Jun- coached by Eileen and Kee- ior Grand Prix competi- gan Murphy at the Con- tions this season. naught SC. Four dance To date our BC teams, / Skaters have already won Thomas Williams, Noa three international medals. Bruser/Timothy Lum, Once being a gold from /Zhao Orford and Williams which INSIDE THIS Kai Pang and Caelen was BC’s first Gold medal ISSUE: Dalmer/ ,who in a Jr. Grand prix event in are all coached by Megan Dance. Website Launch 4 Wing and at With five entries Success the BC Centre of Excel- yet to compete, the future Competitive 5 lence, were invited to looks promising for skating Synchro Teams represent on the Photo courtesy of Melanie Hoyt in BC. Live Streaming 6 Junior Grand Prix Circuit. Nicole Orford & Thomas Williams For full results a Big Hit Joining them is , competing their gold medal winning please go to www.isu.org. coached by Lorna Bauer at in Brisbane, Club News 7 the SC and Australia. Cont. on pg. 8... International 12 Medals International 13 Audrey Williams Inducted into the BC Sports Assignments

Coaches Corner 14 Hall of Fame

2011 Adult Audrey Williams, tude of capacities—all vol- first of over thirty Canadi- international unteer it should be not- an championships in her Figure Skating 16 Competition judge, was inducted into ed—Vancouver’s Audrey career in 1961. By 1967, the BC Sports Hall of Williams stands as one of Williams was appointed an Gold Feet 18 Fame at the 43td Annual the all-time great skating International Judge by the Banquet of Champions at officials from BC. Begin- USU and went on to judge the Vancouver Convention ning her career as a pairs numerous international Centre on September 13, competitor, she judged her competitions including the 2011. first test at age fifteen. 1994 Olympic Winter Involved for over Appointed a national judge Games in Lillehammer, six fifty years in the sport of in 1959, she judged the World Championships, and

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I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 3 Message from the Chairman tions have all been well attended look forward to more exciting – we have already had VISI, VDI, things to come from these two Summer Skate and in October talented gentlemen. we have Autumn Leaves. The At our September Board BC/YT Section meeting, we were thrilled to pre- Championships in Kelowna will sent Robert Mandley with the mark the final competition for Skate Canada Honorary Official our competitive skaters to try to Award. Bob has retired from up their point totals to become judging after many years and the Pond to Podium Super Series more travel miles than any other Champion! Our Star Skate com- official in our Section I’m sure! petitors will be using points from This is a wonderful honour for their Region Championships and someone who has given so much Welcome back to another ex- will have their chance to be a to this sport. Congratulations citing year of skating in our Section! Super Series Champion in March Bob! Clubs are busy registering skaters 2012. Good luck to everyone Good luck to everyone and getting their programs orga- and thank you for supporting this for the coming season, I look for- nized for the upcoming season. new initiative! ward to seeing you at the rink at Don’t forget to register your Club We were very pleased competitions, or at Region meet- Board and any Officials that are affil- to be able to hire two Directors ings. Please remember that your iated with your Club. Skate Canada of Development for our Section Region Chairmen and the staff in put forward a new helmet policy for – Jamie McGrigor and Steve the Section office are wonderful CanSkate this year, so please be Muff. These two coaches have sources of information and are sure to follow this on your sessions. been busy developing our Long more than willing to assist you in Even though our season is Term Athlete Development any way. just beginning, we have had our larg- model, keeping in touch with est group of skaters ever taking part coaches throughout the prov- Take Care in International competitions! And ince, assisting with the delivery we’ve had wonderful results!! Con- of live streaming at our super Lorraine Mapoles gratulations to all of these competi- series competitions, visiting Re- Chairman BC/YT Section Skate tors and their coaches for a job well gion Boards and holding work- Canada done! shops and seminars for skaters Our Super Series Competi- and coaches. I think that we can

Thank You to SummerSkate Volunteers Thank you to all the skaters, coaches, parents and volunteers who volunteered their time to make SummerSkate such a success. We couldn’t do it with out you! P A G E 4 Website Launch Success

This past August  135,000 page views BC Section Office, Janice saw the launch of a new  Average of 9.5 mins Hunter and most im- Skating in BC website. on site portantly to the Execu- The design and layout  69% returning visi- tive of the BC Section was created by Red tors for having the vision to Rocket and the staff of  19.5% of visitors vis- make the decision to the BC Section office. ited 9+ times modernize our site. We We tried to have a  Skatebuzz.com made hope you enjoy the new unique, clean and stylish up 10% of referral site. look while designing traffic clear and easy navigation. ~Ted Barton Although we had a few We hope to Executive Director minor glitches on Sum- keep the site current and Skate Canada BC/YT merSkate weekend with include more video and the site going down as a photo highlights from result of the activity, competitions. We will overall the performance also keep new items was very strong. Here coming and hope to get are the important num- more people involved in bers showing the activity blogs. All of this may (As of Aug 24, 2011): take some time but we encourage you to partici-  17,000 visits pate and let us know  5.3% social media how we are doing. referrals– anything above 2.5% is consid- I would like to ered good. give great thanks to Red  5,900 unique visitors Rocket, the staff of the Cool. Creative. Canadian.

For all your skating news, interviews, athletes, events and live streaming check out Skate Buzz at www.skatecanada.ca.

I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 5 BC Section Announces Competitive Synchro Teams

skaters with a high skill level who may be interested in working toward an interna- tional goal. Posted on the skatinginbc website is a doc- ument which provides more information as to what that means in regards to time commitment, skill level etc. There will be input from ex- perts, excellent coaching experience and as we have done with our other disci- plines, an overall monitoring from the Section. Currently there are “Every dream Skate Canada BC/YT We fully understand no competitive (working Section is pleased to an- this will take time to reach has a toward international compe- nounce the formation of our goal of international suc- tition) novice, junior or sen- beginning and Provincial Competitive Syn- cess but every dream has a chronized Teams. ior this is it!” teams in BC but there are beginning and this is it1 Over the past 15 approximately 20 teams at To find out more years we have been very various levels enjoying this about this exciting new en- successful at the develop- wonderful team activity, in- deavor, visit the Synchro ment of singles skating and cluding competing during a Section on the Skaters Page ice dancing to the national at www.skatinginbc.com. and international level and season. now we begin a journey into It is our intent to Synchronized Skating. actively engage the skating community in pursuing those BC Sports Hall of Fame

Cont. from cover… served as team leader for to judging.

female skaters at the 1972 Boundless en- four World Junior Champi- Olympic Winter Games in ergy, smiling and styling onships. Williams remains Sapporo, fostering the envi- in equal quantities, Wil- the only female native British ronment that allowed North liams has mentored Columbian to serve as an Vancouver’s Karen Magnus- dozens of individuals Olympic judge in figure skat- sen the opportunity to cap- over the years who ing. In 1984, she was ap- ture Canada’s only medal— rose to prominent pointed as an ISU Referee, A silver—of the games. She roles t the sport’s pro- leading to countless referee served on countless provin- vincial, national and assignments at international cial and national committees International levels. competitions. Earlier, she ranging from skater develop- ment to official development Audrey Williams P A G E 6

Live Streaming a Big Hit!

The live streaming of the BC SummerSkate Competition once again drew excellent numbers. We streamed both rinks which added to the complication of the operation and manpower required, but with the help of Steve Muff (BC Director of Development) it all worked beautifully. We had four cameramen to work those long hours covering every skater. Peter Lang, Rob Woodley, Jesse Sturdy, all former skaters and now coaches, and Neal Melancon. Thank you for all your great work. Caption describing picture or graphic.In the production operation room we had and Tarrah Harvey along with the rest of the crew taking turns on the tri caster and the laptop streaming devices. It is a fun and creative process and we hope over the next few years to get more young people in- volved. “To catch the reader's attention, place an interesting sentence or quote from the story People watchedhere.” from all across Canada. There were viewers from England, Great Brit- ain, Italy, Japan and Mexico… and we are sure from other countries as well.

Unique Viewers Hours Viewed BC BC

Thursday—3521 Thursday—1952 Friday—4240 Friday—2207 Saturday—3512 Saturday—2190 Sunday—2216 Sunday—1285

TOTAL—13,489 TOTAL—7,634

CaptionOur next broadcast will be from Autumn Leaves in Kamloops October 14th-16th, then describingthe Provincial Championships in Kelowna November 10th-13th. There is now a link to picture orthe archived videos from both rinks on skatinginbc.com. graphic.

I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 7 Club News Fort St. John SC numerous national and inter- information, contact Danette national level coaches and Dawkin at Fort St. John Field skaters in singles, pairs and [email protected] Training Seminar Oct 15-16, dance. This seminar will be om. Hope to see you 2011. Train with special jam-packed and fun. In addi- there!!! guest moderator Jamie tion to Jamie's program, on McGrigor, Head Coach and and off-ice sessions in- Director of Oak Bay Figue clude choreography, yoga, Skating Club, Victoria, ballet, sports nutrition, as BC. As current Director of well as information sessions Development for Vancouver on the new LTAD program Island, Jamie has been an and recent changes to the NCCP level 3 coach for over Skate Canada programs. 25 years, and has produced For questions/

Kelowna SC cessful summer school went by while we in Kelowna are enjoying quickly in July and August. The a bit of an extended summer! Up- The past few months KSC once again hosted the OSA coming events for our team will be have been very busy for our Summer Simulation on July 23. the Sask Skate Inviatational/Open coaches and skaters of all levels, Forty-nine skaters from Kelowna and Autumn Leaves Freeskate and everyone is looking forward and areas stretching from White- competitions, as well as the KSC- to the fall and winter seasons! horse to Victoria to Grande Prairie hosted BC/YT Sectional Champi- We are pleased to wel- to Fernie participated in another onships. come Madison Lyon to our full- great event. Technical Specialists Looking forward to seeing time coaching staff. Madison is a Ryan Sutherland and Andrea Flem- you in the upcoming season! former BC/YT Senior Team ing were on hand to call elements, member and was taught by Karen while top Okanagan judges and Mongrain at Grand Forks. She is Technical Controllers scored ele- also attending UBC-Okanagan in ments and gave feedback for pro- pursuit of a degree in kinesiology. gram components. The Okanagan May saw twenty-eight of is very fortunate to have a very our skaters make the trek to Sur- dedicated group of judges! rey for the Victoria Day Interclub Thirty-seven of our skaters competition, returning home with competed at the BC/YT Sum- 12 medals in total. Gold medals merskate competition held at were won by Jayda Jurome in Jun- Burnaby in August. Gold medalists ior Women Short and Free pro- were: Kelsey Wiebe, Junior Wom- grams; Priscilla Sabang in Pre- en; Julianne Delaurier, Pre-Novice Novice Women Short; Dana Women; Brianne Mapson, Senior Bobyn in Pre-Novice Women Bronze Women; and Ashley Sales, Free; and Daria Carr in Pre- Preliminary Women. Medals were Preliminary Women. Medals also captured by , Dana were also won by Kelsey Wiebe, Bobyn, Diane Nguyen, Savana Desiree Schaefer, Haley Sales, Sheardown, and Rachel Hiob. Monika Randall, Alyssa Dobbs and Right now, our skaters and Ashley Sales. coaches are back in full training, BC SummerSkate Medalists Another busy and suc- P A G E 8 Club News cont...

Mount Arrowsmith SC

The Mount Ar- rowsmith Skating Club put a float in the Fall Fair Parade in Port Alberni. The float was in the Pa- rade 18 yrs ago, put to- gether by The Moyen Family. It was the exact float down to the truck. That had to have some work done to it to make it road worth. The float won 3 prizes, 2nd place for the float, ribbon for parade marshals choice, and a special recognition from a judge.

Sunshine Coast SC partner from Vancouver, Rocker Foxtrot, Sr.Silver the Club saw a 100% Skating Skills, Gold Skat- The Sunshine pass rate in the assort- ing Skills, 2nd Gold Inter- Coast Skating Club re- ment of tests taken in pretive, Gold Freeskate cently wrapped up a suc- May. In conjunction with part 1 & 2, Novice cessful 2010/2011 season the Test Day in February Freeskate on an extremely positive the following tests were Elleni Antonio: Dutch note. passed for the season: Waltz, Preliminary Skat- Bringing in a high ing Skills level judge and a dance Beres Clements: Dutch Elisabeth Lyle: Dutch Waltz, Canasta Tango, Waltz, Canasta Tango, Preliminary Skating Skills, Preliminary Skating Skills Jr. Bronze Skating Skills, Jaymie Capron: Willow Preliminary Freeskate Waltz, Fourteenstep, part 1 & 2, Jr. Bronze Sr.Bronze Skating Skills, freeskate part 1 & 2 Bronze Interpretive Brenda Harkin: Jr. Madison Welch: Canasta Bronze Skills Tango, Baby Blues, Swing Brooke Kwasney: Sr. Dance, Fiesta Tango, Bronze Skating Skills, Jr. Preliminary Skating Skills, Bronze fresskate part 1 Jr.Bronze skills, Prelimi- & 2 nary Freeskate Part 1 & Caitlin Jarvis: European 2, Jr. Bronze freeskate Waltz, Keats’ Foxtrot, Part 1

I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 9 Club News cont... ”. 100% attendance! A new Board CompetitiveSkate – Caitlin Jarvis Maya Moudahi: Dutch Waltz, was voted in at the AGM and the -Aggregate Performance Evalua- Canasta Tango, Baby Blues, Club welcomes: Joanne Bennison, tion- Maya Moudahi Swing Dance, Preliminary Skating Deborah Clements, & Stuart -Aggregate StarSkate- Madison Skills Mclean as new Board members as Welch (Honorable mentions: Jay- well as welcoming back Jill-Marie mie Capron & Caitlin Jarvis; both At the 2011 Victoria Jarvis, Carmen Welch, Lesleigh qualifying for Pacific StarSkate Day Super Series Competition, Farr, & Nancy Moudahi. Championships in Interpretive) Beres Clements placed third in Awards handed out at the -Aggregate CompetitiveSkate- pre-preliminary men while Cait- AGM Awards Banquet: Caitlin Jarvis lin Jarvis participated in the pre- -CanSkater of the Year- tie: Camil- -Shelley Cromie Off Ice Award: novice ladies category as well as la Pierre & Joey Stepanek -Jr. Academy- Tashina Mclean Gold Interpretive, -CanSkate Champions x 2- Alice StarSkate/CompetitiveSkate- placing 1st in the Gold Interpre- Clements & Natalie Martin Elisabeth Lyle -PA of the Year – Brenda Harkin -Volunteer Appreciation Award- tive event. Earlier competitions saw -PA Helper of the Year – tie: Mat- Carmen Welch numerous successes in the Club thew Bentley & Noah Matthew- Moore The Club would like to with Gold assessments for Per- formance Evaluations earned by -Spirit of Skating (Jr.Academy)- thank Lesleigh Farr, Brooke Maya Moudahi; Silver by Beres tie: Halle Holmes & Madison Tid- Kwasney, and the Executive Clements, Maya Moudahi, Elisa- marsh Board for their continued hard -Most Improved Jr.Academy- Elly work and dedication to making beth Lyle, & Madison Welch; Bronze by Beres Clements, Maya Thistlewaite the Sunshine Coast Skating Club Moudahi, as well as placements -Most Improved StarSkate/ a great place for the kids to be. CompetitiveSkate – Beres Clements The Club looks forward to the by Jaymie Capron & Caitlin Jarvis that earned both spots in the -Sportsmanship Jr.Academy – tie: 2011/2012 season! final Pacific StarSkate Champion- Tashina Mclean & Elly Thistlewaite -Sportsmanship StarSkate/ ships. Jaymie Capron placed 1st in Pre-Intro Interpretive at the Regional Competition. Beres Clements placed 5th in men’s Pre -Preliminary at VISI while Madi- son Welch competed in Ladies’ Pre-Prelim 9 & Under at the WinterSkate Qualifying competi- tion. Caitlin Jarvis placed 3rd in Gold Interpretive at the 2010/11 Regional Championships & 6th at VISI in Parksville. Club events this year were extremely well attended; the Halloween Skate was fun for all as was the Xmas Eve Santa Skate. The In-house Jr.Academy performance competition saw a P A G E 10

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I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 11 Region News

Grand Prix circuit in Riga, Ellen Bornowsky - Novice Latvia. Singles Nicole Orford of Joanne Brandon - Novice Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Dance Williams of Okotoks, Alta., Lisa Letondress - Juvenile won the gold medal in ice “Congratulations Pairs dancing and Liam Firus of Becky Roos - Juvenile Singles North Vancouver added a to our Home Kortney Story - Sr Bronze bronze in men’s singles to Town BC Coast Evaluator conclude the second stop on Connie Chu - Sr Bronze the ISU Junior Grand Prix Region skaters!” Evaluator figure skating circuit in Bris- BC Coast Region bane, Australia. Congratulations to The BC Coast Re- our Home Town BC Coast gion proudly recognizes the Region skaters! achievement of our judges. Nam Nguyen placed Recent promotions at judg- 12th in the men’s division at ing clinics this summer are: the first event of ISU Junior Notice to all Clubs

Just a reminder that all clubs should update their club consti- tution and by-laws every 5 years.

Please send updated constitution along with your Form 10 to: SHARON DAHL 5748 Janis Street Chilliwack, BC, V2R 3H6 [email protected]

FORM 100’s

Make sure you submit your form 100 to Amy at [email protected] along with your Region Chairman. I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 12 International Medals

ISU JGP Brisbane 2011 Brisbane, Australia September 7-11

Nicole Orford & Thomas Williams ~Junior Dance~ Gold Medal 3rd 1st Free Dance 1st Place Overall

Liam Firus ~Junior Men~ Bronze Medal 3rd Short Program 4th Free Program 3rd Place Overall

Photo courtesy of Melanie Hoyt of Melanie courtesy Photo

ISU JGP Brasov Cup 2011 Brasov, Romania September 21-25

Nam Nguyen ~Junior Men~ Bronze Medal 5th Short Program 2nd Free Program 3rd Place Overall I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 13 International Assignments ISU JUNIOR GRAND ISU SENIOR GRAND PRIX COMPETITORS PRIX COMPETITIORS

ISU JGP Volvo Cup 2011 ISU JGP Trofeo W. ISU GF Skate Canada Riga, Latvia Lombardi 2011 International 2011 Aug 21-Sept 4 Milano, Italy Mississauga, Canada October 5-9 October 27-30 Nam Nguyen ~Junior Men~ Caelen Dalmer & Shane Tarrah Harvey & Keith 12th Short Program Firus Gagnon 9th Free Program ~Junior Dance~ ~Senior Dance~ 12th Place Overall ISU GP ISU JGP Baltic Cup 2011 ISU JGP Tallinn Cup 2011 2011 Gdansk, Poland Tallinn, Estonia Kingston, September 14-18 October 12-16 October 29-31

Noa Bruser & Timothy Kevin Reynolds Lum ~Senior Men~ ~Junior Dance~ 8th Short Dance ISU GP Trophee Eric 2nd Free Dance Bompard 2011 6th Place Overall Paris, France November 18-20 ISU JGP Austria 2011 Innsbruck, Austria Kevin Reynolds September 28-Oct 2 Mitchell Gordon ~Senior Men~ ~Junior Men~ Liam Firus ~Junior Men~ INTERNATIONAL Nicole Orford & Thomas ASSIGNMEMT Williams ~Junior Dance~ Oberstdorf, Germany Madeline Edwards & Zhao September 21-24 Kai Pang ~Junior Dance~ Tarrah Harvey & Keith Gagnon ~Senior Dance~ 8th Short Dance 8th Free Dance 8th Place Overall P A G E 14 Coaches Corner TECHNICAL MEMO

Following testing of PPS at the BC SummerSkate Competition, the following changes regarding jumps and choreographed spirals have been made. These changes take effect immediately.

Jumps All standard rules regarding jumps apply in PPS. The technical panel will be more lenient with two types of calls regarding jump elements:

- Edge Calls: A flat or unclear edge take off for flip and lutz jumps will not warrant an edge call. Only jumps which clearly take off from the wrong edge will be identified as incorrect.

- Jump Sequences: Unless the skater states on their planned program sheet that they intend to perform a jump sequence or an element unquestionably becomes a jump se- quence, the technical panel will not call a sequence if two jump elements are executed in close proximity to each other.

Rationale: As many skaters are still developing proficiency with flips and lutz jumps, they will not be penalized for a weak or flat entry edge by the technical panel. As com- pleting nine elements in 1:30 can be challenging for these skaters, the technical panel must consider the intent of the skater when calling jump sequences.

Choreographed Spirals For a series of Choreographed Spirals to receive a Level 1 call, - A skater may perform one spiral for 3 seconds or two spirals for 2 seconds each. - The spiral (or spirals) must be on edge and be unsupported. - The level of the skating free leg must be nearly at or parallel to the ice.

The positive GOE for holding a spiral longer than 3 seconds has been changed to: -Able to hold a spiral 4 seconds or longer

Rationale: To focus skaters on developing good flexibility and strong posi- tions, all spirals performed must be unsupported. As the window of opportunity for flexibility is between the ages of 6-10, LTT is a critical phase for developing suppleness in skaters. In keeping with rules for spins, developmental spiral positions will be accept- ed so long as the technical panel can agree that the free leg is close to a spiral position.

If you have any questions or require further clarification, please contact Laura Carr. [email protected] .

I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 15 Live Streaming Q & A for Coaches We are thrilled to We encourage you Skate Canada BC/YT Sec- announce a new service to send questions in be- tion Executive Member, for coaches in BC. We fore hand to coach- Lorenza Samarelli (host), want to provide a series [email protected] and Mitchell Gordon, 2011 of question and answer to text questions during Canadian Novice Men’s live streaming shows on the show to 604-809- Champion (demonstrator) skatinginbc.com. 2891. “ Text in your These shows Here are the de- This is a pilot pro- questions would be interactive and tails of the broadcast: ject and depending on in- give an opportunity for terest we may continue it during the coaches to anonymously When: Thursday, Octo- in order to help coaches show to 604- ask questions about levels ber 6th 11:00 - 12:00 in developing their club of difficulty, GOE's, jump- programs, skill exercises 809-2891 or e- ing or spin techniques. We Where: BC Centre of and techniques. mail them in hope to have skaters to Excellence So please tune in beforehand to demonstrate as seeing to www.skatinginbc.com. what the technical special- Hosts: Jamie McGrigor We look forward to hear- coaching@ska ist is calling or judge is ISU Technical Specialist ing your questions! tinginbc.com” evaluating and why is and Director of Develop- much better then reading ment for BC, Janice about it. Hunter ISU Judge, Skate Canada Controller and

BC/YT Sectional Championships Accreditation Reminder to Coaches:

All coaches must be ISPC Certified in order to receive accreditation to coach your skaters at the event.

Please contact Amy at [email protected] if you have any questions. P A G E 16 2011 Competition

BC SKATERS TAKE ter’s Free Dance with a fan as well as a beautiful HOME 1 GOLD AND 2 personal best of 47.58 figure skater. This was SILVER MEDALS AT points. the former World 2011 ISU ADULT FIG- Two other skat- Champion’s first compe- URE SKATING COMPE- ers represented B.C. tition following her re- TITION Alexandra Gun- tirement many years ago.

Canadian adult sett from Kerridale Fig- As well, the competition figure skaters from across ure Skating Club com- featured a former Olym- the country captured a peted in the Silver and pic ice dancer from the record number of medals Bronze Ladies Artistic 1976 Olympics at the 2011 Adult Figure . In a field of (Innsbruck, Austria). Skating Competition held 24 skaters, Alexandra The oldest competitor June 8 to 11, 2011 in placed 10th. She also was 72 – a former com- Oberstdorf, Germany. skated in the Silver La- petitive ice dancer from Canadians brought home dies Free Skating catego- Paris (competed the st 20 medals (10 gold, four ry and placed 21 in an- same year as Donald other full field of 24 skat- Jackson). She also placed silver and six bronze) in nd this popular international ers. 2 in the Silver Pattern competition which at- Monique La- Dance category. tracted more than 300 gnerius from Grandview As usual, the skaters from 26 coun- (she Canadian competitors tries. has just moved to Mu- and their fans had a big “As usual, the th Diana Barkley and nich) placed 13 out of presence. Four skaters Canadian Geoff Squires from Metro 23 skaters in the Silver from Kerrisdale travelled Vancouver (Kitsilano and and Bronze Ladies II Ar- to Oberstdorf just to competitors and Kerrisdale Figure Skating tistic Free Skating cate- check things out – Ron their fans had a Clubs) won the Master’s gory. and Sandy Johnston and Short Dance. Their For the first time Ralph and Yin Case. In big presence.” Viennese Waltz to Aretha ever, Canada was repre- addition Penny Siller (and Franklin’s “Natural Wom- sented in the judging ar- husband Fred) from an” was not only a crowd ea by ISU Judge, Sally West Vancouver also favourite, but the won the Rehorick from Vancou- helped cheer the British gold with a score of 37.15 ver. This was Sally’s first Columbia and other Ca- points. The French and adult competition and nadian skaters on. Penny Great Britain teams tied she was impressed by is a former synchro skat- for second with 29.30 the level of skating from er as well as a diamond points and the US team all competitors and was level ice dancer. scored 24.89. most kind with her time And, a big thank Geoff and Diana, to provide personal feed- you to Jim Wilkins who have skated together back to many of the Ca- (Kerrisdale FSC) who since the first adult na- nadian skaters. once again was the offi- tionals were held in B.C. One of the high- cial photographer for the in 2003, also took Silver lights of the competition competition. Over the in the Gold Pattern was the first time ap- four days, Jim took more Dance (Quickstep and pearance of Japan’s Mi- than 16,000 (yes, that’s Blues). As well, they dori Ito who was a 16 thousand!) photos of placed second in the Mas- warm, gracious and fun all the skaters.

I S S U E 4 9 . 3 P A G E 17

Canadian results are as fol- Silver medals were once again in Oberstdorf, lows: awarded to: Germany from May 22 to 26, Diana Barkley and Geoff 2012. Adult skaters can Gold medal performanc- Squires (B.C.), , check out the ISU website: es were turned in by: Gold Pattern Dance www.isu.org for further de- Diana Barkley and Geoff tails. Diana Barkley and Geoff Squires (B.C). Squires (from B.C), Ice ~Submitted by James Wilkins Dance The 2012 ISU International Competition will be held

Monique Lagnerius Diana Barkley & Geoff Squires Alexandra Gunsett

Masters Short Dance GOLD Diana & Geoff

Photo’s by Wilkins James P A G E 18 Gold Feet Caitlin Jarvis

The Sunshine & Novice freeskate tests. Coast Skating Club would Caitlin attributes much of like to congratulate Caitlin her success to her long- Jarvis for her many test time coach Lesleigh Farr. accomplishments: Caitlin plans on finishing all At age 11, Caitlin of her gold dances so that attained the 1st of two she can claim a quadruple Gold Interpretive tests. At gold status. She would like age 12, she tested with a to thank her coach Les- new program and passed leigh Farr, judge Bob her 2nd Gold Interpretive, Mandley, & dance partner placing 1st at 2011 Victoria Graham Casey for all of Day Super Series Competi- their support, guidance, tion. Caitlin also passed her and good humour over the Gold Skills, Gold Freeskate, years.

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Look for the new web addition of Thin Ice which will be coming soon at www.skatinginbc.com BC/YT SECTION EXECUTIVE BC/YT BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman: Lorraine Mapoles Athletes Trust Chair: Diane Nielsen Past Chairman: Gail Weber Athlete Rep: Gary Wong First Vice-Chairman: Bev Viger Coaches Chair: Marilyn Kreuzinger Second Vice-Chairman: Janice Hunter Technical Chair: Janice Hunter Secretary/Treasurer: Syd Hughes Provincial Skater Development Chair: Directors at Large: Laura Carr & Sharon Dawn Williams Dahl Regional Skater Development Chair: Region Rep: Joan Omasta Marilyn Kreuzinger Skating Programs Chair: Val Collins

Region Chairmen BC Coast: Wendy Martin-Stroyan CNCR: Sandra Lenuik Kootenay: Shelley Verhelst Okanagan: Joan Omasta VI: Lynne Henderson-Drake

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The staff of the BC/YT Section Office handle numerous tasks The office is organized and run by the following people: throughout the year that act as a cat- Ted Barton Executive Director (604) 205-9701 alyst for the Provincial programs, seminars and schools that take place Danielle Williams Executive Assistant (604) 205-9702 around the province of British Co- Barb Stott Financial (604) 205-9703 lumbia and the Yukon Territory. Administrator With a great number of combined years of skating experience, the Amy Slaght Coaching & Communications (604) 205-6960 group help bring together the many Coordinator bodies and factions that make up Lorenza Samarelli Director of Advertising Sales (604) 205-6960 skating in BC. & Service

Each staff member is in charge of specific elements at the office. Please look on www.skatinginbc.com and click on “About Us” to find our more about each staff member and how they can help you. A description of the areas of concern that each staff member deals with is explained there also. We want to hear from you! Please send us your club news, Gold Feet, and photo’s for the December Issue.

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