Kitchener - Waterloo Skating Club Annual General Meeting

7:00 pm - Wednesday June 19, 2013 Room 207 Manulife Financial Sportsplex & Healthy Living Centre, RIM Park, Waterloo

Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club Annual General Meeting –Wednesday June 19, 2013 RIM Park room 207

AGENDA

A. Reading the Notice of Meeting and Declaration of Quorum

B. Introduction of Board and Guests

C. Minutes of the preceding AGM

D. Business arising from the minutes

E. Vice-President: Finance Report

F. Auditor’s Report (see attachment)

G. Appointment of Auditors

H. Executive Director’s report

I. President’s report

J. Other Reports

K. Adoption of Reports

L. Motion for Honorary Membership

M. Appointment of scrutineers and Election of Directors

N. New Business

O. Retiring Directors and Introduction of New Board

2 Table of Contents

Board of Directors & Administrative Staff Page 4 Previous Year’s Minutes Irene Earl Page 5 - 7 Reports Executive Director Report Marie Pringle Page 8 Skating Programs Report Paul MacIntosh and coordinators Page 9 Adult Social Dance/Eistainzfest Page 9 Recreational Programs Page 10 Synchronized Skating Page 10 Test Day Page 10 Gold Test Achievements Page 11 Twin City Hockey Skating School Page 11 Program Registration Numbers Page 11 Competition Results Page 12 - 20 Athletic Centre Dale Bellaire Page 20 President’s Report Paul Mallet Page 21 Special Events Marie Pringle and Event Chairs Page 21 Showcase Page 21 Skater Send offs Page 22 Gala Page 22 FreeSkate Festival Page 22 Seminar of Excellence Page 22 Coaching Committee Rebecca Babb Page 22 Alumni Committee Marilyn Johnny Page 23 Grand River Council Paul Mallet Page 23 Trust Don Johnny Page 24 Board of Directors Lesley Germann and Irene Earl Page 24 - 27 ______KWSC Board of Directors and Administrative Staff Board Executive: KWSC Staff: President: Paul Mallet Executive Director: Marie Pringle Past President: Lesley Germann Skating Programs Manager: Paul MacIntosh V.P – Volunteer Management: Patrick Therrien Athletic Centre Manager: Dale Bellaire V.P – Finance: Joanne Kuntz Membership: Amanda Cooper Secretary: Irene Earl Accountant: Debbie Weber Recreational Program Coordinator : Carolyn Allwright Directors: Twin City Hockey Skating School Coordinator: Scott Strachan Peter Joza Jodie Hancox – Meyer Stephanie Wright Jennifer Musselman Martha D’Agostino Bill Poje Tina Weltz Rebecca Babb – Coaches’ Representative Carolyn Fedy - Honorary Director

KWSC Annual General Meeting

Meeting Date: May 31, 2012, 7pm Location: RIM Park, Waterloo, ON Attendees: Steve Ingle, Lesley Germann, Joanne Kuntz, Paul Mallet, Irene Earl (recording secretary), Lori Mulder, Tina Weltz, Patrick Therrien, Kim Biddiscombe (Coaches’ Rep) Special Guest: Carolyn Fedy Regrets: Bill Poje, Peter Joza, Krystin Belanger-Strange

Meeting was called to order at 7:01 pm.

Chair acknowledged that this meeting would be conducted with reference to Robert’s Rules of Order and confirmed that the KWSC constitution states that only honorary and voting members have a voice at this meeting.

The Chair announced that any questions from the floor must be made through the Chair. The Chair asked members to please stand, address the Chair and clearly state their full name and any affiliations for the record.

The Chair invited Board Secretary Irene Earl to provide the notice of meeting.

A) Board secretary announced that the Notice of Meeting and Notice of Elections was posted in the lobby and the website on April 21st, with a nominations deadline of May 3rd and a full slate of nominees posted in the same locations on May 17th. According to By-Law 8.9 of the KWSC Constitution: 8.9 Elections shall be determined by written ballot and an elected candidate must receive a majority of the unspoiled votes cast. Voting on other matters will be by a show of hands, unless one-fifth of the voting members in attendance request voting by Yeas and Nays, or any one voting member requests a written ballot which shall have priority over any other form of voting. [Skate Canada By-Law 1306 (3b), Robert’s Rules of Order 38. Quorum was reached with 22 voting members present. A majority decision on any motion is 12.

B) Introduction of any guests and Board Members was made by KWSC Past President Lesley Germann. Guests: Cheryl Hugill of BDO Dunwoody, Jim Bowman, Steve Scherrer, Carolyn Fedy (honorary director)

C) Motion: to accept the 2012 Annual Meeting Agenda as presented in the Notice of Meeting posted on April 21st. M: Paul Mallet S: Lori Mulder Discussion: carried No new business

D) Minutes of the 2011/2012 Annual General Meeting: Chair referred to the minutes being in the AGM booklet. Motion: to accept the minutes of last year’s KWSC Annual General Meeting. M: Irene Earl S: Steve Scherrer Discussion: carried

E) Business arising from the minutes: none

F) Accountant and V.P. Finance Report: Chair called on Joanne Kuntz – V.P. Finance to introduce Cheryl Hugill - accountant from BDO Dunwoody. Cheryl presented financial statements for KWSC for 2011-2012. VP - Finance invited to field questions from the membership. Motion: to accept the 2011 – 2012 financial report as presented. M: Joanne Kuntz S: Allison Smerchinski Discussion: none Carried. Question: Steve Scherrer: are there guidelines for use of Trust funds now that it has been melded together? Answer: we have a timeline to do the amalgamation. Thus far, the numbers were put together only in the financial statements. In the short term, a task force will be struck (Board members and former Trustees) to reintegrate the trust into the organization. Guidelines for spending will likely not change much and will be a key deliverable by this task force.

Question: Steve Scherrer Governance: do we have guidelines that establish what type of investments are permitted by the Board? Answer: There is an investment policy for the Trust. KWSC is using the same policy – investing in GICs and other guaranteed investments with varying durations. Steve Scherrer: Further comment: We need to develop policy around our investment guidelines go-forward as this is gaining momentum at the Sectional level as well.

Question: Mrs. Fedy: It was Dr. Coker who started the Trust fund. When did the Government decide we needed to pay tax? Answer: Investment income over $2000 has always been taxed, but now there is a concerted effort by CRA to collect these taxes from not-for-profit organizations.

G) Appointment of Auditors: Motion: to retain BDO Dunwoody as financial auditors for 2012-2013. M: Joanne Kuntz S: Irene Earl Discussion: none Carried.

H) Executive Director’s Report: As presented in the report contained in the AGM booklet.

I) President’s Report As presented in the report contained in the AGM booklet. In addition to the President’s report in the booklet, it was noted that access to parking for KWSC members was seriously compromised during several events held at RIM Park this past spring leading to a disruption of service and great inconvenience to our members.

J) Other Reports: There were no questions from the membership regarding the reports.

K) Adoption of Reports: Motion: to approve the reports as presented in the 2011-2012 KWSC AGM booklet. M: Paul Mallet S: Lori Mulder Discussion: none Carried.

L) Amendment to the By-laws: Further to discussion at last year’s AGM changes were required to the KWSC constitution to reflect the fact that the Advisory Council is no longer an entity within the KWSC Constitution. Additionally, the constitution reflects the proposed name change from Treasurer to V.P – Finance.

The proposed revised constitution was posted with the Notice of meeting at the club and on the KWSC website. Changes are noted with a line through wording to be deleted and new wording or additions in red.

Motion: to approve the Constitution and By-laws of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club as presented effective May 31, 2012 M: Patrick Therrien S: Steve Scherrer Discussion: Carried

M) New Business: None

N) Introduction of new Board of Directors A symbolic ballot was cast by the Board Secretary to acclaim the nominees. The new Board of Directors is as follows: Patrick Therrien (1 year remaining) Tina Weltz (1 year remaining) Bill Poje (1 year remaining) Peter Joza (1 year remaining) Irene Earl (2 year term) Joanne Kuntz (2 year term) Paul Mallet (2 year term) Stefanie Wright (2 year term) Jennifer Musselman (2 year term) Steve Ingle, Past President Kim Biddiscombe, Coaches Rep.

O) Meeting adjournment: Motion: to adjourn M: Patrick Therrien

Meeting adjourned at 7:37 pm.

6 2012 -13 Executive Director’s Report

Our 2012-13 operational activities have focused on a wide range of programs and special projects to addressed the needs of our skaters in every discipline and at every level from grass roots to our elite international competitors. There were many busy periods where deadlines were tight, and I have to commend the team of volunteers who aided our very small staff to get it all done.

Results of this effort could be seen with the addition of special 16+ STAR sessions to meet the unique needs of that group, the rebirth of adult synchro, the largest ever STARSkate summer camp, a special program for WLU students to support their varsity skating team revival, larger sectional simulations including skaters from other clubs, concussion training for coaches and skaters, a consistent and successful approach to skater identification and enrichment program invitation, as well as the unveiling of a new Introduction to Figure Skating program that redefined how CanSkaters enter our STAR system and how parents participate in the process of coach selection and figure skating orientation.

The online registration process was adopted by over 85% of our membership and by most measures was a huge success. However, while The customer experience runs smoothly now, our office team still works very hard to support the administration of that system given some of the challenges of trying to merge the Skate Canada run front end with our external vendor back end, and I must commend our office staff Mandy Cooper and Debbie Weber for their diligence and persistence in this area to get it all correct. The secondary outcome the online method has presented is the increasingly important role our Recreation Coaches carry as the “face of KWSC” as many members never interact with the office. These coaches engaged in additional customer service problem solving training this past year to better meet this need, and we will continue to provide this support in the future.

We have encountered increased local competition for our Pre-CanSkate, CanSkate and Learn-to-skate customers, and this remains a continuing threat. We have worked hard to retain our traditional membership base by new marketing initiatives such as banners at the welcome tables, hosting a booth at Kidspark in Kitchener and the Eastbridge picnic, placing CanSkate news stories in the local newspapers, and initiating a multisport brochure with distribution to 9000 school children. Continued vigilance will be required to maintain our markets, and additional marketing and program related activity and other solutions including price considerations will need to be examined in coming seasons.

The people are what really make our club, and we are fortunate to have a dedicated staff to support our hard working group of volunteers. I want to thank them for going over and above the call of duty whenever asked. We also depend on the leadership of our coaches, and this year we welcomed Melinda Kunhegyi as a new base coach, and long-time KWSC skater Kayla Diebold as a Recreation program coach. We also benefit from the leadership and role models provided by our senior skaters and international competitors Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch, who have a unique and positive connection with our younger skaters. They have assisted in teaching both on on-ice and off-ice, front end loading rec programs, signing autographs, as well as giving hugs and high fives! The whole club benefits from them training here and being dedicated to the KWSC family.

It has been my privilege to work for a passionate and dedicated KWSC President and Board of Directors in leading our staff team to execute their vision, and I hope the membership is pleased with the progress we have made together. Cheers,

Marie Pringle KWSC Executive Director

7 Skating Programs Report The 2012/13 season was a very exciting year at KWSC. Our high profile athletes competed at 2 different World Championships and also the Canadian Championships. This season also saw the first year of new age and event restrictions from Skate Canada and KWSC had many skaters compete in these new events.

Our season never really seems to have a beginning or an end and skaters are in constant mode changes from creative phase, to training phase and then finally to competitive phase. The summer events are used to prepare and test newly acquired or almost acquired skills. KWSC Skaters competed in Detroit, Philadelphia, Ottawa, Waterloo and Thornhill. Skaters then set seasonal goal; updates and the main part of the season begins.

We were fortunate to have 2 pairs teams compete on the Junior Grand Prix series highlighted by Brittany Jones and Ian Beharry earning a gold and bronze medal which saw them move to the Junior Grand Prix Final. The Senior Grand Prix season followed the junior season and Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje earned 2 bronze medals. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch earned a 2nd and 4th place finish which earned them a chance to compete at the Senior Grand Prix Final. During these exciting events our younger skaters were competing in various fall competitions and this was highlighted at the Western Ontario Sectional Championships. KWSC had 47 entries and came away from that weekend with 19 medals.

KWSC seems to have endless events and opportunities for our skaters and during these busy competitive times, our STAR skaters are preparing and taking tests while setting the same goals to be the best they can be.

The Canadian Championships proved to one again be a medal producing experience. Mary Orr and Anthony Furiano placed third in the Junior Pair event while Kirsten Moore - Towers and Dylan Moscovitch brought the crowd to its feet while earning a Silver medal in the Senior Pair event.

Following many of our skaters competed in many invitational events . One of these was the Futures event, which was attended by many of our young skaters. They returned from this event with new energy and having learned new things about their skating.

The competitive season concluded with many skaters competing at the WOS STARSkate Championships hoping to earn a spot at the Provincial Championships. KWSC had 8 entries at the provincial event this year.

The final high profile events of the season saw Brittany and Ian compete at the Junior World Championships in Italy and of course the World Championships in London, Ontario. Kaitlyn and Andrew recovered in a remarkable fashion and competed and earned a standing ovation with both performances with most people on their feet before they had finished the programs. KMT and Dylan continue to wow skating fans around the world and they had 2 exceptional program performances and were a huge crowd favorite and placed 4th. Both of these teams have their sights set on Sochi and the 2014 Olympic Games.

KWSC continues to identify and nurture talent from early talent identification through our STAR programs and Competitive programs. Special thanks to all the volunteers who make our events, competitions, and test sessions possible. The hours of volunteers is critical in a not - for - profit club.

Eistanzfest Lite 2012 We had a lovely afternoon of skating on March 23rd, 2013 from 1:30 to 4:30pm. We had about 30 skaters on the ice and enjoyed many dances. We had people from an hour or two around the K-W area. Skaters were again asked to put in a donation for the guest afternoon, and the results are shown below. After skating, we again enjoyed dinner at Golf’s Steakhouse so we had a chance to continue socializing for a little longer. We want to thank the Club, particularly Paul MacIntosh, for his continued support of this event and with his organization help.

Respectfully submitted, Carolyn Moss & Michael Plauntz

Recreational Programs After 2 years of piloting the new CanSkate our coaches felt comfortable with the delivery. Skaters understood the flow of the session better. Coaches have noticed the improvement of speed of the skaters. New signage and props gave our sessions a professional yet fun look. The value of meet and greet on the first sessions becomes more and more valuable as most members register on line now. The decrease in our maximum number and the increase of coaches on the sessions are assisting us in delivering great sessions. A big thanks to all our recreational coaches!!!

Carolyn Allwright KWSC Recreational Program Coordinator 8

Synchronized Skating The 2012-2013 season saw continued growth in the KWSC Synchronized Skating Program. A third team joined the family to provide a stepping stone between last year’s Beginner and Juvenile teams.

With registration for the Beginner team low, it was decided to train the team on the same Sunday mornings ice as the Elemen- tary team. This was done in order to reduce costs and keep the Beginner program going with hopes that registration would continue to grow. In the end, the Beginner and Elementary teams both registered 13 members and the Juvenile team registered 10.

The Beginner team was coached by Sarah Vollmer and trained for 50 minutes a week. The Elementary team was coached by Susan Ritchie and Volunteer Assistant Coach Jeannette Giffin Shaw and trained 50 minutes on ice and 30 minutes off ice each week. The Juvenile team also coached by Susan Ritchie, was assisted by Jeannette Giffin Shaw and trained Thursday evenings for one hour and Sunday evenings on ice for 75 minutes and off ice for 45 minutes.

All three teams participated in exhibitions and competitions. The season’s highlight was having all three teams attend EOS Synchro Skate in Ottawa in early March. The team bonding events, hotel door decorating, dinner with 100 plus skaters and family member and an exhibition on the “Rink of Dreams” at City Hall were all exciting parts of the trip. Two of the teams brought home bronze medals!

This season also saw the creation of an Adult program that was lead by Melinda Kunhegyi and a doubling in size of the Spring Synchro Skills program lead by Susan Ritchie. It is hoped that these two successful programs will allow the club to run a Beginner 1 and Beginner 2 team as well as an Adult team next year.

Next season the program is planning to re-brand. Stay tuned for the new name and look!

Susan Ritchie Synchronized Skating Coordinator

Test day report 2013 This year has witnessed numerous candidates that reaching their ultimate goals as Gold test recipients in their chosen discipline. To reach a gold level in any discipline requires numerous hours of training and huge dedication by both the skater and their coach.

These candidates show numerous positive successes in their outside lives, whether they are attending university, receiving special scholastic awards or winning medals in track or ball field. The dedication it took to reach the Gold goal teaches the skaters to work very hard and smart in order to succeed. Congratulation to all skaters and their parents.

When a young pupil starts with their first learn to skate and then progresses to the regular recreational or competitive programs nobody can predict how many months it will take from the first preliminary test to the gold level. We cannot see the daily struggles each skater goes through to learn all the new steps required for every new test. When skaters compete in a competition their success is measured by placements and medals, but this is not the case during test days. Their progress is measured by strict standards, strict judges and skater’s ability to perform on the day. Each test requires certain level of skating skills, performance, ability and music interpretation while having one person watching you very closely. Keeping the skater calm and focused is a responsibility of their coaches.

To keep current in the skating both the coaches and the judges attend numerous clinics to learn about the numerous changes that take place each year. It is very important that both the coaches and the judges be on the same page of interpretation. Many forget that the judges are unpaid volunteers who go to the numerous clubs because of their love of the sport. The judges often work during the day and then travel to a club for a long test day, mentoring, competition or a skating seminar. Our judging pool is getting smaller with fewer young judges staying past university education years and the older judges are starting to take more family time away from skating. Thank you to all judges for all their hard work and dedication to making our sport as great as it is.

The saying is that it takes a village to raise a child. Once young skaters enter an arena the influences are all around them, whether it comes from their coaches, older skaters whom they idolize, the judges, and the spectators (the parents). In order to raise a healthy skater we need to keep our environment positive and encouraging. A negative word can hurt more than los- ing a medal or failing a test. Stay supportive and positive.

Tatjana K. Poje 9 Gold Test Recipients Kayla Diebold Dance Sabrina Lezeu Free Skate Natasha Tymko Dance Yi Zhou Free Skate Tatiana Walker Dance Natasha Tymko Interpretive Singles Angie Qi Free Skate Tatiana Walker Interpretive Singles Jackie Sayadeth Free Skate Andrew McDonald Skills James Durocher Free Skate Christina Wang Skills Margaret Sarzynski Free Skate Jamie Cross Skills Matthew Wright Free Skate Katherine Fisher Skills Natasha Tymko Free Skate Natasha Tymko Skills Quinn Wilson Free Skate Rachel Gojmerac Skills

Twin City Hockey Skating School Overall the numbers in Power Skating are continuing to grow. We welcomed newly appointed Program Coordinator Scott Stra- chan who brought his energy and skills to the club. We turned our focus onto our younger skaters and added more Power 1 and Power 2 programs to accommodate our growing membership.

Registration for all Programs 2012-13

Program Spring Summer Pre Season Fall Winter Program Spring Summer Fall Winter Parent & Tot 10 N/A N/A 33 44 Intro to F.S 18 N/A 22 0 Pre CanSkate 128 56 55 294 425 Junior STAR 56 49 71 93 CanSkate 264 66 48 408 515 Intermediate STAR 35 37 combo 40 40 Learn to Skate N/A N/A N/A 49 102 Senior STAR 22 37 combo 40 40 Adult/Teen 10 4 N/A 16 31 Junior Comp 15 18 21 21 CanSkate Enrichment 36 18 N/A 51 77 Intermediate Comp 17 13 14 14 Rec STAR 27 N/A N/A 24 27 Senior Comp 13 21 20 20 Snowball Synchro N/A N/A 16 15 Comp Dance 10 10 8 8 Social Dance N/A N/A 8 8 Comp Pairs 4 10 11 11 Adult Synchro N/A N/A N/A N/A 14 Beginner Synchro N/A N/A 12 12 Skills Synchro Skills 21 N/A N/A N/A N/A Elementary Synchro N/A N/A 13 13 Pre-Power N/A N/A 15 23 13 Juvenile Synchro N/A N/A 11 11 TCHSS 147 108 44 200 253 Totals 190 158 283 283 Totals 643 252 162 1122 1524

TCHSS Rep Camp N/A N/A N/A N/A 40 STAR Skate Camp N/A 32 N/A N/A N/A

10 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 1st Emily D'Agostino KWSC COMPETITION RESULTS Women Flight 203 Apr 26-28, 2013 - Ursula Lehming Scarboro Skate (Scarborough, ON ) 6th Karen Hull Introductory A Flight 1 4th Blair Naughton WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 2nd Sarah Ryan Introductory A Flight 3 7th Ella Naughton Women Flight 204 Introductory Elements 3rd Ella Naughton 3rd Sloan Stark Flight 1 5th Blair Naughton WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 5th Valerie Hodgkinson Women Flight 205 Junior Bronze Elements 6th Marin Taylor Flight 1 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 2nd Sydney Embro Pre-Preliminary Women 8th Juliet Germann Women Flight 206 B Flight 7 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 2nd Avery McDonald Preliminary A Flight 11 5th Rachael Condon Women Flight 207 Junior Bronze B Flight 2 7th Marin Taylor 12.69 8th Anika Harper STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Maya ApSimon- 12.24 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 8th Michelle Lin Women Flight 3 Megens Women Flight 208 STARSkate Senior Bronze 7th Jamie Cross 15.63 Women Flight 1 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 4th Christina Peters Pre-Preliminary Solo 5th Blair Naughton Women Flight 210 Dance WO Pre-Preliminary Limited 3rd Greta Haas 7th Ella Naughton Women Flight 214 Senior Bronze Solo Dance 3rd Marin Taylor 9.78 WO Preliminary Limited 4th Audrey Scanlan Apr 5-7, 2013 - 2013 Skate Canada Adult Figure Skating Championships Women Flight 123 (Kamloops, BC ) 5th Kaitlyn Wells Adult Bronze Freeskate 4th Deborah Bennett 11.45 Women Class III WO Preliminary Limited 1st Nadia Vladco Adult Silver Freeskate 2nd Patricia Clarke 17.02 Women Flight 124 Women Class II WO Preliminary Limited 2nd Rachael Condon Adult Gold Freeskate 6th Judy Chow 14.5 Women Flight 128 Women Class II WO Preliminary Limited 1st Matthew Strome Adult Open Couples In- 4th Elizabeth Bauer / 25.07 Men terpretive Patricia Clarke STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 1st Mykhaylo Glazyrin Adult Introductory Inter- 2nd Deborah Bennett 15.94 Men pretive Women Class III STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 2nd Kalista Ho Adult Bronze Interpretive 2nd Patricia Clarke 23 Women Flight 114 Women Class II Adult Silver Interpretive 4th Judy Chow 29.15 4th Grace Smerchinski Women Class II 6th Hallie Clarke Adult Gold Interpretive 4th Elizabeth Bauer 37.88 7th Sophia Kagolovskaya Women Class II STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 2nd Angela Ling Mar 23-24, 2013 - Skate Ontario STARSkate Championships (Fort Erie, ON) Women Flight 115 Pre-Juvenile Men U14 7th Aidan Wright 12.74 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 9th Natalie Mallet 22.76 5th Sophie Strachan Pre-Juvenile Dance 2nd Angela Ling / Ever- 19.88 8th Grace Zhu est Zhu STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 2nd Emmaline Stark Juvenile Men U14 3rd Liam MacDonald 25.35 Women Flight 116 Juvenile Women U11 7th Anna Zhou 24.5 6th Ellie Chan Juvenile Women U14 6th Natasha Walker- 31.44 STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 3rd Faye Yang Tymko Women Flight 117 Juvenile Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / An- 48.59 drew McDonald STARSkate Preliminary 2nd Abby Columbus 3rd Ella McRoberts / 46.18 Women Flight 111 Grayson Lochhead Mar 2-3, 2013 - Eastern Ontario SynchroSkate (Nepean, ON ) Mar 11-17, 2013 - ISU World Figure Skating Championships (London, ON ) Beginner I Synchro 3rd The Little Gems 8.73 Senior Dance 5th Kaitlyn Weaver / 166.2 Elementary Synchro 9th Gems on Ice 18.78 Andrew Poje Senior Pairs 4th Kirsten Moore- 199.5 Juvenile Synchro 3rd Diamonds on Ice 32.8 Towers / Dylan Mos- Mar 1-3, 2013 - COS March Mania (Innisfil, ON ) covitch Senior Silver Solo Dance 1st Emily Wright 16.53 Mar 2-3, 2013 - Futures - Central Invitational (Ayr, ON ) Feb 25-Mar 3, 2013 - ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships (Milan, WO Pre-Preliminary Lim- 1st Eric Millar Italy) ited Men Flight 201 WO Pre-Preliminary Lim- 3rd Eric Dunk Junior Pairs 6th Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 147.97 ited Men Flight 202 11 Feb 22 -24, 2013 - Skate Canada Western Ontario STARSkate Champion- Adult Masters 2nd Elizabeth Christensen 19.61 ships and Adult Showcase (Aylmer, ON ) Freeskate Women WO Development Intro 4th Grace Smerchinski Adult Open Couples 3rd Elizabeth Bauer / Patricia 29.26 Level Women Flight 1 Interpretive Clarke WO Development Intro 3rd Sophia Kagolovskaya Adult Introductory 4th Deborah Bennett 12.65 Level Women Flight 2 Interpretive Women STARSkate Pre- 2nd Everest Zhu Adult Bronze Interpre- 3rd Patricia Clarke 17.02 Preliminary Men Flight 1 tive Women STARSkate Pre- 5th Grace Zhu Adult Silver Interpre- 1st Elizabeth Christensen 38.07 Preliminary Women Flight tive Women 3 6th Judy Chow 26.76 STARSkate Pre- 5th Emmaline Stark Adult Gold Interpretive 3rd Elizabeth Bauer 32.07 Preliminary Women Flight Women 4 4th Kayla Diebold 29.67 STARSkate Pre- 1st Angela Ling Pre-Juvenile Men U14 1st Aidan Wright 15.64 Preliminary Women Flight 5 Pre-Juvenile Women 8th Madison Snook 23.48 STARSkate Pre- 3rd Sophie Strachan U11 Preliminary Women Flight 13th Lisa Au-Yeung 21.06 7 Pre-Juvenile Women 2nd Natalie Mallet 23.4 STARSkate Pre- 5th Kalista Ho U14 Preliminary Women Flight 5th Martinique Stastna 20.85 8 10th Leah Boileau 18.33 STARSkate Preliminary 4th Kieran MacDonald 11th Jane Hallett 17.85 Men 12th Sylvie McGeown 17.77 STARSkate Preliminary 4th Cecilia Liu Women Flight 3 13th Heather Metzloff 16.92 STARSkate Preliminary 1st Darienne Shaw 14th Mariam Ibrahim 16.64 Women Flight 4 15th Nicole Chalhoub 16.58 STARSkate Preliminary 1st Abby Columbus 16th Sarah Harris 16.42 Women Flight 5 18th Grace Catton 14.29 STARSkate Preliminary 2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Mil- Dance lar 20th Carmela Busi 12.41 STARSkate Junior Bronze 13th Katie Fisher 12.01 Pre-Juvenile Dance 3rd Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 21.49 Women Flight 2 5th Abby Columbus / Matthew 18.47 STARSkate Junior Bronze 2nd Rachel Gojmerac 20.12 Strome Women Flight 3 6th Sophia Strachan / Kieran 17.2 STARSkate Junior Bronze 10th Nicole Kornelsen 16.71 MacDonald Women Flight 5 Juvenile Men U14 1st Liam MacDonald 22.86 STARSkate Junior Bronze 10th Nicole Gross 16.88 Juvenile Women U11 4th Anna Zhou 24.22 Women Flight 6 6th Samira Rechsteiner 24.02 STARSkate Junior Silver 8th Tanya Gatsak 19.85 Women Flight 1 8th Olivia Han 21.55 STARSkate Junior Silver 10th Kyoko Oliver 20.4 Juvenile Women U14 1st Natasha Walker 35.21 Women Flight 2 6th Angie Qi 28.98 STARSkate Senior Silver 10th Kaitlyn Wilson 23.85 7th Kara Hogg 28.46 Women 11th Joy He 25.39 STARSkate Gold Women 6th Tiffany Lenselink 31.35 Juvenile Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew 49.29 9th Emily Klymciw 28.29 McDonald Pre-Introductory Interpre- 2nd Jane Hallett 30.47 2nd Ella McRoberts / Grayson 46.38 tive Women Lochhead STARSkate Introductory 2nd Nicole Chalhoub 26.9 4th Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 43.48 Interpretive Women 5th Madison Snook / Joshua 40.2 STARSkate Bronze Inter- 5th Martinique Stastna 25.53 Mulder pretive Women Flight 1 Feb 6-11, 2013 - ISU Four Continents Championships (Osaka, Japan) STARSkate Bronze Inter- 1st Natalie Mallet 34.83 Senior Pairs 2nd Kirsten Moore-Towers / 196.78 pretive Women Flight 2 Dylan Moscovitch STARSkate Silver Interpre- 3rd Natasha Walker-Tymko 38.28 Feb 1-3, 2013 - Dennis Silverthorne Memorial Invitational (Dorchester, ON ) tive Women Adult Bronze Freeskate 2nd Deborah Bennett 8.74 WO Development Level 2nd Kieran MacDonald Women 1 Men Adult Silver Freeskate 4th Patricia Clarke 17.02 WO Development Level 8th Melosa Wang Women 1 Women Flight 2 6th Jeanette Magurn 10.79 WO Development Level 5th Cecilia Liu 2 Women 7th Abby Columbus 12 8th Darienne Shaw Jan 13-20, 2013 - Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships 11th Audrey Gasior (Mississauga, ON ) 12th Annika McKenzie Junior Pairs 3rd Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 126.48 WO Development Level 2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 4th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simp- 120.31 2 Dance son 2nd Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley Senior Pairs 2nd Kirsten Moore-Towers / 204.54 Dylan Moscovitch WO Development Level 1st Aidan Wright 9.63 4th Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 158.47 3 Men WO Development Level 7th Olivia Han 21.73 6th Taylor Steele / Simon-Pierre 131.33 3 Women Cote 12th Madison Snook 20.11 Jan 11-13, 2013 - Charles Dover Memorial Invitational (Grimsby, ON ) 22nd Leah Boileau 13.92 WO Pre-Preliminary 8th Sloan Stark Limited Women Flight 3 WO Development Level 3rd Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 19.09 WO Pre-Preliminary 4th Katie Zavitz 3 Dance Limited Women Flight 5 4th Sophia Strachan / Kieran MacDon- 16.84 WO Preliminary Lim- 6th Nadia Vladco ald ited Women Flight 8 5th Abby Columbus / Matthew Strome 15.29 WO Preliminary Lim- 5th Rachael Condon STARSkate Junior 7th Nicole Gross 16.89 ited Women Flight 13 Bronze Women Flight 2 WO Development Level 5th Annika McKenzie STARSkate Junior 8th Sarah Harris 12.92 2 Women Bronze Women Flight 3 9th Ruth Meyer STARSkate Junior 11th Katie Fisher 9.58 WO Development Level 14th Leah Boileau 15.04 Bronze Women Flight 4 3 Women STARSkate Junior 4th Lisa Au-Yeung 17.16 STARSkate Pre- 7th Grace Smerchinski Bronze Women Flight 5 Preliminary Women STARSkate Junior 5th Rachel Gojmerac 18.83 Flight 1 Bronze Women Flight 6 STARSkate Pre- 4th Hallie Clarke STARSkate Senior 3rd Paige Nobbs 22.74 Preliminary Women Bronze Women Flight 2 Flight 2 STARSkate Senior 4th Martinique Stastna 22.08 STARSkate Pre- 5th Emmaline Stark Bronze Women Flight 3 Preliminary Women STARSkate Gold Women 3rd Tiffany Lenselink 33.19 Flight 6 Juvenile Men U14 1st Liam MacDonald 20.09 STARSkate Junior 6th Marin Taylor 14.85 Juvenile Women U11 7th Anna Zhou 25.42 Bronze Women Flight 1 Juvenile Women U14 3rd Angie Qi 28.8 STARSkate Junior 11th Katie Fisher 11.82 Flight 1 Bronze Women Flight 2 8th Natalie Mallet 21.34 STARSkate Junior 7th Nicole Gross 17.41 Bronze Women Flight 4 Juvenile Women U14 1st Natasha Walker 29.05 Flight 2 STARSkate Junior 7th Maya ApSimon-Megens 16.26 Bronze Women Flight 5 11th Jane Hallett 18.97 STARSkate Senior 11th Jamie Cross 11.7 13th Joy He 17.82 Bronze Women Flight 1 Juvenile Dance Pattern 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew McDonald 22.39 STARSkate Gold Wom- 8th Tiffany Lenselink 28.11 Dance en 2nd Ella McRoberts / Grayson Lochhead 21.99 9th Brittney Cascanette 26.83 3rd Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 18.91 14th Emily Klymciw 21.38 4th Madison Snook / Joshua Mulder 17.48 Adult Bronze Freeskate 1st Deborah Bennett 9.65 Juvenile Dance Free 1st Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 22.54 Women Dance Adult Silver Freeskate 2nd Patricia Clarke 17.28 3rd Ella McRoberts / Grayson Lochhead 20.98 Women 4th Paige Nobbs / Andrew McDonald 19.84 Adult Masters 1st Elizabeth Christensen 19.52 5th Madison Snook / Joshua Mulder 16.84 Freeskate Women Adult Pre-Introductory 1st Stephanie Lockston 20.4 Pre-Novice Men Short 3rd Yi Zhou 19.81 Interpretive Women Program Adult Introductory 3rd Deborah Bennett 17.85 5th Matthew Wright 13.34 Interpretive Women Pre-Novice Women 9th Quinn Wilson 19.54 2nd Patricia Clarke 27.84 Short Program Flight 2 6th Judy Chow 23.51 Pre-Novice Women Free 8th Quinn Wilson 30.12 Program Flight 1 Dec 8-9, 2012 - Bill Phillips Memorial Synchro Skating Competition Pre-Novice Women Free 11th Jackie Sayadeth 26.11 (Stratford, ON ) Program Flight 2 Juvenile Synchro 12th The Diamonds 23.99 Novice Women Short 4th Emily Wright 26.23 Dec 5-9, 2012 - ISU Junior Grand Prix Final (Sochi, Russia) Program Flight 1 Junior Pairs 6th Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 145.89 13 Dec 5- 9, 2012 - Skate Canada Challenge (Regina, SK ) 14th Mariam Ibrahim 16.47 Novice Men 24th James Durocher 66.14 16th Grace Catton 15.55 Junior Dance 16th Jade Marrow / Benjamin 89.73 18th Sarah Harris 15.03 Mulder 20th Sylvie McGeown 13.71 Junior Pairs 3rd Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 125.18 22nd Carmela Busi 12.3 4th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simpson 122.42 Pre-Juvenile Dance 1st Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 20.49 Senior Pairs 1st Taylor Steele / Simon-Pierre 137.07 3rd Sophia Strachan / Kieran MacDon- 18.08 Cote ald Dec 5-9, 2012 - ISU Grand Prix Final (Sochi, Russia) Juvenile Men U14 1st Liam MacDonald 18.64 Senior Pairs 5th Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan 180.45 Juvenile Women U11 1st Olivia Han 29.37 Moscovitch Nov 24-25, 2012 - John McKay Memorial Invitational (Tillsonburg, ON ) 4th Anna Zhou 24.81 WO Pre-Preliminary 2nd Eric Millar 9th Samira Rechsteiner 22.72 Limited Men Juvenile Women U14 2nd Natasha Walker 31.04 WO Development Level 2nd Kieran MacDonald 3rd Angie Qi 29.35 1 Men 4th Kara Hogg 29 WO Development Level 3rd Cecilia Liu 14th Bethany Wilken 24.14 2 Women 19th Joy He 22.84 6th Darienne Shaw 26th Nicole Chalhoub 16.8 8th Abby Columbus Juvenile Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew McDonald 48.29 9th Audrey Gasior 2nd Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 44.31 WO Development Level 1st Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 2 Dance 3rd Ella McRoberts / Grayson Loch- 42.53 2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Millar head 4th Madison Snook / Joshua Mulder 42.3 WO Development Level 1st Aidan Wright 13.66 3 Men Pre-Novice Men 4th Yi Zhou 53.12 WO Development Level 5th Madison Snook 21.24 Pre-Novice Women 8th Sabrina Lezeu 68.9 3 Women Flight 1 28th Emily Wright 56.12 WO Development Level 1st Olivia Han 31.01 36th Quinn Wilson 48.45 3 Women Flight 2 41th Jackie Sayadeth 42.29 WO Development Level 2nd Olivia Han 27.44 3 Women Final Pre-Novice Dance 1st Laura Emery / Dean Holbrough 53.48 WO Development Level 3rd Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 17.59 Novice Men 1st James Durocher 67.44 3 Dance Novice Women 11th Stephanie Rechsteiner 75.28 4th Sophia Strachan / Kieran Mac- 15.92 12th Alida Morrison 75.16 Donald 26th Margaret Sarzynski 61.46 5th Abby Columbus / Eric Millar 13.62 Junior Dance 1st Jade Marrow / Benjamin Mulder 95.9 STARSkate Pre- 3rd Angela Ling Preliminary Women Junior Pairs 1st Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 121.87 Flight 1 2nd Shalena Rau / Phelan Simpson 115.14 STARSkate Junior Silver 7th Kyoko Oliver 20.07 Senior Pairs 1st Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 147.26 Women Flight 1 2nd Taylor Steele / Simon-Pierre Cote 126.31 STARSkate Junior Silver 8th Tanya Gatsak 20.15 Nov 2-4, 2012 - ISU Grand Prix Cup of China (Shanghai, China) Women Flight 2 Senior Dance 3rd Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 158.97 STARSkate Bronze Inter- 9th Eve Smerchinski 23.17 pretive Women Flight 1 Senior Pairs 4th Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan 172.36 Nov 22-25, 2012 - ISU Grand Prix NHK Trophy (Miyagi, Japan) Moscovitch Oct 19-21, 2012 - ISU Grand Prix Hilton HHonors Skate America (Kent / Seattle, Senior Pairs 2nd Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan 180.63 Washington US) Moscovitch Senior Dance 3rd Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 157.32 Nov 8-11, 2012 - Skate Canada - Western Ontario Sectional Championships (Paris, ON ) Oct 11-14, 2012 - Octoberfest (Barrie, ON ) Pre-Juvenile Men U11 1st Liam McKenzie 19.37 Gold Solo Dance Short 2nd Emily Wright 29.39 Pre-Juvenile Men U14 1st Aidan Wright 13.6 Dance Pre-Juvenile Women 14th Madison Snook 20.02 Pre-Juvenile Women U11 11th Madison Snook 17.48 U11 Flight 4 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 1st Natalie Mallet 21.73 22nd Lisa Au-Yeung 17.01 Flight 1 Pre-Juvenile Women 2nd Natalie Mallet 24.22 3rd Martinique Stastna 20.7 U14 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 8th Paige Nobbs 19.84 4th Martinique Stastna 23.88 Flight 2 5th Paige Nobbs 23.76 10th Leah Boileau 17.89 7th Heather Metzloff 21.43 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 11th Heather Metzloff 15.16 11th Jane Hallett 17.63 Flight 3 14 12th Leah Boileau 17.56 13th Grace Catton 13.78 5th Ella McRoberts / Grayson 36.75 Juvenile Men U14 4th Liam MacDonald 19.24 Lochhead Juvenile Women U11 6th Anna Zhou 21.95 8th Madison Snook / Joshua 28.18 10th Samira Rechsteiner 21.14 Mulder Juvenile Women U14 Flight 1 6th Natasha Walker 20.72 Pre-Novice Men 7th Yi Zhou 52.24 Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 7th Angie Qi 23.12 Pre-Novice Women Flight 3 12th Quinn Wilson 46.6 11th Joy He 20.27 Pre-Novice Women Flight 4 4th Sabrina Lezeu 62.4 13th Jackie Sayadeth 35.9 Juvenile Women U14 Flight 4 3rd Kara Hogg 26.62 Pre-Novice Women Flight 6 9th Emily Wright 50.59 10th Bethany Wilken 20.13 Novice Women Flight 2 9th Tiffany Lenselink 56.09 Juvenile Dance 2nd Ella McRoberts / Grayson 42.88 Novice Women Flight 3 6th Stephanie Rechsteiner 66.41 Lochhead Novice Women Flight 5 4th Alida Morrison 74.49 3rd Paige Nobbs / Andrew 41.71 Sep 13-16, 2012 - U.S. International Figure Skating Classic (Salt Lake City, McDonald Utah US) 6th Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 39 Senior Pairs 1st Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan 179.25 11th Madison Snook / Joshua 27.9 Moscovitch Mulder Sep 12-15, 2012 - ISU Junior Grand Prix Linz (Linz, Austria) Pre-Novice Men 13th Matthew Wright 48.96 Junior Pairs 1st Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 152.78 15th Yi Zhou 47.47 Aug 29-Sep 1, 2012 - ISU Junior Grand Prix Lake Placid (Lake Placid, New Pre-Novice Women Flight 2 11th Emily Wright 50.44 York US) Novice Women Flight 3 11th Alida Morrison 66.14 Junior Pairs 8th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simpson 119.67 Aug 16-19, 2012 - Figure Skating Boutique Summer Skate (Thornhill, ON ) Novice Women Flight 4 13th Stephanie Rechsteiner 61.03 Gold Solo Dance Short 3rd Emily Wright 28.95 Junior Dance Short Dance 3rd Jade Marrow / Benjamin 44.8 Dance Mulder Juvenile Dance Pattern 5th Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 19.29 Junior Dance Free Dance 5th Jade Marrow / Benjamin 51.42 Dance Mulder Pre-Novice Women Flight 4 4th Lana Splettstoesser 58.63 Oct 10-13, 2012 - ISU Junior Grand Prix Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany) Aug 10-12, 2012 - Summer Sizzle Invitational (Waterloo, ON ) Junior Pairs 3rd Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 134.06 STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 3rd Kieran MacDonald 8th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simpson 116.53 Men Oct 4-6, 2012 - Ondrej Nepela Memorial (Bratislava, Slovakia) STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 1st Abby Columbus Senior Dance 1st Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 161.38 Women Flight 2 4th Audrey Gasior Sep 21-23, 2012 - Isabelle Henderson Memorial Invitational (Paris, ON ) 9th Ellie Chan Pre-Juvenile Men U11 3rd Liam McKenzie 17.2 STARSkate Preliminary 2nd Andrew McDonald Pre-Juvenile Women U11 11th Madison Snook 21.93 Men Flight 2 STARSkate Preliminary 6th Cecilia Liu Pre-Juvenile Women U11 12th Lisa Au-Yeung 21.64 Women Flight 2 Flight 4 STARSkate Preliminary 2nd Sophia Kagolovskaya / Misha Pre-Juvenile Women U14 1st Nicole Chalhoub 20.06 Dance Glazurin Flight 1 STARSkate Junior Silver 13th Tanya Gatsak 18.3 2nd Paige Nobbs 19.89 Women 13th Sylvie McGeown 13.78 STARSkate Senior Silver 7th Kaitlyn Wilson 17.29 15th Sarah Harris 11.35 Women Pre-Juvenile Women U14 4th Natalie Mallet 22.58 Pre-Juvenile Men U14 2nd Liam MacDonald 20.89 Flight 2 Pre-Juvenile Women U11 5th Madison Snook 17.97 7th Martinique Stastna 21.33 Flight 1 Pre-Juvenile Women U11 7th Lisa Au-Yeung 17.55 8th Leah Boileau 19.67 Flight 2 12th Carmela Busi 17.15 Pre-Juvenile Women U11 4th Anna Zhou 22.82 15th Grace Catton 14.22 Flight 3 Pre-Juvenile Dance 4th Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 13.6 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 6th Natalie Mallet 18.2 5th Sophia Strachan / Kieran Mac- 13.3 Flight 1 Donald 7th Paige Nobbs 16.72 Juvenile Men U14 2nd Liam MacDonald 19.21 9th Martinique Stastna 15.03 Pre-Juvenile Women U14 6th Nicole Chalhoub 14.93 Juvenile Women U11 7th Olivia Han 26.86 Flight 2 11th Samira Rechsteiner 23.36 9th Carmela Busi 11.02 14th Anna Zhou 19.98 10th Sarah Harris 10.61 Juvenile Women U14 Flight 1 5th Joy He 23.26 11th Leah Boileau 10.02 7th Kara Hogg 22.59 Pre-Juvenile Dance Pattern 3rd Angela Ling / Everest Zhu 16.61 Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 4th Natasha Walker 24.86 Dance 4th Sophia Strachan / Kieran Mac- 15.22 Juvenile Women U14 Flight 3 1st Angie Qi 25.63 Donald Juvenile Dance 3rd Olivia Han / Liam MacDonald 41.54 Juvenile Women U11 2nd Olivia Han 26.19 4th Paige Nobbs / Andrew 40.83 15 8th Samira Rechsteiner 19.08 McDonald Juvenile Women U14 Flight 1 2nd Angie Qi 26.46 Junior Dance Short Dance 3rd Jade Marrow / Benjamin 46.85 Mulder Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 3rd Kara Hogg 24.66 Junior Dance Free Dance 10th Jade Marrow / Benjamin 50.25 10th Mariam Ibrahim 10.98 Mulder Juvenile Women U14 Flight 3 4th Joy He 22.2 Jul 24-28, 2012 - Skate Detroit (Detroit, Michigan US) 10th Heather Metzloff 11.94 Junior Women Short Program 3rd Brittany Jones 37.69 Juvenile Dance Pattern Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew 20.62 Flight 2 McDonald Junior Pairs Short Program 3rd Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 41.17 4th Olivia Han / Liam MacDon- 17.61 5th Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 40.59 ald 7th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simp- 36.02 5th Madison Snook / Joshua 16.38 son Mulder Junior Pairs Free Program 2nd Shalena Rau / Phelan Simp- 82.29 Pre-Novice Men Short Program 3rd Yi Zhou 19.55 son Pre-Novice Men Free Program 3rd Matthew Wright 33.77 7th Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 70.61 4th Yi Zhou 32.15 10th Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 67.48 Pre-Novice Women Short Pro- 13th Jackie Sayadeth 13.31 Senior Pairs Short Program 1st Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dyl- 59.47 gram Flight 1 an Moscovitch Pre-Novice Women Short Pro- 2nd Sabrina Lezeu 21.2 Senior Pairs Free Program 1st Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dyl- 116.67 gram Flight 2 an Moscovitch Pre-Novice Women Short Pro- 9th Emily Wright 20.6 Apr 27-29, 2012 - Ursula Lehming Scarboro Skate (Scarborough, ON ) gram Flight 4 Introductory A Flight 1 5th Ella Naughton 13th Quinn Wilson 14.93 Introductory Elements Flight 1 6th Ella Naughton Pre-Novice Women Short Pro- 3rd Lana Splettstoesser 22.73 gram Flight 5 Preliminary A Flight 4 3rd Marin Taylor Pre-Novice Women Free Pro- 8th Quinn Wilson 29.38 Preliminary A Flight 9 7th Rachael Condon gram Flight 1 Junior Bronze B Flight 1 6th Jenna Gascho Pre-Novice Women Free Pro- 11th Lana Splettstoesser 33.71 Junior Bronze B Flight 3 2nd Maya ApSimon-Megens gram Flight 2 STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 7th Ruth Meyer Pre-Novice Women Free Pro- 2nd Sabrina Lezeu 42.5 Women Flight 2 gram Flight 4 Pre-Juvenile Women Flight 2 8th Samira Rechsteiner Pre-Novice Women Free Pro- 13th Jackie Sayadeth 23.49 gram Flight 5 Senior Bronze Solo Dance U15 5th Marin Taylor Novice Women Short Program 4th Alida Morrison 24.28 Apr 6-7, 2012 - Skate Canada Adult Figure Skating Championships Flight 3 (Charlottetown, PEI ) Novice Women Free Program 5th Alida Morrison 45.58 Adult Bronze Freeskate Women 2nd Deborah Bennett 12.7 Flight 1 Class III-IV Novice Women Free Program 9th Tiffany Lenselink 37.43 Adult Silver Freeskate Women 2nd Patricia Clarke 18.43 Flight 3 Class II Junior Women Short Program 9th Stephanie Rechsteiner 23.52 Adult Pre-Introductory Interpre- 5th Deborah Bennett 13.95 Flight 1 tive Women Junior Dance Short Dance 1st Jade Marrow / Benjamin 39.87 Adult Bronze Interpretive Wom- 1st Patricia Clarke 23.04 Mulder en Class I-II Aug 3-5, 2012 - Indy Challenge (Indianapolis, Indiana US) Adult Gold Interpretive Women 4th Elizabeth Bauer 35.9 Class I Junior Pairs Short Program 1st Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 44.88 Mar 26-Apr 1, 2012 - ISU World Figure Skating Championships (Nice, France) 4th Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 40.4 Senior Dance 4th Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew 166.65 6th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simp- 35.86 Poje son Mar 16-18, 2012 - Trillium STARSkate Ontario Provincial Figure Skating Cham- Junior Pairs Free Program 1st Shalena Rau / Phelan Simp- 84.15 pionships (North Bay, ON ) son Pre-Juvenile Men 6th Liam MacDonald 2nd Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry 81.41 Pre-Juvenile Women 9th Anna Zhou 9th Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 67.05 Pre-Juvenile Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew Senior Pairs Short Program 1st Kirsten Moore-Towers / 56.49 McDonald Dylan Moscovitch 5th Ella McRoberts / Grayson Senior Pairs Free Program 1st Kirsten Moore-Towers / 127.44 Lochhead Dylan Moscovitch 6th Madison Snook / Joshua Aug 2-5, 2012 - Minto Summer Skate (Ottawa, ON ) Mulder Pre-Juvenile Women A Flight 3 7th Lisa Au-Yeung 15.49 Mar 8-11, 2012 - Ontario Winter Games (Collingwood, ON ) Pre-Juvenile Women B Flight 1 11th Sarah Harris 13.5 Pre-Novice Men 8th Yi Zhou 52.81 Pre-Juvenile Women B Flight 2 10th Carmela Busi 14.4 Mar 3-4, 2012 - Futures - Central Invitational (Milverton, ON ) Pre-Novice Women Short Pro- 9th Quinn Wilson 18.08 WO CanSkate Women 7 Flight 1 1st Sophie Strachan gram Flight 3 WO CanSkate Women 7 Flight 2 3rd Sloan Stark WO CanSkate Women 7 Flight 3 2nd Sarah Ryan WO CanSkate Women 7 Flight 4 4th Emily D'Agostino 16

WO CanSkate Women 8+ Flight 1 2nd Valerie Hodgkinson STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 1st Clarie Camilleri WO CanSkate Women 8+ Flight 7 2nd Sarah Peng Women Flight 3 WO CanSkate Women 8+ Flight 8 3rd Ellie Chan STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 6th Audrey Gasior Women Flight 4 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 2nd Kate Camilleri STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 3rd Lauren Davies Flight 1 Women Flight 5 3rd Grace Smerchinski STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 1st Darienne Shaw WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 8th Sydney Embro Women Flight 6 Flight 3 STARSkate Preliminary Wom- 5th Madison Snook WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 5th Melosa Wang en Flight 2 Flight 4 STARSkate Preliminary Wom- 4th Leah Boileau WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 3rd Allison Harris en Flight 3 Flight 5 STARSkate Preliminary Wom- 5th Grace Catton 6th Christina Peters en Flight 5 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 7th Avery McDonald STARSkate Preliminary Dance 4th Angela Ling / Everest Flight 6 Zhu WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 4th Emmaline Stark 5th Abby Columbus / Eric Flight 7 Millar WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 1st Joia Mendez 5th Sophia Strachan / Flight 8 Kieran MacDonald WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 4th Carina Leonov STARSkate Junior Bronze 3rd Lisa Au-Yeung 18.01 Flight 9 Women Flight 1 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 5th Brooke Schaefer STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Carmela Busi 12.47 Flight 10 Women Flight 2 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 6th Isobel Eso STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Vicki Luu 12 Flight 11 Women Flight 3 WO Pre-Preliminary Limited Women 6th Greta Haas STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Katie Fisher 9.01 Flight 12 Women Flight 4 WO Preliminary A Limited Men 1st Matthew Strome STARSkate Junior Bronze 7th Nicole Gross 11.54 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 5th Kaitlyn Wells Women Flight 6 Flight 2 STARSkate Junior Bronze 9th Sarah Harris 13.04 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 6th Audrey Scanlan Women Flight 7 Flight 3 STARSkate Senior Bronze 7th Kyoko Oliver 14.62 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 1st Nadia Vladco Women Flight 1 Flight 4 STARSkate Senior Bronze 5th Nicole Chalhoub 17.07 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 7th Jenna Tofflemire Women Flight 2 Flight 5 STARSkate Senior Bronze 5th Tanya Gatsak 17.38 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 3rd Sheila Afros Women Flight 3 Flight 6 STARSkate Senior Bronze 4th Sofya Hudson 18.88 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 3rd Jessica Borgers Women Flight 6 Flight 7 STARSkate Introductory Inter- 1st Martinique Stastna 28.82 WO Preliminary A Limited Women 6th Rachael Condon pretive Women Flight 1 Flight 10 STARSkate Introductory Inter- 3rd Natalie Mallet 21.82 WO Preliminary B Limited Men 1st Aidan Wright pretive Women Flight 2 STARSkate Pre-Preliminary Women 1st Clarie Camilleri STARSkate Bronze Interpre- 1st Natasha Walker 35.84 tive Women Flight 2 2nd Lauren Davies STARSkate Gold Interpretive 1st Meredith Ovenden 45.48 STARSkate Preliminary Men 3rd Andrew McDonald Women Flight 2 Mar 2-4, 2012 - Figure Skating Boutique March Mania (Innisfil, ON ) Adult Bronze Freeskate 1st Deborah Bennett 10.16 Beginner I Synchro 3rd Gems on Ice Women Juvenile Synchro 8th Diamonds on Ice Adult Silver Freeskate 4th Patricia Clarke 14.14 Feb 27-Mar 4, 2012 - World Junior Figure Skating Championships (Minsk, Women Belarus) 5th Jeanette Magurn 12.94 Junior Pairs 7th Katherine Bobak / Ian 139.89 Adult Masters Freeskate 2nd Ashley Hayward 23.28 Beharry Women Feb 24-26, 2012 - WOS Starskate Championships and Adult Showcase Adult Introductory Interpre- 1st Deborah Bennett 19.34 (Waterloo, ON ) tive Women WO Development Intro Level 2nd Kieran MacDonald Adult Bronze Interpretive 4th Patricia Clarke 23.84 Men Women WO Development Intro Level 1st Abby Columbus Adult Gold Interpretive 3rd Elizabeth Bauer 40.32 Women Flight 4 Women STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 3rd Larissa Lup Pre-Juvenile Men 2nd Liam MacDonald 15.24 Women Flight 1

STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 5th Cecilia Liu Women Flight 2 17

Pre-Juvenile Women Flight 1st Anna Zhou 22.49 5th Kara Hogg 24.59

1 Pre-Novice Men Free 3rd Yi Zhou 35.43 5th Natalie Mallet 19.4 Program 5th Matthew Wright 30.18 Pre-Juvenile Women Flight 6th Sylvie McGeown 12.69 Pre-Novice Women 9th Chloe Gaskell 14.77 2 Short Program Flight 1 7th Paige Nobbs 12.04 Pre-Novice Women 11th Tatiana Walker 12.96 Pre-Juvenile Women Flight 1st Martinique Stastna 21.47 Short Program Flight 2 3 Pre-Novice Women 7th Chloe Gaskell 23.62 2nd Natasha Walker 21.37 Free Program Flight 1 Pre-Novice Women 3rd Emily Wright 36.19 Pre-Juvenile Dance 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew 13.03 Free Program Flight 2 McDonald 2nd Ella McRoberts / Grayson 12.14 Pre-Novice Women 6th Tatiana Walker 31.75 Lochhead Free Program Flight 3 3rd Madison Snook / Joshua 11.05 Novice Men Short Pro- 1st Christopher Rennick 16.96 Mulder gram 5th Audrey Gasior / Liam 9.76 Novice Women Short 4th Tiffany Lenselink 22.52 MacDonald Program Flight 2 Feb 10-12, 2012 - Ontario Regional Synchronized Skating Championships (Kingston, ON ) Novice Women Free 4th Lana Splettstoesser 39.74 Juvenile Synchro 12th Diamonds on Ice 32.94 Program Flight 1 Feb 7-12, 2012 - Four Continents Championships (Colorado Springs, Colorado US) Novice Women Free 6th Tiffany Lenselink 43.62 Senior Dance 3rd Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew 163.26 Program Flight 2 Poje Junior Women Free 4th Alida Morrison 48.52 Feb 3-5, 2012 - Dennis Silverthorne Memorial Invitational (Woodstock, ON ) Program WO Development Level 2 5th Sophia Strachan / Kieran 7th Aidan Boileau 45.87 Dance MacDonald Jan 16-22, 2012 - Canadian Figure Skating Championships (Moncton, NB ) 6th Abby Columbus / Eric Junior Women 17th Brittany Jones 91.32 Millar Junior Pairs 1st Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry 149.96 WO Development Level 3 8th Natalie Mallet 21.93 Women 3rd Mary Orr / Anthony Furiano 119.63 10th Martinique Stastna 21.13 4th Shalena Rau / Phelan Simpson 115.57 17th Samira Rechsteiner 17.1 Senior Dance 2nd Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 174.53 WO Development Level 3 1st Paige Nobbs / Andrew 20.64 12th Olga Lioudvinevitch / Benja- 104.49 Dance McDonald min Mulder 2nd Ella McRoberts / Grayson 20.01 Senior Pairs 4th Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan 164.42 Lochhead Moscovitch 3rd Madison Snook / Joshua 18.21 Mulder 5th Taylor Steele / Robert Schultz 144.33 4th Audrey Gasior / Liam 17.75 7th Brittany Jones / Kurtis Gaskel 141.26 MacDonald Jan 13-15, 2012 - Charles Dover Memorial Invitational (Grimsby, ON ) STARSkate Junior Bronze 10th Rachel Gojmerac 14.53 WO Pre-Preliminary 7th Emmaline Stark Women Flight 1 Limited Women Flight STARSkate Junior Bronze 11th Katie Fisher 8.16 7 Women Flight 2 WO Pre-Preliminary 3rd Joia Mendez STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Jamie Cross 16.92 Limited Women Flight Women Flight 3 8 STARSkate Junior Bronze 11th Nicole Gross 9.98 WO Pre-Preliminary 2nd Carina Leonov Women Flight 4 Limited Women Flight STARSkate Junior Bronze 8th Vicki Luu 14.96 9 Women Flight 7 WO Pre-Preliminary 6th Isobel Eso STARSkate Senior Bronze 11th Kyoko Oliver 14.57 Limited Women Flight Women Flight 2 11 STARSkate Senior Bronze 4th Tanya Gatsak 21.7 WO Preliminary A Lim- 3rd Matthew Strome Women Flight 4 ited Men 6th Sofya Hudson 19.48 WO Preliminary B Lim- 3rd Aidan Boileau Juvenile Women Flight 1 4th Joy He 24.24 ited Men 9th Victoria Stephen 19.84 WO Junior Bronze Lim- 1st Rachel Gojmerac Juvenile Women Flight 2 2nd Angie Qi 26.71 ited Women Flight 2 4th Natasha Walker 26.21 7th Vicki Luu

18 WO Junior Bronze Limited 3rd Maya ApSimon-Megens STARSkate Junior Bronze 6th Nicole Chalhoub 11.49 Women Flight 3 Women Flight 1 WO Junior Bronze Limited 4th Katie Fisher STARSkate Junior Bronze 9th Jamie Cross 12.49 Women Flight 7 Women Flight 5 WO Development Level 3 1st Natalie Mallet 24.19 Adult Bronze Freeskate 1st Deborah Bennett 11.63 Women Women 5th Martinique Stastna 22.53 Adult Silver Freeskate Wom- 2nd Patricia Clarke 17.71 en 8th Samira Rechsteiner 21.43 Adult Masters Freeskate 1st Ashley Hayward 24.97 17th Heather Metzloff 14.48 Women WO Development Level 3 2nd Ella McRoberts / Gray- 10.44 4th Elizabeth Christensen 16 Dance son Lochhead Adult Pre-Introductory Inter- 2nd Deborah Bennett 14.94 STARSkate Pre-Preliminary 1st Lauren Davies pretive Women Women Flight 1 Adult Bronze Interpretive 2nd Patricia Clarke 19.99 3rd Darienne Shaw Women STARSkate Preliminary Wom- 4th Leah Boileau Adult Silver Interpretive 1st Elizabeth Christensen 34.61 en Flight 2 Women

On behalf of KWSC we would like to congratulate all of our skaters on a superb competitive season. We look forward to next years competitive season and would like to wish all of our skaters Good Luck!

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Athletic Centre Report It was another busy year at The Athletic Centre. The Athletic Centre staff continued to assume KWSC office administrative tasks as required and a solid system for tracking Slice of Ice and Guest Skate was established ensuring more accountability which resulted in higher revenue collected from these programs. Long Term Athlete Development has been more fully integrated into the off-ice programming this season with the offering of more Off-Ice Technical Jump classes some new classes including power skipping and Pilates and mixed martial arts training. Keeping with this theme a grant proposal was drafted to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport to request grant money to provide a program for our skaters focused on fundamental movement skill which is the basis for all athletic development. Younger athletes who learn to master the elements associated with physical literacy improve their general athleticism and have a strong base on which sport specific skills such as skating technique are developed. Part of the grant money would be to provide certification to instructors, staff and volunteers in Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) and the National Coaching Certification program (NCCP). We are still waiting on an outcome for this project. Some minor improvements were made to the Athletic Centre including the Ballet studio which was fitted with a hard plastic covering for the main wall which is a drywall base and was suffering from repeated damage due to skaters leaning on it to perform aspects of their ballet class. The base has resulted in a stronger foundation and less need for repair. Overall it was a year of positive changes for the Athletic Centre which will continue into the new fiscal year.

Dale Bellaire, CPTN-CPT, IYCA-YCS, NCCP II Athletics Manager

19 President’s Report

We have much to be proud at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club. Our recreational programs including our Twin City power skating programs successfully teach the youth of Kitchener and Waterloo to skate for fun, fitness and sport. Our relatively new Intro to Figure Skating program has surpassed our goals, and our synchronized skating program continues to build momentum as we head towards a projected five teams this fall. As in previous years our skaters have also proudly represented KWSC at the highest levels nationally and internationally with tremendous success. These are remarkable accomplishments for the little skating club that began in 1938, and grew to become one of the largest and most successful skating clubs in the country. Despite our successes, like all healthy organizations we do need to periodically take stock of where we are, and ask ourselves “how are we doing?”, and “what can we do better?”. In addition to the typical business of managing the affairs of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club, this past year your Board of Directors has examined its governance system and has implemented some important changes that will be critical for the future success of KWSC. Particularly noteworthy is a clearer separation of roles and responsibilities as they pertain to operations and governance, serving to empower our staff to focus on the operations of KWSC, while the Board can channel its energies on policy development and implementation, as well as strategic planning to leverage our existing strengths and map out our plan going forward. This change is just another incremental step as we strive to reach our full potential as an organization, and continue to serve the best interests of our skaters as our highest priority. This year the KWSC leadership team has also examined our training approach in our singles discipline programs. We can certainly boast many successes, but we believe there is still room for improvements. To this end, we are currently in negotiations to foster new leadership, collaboration, and team building approaches in our singles programs. We will soon be communicating to you some news about some exciting new changes that will be rolled out this fall. In this first year of my service to you as KWSC President, I have greatly enjoyed working alongside our hard working staff and coaches, and our dedicated volunteers including my colleagues on the Board of Directors. These individuals have worked as a productive team focused on moving the KWSC forward. I want to single out our two departing Directors Peter Joza and Bill Poje, and thank them for their invaluable service on the board, and also welcome our newest Directors Jodie Hancox- Meyer, Martha D’Agostino, Sandi Chalhoub, and Sally Heath. It has been an exciting year for KWSC, but next year promises to be even more exciting as we head into an Olympic year, and also celebrate our 75th anniversary. We have many special events planned beginning with an anniversary dinner on Saturday September 28 to commemorate the birth of our club when the letters patent were signed on that same day in 1938. I hope you plan on attending this memorable event. Details can be found on our website at www.kwsc.org/75.

Paul Mallet President, KWSC

Special Events: We introduced some new special events this year which were well received and we also recruited some new committee chairs which is always good for an organization. A significant amount of time and energy this past year has been directed towards the planning of the up coming 75th anniversary. A full year of special activities is scheduled and the following people will be playing a leadership role in the execution: 75th Anniversary Celebration Dinner - Marilyn Johnny and Alumni; Sectional Send - off - Jane Yinghoug and Paul MacIntosh; Sanata Clause Parade - Martha D’Agostino; FreeSkate Festival - Jen Mussleman; STARSkate Send - off - Paul Mallet and Paul MacIntosh; 75th Birthday Party (March 1—7) - TBA; Ice Show - Allison Smerchinski; VIP Reception - Sue Babb; Gala - Flora Cross, Lesley Cross - Germann, Maddie Germann Showcase: This year, the “off year” for KWSC’s big ice show, the club introduced two smaller scale events to celebrate the end of a great skating season. The first event, “Bring-A-Friend Fun Skate,” was held on Saturday, March 23, at the Carolyn Fedy Skating Centre at RIM Park, and it allowed KWSC’s recreational program skaters to bring a skating buddy for a free skate. The second event, “Celebration of Excellence,” took place on April 14 at CFSC and it was an ice show that included about 100 of KWSC’s STAR and competitive skaters. This show featured performances by many different individual skaters, pairs and dance teams, and synchronized skating teams. The show’s feature performers, Kirsten Moore-Towers & Dylan Moscovitch and Brittany Jones & Ian Beharry, wowed the audience with superb and highly entertaining performances that easily demonstrated why they are currently ranked as two of the top pairs teams in the world. With the success of these two events behind, the Showcase committee will now turn its focus to next year’s show, which promises to be the biggest and most exciting ice show in the club’s 75 year history…so stay tuned! 20 STARSkate Championships: On Saturday February 9 KWSC held a well attended and enjoyable simulations and send-off event for approximately 60 skaters competing at the STARSkate Championships. The skaters benefitted from a full dress rehearsal before a cheering audience in the lead-up to the championships held in Alymer on February 22-24. Skaters and their families were treated to advice and inspirational words by two guest speakers: Senior Pair national competitor and KWSC member Taylor Steele, and 1998 Canadian Junior Dance Champion and KWSC coach Rebecca Babb.

Sectional Send Off: Our Sectional Simulation was a huge success with over 50 performances and all levels and disciplines were represented. We also invited guests and were lucky enough to have skaters from Guelph, Preston and Ayr. We hope this idea grows.

Gala: On Thursday, May 23, 2013, KWSC hosted our annual Gala. We welcomed everyone together to celebrate the achievements of many of our skaters and thanked our volunteers for their services to the club. Significant volunteer award winners are: Jack Coker Award - Irene Earl; Mark Psutka Award - Joanne Kuntz; Volunteer of the Year - Carolyn Eckert, Stefanie Wright; Marilyn Johnny Award - Jill Taylor.

Freeskate Festival:

On Saturday, December 22, 2013 KWSC hosted our Annual FreeSkate festival. The date had been changed due to coaches request and was represented well by our 207 competitors. There was an outstanding number of coaches and volunteers to make sure the day ran smoothly for our skaters. There were a few changes to this past years events. Team event was no longer based on only skills performed but with the help of a coach mentor and a captain each team put on a 1 minute performance to music they had selected. There was also a new embellishment to the feedback each skater received after their performance. Overall it was a great way to conclude the fall season.

Seminar of Excellence: The Board asked staff to invest in our skaters by beginning to host a series of Seminars over the next few years. The first of these was held August 28, and 29, 2013 and was named “Seminar of Excellence”. Our skaters, coaches, and parents were ex- posed to three very talented leaders in our sport. Day 1 was the Manon Perron day and our skaters were able to gleam lots of excellent training ideas and techniques. The coaches hung on her every word. Train a skater and you train 1 person, train a coach and you potentially train hundreds of skaters. Day 2 brought the creative Gary Beacom. Gary was able to capture the imagination of our skaters and coaches and hold that attention all day. He is a very unique person with a slightly different twist on life than the average person. Gary had 2 sessions with each group and day 2 also included our STAR skaters. Day 2 also included Dr. Patricia Chafe, a leader in strategy and program development for Skate Canada. Patricia had 2 sessions with the coaches. Both were very well received and an evening parent meeting that unfortunately was poorly attended. Overall a great

Coaches Report This year has been another busy and exciting one for the coaches at KWSC. Many of our coaches attended an amazing seminar lead by Manon Peron and Gary Beacom and learned lots while enjoying the great energy. A few of our coaches have been lucky enough to take in some of the great coaching at the "Center of Excellence" and have come back and shared that knowledge with others. Our recreational coaches and now completely in the swing of teaching the "New CanSkate" and were outstanding in piloting the program.

Our staff has enjoyed some great successes this past season. Kristy and Kris Wirtz were recognized at our section AGM for their outstanding coaching by being awarded WOS coach of the year. As well many others have celebrated other successes, small and large. We said goodbye to two dear colleagues this year Bob Mackowski and Kim Biddiscombe and wish them only the best in all their future endeavors. We also welcomed a new face to our staff Melinda Kunhegyi. Looking forward to another great year in skating.

Rebecca Babb 21 Alumni Committee Annual Report

The 2013/2014 season marks the 75th anniversary of the Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club. This achievement is something to celebrate. It is the kind of event that will bring generations of skaters and volunteers together to recall developmental moments, memories of deep friendships and outstanding triumphs. Celebratory events will occur throughout the year starting

with a Celebration Dinner in September on the 75th anniversary of the day the letters patent for the formation of the club were signed. The alumni’s prime focus this year was the planning of the 75th Anniversary Dinner to kick off the club’s 75th year of celebrations. 75th Anniversary Celebration Dinner, Saturday, September 28, 2013, Cocktails 6 p.m./Dinner 6:30 p.m., Hauser Haus, Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, 101 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, Guest Speaker: Mary Jo Fedy, Slide Show and memories, Cash Bar, Tickets: $35 (No Refunds) This event is limited to 200 participants. Please share the news with others. Mark your calendars now. Tickets can be ordered through the KWSC website or from the KWSC office The KWSC Alumni Committee [email protected] Marilyn Johnny ( Chair) Al Dahmer, Carolyn Fedy, Joyce Haus, Chris Nanson, Alison Smerchinski, Sue Taylor

Grand River Skating Council Report The Grand River Skating Council is one of 9 regions that comprises Skate Canada’s Western Ontario Section. KWSC is a member of the Grand River Skating Council along with Ayr, Cambridge, Guelph, Hespeler, New Hamburg, Preston, Wellesley, and Woolwich skating clubs. The Council met on the first Wednesday of every month at a location that rotated around member clubs to exchange ideas, plan competitions, and organize skater development program activities. The elected KWSC representative on the Grand River Skating Council for 2012-2013 was Paul Mallet, and the Council Chair for 2012-2013 was KWSC member Alison Smerchinski. Highlights of the Council’s activities this past year included: -Launched a new website at www.grandriverskatingcouncil.com. -Sponsored a print media advertising campaign in Fall 2012 for CanSkate and all member clubs, including KWSC. -Hosted a Skater Development Day on January 4, 2013 at the Kitchener Aud. -Hosted the STARSkate Evaluation Day at the North Dumfries Community Complex on February 5, 2013. Organized/hosted four skating competitions: -Summer Sizzle Invitational at the Manulife Financial Sportsplex, RIM Park, in Waterloo on August 10-12, 2012. -Skate Canada - Western Ontario - Special Olympic Regional & Invitational Competition at the Galt Arena Gardens, Cambridge on December 1, 2012. -2013 FUTURES – Central at the North Dumfries Community Complex, Ayr on March 2-3, 2013. -In late December 2012, we were prepared to host the Lloyd Ogilvie Memorial Synchronized Skating Competition. Un fortunately the event was cancelled due to low registration.

The KWSC Board of Directors has re-elected Paul Mallet and Irene Earl (alternate) to represent KWSC on the Skating Council for 2013-2014. On behalf of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to all Council members and congratulate them for their outstanding work this past year. Respectfully submitted, Paul Mallet KWSC Representative, Grand River Skating Council

22 KWSC Trust Committee

The KWSC Trust Committee is entrusted with the stewardship & management of the KWSC Trust Fund’s assets. The 2012 -2013 skating year has seen increased activity for the Trust Committee. A Canadian Revenue Agency review of the Club and Trust was a particular concern as the Trust had always operated under the assumption it was non - taxable, but result of the review indicates otherwise. This also prompted the Board of Directors to request a Trust Review Committee be formed to review and update the Trust Agreement with the Club. Co-chairing this committee was a Club executive member and the Trust chair. This is an on-going project. The intent of this review is to ensure the structure meets the needs of the Club while respecting the original intent of the Trust. Several funding requests were made of the Trust during this period. The following requests were approved for funding: Costs associated with the legal and financial representation dealing with CRA audit. Representation (if required) to assist with the Trust Review Committee.

A line of credit to be used for 75th Anniversary events. A revision of the GST Relief funding currently in place. An extension of funding to 2016 and an increase in funding of $100,000.00. All funds entrusted to the Trust Committee are currently invested in secure instruments as recommended by Belmont Financial. The KWSC Trust Committee consist of:

Don Johnny Chair Sue Taylor Treasurer Mary-Jo Fedy Secretary Mark Psutka Member Paul Mallet KWSC President ______Your KWSC Board of Directors Board Members Returning: Irene Earl Skating committees/events/volunteer work Over the past 15+ years I have volunteered in various skating events, club Boards, and committees including: Sack- ville Skating club (NS): Secretary and President until 2004. KWSC (2005+): Club Comp Chair (multiple times), Showcase Co-Chair (3 times), Jr. Worlds as a member of the Opera- tions team, Skate Canada International - Organizing Committee as the Catering Lead, role of Director of Volunteers and Director of Recreational Programs.

Other Information: I have always been a huge fan of the sport of figure skating and was happy when my two daughters developed a passion for skating. My favorite mantra is ‘the rink is my happy place’. The reason I do this is to make a difference in young peoples’ lives by believing in them – even when they don’t always believe in themselves.

Lesley Germann Skating committees/events/volunteer work I have volunteered with many organizations including Girl Guides of Canada and Parent Teacher Councils. Within skating, it has been my pleasure to have had the opportunity to chair KWSC Freeskate Festival and Showcase on several occasions, as well as, provide leadership for Skate Canada International Competition in the areas of sponsorship/ advertising/concierge. I have enjoyed a variety of volunteering tasks on behalf of KWSC including assisting with all areas of competitions, organizing and staffing recreational program meet and greets and various send off events to name a few. My BOD roles have included secretary, president and past president.

Other Information: I was a skater with KWSC as a young child and teenager and returned to the sport through my own daughter's passion for skat- skating. My passion on the BOD has been to help provide an atmosphere where all skaters can achieve their maximum potential in their pursuit of personal excellence. When not at the rink, my other interests include running, yoga and enjoying time with my family and friends.

Joanne Kuntz Skating committees/events/volunteer work Organizing Committee and Team Lead for Back of House Operations for 5 international and 4 national competitions held in Kitchener Tech Rep for a multitude of regional and local competitions held in the area over the last 17 years President, Fresh Ayr Festival (local arts and music festival held annually) Chair, Entertainment Committee, Fresh Ayr Festival Chair, Artisan's Exhibit, 2012 International Plowing Match Committee Member, Regional Exhibits, 2012 International Plowing Match

Other Information: I have been a member of KWSC for 47 years, skated for 15 years, and have been a competitive judge and test evaluator for 35 years. I volunteer to make a difference. In my spare time I make pottery, enjoy travelling and spending time at the cottage with my family.

Paul Mallet Skating committees/events/volunteer work My BOD experience has included roles as a director, Vice-President and President. Other volunteer roles have included leadership committee roles with awards, volunteer management, gala, recreational program public affairs and website development. I also volunteer at many skating events at a section, national and international level.

Other Information: KWSC has built a reputation as a unique all-inclusive, yet high performance club. I am fortunate to have been able to support that achievement, and take great personal satisfaction in my volunteer roles at KWSC. In my spare time I enjoy hiking, geocach- ing, DIY projects, watching skating (of course), and spending time with my wife and daughter. I aspire to someday unseat Irene in her present unofficial role of KWSC’s no. 1 skating fan (the gauntlet is down!).

Jennifer Musselman Skating committees/events/volunteer work:

I have been a member of the KWSC for 15 years as a skater, volunteer, program assistant and a board member. I am a senior skater and thoroughly enjoy working and participating in the Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club

Other Information:

I am someone who is out going, passionate and a team player. I enjoy going to the gym, working with people and spending time with family. I have always enjoyed working with people and believe that I will be a great success as a KWSC board member.

Stefanie Wright Skating committees/events/volunteer work KWSC Volunteer – Showcase Committee member, and regular volunteer at club/local/regional skating competitions (2006-present) KWSC Athletic Club Member (2009–present) Waterloo Minor Soccer Club/Kitchener Soccer Club Volunteer –house league coach (2006-2010), league convenor (2010–present) Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society Volunteer (2010-present)

Other Information: I have two children who are competitive skaters at KWSC, so I have had first-hand experience as a skating parent at all levels, including Pre-School, Enrichment, CanSkate, STARSkate, and competitive.

As a former competitor in the sport of fencing I strongly believe in the notion of “sport for life” and I think that the “skater-first” philosophy must remain a priority at KWSC in order to give the skaters a desire to remain active in sport or other physical activity throughout their lives. Retiring Members of the Board: Peter Joza is retiring after a very successful 5 years on the Board. We wish him well and hope to see him in a volunteer capacity at future events.

Bill Poje is retiring after a very successful 2 year return to the Board and ‘several’ years with our advisory and former boards. We wish him well and hope to see him in a volunteer capacity at future events.

Coaches’ Representative

Rebecca Babb has taken on the role of Coaches’ rep on the Board of directors until the next election is made by the coaches of KWSC.

Returning Board Members Nominated for a new term:

Patrick Therrien Skating committees/events/volunteer work At UW, volunteered for undergraduate Psychology Students’ society I also sat on the Executive Committee as Charity co-chair and Vice President Administration Volunteered for KWSC competitions and events, including developing and delivering two competitive seminars

Other Information: Having been a competitive skater and employee involved with KWSC for many years in the past, I would like to return to apply my skills as an athlete and those I picked up during my university years. I’d like to help the club manage the development of our athletes and achieve our full potential as an organization.

Tina Weltz Skating committees/events/volunteer work Skate Canada Involvement: - Volunteer for various events including but not limited to: Skate Canada, World Junior Championships, World Synchronized Skating Championships) - Accredited Media Photographer at National and World events through Skate Canada and ISU KWSC Involvement: - Club Competition Judge and Volunteer - Showcase Volunteer and past participant

Other Information: KWSC was my home for many years where I enjoyed both being a skater and a volunteer. I would like to help continue the club’s growth for future generations and donate my skills and expertise towards a club that continues focus on the right programs and professionals that mix to create a solid and reputable product in the skating community.

New Director Nominees: Martha D’Agostino Skating committees/events/volunteer work Waterloo Minor Soccer Club coach and volunteer (1996-present) Chair: KWSC 75th anniversary float for the Santa Claus Parade Board of Directors, Waterloo Tennis Club (1996-1998) Organizer for "Victoria's Duathlon" & Charity duathlon (1993-present) YWCA Fundraising Committee (2000-2003) Member of KWSC as a child 7-14 years of age

Other Information: I have three children whom have been skaters at KWSC over the last 17 years, so I have had first-hand experience as a skating parent at all levels, including Pre-School, Enrichment, CanSkate, STARSkate. I also have personal experience as a competitive athlete, having been a member of the Western Varsity soccer teams (1984-1988). I was OUAA/OWIAA all star in those years and a member of the woman's Ontario Soccer team and competed at the First National All-Star Women's Soccer Tournament and Camp in 1986. I have always been active my whole life and figure skating was a wonderful discipline that helped in all other sports. I presently enjoy tennis, volleyball, running, cycling, skiing, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, canoeing and kayaking.

Jodie Hancox-Meyer Skating committees/events/volunteer work My children, Noah and Ruth, have skated with KWSC since 2003 (Canskate, Enrichment, Jr. Star, Jr. Comp, TCHSS) and I have spent countless hours “at the rink” supporting and watching them. I hope to become more involved on committees and in other capacities as time permits. Other Information: I am passionate about the growth and development of all children and hope that as a member of the Board of Directors, I can contribute to the overall positive skating experience and growth of every skater with the KWSC.

My spare time is spent walking and reading and, of course, driving my children around and supporting all of their athletic, aca- demic and musical endeavors.

Sally Heath Skating committees/events/volunteer work I am looking forward to my first year of involvement with the KWSC Board of Directors. I have served on the Canadian Adven- ture Racing Association Board of Directors since 2009 and coordinate the race insurance program for that organization. Other Information: I look forward to bringing both my professional and personal experience to the KWSC Board of Directors. In my spare time, I am an avid endurance competitor in a variety of sports such as ultrarunning, mountain biking, adventure racing and orienteer- ing. I have been actively involved with horses for 25 years and also enjoy SLR photography and freelance magazine writing.

Sandi Chalhoub No information available at time of printing.

75th Anniversary Celebration Dinner

Saturday September 28th 2013 Hauser Haus, Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex Guest speaker Mary Jo Fedy Cocktails 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Cash bar $ 35.00 (No refunds) Tickets available at the KWSC Office and the Athletic Centre, Or by mail using the form found at www.kwsc.org/75

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