At the Skate Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Skate Ashley Morgan won gold in both novice short and long. Dylan Short won silver medals in prenovice short and long. Nicole Chan won a bronze medal in prenovice short. Julia Howley, Kaitlin Harte, Breauna Miller, Amber Boutcher and Jenny Biles were also competing.
The Newfoundland & Labrador Winter games took place in Grand Falls-Windsor, March 20-23, 2010. Congratulations to all our skaters! Maggie Walsh won gold in Junior Silver, Kayla Kennedy placed 2nd in Open Women, Nicole Chan won a bronze medal in PreNovice, Dylan Short won bronze in Open Men, and Gillian Bowering finished 4th in Junior Bronze. Philip McDermott won gold and Sandy Walsh silver in Senior Bronze men.
Avalon Interclub took place on Bell Island. Congratulations to all our skaters on some great perforemances! Our medalists include:-
Gold: Maria Downey (Canskate Stage 6 – 8 Years & Younger); Claire Bennett (Canskate Stage 5 – 6 Years & Younger); Gillian Stevens (Canskate Stage 5 – 8 Years); Catherine Guzzwell (Canskate Stage 4 – 8 Years); Gregory Jackman (Pre‐Preliminary Ii – 10 Years & Older); Popsicles Synchro Team
Silver: Katrina-Lynn Picco (Pre‐Preliminary I – 8 Years & Younger); Sydney Walsh (Pre‐Preliminary I – 9 Years); Heidi Jane Dunphy (Pre‐Preliminary I – 10 Years & Older); Rebecca Combden (Canskate Stage 4 – 6 Years & Younger); Mackenzie Thornhill (Canskate Stage 4 – 9 Years)
Bronze: Marrian Kamel ( Preliminary 10 Years & Older); Elin Maskova (Pre‐Preliminary I – 8 Years & Younger); Laura Murray (Canskate Stage 5 – 7 Years); Hilary Modir (Canskate Stage 5 – 10 Years & Older); Dayton Fifield (Canskate Stage 4 – 6 Years & Younger); Anna Carter (Canskate Stage 4 – 7 Years)
Full results
Synergy
Synergy, Prince of Wales Skating Club’s intermediate synchro team competed at the 2010 BMO Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships. They are the first team from Newfoundland and Labrador to skate at nationals since 2003, and we believe the first team from Prince of Wales. They scored 39.19 in their first skate, and in their second skate they improved to score 45.28, for a total of 64.88.
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Congratulations to our skaters who competed at the Junior Provincial Championships in Clarenville this weekend and earned the Thistle Shield for club with most points, along with twelve medals. The Thistle Shield was presented to the section by the club seven years ago to honour the achievements of Agnes Thistle, long time club member, and this is the first time the club has won the award. In Saturday’s results Laura Murray won a gold in Canskate 5 – 7 years, and Gillian Stevens a bronze in Canskate 5- 8 years. Maria Downey finished 6th in CanSkate 6-7 years. Taylor Druken won gold in Prepreliminary 1- 7 years with Serna Piercey silver. Ashley Stringer won gold and Katrina-Lynn Picco placed third in Prepreliminary 1 – 8 years.
On Sunday Amber Boutcher and Mikayla Downey won gold in preliminary 9 and younger, with Jenny Biles silver, Lauren Woodruff bronze, Grace Clarke 4th and Catherine Power 6th. Janel Hancock placed 5th in Preliminary 10 years. Emma Murray won gold in pre-preliminary 1 – 9 years, and Erin McKinnon bronze in pre-preliminary 1- 10 years.
The 2010 Lamontagne Skate Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Provincials was held February 12-14, 2010 in Gander. The club had a very successful event, with 15 medals. Notably Ashley Morgan, Maggie Walsh, Dylan Short, Kayla Kennedy and Sandy Walsh won Provincial Championships. Photos now on-line below.
The club’s Intermediate synchro team Synergy competed in the Atlantic Regional Synchro Championships in Riverview New Brunswick. As single entrants they automatically qualify for Canadian Nationals by taking part but had an excellent skate scoring 46.12 in their first skate, and 44.45 in the second.
Synergy are operating the canteen at Feildian Gardens on Saturdays, and selling tickets on a gold bangle to raise funds for their travel. Synergy thank Avalon Ford, Canadian Tire (Kelsey Drive) and the Avalon Region for their support.
Photos from competition and their dress rehearsal practice follow
Congratulations to former club member Allie Hann-McCurdy and her partner Michael Coreno on their silver medal at the Four Continents Championships in Korea. Allie was a Canskater with the club before moving to BC.
Ruth Noel is presented with the Sis Reid volunteer award
The club hosted a very successful Avalon Regionals competition, January 9 to 10 at the Jack Byrne arena, Torbay. Ruth Noel was presented with the Sis Reid award for volunteer efforts.
Club medalists included Ashley Morgan, Lauren Stringer, Philip McDermott, Dylan Short, Taylor Druken, Sophia Stylianides, Erin Maher and Ashley Stringer (gold), Gillian Bowering, Catherine Barrett, Kaitlin Harte, Maggie Walsh, Julia Howley (silver) and Olivia Drover-Martin, Hannah Budgell, Emma Murray and Erin McKinnon (bronze).
Others taking part included Samantha Scurrey, Holly Burford, Laura Couturier, Caroline Flynn, Meghan Murphy, Laura O’Keefe (Pre-Preliminary); Jenny Biles, Grace Clarke, Mikayla Downey, Catherine Power, Amber Boutcher, Lauren Woodruff, Kathleen Goulding, Megan Lawlor, Mackenzie Woodfine, Sarah Jane Downton, Julia O’Keefe, Laura Stevens (Preliminary); Julia Planke, (Senior Bronze); Dylan Short, Kayla Kennedy, Julia Howley, Breauna Miller, Nicole Burt (Open). A very big thank you to Kim French, the organizing committee and all the volunteers for a job well done!!
The 2010 Skate Canada Western & Eastern Challenge took place Mississauga, Ontario at the Hershey Centre from December 2-6, 2009. Ashley Morgan (PreNovice) placed 25th out of 53 skaters with a score of 67.02. In Novice women, Julia Mercer finished 25th with a score of 77.27, Stephanie Fagan 43rd (65.46) & Nicole Burt 50th (60.40). Club members Corey and Ryan Sutherland; and Karen Hillyard officiated at the event.
Results
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