Prince of Wales SC

Skate Atlantica took place in Halifax April 13-14, where the top skaters from Newfoundland and Labrador competed against their counterparts from Nova Scotia and PEI.
Erin Maher won the gold medal in PreJuvenile U14, and Ashley Morgan took the gold in Junior women. Kaitlin Harte placed first in the PreNovice short and hung on for a bronze medal overall. Amber Boutcher placed 6th and Jenny Biles 7th in Juvenile. Nicole Chan placed 5th in Novice.
In PreJuvenile U11, Serena Piercey placed 5th, Elin Maskova 6th, Taylor Druken 7th, Anna Carter 8th, and Maria Downey 10th. Lauren Woodruff finished 8th in Senior Bronze.
Results

Congratulations to club member Kristin Brown who placed 4th, just 0.28 out of a podium finish in  the competitive free skate event at the 2013 Skate Canada Adult Figure Skating Championships in  Kamloops, B.C.
Results

Congratulations to Mikayla Fennelly, our only entry in the Junior Provincial Championships in Corner Brook  who won a silver medal in Preliminary Under 12

Twenty-eight Prince of Wales skaters entered in the 2013 Chatman’s Bakery & World’s Finest Chocolate Skate Canada NL Provincial Championships held March 1-3, 2013, at the Clarenville Events Center in Clarenville.
Amber Boutcher was presented with the Balisch Cup, for the most artistic performance.
On Friday, Dayton Fifield won the bronze medal in Preliminary Women Under 10 with Abbey Moores 5th, Rebecca Combden 6th, and Kathleen Curran 9th.
On Saturday, Elin Maskova won the Pre Juvenile Under 11 event, with Anna Carter second, Taylor Druken 4th, Maria Downey 5th, Serena Piercey 6th, and Chloe Whitridge 8th. Erin Maher placed 4th in Pre Juvenile Under 14
Jenny Biles won a bronze medal in Juvenile, with Amber Boutcher 5th and Mikayla Downey 8th. Ashley Morgan had two good skates as a single entrant in Junior.
Kristin Brown won Adult Gold Singles as a single entrant.
On Sunday Lauren Woodruff won gold in Senior Bronze, with Catherine Power 11th. Nicole Chan won the silver medal in novice, and Kaitlin Harte the bronze in PreNovice, with Lauren Stringer 10th. In Junior Bronze Women Under 13 Katrina-Lynn Picco wa 10th and Alison Randell 14th. In Junior Bronze Women Under 19 Laura O’Keefe placed 8th and Katie Goulding 14th.

Thirty of our younger skaters competed at Avalon Interclub in CBS this weekend. Congratulations to all skaters. Our medalists included:-
Gold: Gracie Lee (Pre-Preliminary II U9), Barbara Kate Cavell (Pre-Preliminary II U9)
Silver: Abby Pace ( Preliminary U10), Mackenzie Byrne (Preliminary U19), Jena Dyer (Pre-Preliminary II U9), Lauren Quinlan (Pre-Preliminary I U8); Madison Chambers (Pre-Preliminary I U9)
Bronze: Brooke Coffey (Preliminary U10), Makena Tucker (Pre-Preliminary II U9); Sarah Evans (Pre-Preliminary I U9)
In addition the following took part in the Canskate Skate to standard events.
CanSkate 4: Abby Cook; CanSkate 5: Grace Parsons, Heather Bolger, Jacob Billard, Jenny Myrick; CanSkate 6: Amy Learning, Gracyn Rowe, Ebyni Clarke, Olivia Wilson; CanSkate 7: Brianna Gibbons, Mary Ann Butler, Livi Allen, Katie Warford, Takoda Druken
Results

The club’s intermediate synchronised skating team Synergy, is competing at the 2013 Skate Canada National Synchronised Skating Championships in Calgary this week. The event is hosting close to 900 skaters and coaches on 48 teams from across the country that will compete for Canadian titles in the senior, junior, open, intermediate, and novice categories. After their first skate they were in twelfth place, scoring 36.72. They improved in their second skate scoring 37.35, and likely will finish 12th overall. Twelfth place equals their best placing in four trips to Nationals, but represents an improvement in that they were competing in a larger field (16), and for the first time finished ahead of two teams from traditional synchro powerhouse Quebec.
Congratulations to club member Nicole Burt (and former Synergy skater) whose Nexxice Senior team captured their 7th straight Canadian Championship, and qualified for Worlds.
Results

The 2013 Synchronized Skating Championships were held 16 February at the Jack Byrne Arena in Torbay, NL hosted by the club. Congratulations to the Princettes who won the gold in juvenile and were awarded the Cornell Trophy as best team. This is the fourth time a team from the club has won the trophy (Princelles in 1989, Synergy in 2009 and 2011). Synergy had a good skate as single entrants and were voted the Butt Trophy (most spirited and sporting team) by the other teams in the competition (last won by the Princelles in 2001). InSync won a bronze in Adult 2. Symmetry were single entries in Adult 1, but skated well with a score of 44.15, the fourth highest total in the competition.  Our other teams had excellent skates. The Lollipops were fourth in a strong beginner 1 group, and the Princelles were also fourth out of seven strong teams in Pre-novice. The Popstars finished 5th in elementary but were only 0.8 points behind the silver medalists. Thanks to co-chairs Dana Boutcher and Kim French, plus all the volunteers for a fantastic competition.
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The Club has a strong entry at the Eastern Divisionals competition, held January 19-20 at the Glacier, Mount Pearl. The club had a great result in Preliminary Under 10, with Abbey Moores winning the gold and Dayton Fifield bronze. Rebecca Combden (4th) and Kathleen Curran (8th) also qualified for Provincials. On Day 2, Kaitlin Harte won gold in Pre-novice, with Lauren Stringer taking the bronze. Mikayla Downey won Juvenile women with Amber Boutcher 2nd and Jenny Biles 4th. Erin Maher earned the bronze medal in Pre-Juvenile U14, and in PreJuvenile U11, Anna Carter won gold, with Elin Maskova silver, Maria Downey bronze, Serena Piercey 4th, and Taylor Druken 6th. In Senior Bronze Lauren Woodruff won the bronze medal, and Catherine Power finished 7th; both qualified for provincials.
In Junior Bronze Women Under 13 Katrina-Lynn Picco was the bronze medalist, with Alison Randell earning the final provincial qualifying spot in 8th. In Junior Bronze Women Under 19 Laura O’Keefe (5th) and Katie Goulding (6th) also qualified for provincials.
Other competitors included Junior Bronze Women Under 13 – Kayley Ralph; Preliminary Women Under 10 – Brooke Coffey, Abby Pace; Preliminary Women Under 12 – Mikayla Fennelly, Keira Hancock, Leah Peckham; Preliminary Women Under 19 – Mackenzie Byrne.
Competition schedule and results

Club member Julia Mercer and partner Wesley Killing competed in Junior Pairs at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Approximately 250 skaters in the women’s, men’s, pair and ice dance disciplines were entered at the senior, junior and novice levels at the Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario from January 13-20. They skated their short programme on Tuesday, scoring 35.43. On Wednesday they scored 60.35 in the long for a total of 95.78, and 8th place.

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Congratulations to all our skaters at the Mount Pearl Christmas Invitational event, and thanks to Mount Pearl SC for hosting this competition. Medalists included:
Gold: Kathleen Goulding (Jr Bronze U19), Abbey Moores (Prelim U10), Kathleen Curran (Pre-Prelim II U10)
Silver: Lauren Woodruff (Sr. Bronze U19), Barbara-Kate Cavell (Pre-Prelim II U9), Madison Chambers (Pre-Prelim I U9)
Bronze: Katrina-Lynn Picco (Jr Bronze U13), Rebecca Combden (Prelim U10), Skye Coffey (Pre-Prelim I U8)
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