MASTERS GOLD Esprit de Corps
SILVER DC Edge
2013 U.S. SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS BRONZE
Denver Synchronicity
PEWTER Allegro!
Esprit de Corps casts a winning spell by JOSH ELLIS
After their “Black Magic” performance, one of the Esprit de Corps skaters carried a broom with her backstage at the 2013 U.S. Synchro- nized Skating Championships, which was fi tting, because they swept away the competition. Receiving two-thirds of the fi rst-place or-
dinals in the 6.0-system event, Esprit de Corps was the class of the competition and coach Dede Wilson couldn’t have been happier. “I thought it was beautiful,” Wilson said. “T ey were so calm and so ready. T ey really put
Esprit de Corps
it out there and it was exciting to watch.” Skating in black and purple witch costumes, the team that skates at the Hayden Recreation Centre was magical on the ice in what is a family aff air. Several members of the team are parents to skaters on other teams that competed in Plym- outh, Mich. “I think it’s fabulous,” Wilson said of the family connections they have on the team. “Skat- ing is something that just gets in your blood and becomes contagious, so I’m not surprised it goes
from mother to daughter.” Earning the silver medal was DC EDGE. It
received one fi rst-place ordinal as well as four sec- ond-place votes. Skating in 1960s-style red dress- es with polka dots, DC EDGE glided around with ease to its Hairspray selection of music. “I thought it was a really nice skate,” coach
Jenny DeSimone said. “T ere was a lot of energy and they have a lot of fun with this program and I think that showed.” Matching the personality of the team, the fun and upbeat program really gelled with the group and that’s what made it successful, DeSim- one added. Experience paid off for Denver Synchronic- ity as it skated to the bronze medal. With three skaters appearing in their 20th U.S. Synchro- nized Skating Championships, coach Caitlin Balch-Burnett thinks that, along with how cohe- sive a group it is, helped the team’s performance. “T is group of women come together every
year and even if there are new skaters they’re wel- comed in as a family. T ey really become a bunch of sisters with each other,” Balch-Burnett said. Skating close to home and in front of hun-
dreds of its fans, Allegro! took home the pewter medal. “It was a dream of ours, since they an-
nounced where the championships would be, to perform this program at home,” coach Carrie Brown said. “To have our family and friends here cheering us on, we couldn’t have asked for more.”
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