22 - PRAIRIE POST - Friday, March 20, 2009
Sports
Swift Current skaters ‘Can’t Stop the Beat’
BY GAIL JANSEN In that way, says Gates, the club is more of a family they decide to try out to compete in next year’s Winter
SWIFT CURRENT and a team, rather than five individual programs existing Games.
Skaters of all ages will be skating to a different beat
separate from one another. For some of the students the warmer weather and the
this year as the Swift Current Skating Club puts on its
“While we are losing those four students as they end of the year Carnival indicates an end to skating, but
annual Carnival with this year’s theme: Can’t Stop the
graduate, we still have a number of skaters that will for many, says Gates, the season is simply on a short
Beat.
move up next year to have their own chance as program hiatus.
Filled with skaters ranging from ages three to 18 from
assistants.” “Depending on how the Broncos do, we sometimes
all five of the skating programs offered, including Pre-
In addition to the show the students put on for family have a Spring Skating School, as well as a Summer Can-
Can,
and friends, many students have also had a chance to Skate School, with September bringing our fall program,
Can Skate, Star Skate, CanPower Skate and the more
show off their newly-honed skills at a variety of followed by our winter program. There really isn’t a time
Senior graded levels, it’s an annual event both skaters
competitions including Skate Saskatchewan’s Regional where you can’t skate if you’re wanting to.”
and audience members look forward to equally.
competition held this year in Eastend, and the 2009 The Swift Current Figure Skating Club’s Skate Carnival
Says Carnival chairperson Jill Gates, who has been
Sasktel Jean Norman Competition in Kindersley. They will be held Sunday, March 29th at 2 p.m. Tickets can be
involved with the program for the past 10 years, it’s an
are two competitions that have built competitive skills purchased at the door and are $5 for an adult, $3 for
opportunity for not only the girls in the program to
into the skaters that will hold them in good steed should students and free for children under the age of six.
show off their skills, it’s also an opportunity for the
sports-minded boys of the program to show off what
they have learned as well.
WINNERS: The Swift
Current Atom
“We’ve always had mentors from various hockey
Icewolves had a very
organizations that have come out to help with our
successful season by
Power Skate program,” says Gates. “And this year we’ve
capturing their home
been fortunate to have five members of the Legionnaires
tournament as well
hockey team work alongside our Can-Skate and as capturing the
CanPower-Skate kids to help them transition the basic Southwest Minor
skating skills they’ve been taught into workable hockey
Hockey League Atom
skills. They’ll be a part of the show too, skating to The
regular season and
Boys Are Back In Town.”
playoff
While the younger skaters, who a few short months
championship. It is
the first time any
ago could barely even walk on the ice let alone skate,
Swift Current team
are always a crowd favourite, this year there will also be
has captured a
some solo performances that will be just as emotionally
regular season or
charged. For four members of the senior program, this playoff title in any
will be their last chance to skate in front of a hometown age group in the
crowd as a member of the Swift Current Figure Skating
history of the
Club.
Southwest Minor
“Once the kids graduate, they move out of the
Hockey League. The
program,” says Gates wistfully. “It will be sad to see
team is coached by
head coach Allen
them go. They are a big part of our club.”
Carey and assistant
In addition to the regular coaching staff of Trisha Feil-
coaches Dave Smith,
Johnson, Dorothy Gillis and Joanne Guppy, the club also
Bob Vavra and
uses some of its more senior skaters as program
Zenon Zemluk.
assistants who in turn help the younger students learn
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