More than 220 skaters from the 24 Greater Chicagoland Learn to Skate USA rinks partici- pated in the Smucker’s Skating Spectacular at 2016 Skate America in Hoff man Estates, Illinois, on Oct. 23. Two groups, ages 5 to 15, performed in the international showcase event. One group performed to the song “Try Everything” by Shakira, from the movie Zootopia. The second group skated to “I Love Me” by Meghan Trainor. Loni Bertone and Susie Wynne choreographed the programs.
Saugerties Club hosts ‘Skate and Paint’
The Skating Club of Saugerties, housed at the Kiwanis Ice Arena in upstate New York, held its fi rst Skate and Paint earlier this year.
“Sip and Paints are popular in our area so we decided to do a Skate and Paint,” club secre- tary Lynda Westlund said. “We never antici- pated the response we received.”
The event was open to 40 people, with 45 signing up, and a waiting list to boot. The event was open to adults and children, and local artist and skating mom Wendi Piper served as the event’s art instructor.
“Our coaches were on the ice to help out new skaters and, of course, we had lots of infor- mation regarding our club, U.S. Figure Skat- ing and the Learn to Skate USA program,” Westlund said.
Club members also baked goodies to serve between the skating and painting segments.
Registration fi lled up so quickly that the club decided to hold another Skate and Paint the following month to accommodate those who were not able to participate in the fi rst event.
“Our artist was great,” Westlund said. “She prepared step-by-step direction sheets for each person as well as leading the class. We had volunteers help out as well. She taught painting techniques, not just how to paint the picture.”
Westlund believes the Skate and Paint was an excellent way to introduce the commu- nity to the Saugerties club, which received full-club status last spring.
“Having a Skate and Paint was a great fund- raiser as well as introducing a diff erent crowd of people to our rink and club,” West- lund said. “Since this was our fi rst year as a club, most people in the community were unaware that we even had fi gure skating, not just hockey, at the rink. We left the reg- istration page from the previous Skate and Paint on our website. Throughout the sum- mer I’ve received inquiries wondering when our next one will be.”
— Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz
Three sisters from Duluth, Min- nesota, competed in three sepa- rate U.S. Figure Skating Regional Championships in October. Al- lison, Annika and Kjerstyn Hall competed in the senior level at their respective regionals. Alli- son, a 20-year-old sophomore at The George Washington Univer- sity in Washington, D.C., skated in the South Atlantic Regional. As a freshman there, she started the school’s intercollegiate fi gure skating team and encouraged 40 students to sign up. Annika, 18, is a senior at Marshall School in Du- luth; she competed in the Upper Great Lakes Regional. Kjerstyn, a 22-year-old student at Boston University, advanced to the East- ern Sectional Championships as the pewter medalist at the New England Regional. She also com- petes with the Boston University Intercollegiate Figure Skating Team. All three ladies grew up in the Duluth FSC.
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