What is the Thornhill Summer Skate, Aug. 15-17 like? My family and I are thinking of being in the area on vacation at that time. Is it worth our while? Thanks!
What is the Thornhill Summer Skate, Aug. 15-17 like? My family and I are thinking of being in the area on vacation at that time. Is it worth our while? Thanks!
Thornhill is a major summer competition, not quite as big as Liberty, but still pretty big. Skaters from other countries often compete at Thornhill.
Last year, these were the competitors:
8 Senior men, including a Japanese man
11 Senior ladies, including Turkish and Swiss ladies
2 Senior Pairs (one from the US)
5 Senior Dance teams (including V/M)
14 Junior men, including US and Korean men
48 Junior ladies, including Japanese, US and Korean ladies.
2 Junior Pairs teams
5 Junior Dance teams, including a US team
13 Novice men, including US men
70 Novice ladies, including US ladies
4 Novice Pairs, including a US team
14 Novice Dance teams, including US teams
13 Pre-Novice men
81 Pre-Novice ladies
2 Pre-Novice Pairs
11 Pre-Novice Dance teams
5 Juvenile men
50 Juvenile ladies, including Japanese ladies
3 Juvenile pairs
5 Juvenile dance teams
Thank You for the reply! I think I'll show this to my family---We all enjoy skating and this looks like a good one to watch!
The 2008 dates for BC/Yukon SummerSkate are Aug. 14-17.Thornhill Summer Skate: August 14 - 17th, Thornhill, Ontario
BC SummerSkate: August 1 - 4, Burnaby, British Columbia
U.S. Figure Skating is using COS Summer Skate in Thornhill (near Toronto) as a "Developmental International" for the second year in a row, along with BC/YT SummerSkate near Vancouver. Here's the link to the U.S. skater/team assignments for these two Canadian comps: http://www.usfsa.org/content/Develop...%20Results.pdf
Last edited by Sylvia; 07-09-2008 at 08:58 PM.
Some other competitions in September that could attract decent sized fields before the qualifying events of October (regionals) and Sectionals (November) - including Fall Figure 8 in Ottawa, and a new dance competition in Colorado Springs - Pikes Peak Classic - in September the week of the 22nd
Here's a preview article about the Liberty summer competition this week: http://web.icenetwork.com/news/artic...&vkey=ice_news
I believe this is Alissa Czisny's first-ever trip to Liberty.Among those scheduled to compete are reigning Canadian champion Patrick Chan, who won the senior men's event here last season, landing his first-ever triple Axel in competition; 2007 U.S. bronze medalist Alissa Czisny; reigning U.S. bronze medalist Ashley Wagner, who is expected to compete in the senior ladies short program event; and Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig, fifth in pairs at the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Competition schedule (Tue. July 15-Sat. July 19) on the host club's site: http://www.libertyskating.org/LibertyNews.html#schedule
Here's an unofficial list of just some of the skaters (most are in the U.S. team envelopes) that I've heard are scheduled to compete at Liberty this week.
Skaters scheduled for the Senior Grand Prix:
Patrick Chan (CAN), Jeremy Abbott, Ryan Bradley, Brandon Mroz, Rachael Flatt, Ashley Wagner (SP only here), Alissa Czisny, Evora/Ladwig
Scheduled for JGP for the USA:
Ladies--Melissa Bulanhagui, Becky Bereswill, Alexe Gilles, Brittney Rizo, Kristine Musademba, Marissa Secundy (all will compete Senior at Liberty except for Secundy, not sure about Rizo yet)
Men (all will compete Junior at Liberty)--Armin Mahbanoozadeh, Curran Oi, Keegan Messing, Alexander Johnson
Pairs--Castelli/Shnapir
Sr. Men, cont.: Shaun Rogers, Tommy Steenberg, Douglas Razzano, Viktor Pfeifer (AUT)...
Sr. Ladies, cont.: Blake Rosenthal...
Jr. Men, cont.: Grant Hochstein, Ross Miner...
Sr. Pairs: Evora/Ladwig, Katz/Lynch, Moscovitch/Moscovitch (CAN), Paulin/Shales (CAN)...
Jr. Pairs: Tanovich/Chau, Castelli/Shnapir, Moore-Towers/Evans (CAN), Jones/Gaskell (CAN)...
Check the Liberty club site for official results to be published (hopefully) during and after the competition (how often the site is updated will depend on how busy the club volunteers and competition officials are this week).
Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOO much Sylvia!!!!
Can't wait to here reports!!
Isn't Victor Pfeifer competiting for the US because I think he competed at Regionals last year or has he switched back??
Pfeifer is back competing for Austria. He was 3rd at South Altantic Regionals, but finished 8th at Eastern Sectionals. I guess he realized how difficult it was to just make it to Nationals in the US.Originally Posted by skatergirl45
Does anybody know if there will be videos from the event? Not bootleg (like last year of select skaters)... I mean... like Icenetwork...?
From Icenetwork :
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/artic...&vkey=ice_news
Jr. men qualifying competition results :
1. Alexander Johnson 172.09 1st SP 2nd FS
2. Keegan Messing 169.18 3rd SP 1st FS
3. Armin Mahbanoozadeh 164.95 2nd SP 4th FS
4. Grant Hochstein
I am sooo excited to hear about the ladies SPs
I was hoping to go to Liberty tomorrow since I live about 45 minutes away. But it's the hubby's bday and I forgot about it (YIKES!!) and we have to do what he wants...and skating is not one of those things. Maybe next year!!
Last edited by sillylionlove; 07-18-2008 at 04:36 PM.
I'm familiar with all these guys and now I can say that they take turns winning over each other. I'm sure it was fun to watch.
Alright, Keegan!
Rachael Flatt SP 'Moon River'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCu-ZmKV5o
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