This is not surprising. It is a very SMALL club (I believe the president told me it's ~ 50 total members when I talked to him before). They hosted US Adult Nationals in 2011 and got lots of outside help from other Olympic sport groups in SLC for their volunteer base (and I believe they had the "volunteer list" from 2002 Olympics, too, that they contacted for help). Considering this begins on Wednesday and their skaters are in school, it will be hard to get them there to work it. I bet they have Saturday's and Sunday's work schedule full (and likely even Friday evening).As of today - one week before the official practice day - Salt Lake Figure Skating's Facebook page indicates that the club still is begging and begging its members to volunteer to help during the competition.
I realize that this competition is new, but the subtext seems to be that the rank-and-file club members are underwhelmed by the opportunity to participate in a senior international event. hwell:
Sorry if my previous post about volunteers was unwarranted. Glad that the club has plenty of outside resources too.
To redeem myself (I hope), here are:
- a competition preview (mostly about ice dance, with a brief mention of pairs) from IN
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120912&content_id=38310398&vkey=ice_news
- USFSA's competition notes re Team USA
http://skatingmagazineblog.com/2012/09/11/2012-u-s-international-figure-skating-classic-notes/
Congrats to Chock and Bates! I can't wait to see videos from this! It looks like this is a new personal best for Chock and Bates by 8.98 point. They have got to be really happy with that. (previous PB was 53.91 at Finlandia) I'll be interested to see if these scores seem at all inflated to others but either way what a great score for them.
IN also is posting photos from SLC:
- Backstage gallery (only five photos so far; #3 is Shpilband + Judy Blumberg in K and C with novice dancers)