Skating Club of Central New York Beillmann MARCH 2015, Bulletin No.2 *Hi Everyone! It’s that time for the newsletter again! This is such a great club to be a part of! Everyone is so friendly to each other and supportive! For many of us, our skating friends are a welcome sight after a long and sometimes stressful day at school or work! It’s nice to see welcoming, smiling faces at the rink. The Board is working on making our skating experience even better by refreshing our Safety Protocol and adding a music monitor starting the middle of this month. Exciting, positive changes are always in the works! *Skate Challenge As many of you know, SCCNY’s Test Session & Skate Challenge competition is coming up quick: March 20-‐22. Not only is the competition a great time to show off our skating skills, but it is an awesome time to show support for our club! There’s lots of preparation yet to do and lots of help needed on those 3 days. Many skaters will be coming from out-‐of-‐state and we want to look our best! Skaters can help too! Email Mary at [email protected] today & ask her how you can pitch in! *Learn-to-Skate Our Learn-to-Skate program just started their 4th semester of the year on Wednesday evening, March 4th with a 120 skaters enrolled! The groups are completely full therefore new skaters cannot be added. If interested in Learn to Skate and didn’t get signed up in time, please check the website for Saturday lessons which will start on March 28th. Nancy Saya, the Director, says the most exciting part of the Wednesday lessons are the number of high-level skaters that are enrolled in the groups…so much LTS talent!Please come watch the Learn-to-Skate synchro team, the Icicles! They will be competing in the Skate Challenge along with the other SCCNY synchro teams. Go Icicles! Basic Skills level skaters will be at the competition on Sunday too! Come cheer them all on! *Empire State Games Over the weekend of Feb 5,6 & 7th, more than 30 members from our club skated in the Empire State Games competition set in beautiful Lake Placid. Not only did our skaters make a great showing but they did very well – as almost every figure skating medal ceremony had skaters representing our club! The winter setting was perfect for watching participating in some pretty amazing skating but also was a lot of fun for toboggan rides, Main Street shopping, camaraderie, hamming it up for photos, and, despite the freezing weather… indulging in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream of course!! If you didn’t make it to “Empires” this year, don’t miss it next year! *Synchronized Skating The season has been very successful! At the most recent competition, Empire State Games, our teams again racked up several medals! The beginner team, CNY Chill and the pre-juv team, CNY Storm, won First Place in their divisions! Yay! The Open teams received medals as well, with CNY Blizzard Blue placing 2nd and CNY Blizzard Green placing 3rd! The medal ceremony was outdoors and the teams were invited to skate around the Olympic Oval. The synchro season is wrapping up right here in Cicero with all 5 teams from our club competing their programs at the Skate Challenge! Sadly, the very last time you can nd catch a glimpse of this season’s excitement is at the Ice Show, Sat May 2 … Then its time to look toward next year! Try-outs for the 2015-16 season are Sun, May 3rd. Save the date for Synchro camp too which is slated for July 15-17th. Check in with the SCCNY website for further info on both events. And don’t forget to check out the new CNY Synchro twitter and instagram accounts! @cnysynchro for both!!! Birthdays: March 7-Yimei Lin 10-Elizabeth Choquette 14-Mary Ficarra 17-Avery Muldovan 21-Alana Surowiec 21-Alex Suroweic 24-Maddie Gorman 25-Jailyn Glorioso April 2-Janani Casapit 3-Hailey Thune 7-Shelley Kline 12-Lexy Kerr 16-Michaela DiFlorio 19-Meghan Ferguson 23-Natasha Skidmore 24-Emma Turo 25-Abbie Ohlmeyer 25-Sam DiPirro 25-Jenna McKenzie 27-Maddy Turo 29-Aden Renfer May 5-Gary Jones 5-Erin Quinn 21-Stacey Cook 23-Lauren Masterson Get your name in the jar!! There’s a raffle at the skate desk!! Purchase your ticket today! You will jump for joy when you win that iPadMini2 1st place prize! OR your Kindle 2nd place prize! OR your $100 Target gift card 3rd place prize! Drawing to be held March 22nd! Good luck!! PENCIL IN THESE DATES! Wine Tour, March 14 Test Session Fri, March 20 Skate Challenge Sat-Sun, March 21 &22 Learn-to-Skate Sat sessions begin March 28 Next “Open” Board Meeting Wed, April 1 Annual Ice Show Sat, May 2, 1-3pm Synchro Try-outs Sun, May 3 Annual Banquet Date- TBD Synchro Camp July 15-17 • • Researchers at Brigham Young University recently designed and built an unobtrusive skate sensor that can measure the impact when a figure skater lands a jump—and it turns out they're absorbing forces up to eight times their own body weight. For comparison, when running your legs are only absorbing about two to three times your own body weight. For example, a male 150 lb skater can land a jump with the force of a 1 yrold elephant over 1,000 lbs! Heart Rate during a skating program is normally 195 beats/minute. Skaters will sustain this heart rate in a 3 – 4 minute skating program equal to an 800-meter runner. WOW! Source: Specific Athletic Demands of Figure Skaters- Edna Chang Grant- 2006 Happy Spring Skating! Please No Outside Food Consumed At The Rink Per Management Like us on Facebook! www.sccny.org Got Newsworthy News? Email Molly at [email protected]
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