Full article available at http://www.canada.com/Valley+connection+Battle+Blades+Disney/5428616/story.html
Valley connection to Battle of the Blades and Disney
COMOX VALLEY ECHO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Comox Valley Skating Club coach Greg Ladret has just returned from Orlando, Florida where he was a featured speaker at the 30-year reunion of Disney On Ice, a show for which he was a principal skater for 10 years. On the way home Greg stopped over in Scottsdale, Arizona to visit his brother Doug who was just about to head for Toronto for his third season as coach/choreographer/coordinator with the number one CBC TV show Battle of the Blades.
Most coaches with careers in excess of 20 years will have built up a network of coaching colleagues in many areas of sport. For the Comox Valley Skating Club husband and wife coaching team of Greg Ladret and Dawn Ladret, it is a real family thing.
Dawn began skating in Elliot Lake, Ontario. She continued skating as her family moved first to Port Hardy, and then to the Comox Valley where she got her first taste of coaching. Dawn spent her early years in coaching honing her skills in Whitehorse, Yorkton, and Gold River before returning to the Comox Valley. In her first 20 years coaching here Dawn took many Comox Valley skaters to Provincial and National Championships. Three years ago, after a threeyear break to spend more time with her children and pursue other interests, Dawn returned to coaching.
Greg was born in Comox, and at the age of three weeks, began a road trip that would take him several times around the world, and after many years, eventually bring him back here. Greg and brother Doug both began their skating in Powell River, and continued on to be national competitors, medallists and for Doug Champion and Olympian.
Dawn's brother Scott Rachuk, a former national medalist and well respected coach, owns the Competitive Skating School of Strathroy in Ontario, and acts as a consultant for other clubs in Ontario, as well as serving on committees for Skate Canada.
Greg's brother Doug, former Canadian pairs champion with Christine Hough (better known as Doug & Tuffy) coaches in Arizona when not traveling with his competitive skaters to events around the world, or working on Battle or the Blades in Toronto. Doug serves on committees for the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA), including the selection committee for US international competitors.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Canadian pair wins silver at figure skating junior grand prix
Entire article at http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/other/canadian-pair-wins-silver-at-figure-skating-junior-grand-prix-130003538.html
By: The Canadian Press
Posted: 09/16/2011 10:52 PM || Last Modified: 09/16/2011 11:08 PM
GDANSK, Poland - Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry of Guelph, Ont., earned silver Friday in their international debut in pairs at the third stop in the ISU junior grand prix figure skating circuit.
Americans Britney Simpson and Matthew Blackmer took gold with 141.42 points. The Canadians jumped from fifth after the short program to second with 132.54, while Tatiana Tudvaseva and Sergei Lisiev of Russia were third at 129.35.
Bobak and Beharry, coached by former national team members Kristy and Kris Wirtz, joined forces in February.
By: The Canadian Press
Posted: 09/16/2011 10:52 PM || Last Modified: 09/16/2011 11:08 PM
GDANSK, Poland - Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry of Guelph, Ont., earned silver Friday in their international debut in pairs at the third stop in the ISU junior grand prix figure skating circuit.
Americans Britney Simpson and Matthew Blackmer took gold with 141.42 points. The Canadians jumped from fifth after the short program to second with 132.54, while Tatiana Tudvaseva and Sergei Lisiev of Russia were third at 129.35.
Bobak and Beharry, coached by former national team members Kristy and Kris Wirtz, joined forces in February.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Kim still unsure whether to skate at ISU worlds
Full article at http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/
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Figure skating star Kim Yu-na has yet to make a decision on whether to appear at this season’s ISU Figure Skating World Championships. “I haven’t made a decision,” Kim said Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Korean figure skating queen made the statement as she visited the Staples Center, as it was announced that the “City of Angels” will be the host city for the 2015 Special Olympics. Kim is a global ambassador for the Special Olympics. When asked about her current condition Kim said, “I am in good form. I don’t feel any pain right now. I have skated two or three hours every day.” But she also mentioned she is not sure of participating in the worlds in France in March. “If my mind is ready for the worlds, and my body is in good shape, I will decide then.” | ||||
| yc@koreatimes.c |
Friday, September 09, 2011
On the cutting edge of national stardom
Full article at Full article at http://www.guelphmercury.com/
Rob Massey, Mercury staff
On the cutting edge of national stardom
Pairs skaters. Brittany Jones of Toronto and Kurtis Gaskell of Guelph and practise their short routine on Thursday at Skate Canada's High Performance Camp at the Hershey Centre. Rob Massey/Mercury staff Source: Mercury staff
September 8, 2011
MISSISSAUGA — Kurtis Gaskell of Guelph and partner Brittany Jones of Toronto are aiming to qualify for the Canadian figure skating team.
“Definitely to make national team,” Jones said was the pair’s goal for the season. “That was our goal last year and, unfortunately, we didn’t make it. For sure the national team this year and we’ll just go from there and see what happens.”
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Virtue and Moir ready to regain world ice dance title
Full Story at http://www.theglobeandmail.
BEVERLEY SMITH
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.—The Associated Press Published Thursday, Sep. 08, 2011 4:54PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Sep. 08, 2011 4:55PM EDT The rink is frigid, the handful of official onlookers buried in their official papers. But in this frosty milieu, Canada’s young but storied ice dancers, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, are showing that they are ready to break loose again, and regain the world championship title they lost last year. Virtue and Moir, the dominant Olympic champions of Vancouver, showed off their new programs in front of Skate Canada monitors and judges Thursday, who peered through the frost and wrote notes with gloved hands at a national training camp. The camp unofficially signals the start of the figure skating season as skaters prepare for Grand Prix events, national championships and eventually the world championships in Nice, France in March, 2012. |
Patrick Chan makes it to Guinness Book of Records
Read more at: http://www.theglobeandmail.
BEVERLEY SMITH
Globe and Mail Update
Published Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 9:25PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 10:06PM EDT
After setting three world records at the world figure skating championships last April, Patrick Chan has found himself in the company of a fish with 63 eyes, a Frenchman who spat a periwinkle 10.4 metres, and a Brit who flipped and caught 70 beer mats in a minute.
He’s now listed in the Guinness World Records. Three times.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Korean figure skating team signs first foreign coach
Full story at:
http://www.koreaherald.com/sports/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110907000730
http://www.koreaherald.com/sports/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110907000730
2011-09-07 18:44
South Korea has signed the first foreign coach for its national figure skating team in hopes of bolstering its medal prospects for the upcoming Winter Olympics, the sport’s national governing body said Wednesday.
Korea Skating Union said Sergei Astashev from Russia will be guiding the national team skaters. The KSU said personal coaches for some skaters will try to work out their scheduling with the new coach.
Korea Skating Union said Sergei Astashev from Russia will be guiding the national team skaters. The KSU said personal coaches for some skaters will try to work out their scheduling with the new coach.
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| Sergei Astashev |
Plushenko Is Fighting With Old Injuries
Read more at: http://technorati.com/sports/
After the disqualification, two operations on his knee and the meniscus Evgeni Plushenko is back to the big sport.
Skate Canada International Canadian Line-up Finalized
Full Article at http://www.skatecanada.ca/
6/6/2011OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada announced today the remaining Canadian entries for the 2011 Skate Canada International in Mississauga, Ontario from October 27-30, 2011 at the Hershey Centre.
Elladj Baldé, 20, Pierrefonds, Que., is the third entry for Canada in the men’s discipline. This will be his first senior grand prix appearance. He previously competed on the junior circuit in 2008.
Adriana DeSanctis, 23, Barrie, Ont., will compete at her first senior grand prix assignment in Mississauga in the ladies category. DeSanctis made the Skate Canada National Team after placing fifth at the national championships in January 2011.
Jessica Dubé, 23, St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Que., and Sébastien Wolfe, 21, Terrebonne, Que., are the third entry in pair for Canada. This will be their first senior grand prix competition together. They both previously competed internationally with different partners.
National Team members Tarrah Harvey, 21, Vancouver, B.C., and Keith Gagnon, 23, South Surrey, B.C., are the third entry for Canada in ice dance. This is their debut on the senior circuit after competition on the junior circuit in 2008 and 2007.
Friday, September 02, 2011
See ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating on YouTube
http://www.sportcentric.com/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-314625-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
02 Sep 2011 08:02
02 Sep 2011 08:02
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Volvo Cup 2011 is now available via the ISU YouTube Channel. Click here to watch the Event.
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