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October 28, 2011
MISSISSAUGA Bryce Davison has a message for Hamilton fathers. He’d never say it quite this bluntly, so we’ll translate for him.
Get into the 21st century.
The two-time Olympian, forced into premature retirement by a severe leg injury last year, is now a teaching professional at Hamilton Skating Club. And when he assumed his new duties this summer he got first-hand experience with a problem he had known only from a distance.
Young Hamilton males don’t figure skate.
“Hamilton Skating Club has one of the largest memberships in Canada, consistently over 1,000 the last four or five years. And out of that, in the prejuvenile and higher levels, there is just one boy. He’s a singles skater. There are no boys in pairs, none in dance. We do have a prejuvenile and a juvenile dance team, but they just started out.”
Davison, who was 15 years old when he left triple-A hockey in Ancaster to concentrate solely on figure skating, has made it his goal to change that.
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