Nashville Blade Volume Two February 2015

NASHVILLE FIGURE SKATING CLUB
BLADE
USFS Nationals
LATE WINTER, 2015
VOLUME TWO
The U.S. Figure Skating Nationals were held in Greensboro, NC in January. The Nashville Figure Skating Club proudly cheered on two of its pairs’ teams. Linde LaChance and Kenneth Anderson
skated in the Junior Pairs Competition. Kristin Lyle George and Jake Pagano skated in the Juvenile Pairs Competition.
Linde and Kenneth have been skating together for nine years and this was their seventh trip to Nationals. They are currently the longest-­‐tenured active pair team still skating together in USFS. This was their Hirst year at the Junior level and they placed 9th; skated two clean programs, and achieved a career high score of 111.03.
Kristin Lyle and Jake skated in their second Nationals and earned the 5th place Hinish. They too, were thrilled with their programs and personal
best score of 34.12 Both teams enjoyed the competition and said that it was thrilling to compete at Nationals and represent NFSC. They wish to thank their coaches, choreographers, trainers, and NFSC teammates for all the
support and encouragement. Congratulations to both teams on a wonderful season, you make NFSC so proud!!
Kristin Lyle & Jake
Junior Pairs Team in Greensboro
Linde & Kenneth
USFS Tests Passed on
January 30, 2015
Emily Finchem Intermediate Freeskate
Alyssa Stump European Waltz
USFS Adult Nationals:
Best wishes to Lisa
Sheehan-Smith who
will be representing
NFSC at Adult
Nationals on April 14 18, 2015, in Salt Lake
City.
Skate Great Lisa!
CONGRATS TO:
Ching Ching Zhang
2015 SEGL Financial
Aid Award.
Skater Spotlight - Elise Pierce
Elise Pierce has been skating since she was 10
years old. She began skating because one of her
friends had started skating. Her friend soon
quit and Elise continued taking lessons; she
found that she loved skating.
Elise is 15 years old and skates at the Juvenile
level. Her favorite thing about skating is
jumping. She loves the double toe-loop.
Andrea Vickers in her head coach. Molly is the
choreographer for Elise’s new program, which
Elise says has an Italian flair, “Love Theme”
from Cinema Paradiso.
She is looking forward to Skate Nashville and
upcoming competitions, she loves to compete!
Elise at the Atlanta Open 2014
Welcome New Members
Our official 2014/2015 NFSC membership currently stands at 114, which includes
junior, collegiate, adult skaters, a parent of each junior skater, coaches, judges/
officials, and non-skating associates. Please give a warm NFSC welcome to our
newest members who have joined this winter:
Kaitlynn (7 yr old skater) and Jesse Paine (parent)
Lillian (11 yr old skater) and Susan Hodges (parent)
Gabby (5 yr old skater) and Erin Walker (parent)
Carlton Harris (12 yr old skater)
Cindy Kauffman (associate, transfer from Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club)
UPCOMING EVENTS
March 20 - 22, 2015 -
Louisville Spring Skating Competition
March 14, 2015 -
Spring Fling Competition - AGame
March 15, 2015 -
Deadline for Registration for Skate Nashville
May 16, 2015 -
Knoxville Invitational, Knoxville, TN
April 24 - 26, 2015 -
Skate Nashville
May 14 - 17, 2015 -
Ann Arbor Springtime Invitational, Ann Arbor, MI
June 11 - 13, 2015 -
Atlanta Open, The Cooler, Alpharetta, GA
June 24 - 27, 2015 July 9 - 11, 2015 -
Broadmoor Open, Colorado Springs, CO
Troy Summer Competition, Troy, OH
July 31 -August 2, 2015 -
Magic City Ice Classic, Birmingham, AL
FROM OUR CLUB PRESIDENT:
SHERRY TULL
We have gotten the 2015 competition off to a fantastic start with SEGL in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am
proud to announce that the Nashville Figure Skating Club took home the second place trophy!!! I
want to send out a big congratulations to everyone who competed and to the whole club. Our next
competition is our very own Skate Nashville 2015. I want to encourage everyone to start thinking
about volunteering and where you can possibly offer help. This competition is very important to the
club in raising money for our operating expenses for the year. We have been in a rebuilding mode the
past few years, and we could not pull this competition off without the help that you guys so graciously
give every year. I want to extend a huge thanks to all our volunteers so far and let you know who is
chairing each committee.
Competition Chairs – Sherry Tull and Barb Wood
Volunteers – Barb Pagano
Registration – Barb Pagano and Rosa Olinger
Hospitality –Tricia Bradey and Alicia Landry
Music and Announcing – Heidi Eckert
Awards – Andrea DelGiorno
Competition Space Preparation – Cherie Montgomery
Donations/Sponsors/PR – Eric George, Ivy Gabele, and Trey Haley
Set up and Tear down – KC Haugh and Brent Gabele
Practice Ice – Cindy Kauffman and Gina George
Program – Susan Vincler
Ice Monitors – Andrea Vickers and Denise Russell
Runners – TBD
Test Session – Sandi Wolverton and Felicity Strunce
Skater Welcome – Wendy Harris and Alice Charron
Judges Transportation – Thom Yzaguirre
If you consider any of these areas your expertise or know where you would like to help out, please
contact our volunteer coordinator Barb Pagano or the chairperson, otherwise we will assign volunteers
based on preferences expressed during membership renewal. Please know that every second of your
help is appreciated by NFSC, and that shift schedules (available for sign up after the competition
schedule is released mid-April) are flexible enough to allow all of us to support and watch our family
members and friends skate!
COACHES CORNER
Photos from SEGL’s
Coaches Tips with
Robert Mauti
PSA Master Rated Coach, 5 times
USFS Nationals Choreographer, 16
years Coaching, Degree in Music,
Lived in Nashville over 7 years.
*Warm up for about 10 minutes by
doing light logging, lunges, jumps and
stretching.
* When your body is warmed up you
are ready to create correct muscle
memory and technique.
* Try jumping and spinning in both directions. Once you have mastered your
jumps and spins in one direction, challenge yourself to rotate in the other
direction. It creates a bilaterial strength mentally and physically.
* Once you have a new program, try drawing out your program on a sheet of
paper . Use all your skating vocabulary such as: turns, steps, transitional
maneuvers, and even emotional and musical changes within the arc of the
program.
* If you do not know how to draw out your
turns and steps, ask your coach to help
you carve them out.
* Most of all, have fun and SMILE!
Southern Eastern Great Lakes
(SEGL) Competition
SEGL competition was held in Cincinati, OH in February.
NFSC had 20 skaters enter the competition. Winter weather,
ice and snow did not dampen the spirit of our skaters. For the
second consecutive year, NFSC won the 2nd place Trophy!
NFSC is so proud of our skaters; their enthusiam and team
spirit is so contagious! Congrats to all our skaters, your hard
work and determination were a beautiful representation of
our Club!
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Nashville Figure Skating Club
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