There are now Microsoft Word versions of the application forms available below, so that those wishing to email them can do so. The email address to use is on the forms. Please note that as you fill in the the Word documents, the overall format may move. Please check the pdf version for the correct lay out.
All forms can be found on the Announcements Page.
Lunch Order Forms are also now available, also from the Announcements Page.
Great news for Scottish skating: Sport Scotland are to support a three year Scottish Short Track Development programme. The plan was prepared and presented by Archie Marshall (Sk8scotland Speed Director) and Stuart Horsepool (GB Performance Director – Short Track). The programme will focus on a club development and a Scottish Development Squad that will be part of the pathway to GB Junior and Senior squads. It will be run by Archie starting April 2012 in partnership with Sport Scotland who will bring high levels of expertise as well as financial support to the programme. The partnership with Sport Scotland is a great opportunity for our sport, one that we all must work to maximise.
With Elise Christie ranked 2nd in the World at 1000m and Scottish skaters taking 4 of the 9 titles and 8 of the 27 medals at last week’s British Championships in Nottingham, this is an exciting time for the sport.
BBC Sports Presenter Mike Bushell has recently been to Dumfries to film an action piece on synchronized skating with the Dumfries Synchro teams and it is scheduled to be aired on BBC Breakfast on Christmas Eve morning (Sat 24th December) between 6:00 – 10:00 and repeated several times. Anne-Marie Coxon, Chair of the Dumfries club said:
“The BBC filming went very well. They had done their research on synchro so pretty much everything I dropped in they seemed to know about. The girls had fun and Mike himself was very game – participating in a wheel and an intersection! It is scheduled to go out on BBC Breakfast News on Christmas Eve between 6am and 10am – will be shown several times throughout the morning. Solway Stars and Solway Eclipse were the teams involved – Solway Breeze did a run through of their British silver medal winning performance as well.”
By Paul Forsyth
Scotland on Sunday, Sunday 18 December 2011
Scottish short-track racer’s sport was transformed by Olympic money – now she’s targeting a medal
IF you are one of the many thousands who have been persuaded, against their better judgment, to pull on a pair of bladed boots, totter on to the ice rink in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens and cling pathetically to the perimeter fence, you might be interested in the progress lately of Elise Christie.
She was seven when she took her first steps on the ice at Murrayfield. Almost immediately, she was shooting off across the surface and setting in motion a journey that has perpetually gathered pace in the 14 years since. Now based in Nottingham, and ranked second in the world, the short-track speed skater from Livingston is closing fast on a medal at the Winter Olympics.
Read the full article in the Scotland on Sunday
Sk8scotland is delighted to announce to members throughout Scotland, that an exciting new project to encourage skaters with all categories of disability or impairment to participate in the sport, has recently received the full support of the ISU. In a letter to the project’s founder, Margarita Sweeney-Baird, David Dore, 1st Vice President of the ISU said:
“It goes without saying that the members of the Council have great interest in this field of skating. I believe in your report you have put everything into complete perspective, allowing all of us to comprehend the situation. Therefore, the ISU remains quite supportive of your continuing efforts and feels that this should become an important program activity of the skating world in the future. You should continue your efforts in supporting disabled skating in the world. To this end we agree that your participation and activity as outlined in the near future for 2012, should be pursued as you outlined”.
For full information please see: Trophy D’Ecosse 2012
It is with great regret and extreme disappointment that, due to circumstances out with our control, I have to announce the cancellation of the Sk8scotland Adult Open Figure Skating Competition, 2011. Despite immense efforts for some months we have been unable to secure the requisite officials for this event. We fully intend to hold this as a full club international event in 2012 and, if necessary, our officials will be invited from abroad to ensure we meet the NISA required criteria.
Lorele Mackie
Sk8scotland Director for Events and Special Projects
The Sk8scotland Board is delighted to announce that they have purchased a full set of IJS equipment which will be used for all Scottish Championships and available to Scottish Clubs for their Open Events as well as for training.
During the research period over recent weeks Sk8scotland has also been putting together a Sk8scotland IJS Technical Group of Volunteers who wish to work with the Board in the delivery of IJS events.
The IJS Technical Group will be chaired by the newly appointed Sk8scotland Director, David Johnston who has been responsible for putting this equipment together for Dundee Ice Skating Club, and more recently arranging that Sk8scotland may purchase it. David is a NISA Level 3 Results Official. Read more
2011 Scottish Figure Champions - Click for full photos
Sk8scotland are currently introducing a new competition structure forScotland in the form of separate championships for each discipline, and the first figure event, The Scottish Cup took place in Aberdeen, 5-7 August 2011.
The Judges, Officials and Data and Results Operators
ISU officials, Hely Abondatti, Veronique Fleury and Wieland Luders with the second groups of skaters to receive their merit certificates at the end of the Development Meeting.
ISU officials Daniel Delfa and Jeroen Prinz with the first three groups of skaters to receive their merit certificates at the end of their seminar
Following on from the Scottish Cup, which is part of Scotland’s new International Competition Progamme, Simon Briggs the National Coaching Director, and Figure Director for Sk8cotland, offered skaters and coaches a new concept in IJS development, which to date has only been used for synchronized skating.
ADULTS
The table of categories shows the Adult programme timing as 3 minutes plus or minus 10 seconds. This is incorrect
The timings should read a minimum of 2 minutes 30 seconds and a maximum of 3 minutes 30 seconds.
The link to the Adult rules and regulations is correct.
Heather Murdoch, an ice skater from Alloway, is celebrating after receiving a £500 donation from the MARS Refuel Drink Fund.
15 year old Heather started ice skating at the age of seven and has been addicted ever since! Last year she was Novice British Champion in the Pairs category with her Pairs partner, Lewis Gibson.
Heather says: “I train six or seven times a week and am often on the ice training at 5am before school. My ambition is to compete at the Winter Olympics.
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The Trophy D’Ecosse 2012 (incorporating the Scottish Synchronized Skating Championships) will be held at Dumfries Ice Bowl from 5th – 8th April 2012. This event has been designated as a full ISU International for Synchronized Skating and will include events at Novice, Junior and Senior in addition to all other categories as per the 2011 event.
There are proposals for two Synchronized Skating Camps and Seminars to be held in Dumfries immediately prior and following the Trophy D’Ecosse 2012.
For further details please refer to the following page: Trophy D’Ecosse 2012.