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Yukon Championships

Our season wrapped up on April 15 with the annual Yukon Championships. While the crowd may have been small, the skaters were enthusiastic.

Yukon Championships results

Updated PB's (April 15, 2011)

 

WRSSC/YASSA Annual General Meetings

We will put the final wraps on the 2011-2012 season and kick off next season's planning with our AGM on May 27. We will have a fun event planned in conjunction with these, details to come later. If you have an interest in the continued success of speed skating in Whitehorse/Yukon, please plan on attending and give consideration to letting your name stand for one of the executive positions. More info to come later.

 

Arctic Winter Games

Congratulations to Yukon skaters who represented us well at the recent AWG. Many personal best times were recorded, 15 Ulus were claimed by Yukon skaters and one AWG record was set by Heather.

Juvenile women - Kathryn Fortune, Hanna Wirth.

Juvenile men - Daryn Lovell, Christopher Ritchie, Michael Ritchie.

Junior women - Heather Clarke, Emily Klassen, Rasheeda Slater.

Jumior men - Donald Fortune, Shea Hoffman

Coaches - Phil Hoffman, Stacey Pennington

 

Canadian Short Track Championships

Heather Clarke, Donald Fortune and Shea Hoffman represented the Yukon in Richmond at the CST from March 23-25. The competition was tough but Heather prevailed in the 1500m race for Junior B women bringing home a bronze medal.

 

Canada West Short Track Championships

Yukon was represented by Hanna Wirth at the CWST meet in Winnipeg on Mar 24-25. She was able to turn in some good performances including some personal bests and finish well in her age group.

 

Congratulations to all these skaters.

 

Need some soft guards (soakers) for your skates? Here's an easy plan for making your own from scraps you probably have at home.

Soft Guards (.doc)

 

 

 

This season will see changes to our program and races with the implementation of "Racing On Skates", SSC's competition and events system review. Training to Train skaters and younger will be skating on a 100m track instead of the regular 111m track. As well race distances and format are changing for some groups. Please see the Competition information page for details.

For more information including a PDF version of "Racing On Skates" please refer to:

http://www.speedskating.ca/LTAD.cfm

Note: We will use LTPAD terminology instead of our old group names of Novice and Intermediate/advanced. The novice group is now referred to as Fund ( for Fundamentals/ Learning to Train stages) while the Int/Adv group is referred to as T2T (for Training to Train and following stages).