Five members of the Williams Lake Skating Club are on the ice this weekend at the Skate Canada Super Series Finals.
The finals, deemed the figure skating championships for B.C., begin today (March 7) and run until March 9 at the Capital News Centre in Kelowna, showcasing hundreds of athletes from across the province.
From Williams Lake Natalie Sylvain, Alanna Walters, Annalise Hunter-Owega, Jade Johnson and Amanda Lane will compete.
Three of the club’s skaters — Johnson, Walters and Lane — enter the Super Series sitting in the top five of their respective divisions provincially.
Walters, a Star 5 skater, currently holds the top place in the division, while Johnson, also Star 5, sits fifth. Lane, in the Pre-Juvenile division, occupies the fourth-place ranking heading into the finals.
Additionally, the trio were recently selected to the Cariboo North Central Region team of 10, a regional team comprised of the top skaters from the area who will compete for the title of Region Challenge Team champion at the Super Series finals.
Joanne Macnair, head coach of the WLSC, said it’s pretty special to be chosen to the regional team.
“It’s an honour to be asked,” Macnair said. “These three are the only three we have who are in a high enough level to accumulate points, and all three are showing high enough and well enough to be asked, so it’s quite good.”
Macnair added all five of the club’s attending skaters have been busy training and working hard perfecting their routines.
“This is it. This is the big show,” she said.
Throughout the season skaters accumulate points. The skaters’ top three scores from the season are then tabulated to form a Super Series Champion.
“So not only are they going to be skating to see what they do that day, but they’re also accumulating points to be in the running for the trophy of super series champion,” Macnair said. “If they have a skate this weekend that is better than any of their other scores it will bump it out.”
The Skate Canada Super Series Finals will be live-streamed online at www.skatingbc.com — just click the ‘Live Streams’ link at the top of the page.
