Hell-o all. Anybody has any updates on Pacifics?

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Hi, I am in Tacoma as I type this , and I can at least give you the results of my group, Champ. Masters Ladies:

1. Elizabeth Floriani
2. April Chiang
3. Amy Thompson
4. Brenda Tarkenton
5. Jodie Maier
6. Elizabeth McGlauflin
7. Julie Gidlow

That's me in last place - LOL! I am quite excited to report, however, that I didn't actually get any 7th place ordinals. That's how wacky the event was! Though I must say in my mind I definitely deserved last - I guess it can only get better from here, right?

I also have the results for Champ. Gold Men:

1. Nicholas Chou
2. Andy Schell
3. Rocky Ursino
4. Matt Leissring
5. Gary Klingbergs

Sorry I don't have any more results. Hopefully they will post them soon.

Julie: I had no idea you were going to compete Championship Masters this year! (You usually compete Interpretative only in all the times I've seen you compete.) Can't wait to see the ordinals. But all in all, I'll bet you skated beautifully as I've seen you before!!!

I haven't see a couple of names up there besides yours. Are the young'ums who were competing as kids starting to move up to the Adult track? Hmmm?

YAAAAAY, APRIL!!! YAAAAY Bay Area ladies (for at least giving it a good shot!!!) YAAAAAY, NICK, ANDY... all those Gold Men!!! Please pass on my congrats to them (well, at least Nick and Gary... since I don't know if the rest would remember me by name!!! They know me by face.)

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(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Thanks, jazzpants! Yeah, I decided to "diversify" this year and try my hand at FS again. Since I don't do any double jumps, I looked at it like it was a 3 1/2-minute Interp! LOL! But it was a lot of fun and I look forward to skating the program again at AN in my open event.

There was only one "young'n" who had just turned 25 -- Amy Thompson. She is a beautiful skater and had competed in Young Adult at sectionals last year. Liz Floriani, who is from my club, did Masters Senior at AN last year. Everyone else in the group has been in the adult scene for a while (though Brenda hadn't competed in a while). Congrats to all!

Oh, I remembered some more results. I can't fathom what's taking USFSA so long to post them, but here ya go:

Champ. Adult Gold Ladies:

1. Resa Lee
2. Maggie Harding
3. Paula Smart
4. Kelly Lawrence
5. Ninotchka (can't remember last name)
6. Judi Madey
7. Patty Poddig
8. Patti McNamara

Champ. Masters Men:

1. Boise Ding
2. Ted Gradman

Congrats to all!

Thanks for the posting! Any dance results?

What's up with the US Figure Skating on this? Do they have something better to do? (like World Championships?) or something?

Congratulations to all of the competitors!

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The only thing I remember from Champ. Dance was that Keith/Ricigliano were 2nd going into the FD but that they won the FD and thus won the event. Sorry I am not more help on that!

Julie I bet you skated really great - the times I've seen you skate, you were totally awesome! I do wish I'd seen that competition.....

If anybody skates with Liz McG, give her our love!

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Looks like my skating club did well in the Champ Adult Gold Ladies!!! Good to see Boise Ding back in action!

Congrats to everyone! Good luck at Nationals!!!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Yeah, they kicked my butt! Resa and Maggie skated very well.

I got home very late last night and I'm still recovering. What a great experience I had. I have to admit that I was terrified going into this competition. Watching everyone in practice, all I could think was that I had no business being in Gold. On Friday night was the Gold II event. I skated very well for myself, I even landed my first axel clean! The double and the 2nd axel didn't go, but everything else did. I was very happy with the way that I skated. I ended up 3rd out of 4. Ch. Gold qualifying on Saturday did not go as well. I was really nervous for this event, and as you saw from Julie's post I was 7th. I still had fun and was not unhappy with how I skated.

My placings didn't matter. Everyone was so supportive of me and the fact that I moved up. There were many people told me I did the right thing and that I belonged at that level, including the ones that I was competing against. They all made me feel very welcome and part of them. I can't tell you how good this made me feel. I no longer have regrets about moving up, just motivated to work harder.

To those who post/read this site, thank you for your support! You know who you are (doubletoe, Jazzpants would be proud of your ice blessing!)

I can't wait to go to Kansas City!

PattyP

Hey, daisies, how was the Duran Duran concert before the competition?

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Daisies, glad to see you're trying your hand at freestyle again!! Will you be doing an open event?

Patty P: congrats!

Hi
I'm trying to find the results for the adult Silver Ladies I events at either Midwesterns or Pacifics if anyone comes across the results posting of those events also. Thank you!

The Midwestern results are posted here:
http://www.sk8stuffmore.com/comps/05/r05adumids.pdf

Specifically,
Adult Silver Ladies Class I Free Skating - Final Standings
1 Kelli Mobeck, Summit FSC
2 Kristin Gulley, Utah FSC
3 Lisa Emery, Denver FSC
4 Jenniffer Fortner, Individual Member
5 Victoria Trafka, Centennial SC

As for Pacific results, they are still trying to be tracked down, according to the USFS Director of Online Services.

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Kelly too! (Well, not the butt-kicking part, but just that she's in our skating club too.) But I'm happy for those women!!!

As you should. You DO belong at Gold!

Yes, thank you, doubletoe!!! Looks like my blessing water works!

Don't forget the BBQ!!!

daisies... I read the other board! Can't believe you met John Taylor and he himself wished you good luck!!!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Thanks manleywoman! Yes, I will be doing Masters Junior II at AN. I look forward to seeing you in KC! Hey, how are those figures coming along?

Awesome, as usual! LOL! As jazzpants pointed out, yes, I talked to the guys before the show, and John Taylor did indeed wish me good luck. (Lotta good it did me! Ha!!!) Here's a link to one of the pics I took with them, at the taping of Northwest Afternoon on KOMO-TV in Seattle (I'm in the center, up on the same step as Simon Le Bon):

http://komonews.com/star/duran/GroupDD6.jpg

And on this page is a pic of me talking with Simon (2nd pic down). It looks like he's giving me directions! LOL!!! But he's actually signing a poster.

http://www.star1015.com/x3902.xml?Pa...9&NewsSection=

So you can see why I had such a BLAST on my trip to the state of Washington!

I'll be Masters Junior I, so at least we can watch each other skate! You'll be against my good buddy Kim.

The 3rd test is coming slllooowwwwlllyyyy. Overall I lay it out pretty well, but still too many small mistakes to be passing at this point (i hate the double threes...that blind turn going into the 2nd 3-turn is hell!)

I am really impressed you still do figures. Is there actually a rink somewhere that provides ice to do so? I was on my 7th when I had to stop because of lack of ice time and lack of my own time, but I love doing figures...

Patty, having skated against you last year at Sectionals and watched you this year at Sectionals, I can tell you you definitely belong at Gold! I remember standing there watching you skate in Masters Gold and pointing out to someone how your sit-change sit is so solid, consistent and fast. Even the good ones in Silver weren't at that level! Being a Gold level skater is not--as some people assume--all about the jumps. Watching you this weekend is what convinced me that I'm not ready to move up yet!

Here are the ones I remember. I'll add in the missing names later if I can find them.

Ladies Silver I
1. Michelle Lotz
2. Lily Gwyer-Miller
3. Petra (formerly Herguth, forgot new last name)
4.
5. Sheridan Sotelo (? not sure about last name)

Ladies Silver II
1. Patti McNeill
2. Elizabeth Risberg
3. Lauren Day
4. Starla Hobach
5.
6.
7.
8. Chris Wilson
9.
10. Sonja Rasmussen

Patty
I skated againist you oooohhh so long ago in silver ladies II in 02'. Did you do gold ladies II last year? I don't think you were in my group were you in A or B.
I do recall a Patty....

coskater64

Wasn't me in Gold II. I competed Silver II at AN last year. This is my first year at Gold. I skated Silver II from '00 through '04, so yes that was me in Silver II in '02! That was the year I fell on my butt in final round and my coach wanted to kill me and all I could do is laugh!

Thanks doubletoe! You are too kind! If we could combine your jumps and my spins, maybe we could qualify for Ch. Gold next year!

There is one here in Chicago that does offer official patch time from 5:00 to 6:00 am, but I actually do it at another rink around that time because the maintenance guy is always there that early at the latter rink, so I can come whenever I want. The first rink I have to plan ahead with the maintenance guy, and I found that weather or my workload I can't always be assured what mornings I'll be there. Since the management of the rink where I do end up patching thinks it's cool that I do it, they don't mind if I come in an hour before the kids do. They figure that if I'm dedicated enough to get up that early, they ought not to mind! It's not as though I'm tearing the ice up. Plus the kids get really interested in it because by the time they show up I've got a few layouts going, and that helps the coaches out too when applying that knowledge to Moves.

The bad thing about it is the time. Soooo early. But the good thing is I get the ice all to myself!

Hey, there's a thought. Based on our skates last week, we should each be able to contribute one clean axel per program, so we ought to look pretty good, LOL!

My rink still offers patch too. It's from 7:45-8:30am, Monday-Saturday. I thought they might get rid of the session after I finished my test, but it's still being offered. They get a couple of people here and there on the session, and the patchers take up 1/3 of the ice. The rest is FS with no music. So it works out for everyone.