Two teams from the Everett Silver Blades synchronized skating team had some extra hardware to declare at customs recently.
The festival pre-juvenile team won the gold medal and the pre-novice team captured the bronze medal at the 2008 British Columbia and Yukon Territory Section Festival Synchro Skate held in the MSA Arena on Feb. 17 in Abbotsford, B.C.
“Both teams, skating their personal best, ending the season with their best results to date,” Silver Blades coach and director Melani Young in a press release. “They all worked really hard and it showed.”
Synchronized skating is group skating, consisting of eight to 20 skaters, and is a discipline of figure skating.
Twenty-two teams from Canada and the United States participated in seven different levels in the tournament, which was sanctioned by Skate Canada and the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Curling
Team Laraway third at nationals: Jason Laraway’s team finished third at the 2008 U.S. Curling National Championships on Feb. 22 at the Hibbing Curling Club in Hibbing, Minn.
Laraway, of Lynnwood, led the top-seeded team going into nationals, but a 7-2 loss to Team Brown of Wisconsin in the semi-finals ended his hopes of representing the United States at the 2008 World Championships.
Joining Laraway on the bronze medal team were Colin Hufman of Seattle; Joel Laraway of Lynnwood; Greg Persinger of Fairbanks, Alaska; and Steve Demlow of Bothell.
Earlier on Feb. 22, Team Laraway eliminated Team Romaniuk, another group from Seattle’s Granite Curling Club, with a 7-5 victory. Joining Greg Romaniuk of Snohomish were Doug Pottinger of Eden Praire, Minn.; and Leon Romaniuk and Mike Calcagno of Kirkland.
Track and field
Ex-Vikings do well at GNAC tourney: Three alumni from Lake Stevens High School did well at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Championships Feb. 18 at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.
Ashtin Mott of Western Oregon University won the men’s 60- and 200-meter dashes, setting a meet record in the 60 with a time of 7.02 seconds, beating the previous mark of 7.06 set by Michael Dean of Western Washington University in 2007.
Jessica Hinton of Seattle Pacific University won the women’s 200 and was fourth in the 400, and Brittany Aanstad of Seattle Pacific was second in both the long jump and high jump.
Western Oregon won the men’s portion of the tournament and Seattle Pacific finished first among the women.
Rock climbing
Trinidad 3rd at nationals:Nine-year-old Sidney Trinidad of Arlington and the Everett Vertical World Team placed third at the recent American Bouldering Series National Championships in Boulder, Colo. Trinidad, who was competing in the female 11-and-under age bracket, was also named to the U.S. national team.
Others from the Everett team who placed at the national event were Alex Fritz of Mill Creek, who was 10th among males 14-15; Bellingham’s Kayla Erickson, 20th among females 18-19; Snohomish’s Rosie Bates, 22nd among females 18-19; and Everett’s Sam Wolff, 23rd among males 14-15.
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