Monday, October 13, 2008

EGL Skaters to watch 2009

I've been attempting to follow the Regionals that have been taking place over the past few days, especially the Eastern Great Lakes Regional in Midland, MI since that's my region and know coaches and skaters from the area.

icenetwork is taking forever to update results. The short program results from yesterday were finally posted this afternoon.

In the senior event I'm following these skaters:
· Ameena Sheikh - originally from Lexington
· Brittney Westdorp - won last year's event
· Melissa Telecky - skated her heart out in the freeskate last year and missed advancing to sectionals by a few points
· Lynzee Broussard - up from Juniors

· Nathan Chastain - up from Juniors, from northern Kentucky
· Parker Pennington – won juvenile-junior Nat’l titles, 11th at Nationals last year, coached by either Carol Heiss Jenkins or Audrey Weisiger
· Eliot Halverson – international junior competitor for two seasons
· William Brewster up from Juniors – should have won Junior EGL 2007 IMO, on JGP circuit this season

Junior Ladies
· Ashley Strojny – coached by Carol Heiss Jenkins
· Christina Gao – up from Novice, NKySC
· Farah Sheikh - oringinally from Lexington
· Lee Keller – up from Novice
· Alicia Hsu – up from Novice
· Lauren Ko – up from Novice

Junior Men
· Victor Travis - Novice winner last year
· Grant Hochstein - Junior winner last year – opposite skater, powerful and fast, good transitions
· Pine Kopka-Ross - pleased to advance to sectionals last year

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