A tired Laurie Coombs couldn’t stop grinning when asked how the 2012 Vancouver Island Regional Championships went over the weekend.
“Really well,” she said.
Coombs was the main organizer of the figure skating championship, held over two days last weekend at the Alberni Valley Multiplex.
The event drew 240 skaters from all over Vancouver Island, including more than two dozen Alberni Valley figure skaters.
“We always have a good number, especially when it’s in our hometown,” Coombs said.
This is the second major event the Mount Arrowsmith Skating Club (MASC)has put on in the past year. Normally the club hosts a single major event each year—alternating its ice show every second year with a different event. However, they were asked to stage the 2012 regionals as a favour to the club that was originally scheduled for this year, Coombs said.
MASC will relax now until 2013, although its skaters continue to compete regularly.
Following are the results for MASC:
Performance
Group 1
Lily Huynh, bronze; Aspen Sutherland, gold; Anya Garcia, bronze.
Performance
Group 2
Maly Pohar, silver; Makena Foy, gold; Kaylee Huynh, silver
Group 3
Jakub Pesik, bronze; Jenna Wutke, silver; Emma Audet, silver; Sarah Bell, bronze
Performance
Group 4
Mya Henson, gold; Shaelyn Reimer, bronze; Frances Wilson, silver; Emily Newman, bronze.
Pre-Introductory
Interpretive
Anneke Contant, fifth; Britnee Oldfield, third; Taylor Savard, second; Shannon White, first.
Junior Bronze Men
Free Skate
Mike Loudon, first.
Introductory
Interpretive
Kiara Collinge, second; Michayla Riley, eighth; Brianna Skarland-Garcia, seventh; Kelly White, fifth.
Silver/Gold
Interpretive
Alyshia Coombs, third; Daylin Turgeon, second.
Pre-Novice
Women—Short
Raeanna Cowan, first
Special O
Level 1 Elements
Michelle MacDonald, first; Colin Teichman, first; Rossalee Ross, second.
Level 2 Elements
Matt MacDonald, first; Annie Wilson, first.
Level 3 Elements
Kari Trot, second; Kimberly Giesbrecht, third.
Senior Bronze
Women Free Skate
Shannon White, eighth.
Pre-Preliminary
Women Free Skate
Group 1
Annelise Engstrom, second.
Pre-Preliminary
Women Group 2
Brianna Skarland-Garcia, first; Maigan DeVries, second; Kelly White, fifth; Melina Heck, seventh.
Pre-Novice Women
Free Skate
Raeanna Cowan, fourth.
Preliminary Women
Group 1
Kiara Collinge, fifth.
Preliminary Women
Free Skate Group 2
Jennifer Palmer, third.
Juvenile
and Open Pairs
Kiara Collinge and Mike Loudon, first.