Mid Atlantics Sept 6-9th

[dorispulaski]

http://www.thescny.org/post/87th-annual-middle-atlantic-championships

The above is the announcement.

Is anyone going?

This is the Skating Club of NY's annual preseason competition.

Schedule
http://comp.entryeeze.com/SingleRinkSched.aspx?id=101
http://comp.entryeeze.com/SingleRinkSched.aspx?id=102

 

[MasterB]

Anyone know the names of the senior skaters? I would love to go see it.

 

[dorispulaski]

Sylvia posted this:

SENIOR MEN
Harrison Choate, SC of Boston
Grant Hochstein, SC of New York
Alexander Laboy, Puerto Rico Figure Skating Federation (PUR)
Ian Martinez, C.P.A. Laval (CAN)

SENIOR LADIES (26)
Jordan Bauth, Amherst SC [2012 Youth Olympic Games, 7th]
Kaitlyn Castelli, North Jersey FSC
Kaitlyn DeBardelaben, SC of New York
Piper Douglas-DeLo, Charter Oak FSC
Danielle Fanelle, SC of Wilmington
Jessica Hu, SC of North Carolina
Rachel Jones, Winterhurst FSC
Erynn Komes, SC of North Carolina
Anastasiya Kononenko, North Jersey FSC (UKR)
Katie McBeath, Westminster FSC of Erie
Christine Merolla, SC of New York
Veronica Mishkind, Hickory Hill FSC (ISR)
Meaghan Monaghan, North Atlantic FSC
Jillian Moossmann, SC of New York
Raina Narita, SC of New York
Zoe Orenstein, Yarmouth Ice Club
Helen Serafini, SC of New York
Alexandria Shaughnessy, SC of Boston
Yasmin Siraj, SC of Boston
Brittney Skarulis, SC of New York
Sena Spinella, Charter Oak FSC
Kelly Walsh, North Jersey FSC
Jessica Weltz, SC of New York
Emily Williams, SC of Northern Virginia
Kendall Wyckoff, Middlebury College Skating Club
Rachel Zeppi, SC of Boston

SENIOR PAIRS
Marissa Castelli/Simon Shnapir, SC of Boston

 

[MasterB]

Sylvia posted this:

Thanks,

Very few men.

 

[Sylvia]

It was posted at FSU last night that Yasmin Siraj won the Senior Ladies SP, scoring 56.00 (her best SP score of the summer, I believe), and that she landed 3T+2T, 3F, 2A.

 

[Sylvia]

I think a mod. mistakenly moved the MidAtlantics club competition thread to the 2011-12 Archives instead of to the 2012 Summer Competitions section. Please move again? TIA! http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?37753-Mid-Atlantics-Sept-6-9th&p=658746#post658746

It was posted at FSU last night that Yasmin Siraj won the Senior Ladies SP, scoring 56.00 (her best SP score of the summer, I believe), and that she landed 3T+2T, 3F, 2A.

 

[gkelly]

Thanks,

Very few men.

At the grassroots level, I'd estimate that approximately 85% of the skating population is female.

A much greater proportion of male skaters get to advance to sectionals and Nationals, and to find partners if they're interested in pairs and dance, so the percentages are closer to even at the higher levels. Especially actually at sectionals and Nationals, because most of the men may have qualified to advance whereas many ladies were left behind at regionals.

On the other hand, for those men who don't have what it takes to reach a national level, they don't have many peers to compete against regularly at club competitions, so they're less likely to stick around as club-level competitors into late teens and beyond for social reasons.

A lot of the senior ladies who compete in club competitions will never have the jumps to skate clean legal short programs, but they can still have fun training and competing against each other. Young men with few/inconsistent triples have less of that kind of incentive to stick around, if even finding a club competition with at least one other guy to compete against means traveling hundreds of miles.