Above: Sun Valley Figure Skating Club’s 2011 Regional Competitions Team
Front Row, seated: Nicole Pratt, Shayna Moellenberg and Alexandra Harten. Back Row, standing: Katie Peters, Blake Letourneau, Tara Ware, Travis Flynt, Samantha Bunting, Lane Letourneau, Caitlin Scholtis, Claire Stickney, Blair Baker, Arizona Semones, Emma Steussi, Isabella Bourret and Alex Steussi. (Chloe Lewis and Abby Chase not pictured.)
On October 1-5, the Sun Valley Figure Skating Club will send 16 skaters to Boise to compete in the annual regional qualifying and nonqualifying figure skating championships. This is the largest team to represent Sun Valley at the regional competitions in many years. The Northwest Pacific region includes skaters from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.
Shayna Moellenberg, Nicole Pratt, and Alexandra Harten will represent Sun Valley at qualifying levels at the 2011 Northwest Pacific Regional Championships. Moellenberg, Sun Valley’s highest level competitor at this event, will face eight of the region’s best Junior Ladies Free Skate competitors. Pratt’s formidable group includes nineteen Novice Ladies Free Skate contenders. If Moellenberg or Pratt’s combined Long and Short program scores place them in the top four skaters in their competitive levels, they will qualify to compete in the Sectional Championships and earn a chance to go to the U. S. Championships. Harten’s Intermediate Ladies Freeskate level has drawn thirty-three of the region’s best Intermediate free skaters to Boise this year. Due to the size of the Intermediate Ladies group, Harten must first place top six in a seventeen skater qualifying round, then she must medal with her combined Long and Short program against the top twelve survivors to qualify for Junior Nationals.
The Nonqualifying Competition at NWP Regionals takes place in Boise simultaneously with the Regional Championships. It offers Non-Test through Open Juvenile level events. This year, Caitlin Scholtis is Sun Valley’s highest level skater in the Non Qualifying Competition. Caitlin will compete in Open Juvenile Girls. Arizona Semones and Tara Ware will compete in Preliminary Girls. Isabella Bourret will compete in Pre-Preliminary Girls with Axel, and Emma Stuessi will compete in Pre-Preliminary Girls without Axel. Travis Flynt will compete in Pre-Preliminary Boys with Axel. In addition, Blair Baker, Samantha Bunting, Blake Letourneau, Lane Letourneau, Katie Peters, Claire Stickney and Alex Stuessi will compete in Non-Test Girls. Non qualifying level events are broken down into competitive groups by age. They range in size from ten skaters in Open Juvenile to two skaters in Pre-Preliminary Boys, with the average competitive group size around eight. While non qualifying level medalists do not qualify for further competition, they generally face a higher level of competitive skating at Regionals, because many competitors travel long distances to compete in one event only-- Free Skate.
Moellenberg’s coach is Lisa-Marie Allen, with choreography by Gia Guddat and Joel Dear. Harten, Semones and the Stuessis are coached by Holly Wheeler, with choreography by Gia Guddat. Darlin Baker coaches and choreographs for Pratt, Scholtis, Ware, Bourret, Flynt, Baker, Bunting, Peters, Stickney, and the Letourneaus.
Two Sun Valley ice dancers also join the competition team this year. For ice dancers, qualifying competition begins at the Sectional Championships. Abby Chase and Chloe Lewis will travel to Culver City to compete in Juvenile Dance November 9-13. Chase is coached by Allen, and Lewis by Judy Blumberg. Both girls also train with non-resident coaches.
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