District & Association Updates Te District 11 Seminar was held Oct. 5 at NYTEX Sports

Centre, where the 2014 ISI District 11 Merit Award was presented to Hillari Paulk of ICE at Te Parks. We’d like to thank our host rink and Jennifer Anderson, as well as Liz Mangelsdorf and Kim Hansen from the ISI office, and all of the coaches and presenters. ICE at the Parks hosted its annual costume party on Oct.

24. Admission was free and skaters received goody bags. Prizes were awarded for Best Couple, Scariest, Prettiest, Funniest and more. Coaches skated with the beginner skat- ers, visited with parents, played skating games, etc. Tis is a great promotional event for our rink and the sport of ice skating.

Te Dr Pepper StarCenter-Farmers Branch offers curling

every Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon. Sled hockey is available on Saturday afternoons, providing a great way for disabled children and adults to learn the game of hockey. Join the Galleria Dallas this holiday season for the Annual

Macy’s Grand Tree Lighting Celebration. U.S. Olympic ice dance champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, and Olympic bronze medalist Carolina Kostner are among the guest performers. See the full schedule at www.galleriaices- katingcenter.com. Dr Pepper StarCenter-Farmers Branch will host its annual

Christmas Show on Dec. 6, and ICE at Te Parks will host its annual Holiday in Te Parks show on Dec. 20.

ISI District 12 (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming) by Debbie Lane, District Director

Greetings from the Mile High City! We had a busy summer that went way

too fast. South Suburban hosted an ISI competition in June. Te area then went on to have at least five more competitions between mid-June and mid-September. Classes are up in our area due to the

Olympic figure skating craze and the growing popularity of hockey in the area. Te classes are full of boys who want to be great hockey players and quite a few girls who share that interest. Fortunately, we do have both girls and boys who want to

take up figure skating. Te proof of this is in the number of ISI tests each week and our monthly USFS test sessions. Along with athletics, the parents are promoting scholastics with their children. Tis year, we had seven graduating seniors who went to various colleges. Tese skaters have been skating between three and nine years. Most of them have skated for over seven years and have tested through Platinum in ISI. Tey have also left for college with at least two gold medals in USFS. South Suburban Family Sports Center is hosting two

seminars this season. Te first one was a PSA seminar on Sept. 28, featuring speaker Jackie Brenner, and the other one

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