SDFSC Exhibition for NQS competitors & Excel National Final Qualifiers

The SDFSC would like to offer our members who will be competing in the National Qualifying Series competitions (Juvenile and above) and/ or the Excel National Final, the opportunity to perform their programs before their big events!

Here are the details:

Date: Saturday, July 1, 2023

Time: 7:10am- 9:40am

Location: San Diego Ice Arena

All participants will need to make sure their membership is renewed with the SDFSC prior to participating. 

If you would like to participate, please fill out this Google Form and we will be in touch with the final schedule by June 28, 2023

https://forms.gle/vPuscdM3xMqC5tua8

Good luck to everyone!

~SDFSC Board

2022 National Showcase

Huge congratulations to Erin & Justin Ly for another fabulous competition at the 2022 National Showcase held by the Skating Club of Boston.

Erin Ly

Gold, National Champion, Adult Silver Character Performance
Gold, National Champion, Adult Silver Interpretive

Erin & Justin Ly

Silver (2nd), Masters Showcase Duet-Trio

Justin Ly

5th Parade of Adult Champions
Bronze (3rd) Masters Emotional Performance

Silver (2nd) Masters Lyrical Pop
Silver (2nd) Masters Choreographic Artistry

Congratulation to SDFSC competitors

The Excel National Festival was held last week in Boston and the results are:

  • Broderick Cotter- Intermediate Plus Men – Champion
  • Ari Cavaliere – Pre-Preliminary Boys – Champion
  • Violet Kim – Beginner Girls – Champion (Group D)
  • Payton Cook – Beginner Girls – Champion (Group F)
  • Ava Weismiller- Pre Juvenile Girls – Bronze (Group B)

Other competitors:

  • Makenzie Cotter- Pre Juvenile Plus Girls
  • Sophia Spooner- Pre Juvenile Plus Girls

The results are posted here: IJS Results page

Excel National Festival in Boston

Congratulations and good luck to SDFSC competitors that are headed to the Excel National Festival in Boston this week!

  • Broderick Cotter- Intermediate Plus Men
  • Makenzie Cotter- Pre Juvenile Plus Girls
  • Sophia Spooner- Pre Juvenile Plus Girls
  • Ava Weismiller- Pre Juvenile Girls
  • Ari Cavaliere – Pre-Preliminary Boys
  • Violet Kim – Beginner Girls
  • Payton Cook – Beginner Girls

You can follow LIVE RESULTS!

Registration Open – 2022 Skate La Grande

Skate La Grande is back in 2022!!! The weekend of June 24-26th we will be back in action.
We have our U.S. Figure Skating Sanction, our Announcement, and Registration system all up and going.

Registration will be open until May 24th with an Early Bird discount available during April. Sign up today!

We will also need volunteers before and during the competition so please give back and signup when requests go out for your help.

2022 Sweetheart Classic

The Shining Blades attended a competition hosted by The Rinks-Anaheim Ice and Glacier Falls FSC on February 12-13, 2022.

Preliminary – 2022 Sweetheart Classic Gold
Pre-Juvenile – 2022 Sweetheart Classic Silver

2022 Pacific Coast Synchronized Sectionals

This week the SDFSC was represented by four teams at the 2022 Midwestern/Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships held in Kalamazoo, MI at the Wings Event Center. Live video streaming was available on the US Figure Skating Fan Zone and now On Demand replays are available (please note there are several minutes of an “Event Begins Soon” which you can fast forward past using the scroll bar).

Congratulations to all of our teams:

Team del Sol – Adult – Pacific Coast Sectional GOLD
Team del Sol – Intermediate – Pacific Coast Sectional GOLD
Shining Blades – Pre-Juvenile – Pacific Coast Sectional SILVER
Shining Blades – Preliminary – Pacific Coast Sectional BRONZE

First Synchro Competition

The first synchro competition of the year attended by SDFSC Team del Sol and Shining Blades was the Synchro Fall Classic hosted by Glacier Falls FSC.

  • Team del Sol Adult
  • Team del Sol Intermediate
  • Shining Blades Pre-Juvenile
  • Shining Blades Preliminary

Congratulations to Team del Sol took GOLD and SILVER respectively, full results are available online.

Team del Sol Adult
Shining Blades Preliminary

2021 Excel National Festival

Excel offers young athletes an exciting and competitive environment that motivates them to focus on strengthening their program components and advancing their technical skills each season. Additionally, athletes can choose to register for the Excel Series where they earn points based on their result of an excel event at a designated excel series competition. The top finishers are invited to the Excel National Final.

The Excel National Final was held at the Excel National Festival from August 12th to 15th, 2021 in Strongville, OH. A total of 277 skaters across the United States qualified and competed. Six SDFSC skaters received invitations with three direct qualifications. These skaters participated in seven competitions on the quest to qualify. They went to competitions all over Los Angeles, Arizona, Salt Lake, and even Sun Valley, Idaho. Qualified from SDFSC were:

  • Brody Cotter
  • Makenzie Cotter
  • Delanie Farber
  • Sophia Spooner
  • Isabella Varela
  • Ava Weismiller
Isabella Varela earns FIRST PLACE in Pre-Juvenile Plus
Makenzie Cotter, Connie, Brody Cotter (Second Place in Pre-Juvenile Plus)
Sophia Spooner earned FIRST PLACE in Pre-Preliminary
Ava Weismiller earned Third Place in Pre-Preliminary
Delanie Farber earned FIRST PLACE in High Beginner
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