SDFSC is non-profit sports club supporting figure skating in San Diego
This year featured over 500 competitors and 1000 starts….competed under theatrical spotlights.
Justin Ly
1st Light Character Performance, Masters
3rd Lyrical Pop Performance, Masters
3rd of 25 in the Adult Parade of Champions
Erin Ly
2nd in Dramatic Performance, Adult Silver
Justin and Erin Ly
3rd in Duet/Trios, Masters
Lots of success and fun as SDFSC members travel to Arizona for the 2021 Fiesta Skate. All pictures posted online HERE. The official results are online as well.
Congratulations to all SDFSC skaters who participated in the USFS Virtual Celebration of Competitive Skating in February. A virtual event where videos were submitted for Juvenile/Intermediate Free Skate or Free Dance. A special congratulations to the skaters who qualified for the National High Performance Development Team:
The first in-person competition will be the Fiesta Skate 2021 held in Peoria, AZ to be held April 15th-18th, 2021. The SDFSC has 14 members registered to compete. To help keep them safe on their trip there, and to return safely, SDFSC has ordered each of the skaters and coaches going an SDFSC logo mask with filter inserts (will be delivered 🤞 to the coaches) :
Stay safe and have a great skate!
At the US Virtual Aerial Figure Skating Challenge, athletes from around the country represented their club. SDFSC was represented by:
Our team earned 4th Place out of 46 clubs competing! Congratulations for representing our club so well!!!
We wish the best of luck for a great skate to our members and alumni who are traveling to the U.S. Synchronized Figure Skating Championships (Nationals) this week (February 26-29th) in Providence, Rhode Island.
We also have SDFSC alumni going including the Buddies on the Senior Cystallettes, Ms. Kate Liang on the University of Michigan Collegiate, and Ms. Julie Nelson on Miami University Collegiate.
One of our current SDFSC members, Christopher Caluza, competed at 2019 Nebelhorn Trophy in Germany last weekend, at Senior Men’s level (representing the Philippines) and finished in 7th place (out of 18). Full results here.
Each year to have a successful competition that the competitors enjoy, the officials are made comfortable, sets the stage to have bigger and more successful competitions in future years.
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SDFSC member accomplishments from this year’s nationals held in April at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah.
| Justin Ly | Adult Gold Solo Free Dance | 1st Place |
| Carolee Purdie | Adult Gold Dramatic Entertainment V Adult Gold Ladies IV, V | 1st Place 3rd Place |
| Fernan Balsalubre | Adult Bronze Men I, II | 1st Place |
| Erin Ly | Adult Bronze Light Entertainment II | 3rd Place |
| Nathan Meyers and Joanne Knudson | Adult Pre-Silver Dance | 4th Place |
| Erin Ly and Justin Ly | Championship Adult Dance | 5th Place |
| Nathan Meyers | Adult Pre-Silver Solo Pattern Dance | 6th Place |
SDFSC member accomplishments from this year’s intercollegiate nationals held in April at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
| Astrea Villarroel-Sanchez, UC-San Diego | Senior Ladies Short Program – Group A Juvenile Pattern Dance Preliminary Pattern Dance – Group B Senior Ladies Championship Free Skate | 1st Place 5th Place 5th Place 9th Place |
| Jake (Joel) Nuñez, UC-San Diego | Excel Pre-Preliminary Men Free Skate Preliminary Pattern Dance – Group A | 1st Place 8th Place |
| Skylar (Kunyi) Li, UC-San Diego | Excel High Beginner Free Skate | 3rd Place |
| Catherine (Yumeng) Hou, UC-San Diego | Excel High Beginner Free Skate | 4th Place |
| Alexandra Olmedo, UC-San Diego | Excel Pre-Juvenile Free Skate | 4th Place |
| Marcy (Mengxi) Ren, UC-San Diego | Excel Pre-Preliminary Free Skate | 5th Place |
Our SDFSC synchronized skaters had amazing trip to Kalamazoo, Michigan for the Pacific Coast Synchronized Sectionals.
Each of our competitive teams took the GOLD in their event:
Pre-Juvenile Shining Blades (Free Skating)
Open Juvenile Team del Sol (Free Skating)
Juvenile Team del Sol (Final)
Intermediate Team del Sol (Final)
Please congratulate all our skaters and encourage those teams going on to the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships at the end of the month in Plymouth, MI.