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  • 2019-2020 Board of Directors

    The new Board of Directors were installed at the Annual Membership Meeting on June 15, 2019. Complete contact information available on the Contacts page.

    From left to right: Astrea (Director), Derek (Director) , Katy (Director) , Marie (Director) , Rachel (Director) , Erin (President), Barbara (Treasurer), Courtney (Secretary), Wendy (Vice President)

  • Skate La Grande Volunteers Needed

    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.

    Please visit http://signup.SkateLaGrande.org/ for volunteering/donation opportunities. (Scroll down to see them all)

  • Flapjack Fundraiser – SDFSC Jr Board

    You’re invited to a Pancake Breakfast to support the
    San Diego Figure Skating Club Junior Board!

    Members from the Junior Board will be serving you the Flapjack Breakfast, which includes – pancakes with butter and syrup, scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, orange juice, and coffee.

    Be sure to purchase your ticket before the event from one of our Junior Board members!

    Advance Tickets: $10
    Date: Saturday, May 18, 2019
    Time: 8am – 10am

    Location: Applebee’s
    9480 Mira Mesa Blvd. San Diego, CA 92126

    For more information about the event or tickets
    contact Lili Barton at Info@SDFSCJuniorBoard.org

  • 2019 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships

    SDFSC member accomplishments from this year’s nationals held in April at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    Justin LyAdult Gold Solo Free Dance1st Place
    Carolee PurdieAdult Gold Dramatic Entertainment V
    Adult Gold Ladies IV, V    		1st Place
    3rd Place
    Fernan BalsalubreAdult Bronze Men I, II1st Place
    Erin LyAdult Bronze Light Entertainment II 3rd Place
    Nathan Meyers and Joanne KnudsonAdult Pre-Silver Dance4th Place
    Erin Ly and Justin Ly Championship Adult Dance5th Place
    Nathan MeyersAdult Pre-Silver Solo Pattern Dance6th Place

  • 2019 U.S. Intercollegiate Figure Skating Championships

    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 DiegoExcel High Beginner Free Skate3rd Place
    Catherine (Yumeng) Hou, UC-San Diego Excel High Beginner Free Skate4th Place
    Alexandra Olmedo, UC-San Diego Excel Pre-Juvenile Free Skate4th Place
    Marcy (Mengxi) Ren, UC-San Diego Excel Pre-Preliminary Free Skate5th Place

  • Coming Soon – New Test Process

    Sign-ups for the June Test Session will continue to use the existing PDF Test Application. Starting with the July Test Session, we will be using a new Test Registration System via EntryEeze.

    Do NOT submit PDF Test Application w/checks for July Test Session, they will not be accepted.

    What to Expect:

    • Test Application (Registration) and payment (credit card) will be collected online.
    • Per test fees have been adjusted (most increase $2) for the latest ice time estimates and costs using the online system.
    • Detailed instructions and guides will be posted in May to sign-up for the July Test Session by the June 14, 2019 deadline.

    PARENTS and SKATERS, in preparation for this change, please make sure your membership information including email address(es) are accurate in the Membership System at http://membership.SanDiegoFSC.org/.

    COACHES, please signup for or update an EntryEeze global account.  This will ensure coaches’ approvals get mailed to the correct email address once the system is active. See https://sandiegofsc.org/online-test-registration-coach-information/ for details.

  • Alumni Spotlight: Kate Liang

    Kate Liang started skating at SDIA’s Learn to Skate Program as a tot in 2003. Within six months of taking classes Kate joined Shining Blades and thus the beginning of her journey with synchronized skating. After skating with Shining Blades for three years Kate decided she wanted to be more competitive and began skating for Team del Sol and Karen Wiesmeier. Ten years later, having skated Juvenile through Senior Level, Kate had earned a U.S. Synchronized Skating Championship at the Intermediate level in 2013, an Intermediate Pewter medal in 2011, ten Pacific Coast Sectionals Championships, and at the Senior level, an International Gold Medal in 2016 at Trophy d’Escosse in Dumfries, Scotland. In addition, she earned gold medals in both Moves in the Field and Dance and did some Free Skate tests as well. She served as the SDFSC Jr. Board President for 3 years and was Volunteer of the Year in 2015.

    Now in 2019, Kate has been skating with the University of Michigan Synchronized Skating Team for the past three years at the Collegiate level earning back-to-back U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in 2017 and 2018 as well as a Bronze Medal in 2019. As an all-student run team, Kate has been in a leadership role for the past two years, one as the VP of Travel and Competition and this year as President. Kate was re-elected to serve as President for her senior year. Kate continues to be passionate about synchronized skating and eventually wants to skate on an adult team once her education is completed.

    University of Michigan SST – Collegiate National Champions
    2018 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships – Portland, OR
    University of Michigan SST – Collegiate National Champions
    2017 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships – Rockford, IL
    Team del Sol (Team USA) – International Gold Medal
    2016 Trophy d’Ecosse in Dumfries, Scotland
    Team del Sol Intermediate – Gold Medal
    2013 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships
    Team del Sol dress progression – 10 years

  • Free Fundraising With Smile.Amazon.com

    With doing nothing more than using a different URL when you are shopping on Amazon, you can help raise funds for SDFSC at NO ADDITIONAL COST to you. In fact, it helps offsets costs and enables us to provide more benefits to our skaters.
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    Near the top left of your browser, look for AmazonSmile and Supporting: San Diego Figure Skating Club :

    What is AmazonSmile?

    AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support SDFSC every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to SDFSC.

    How much of my purchase does Amazon donate?

    The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. The purchase price is the amount paid for the item minus any rebates and excluding shipping & handling, gift-wrapping fees, taxes, or service charges.

  • Alumni Spotlight: Julie Nelson

    Julie Nelson started skating at SDIA in 2006 and started in group classes. She pursued individual accomplishments in testing and competitions resulting in medals from many area competitions and earned US Figure Skating Golds for Move In The Field and Dance. Almost immediately after she started skating and in parallel with individual skating, she was drawn to synchronized skating.

    For 10 years she competed with Shining Blades and Team del Sol. Many of these years resulted in Gold medals at area competitions and at the Pacific Coast Sectionals. In several competition seasons, she “double skated” on two different level teams during the same competition year. For the last two years, she has been competing with Miami University.

    We are congratulating Julie at this time for becoming a TWO TIME U.S. Synchronized Skating Champion:
    – 2019 US Synchronized Skating Champions (Collegiate) – Miami University Collegiate Varsity SST
    – 2013 US Synchronized Skating Champions (Intermediate) – Team del Sol

    Julie has also competed at the Senior level with both Team del Sol and Miami University representing Team USA at international competitions in Scotland, Sweden, and Germany. In 2016 with Team del Sol, an International Gold Medal was earned at the 2016 Trophy d’Ecosse in Dumfries, Scotland.

    Julie holding the National Collegiate Championship Trophy
    2019 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships – Plymouth, MI
    Miami University Collegiate Varsity SST – Gold Medal
    2019 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships – Plymouth, MI
    Team del Sol (Team USA) – International Gold Medal
    2016 Trophy d’Ecosse in Dumfries, Scotland
    Team del Sol Intermediate – Gold Medal
    2013 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships, Plymouth, MI

    We want to continue to recognize accomplishments of our SDFSC alumni after they have moved on in life. Please contact the club’s president or webmaster if you have details of an SDFSC alumni that you would like to share.

  • Sweep at Pacific Coast Synchronized Sectionals

    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.