Idaho Mountain Express: Skaters meet challenge of Spokane regionals

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Skaters meet challenge of Spokane regionals

SVFSC is represented well

Regional skating competitors from the Sun Valley Figure Skating Club, from left, Travis Flynt, Joyce Chan, Katie Peters, Isabella Bourret and Sheldon Gentling. Not pictured is Shayna Moellenberg. Courtesy photo

Shayna Moellenberg, Joyce Chan and Isabella Bourret represented the Sun Valley Figure Skating Club at the 2012 Northwest Pacific Regional Figure Skating Championships Sept. 30-Oct. 4 at Spokane, Wash. SVFSC coaches Lisa-Marie Allen and Sonya Dunfield accompanied the trio.

The Regional Championships determine eligibility for the 2012 Pacific Coast Sectional Figure Skating Championships (Novice, Junior and Senior singles events) and the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships (Juvenile and Intermediate singles events).

Moellenberg, a Community School junior who won the 2011 Regional Championships at the Junior Ladies level last year, moved into Senior Ladies, the highest competitive level. She finished second in Free Skate and Short Program, capturing extra points from judges with her awe-inspiring layback spin.

Moellenberg will compete at the Sectional Championships in Salt Lake City Nov. 15-19 as the reigning Senior Ladies NWP Regional Silver Medalist. It will be the third consecutive year Moellenberg has represented the SVFSC at the Sectional Championships. Moellenberg's primary coach is Lisa-Marie Allen. Her choreographer is Gia Guddat.

Joyce Chan and Isabella Bourret faced the two largest, most competitive groups of the competition. Chan is a freshman and Bourret is a sixth grader at the Community School in Sun Valley.

Competing in Intermediate Ladies, Chan took eighth, a strong finish which placed her in the top half of a qualifying round consisting of 18 Intermediate Ladies free skaters. This was Chan's first trip to the NWP Regional Championships.

Competing against the region's top Juvenile Girls free skaters, Bourret finished 15th in her qualifying round. This was Bourret's first time competing at qualifying levels.

Non-qualifying meet

Lilac City Figure Skating Club hosted the 2012 Northwest Pacific Regional Open Non Qualifying Competition simultaneously with the recent Regional Championships.

SVFSC skaters Travis Flynt, Katie Peters and Sheldon Gentling traveled to Spokane to compete. Coach Darlin Baker accompanied the local skaters.

Peters successfully faced one of the larger competitive groups in the non-qualifying competition and emerged victorious, winning gold in Pre-Preliminary Girls with Axel, Group D. Flynt took bronze competing in Pre-Juvenile Boys, the highest non-qualifying competitive level of the three SVFSC skaters at the NWP Regional Open.

Peters is a sixth grader, and Flynt a seventh grader, at the Community School.

Gentling, a Community School third grader, competed in Pre-Preliminary Girls without Axel, Group A, finishing sixth. It was Gentling's first trip to a regional competition.

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