News

ZARA IS SEPTEMBER'S CANSKATE PROGRAM ASSISTANT OF THE MONTH

posted Sep 30, 2015, 8:57 PM

Zara has been chosen by the Coaches as September's Program Assistant of the Month.

Zara is always very helpful with setting up the Canskate circuits. She is very encouraging to the young skaters.

And of course she is always so pleasant and always has that beautiful smile on her face!

Thank You Zara for all your help with Canskate!!

SEPTEMBER CANSKATERS OF THE MONTH

posted Sep 30, 2015, 8:53 PM

Narissa is September's Female Canskater of the Month. She is 8 years old and has been skating for four years. Her favorite skill to practice at skating lessons is jumping. She has recently passed her Stage 5 Agility ribbon and her Stage 5 badge! Narissa has a dog named Sparky who she loves very much!!

Sean is September's Male Canskater of the Month. He is 13 years old and has only been skating for 1 month but in that month he has passed 5 ribbons and a badge! His favorite skill to practice at lessons is skating forwards. He has an awesome dog named Dodge!

Congratulations Narissa and Sean!! You are doing great! Keep up the good work!

YOUNG STARSKATER DOES A VERY GROWN UP THING

posted Sep 26, 2015, 9:17 AM

Starskater MacKenzie Cook recently had a birthday and turned 8 years old. She has been skating with YSC for over 4 years now and loves to skate. So she decided she wanted to have a skating party and what she decided next was quite a big thing for a little girl. She decided instead of presents she wanted people to make a donation to the Yarmouth Skating Club. So $165.75 was donated to YSC. MacKenzie also was able to perform her solo for her guests and she did an excellent job!!

YSC Skaters, Coaches and Parents would like to thank MacKenzie for this generous gift!!

And Happy Birthday :)!

YARMOUTH SKATING CLUB WINTER REGISTRATION. ONLINE SEPT 28TH- OCT 10TH IN PERSON OCT 1,6 AND 8TH 530-

posted Sep 23, 2015, 10:07 PM

Yarmouth Skating Club Winter Session information is now available. Please click on "winter school" on the top navigation or on the tool bar.

"In Person" Registration dates will be on Oct 1st , 6th and 8th from 5:30 to 7pm in the lobby of the Mariners Centre.

Online registration will be open on Sept 28th.

Payments can be made through cash and/or cheque in the in person registration on Oct 1st, 6th and 8th.

When registering online payments can be made by Visa, Mastercard or Discover Card.

For Canskate parents please note if you wish to register your skater for both Canskate days with the online system once you select both days you will see the price of each day discounted by $67.50. for a total savings of $135. In the first month of Canskate you will receive $40 of Recoverable Fundraising tickets. These were included in the cost of registration. Once you have sold these you keep the money (which helps you recover some of the registration cost you paid). Please ensure we receive the ticket stubs before Dec 12th so they can be included in the draw for cash prizes.

For Starskate parents please note when you see the prices for the Starskate programs you will see the full price. The dicounted price will be applied once you have selected the desired session for your skater. Once you have selected the program you will also note that the $40 Recoverable Fundraiser ticket fee will be applied to the registration as well. Once you sell the tickets the money is your to keep. But please ensure we receive the stubs before Dec 12th so they may be included in the draw for cash prizes.

These new website system allows us to add all the skaters ribbons, badges and test achievements to the system. However these cannot be added until the parent/guardian creates an account with us. Once this account is created we will then be able to go in and add your skaters achievements after the fact. So with this in mind when you are registering your skater for STARSkate programs you may receive a yellow warning from the system. This is just a warning and you can still register for the program. We will back enter test achievements after the fact and these warnings should not happen in the future.

Starskate parents these packages were set by the Director of Programming and were done for the best use of ice time, training time and coaching/lesson time. If these packages do not meet your skaters needs (ie skater only wants to skate 1 day a week or different days from any package options) you must contact Director of Programming Megan Long and have her approval. Any of these special options will not be able to be registered through the online registration system and must be registered in person at the Registration dates which are Oct 1,6 and 8th from 530-7pm at the Mariners Centre

HAPPY NATIONAL COACHES WEEK TO OUR AMAZING COACHES!!

posted Sep 21, 2015, 6:46 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfm3vlnQa4

Happy National Coaches Week to our Coaches at Yarmouth Skating Club!!

Our Skaters are happy, healthy and progressing on the ice because of you and all that you do!

Thank you Megan, Lorraine, Heidi and Kylie!!

STARSKATERS EARNED SKATE CANADA CRESTS IN SPRING 2015

posted Sep 15, 2015, 9:36 PM

Several STARSkaters earned Skate Canada Crests in Spring School 2015

Esther Banjo and Hannah Babin-Stiene both received their Preliminary Dance Crests

Allison Theriault received her Preliminary Skating Skills Crest

Hilary Stone and Austin Thibeau both received their Preliminary Freeskate Crests

Kylie Landry received her Junior Silver Dance and her Gold Skating Skills Crests

Congratulations Skaters!!

SHARLIE AND KYLIE PASS SKATE CANADA TESTS AT QUEEN'S COUNTY BLADES SUMMER SCHOOL TEST DAY

posted Sep 15, 2015, 3:02 PM

Congratulations to Sharlie Pinksen and Kylie Landry for passing Skate Canada Tests on Saturday September 12th at Queen's Place Emera Centre.

Sharlie passed both the Elements and Solo portions of her Junior Bronze Freeskate Test and she also passed her Senior Bronze Skating Skills Test

Pictured below is Sharlie with the Skate Canada Junior Bronze Freeskate Crest and the Skate Canada Senior Bronze Skating Skills Crest

Kylie Landry passed two Senior Silver Dance Tests; The Starlight Waltz and The Blues.

Congratulations Ladies!

FALL SCHOOL STARTS WEEK OF SEPT 7TH AND LATE REGISTRATIONS

posted Sep 5, 2015, 9:23 AM

Hi Everyone. We are very excited that a new skating season is almost upon us!

Remember programs for our Fall School start the week of Sept 7th (yes there is skating on Monday even though it is a Holiday)

Also to all our Canskate Program Assistants (PA's) Lorraine and Kylie will be at the rink on Monday Sept 7th at 530pm to do a 1 hr on ice PA Training Clinic. We have lots of new props and fun for the Canskaters this year!

Online registration is now closed however if you had trouble registering or are registering late please email us at yarmouthskatingclub@hotmail.ca to make arrangements to register with Cheryl.

Happy Labour Day Weekend and see you all at the rink this coming week :)

1 MORE REGISTRATION DATE FOR FALL SCHOOL

posted Sep 2, 2015, 8:37 PM

There is only 1 more in person registration date for YSC Fall School

Thursday Sept 3rd from 530-7pm at the Mariners Centre.

Online registrations are only available until midnight on Sept 4th. After this time online registration will be unavailable as we need time to organize the groups

See you all next week to begin another great season of skating!! :)