Gloucester Skating Club
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| Gloucester Skating Club | |
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Ottawa , Ontario | |
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| Website | http://www.gloucesterskatingclub.ca/ |
The Gloucester Skating Club is a non-profit skating club located at 1490 Youville Drive in Orleans, Ontario, Canada. The club has been serving skaters since 1971. The club is currently one of the 6th largest clubs in Canada with an active membership of more than 1100 skaters. The club offers a wide variety of skating programs including CanSkate, Competitive Stream, Test Stream, Synchronized, Dance, Pairs and Teen-Adult programs. The professional coaching staff include national, world and Olympic medalists.
The Elizabeth Manley skating rink at the Bob MacQuarrie Orléans Recreation Complex (formerly Orléans Recreation Complex) is named for Ms. Manley who trained there and who won a Silver Medal in Women's figure skating in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. It is home to the Gloucester Skating Club and the Canadian Academy of Skating Arts, a program started by Canadian Hall of Fame Coach, Peter Dunfield. The skating club is well known for sending skaters to national and international level competitions.
Figure Skaters
Elizabeth Manley 1988 Olympic Silver Medalist
Angela Derochie 1998 Canadian National Champion
Yuka Sato 1994 World Champion
Matthew MacMurdo 1997 Canadian Winter Games Champion
Mark Butt 2000 US National Collegiate Medalist