Congratulations to all of our skaters who participated in Showtime on Ice. You did a wonderful job! And we extend a big thank you to all of the parents and volunteers who made this year's show a big success!
This past weekend many of you came to the annual banquet. We all had a lot of fun at Sing Sing with piano players and at Elitch Gardens where we ended the day with some ice cream. Congratulations to everyone who passed tests this year. Great job, skaters!
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Setting Competitive Goals
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You're about to enter the competitive skating season, and I'm sure you all have goals and aspirations for the coming season - skate a clean program, qualify for the final round of a competition, or qualify at Southwesterns. This season you're likely to be judged under the new international scoring system, and this provides you with a great opportunity.
You may find it helpful to focus more tightly on your goals and make them more process oriented. Here's how.
1. Talk to your coach about creating a scoring range for your program based on the degree of difficulty of the various elements and how accomplished you are at them. Turn this into a scoring range from a minimum score you're clearly capable of achieving up to a score you'd achieve if you skate your best program ever. Focus on skating a personal best program.
2. When the judges score you, you'll be given some great information about what elements need more polishing, and exactly what polishing to do.
3. Design your practices around maintaining your strengths, polishing your weaknesses and regularly skating your program all the way through to mimic competitive conditions.
4. Off ice, use mental rehearsal to see yourself skating a personal best program several times a week.
5. When skating in competition, focus on accumulating your score by skating the next element well rather than noticing how you're losing points.
Have a great competitive season. I'll be rooting for you along with your coach, parents, family and friends.
Tim Engels, M.A. is a sports psychology consultant and counselor in Denver, CO. He's worked with a number of figure skaters over the past 10years. You can contact him at or 303-956-5691 tengels@qwest.net.
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Membership Renewal
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Membership applications were mailed out last month. As a reminder, the membership season for USFS, the organization of which DFSC is a member, is from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. For membership questions, please e-mail membership@denverfsc.org
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Changing of the Board
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Welcome to three new board members who were elected at the annual meeting May 22: Chris Booth, Madeline Daley and Hope Wood.
To our outgoing board members - Rachel Bakhour, Suzie Nyquist and Wendy Julia - thank you so much for your service to the club over the past few years. You have made a difference in our club and we appreciate your hard work.
Board members for this year are:
President - Lisa May
Vice President - Alicia Carr
VP of Membership - Cassy Papajohn
Treasurer - Barb Phillip
Secretary - Hope Wood
Directors - Denise Archuleta, Chris Booth, Madeline Daley and Robin Meadows | |
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Board Members
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President
Lisa May
720-272-0290 Vice PresidentAlicia Carr 303-997-5873 V.P. of MembershipCassy Papajohn 303-919-0303 SecretaryHope Wood 720-851-8245
Treasurer
Barb Philipp 303-758-0619 DirectorsDenise Archuleta 303-322-2821 Chris Booth Madeline Daley
303-757-0825 Robin Meadows
303-881.9229
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Upcoming Events
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June 4 - Adult Synchro tryouts - SS
June 14 - Testing - SS
June 15 - Masters Synchro open house - Big Bear
June 16 - Board Meeting, 6pm. Starbucks (I-25/Hampden) June 25-29 - Broadmoor Open
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July 6 - Masters Synchro tryouts - SS
July 13 - Testing - DU
July 16-20 - Vail Invitational
Aug. 6-10 - Colorado Championships
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Did you notice the new logo? Look up at the top of this newsletter on the right side.
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At the banquet we debuted our brand new logo. Denver FSC kept the skate, which is important to our younger skaters and added script lettering. You will see this new logo on many items the club produces during the year.
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Synchro Open Houses and Tryouts
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Denver Synchronicity is holding open houses and tryouts for three teams over the next month
and a half. Dates for the tryouts are bleow. For more information, visit the Denver Synchronicity Web site at www.denversynchro.org.
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Development Team - June 1 (Big Bear)
Adult - June 4 (SSIA)
Masters - July 6 (SSIA)
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Send-off Gifts
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Be sure to e-mail Yvonne Knapp if you will be competing this summer at competitions such as Broadmoor Open, Vail Invitational, or ISI Worlds, or another competition.
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| Please e-mail the name of the competition and your name to Yvonne Knapp, yknapp@comcast.net. |
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