CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
WOW!!! TGCFSC rocked the Indy Pairs Challenge July 29-August 1st.
BRIANNA DE LA MORA & TAYLOR WILSON
Novice Pairs Short Program -- 2nd Place
Novice Pairs Freeskate -- 2nd Place
MANDY GARZA & BRANDON FRAZIER
Junior Pairs Short Program -- 8th Place
Junior Pairs Freeskate -- 2nd Place
STEFANIE & JORDAN GRIFFIN
Novice Pairs Short Program -- 10th Place
Novice Pairs Free Skate -- 10th Place
IT'S A SILVER SWEEP!
2010 U.S. TOI Junior Silver Medalists
2010 International TOI Junior Choreograpic Exercise Silver Medalists
2010 International TOI Junior Freeskate Silver Medialists
who were each assigned to US Figure Skating's Team C, Tier 2 envelope. This is an exceptional accomplishment and we are very proud of you.
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Texas Gulf Coast FSC Hall of Fame
Congratulations to James Mitchell and Tracy Stoltz who are competed at Adult Nationals in Bloomington, MN. James took the Bronze Medal in Men's III Freeskate.
Tracy won the Bronze in Gold Ladies II Freeskate.
James With His Bronze Medal
CONGRATULATIONS NINA
AND TEAM USA
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Watch Nina's Freeskate Here
Nina Jiang 1st place Novice Ladies Gardena Spring Trophy in Val Gardena, Italy.
USA took 1st place in all events.
Click here to view detailed results.
View a gallery of backstage photos from the event.
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CONGRATULATIONS KEVIN!
A very big round of applause to Kevin Wu who was awarded Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine's High School Athlete of the Week on Tuesday, February 17th. Representatives from Memorial Hermann, along with Winston Dutchin of KPRC Channel 2, presented Kevin with a plaque on the ice at SLISC. Way to go Kevin!
CONGRATULATIONS NINA!
Our very own Nina Jiang finished in 5th place overall in the U.S. Figure Skating Junior Ladies National Championship. Way to go Nina!!! We couldn't be more proud.
WAY TO GO MANDY!
Three cheers for Texas Gulf Coast FSC's Mandy Garza!!! Mandy and her partner Brandon Frazier are US Figure Skating's 2010 Novice Pairs Bronze Medalists. Bravo...well done.
BRIANNA & TAYLOR BANNER UNVEILING
An energetic and appreciative crowd was treated to an exhibition of Brianna de la Mora & Taylor Wilson's Gold Medal Intermediate Pairs routine on Saturday.
After the performance TGCFSC and Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center unveiled their newest banner which commemorates Brianna & Taylor's accomplishment.
The banner will be hung from the rafters in Rink B of Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center.
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Val Prudsky, Taylor Wilson, Brianna de la Mora, Elena Prudsky
Did you see Nina and Shanyn on Fox Sports on Monday, Jan 11th? In case you missed it, here it is.
CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM WILSON/DELAMORA
Read all about it!
There have been several stories published about Brianna & Taylor's awesome performance and will likely be many more to come. To read one of the best click here. This story was in Fort Bend Now on December 31st.
Brianna & Taylor are the now the
2010 Intermediate Pairs National Champions.
The club is so proud of you. Your hard work and dedication has truly paid off. Enjoy!
WOW!!!!! What a showing we had at Sectionals.
- Nina took the Bronze in Junior Ladies
- Mandy Garza and her partner took Bronze at Pacific Coast in Novice Pairs
- Brianna & Taylor Took Gold in Intermediate Pairs
- Stephanie & Jordan finished 7th in Novice Pairs.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR SKATERS!
Brianna de la Mora & Taylor Wilson
2010 Midwestern Sectional Intermediate Pairs Gold Medalists
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR SKATERS WHO COMPETED AT THE SOUTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Spectacular performances by TGCFSC skaters took place throughout the competition. We have three skaters who will be advancing to additonal events.
NINA JIANG
Junior Ladies Silver Medalist
Advances to Midwestern Sectionals which will be held in Witchta, KS in November
KEVIN WU
Intermediate Men Bronze Medalist
BJ CONRAD
Intermediate Men 5th Place
Both Kevin and BJ qualified to compete at Junior Nationals which will be
held in Cleveland in December.
Nina's in a Magazine
The October 2009 issue of Fort Bend Lifestyles & Homes carried a story about the best of Fort Bend County. This article mentioned our very own Nina Jiang.
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Unfortunately, the magazines information was a bit out of date. Here is a more up to date
list of Nina's accomplishments.
- 2009 National Novice Ladies Pewter Medalist
- 2009 Midwestern Novice Ladies Silver Medalist
- 2009 Southwester Novice Ladies Champion
- 2009 Team USA Novice Gold Medalist, Vancouver, BC Canada
- 2009-10 USA Reserve Team
- 2009 Michael Weiss Foundation Scholarship Winner
- 2008 Junior National Intermediate Ladies Champion
- 2008 SW Regional Intermediate Ladies Champion
- 2007 Junior National Juvenile Ladies Champion
Boot & Blade Buddies recently had an outing to AMC Bowling Lanes. Everyone had a great time!
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Texas Gulf Coast Figure Skating Club is proud to announce that Tina Pennington, the mother of Sawyer Pennington, one of our synchro skaters, has published a book in collaboration with her sister. When you buy their book online a portion of the purchase price will be donated to the Club. All you have to do is select Texas Gulf Coast Figure Skating Club on the special thanks page when you check-out.
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We already know our skaters are stars but now the rest of the skating world know that too! Our awesome Spring Show was the subject of a feature article in the most current issue of Skating Magazine. In case you missed it, click on the thumbnail on the right to see a readable version. |
CONGRATULATIONS
US FIGURE SKATING HAS ANNOUNCED ITS
2009/2010 DEVELOPMENTAL TEAM AND NINA IS ON IT!
Not only that, check out the photo of our very own star.
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THE HITS KEEP COMING...
HITS STORY ON CHANNEL TWO 6:00 NEWS 8/5/2009
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The awesome HITS team recently paid a visit to the mayor of Sugar Land and was recognized for their awesome achievement. The City has promised to support HITS in their effort to compete in Toulouse, France in April 2010.
HITS visits Sugar Land City Council on July 21st
In case you didn't hear the whooping and hollering all the way from Chicagoland, our Houston Ice Theatre Skaters put in one more stellar performance at the recent U.S. and International Theatre On Ice competions which were held in Chicago June 24-26, 2009. All they did was add one more gold medal, one more silver medal, and one more bronze medal to the trophy case. Not only that, they received top honors for sets and costumes. HITS also qualifed to compete at the World Competition to be held in Toulouse, France in April 2010.
HITS after receiving their Gold Medals for the 2009 Novice Freeskate
What can we say, we are proud of you and are so glad that you call Texas Gulf Coast Figure Skating Club home.
Amanda with Mrs. BL Wylie (6/14/09)
Congratulations to Amanda Hrbacek on passing her Senior Freeskate at the Sunday, June 14th test session. This is quite an accomplishment. Amanda, we are very proud of you!
The Boot & Blade Buddies program is now in full swing! If you signed up to be a senior buddy and have not been assigned a buddy, please know that you are on the list and will be getting an assignment as soon as more junior buddy applications come in. A kick-off event was held at Club Ice on Friday, April 17th. Senior buddies baked cookies and organized on-ice relay games.
If you know of a skater age 5 – 10 that is in the “learn to skate” program, please invite them to sign up. Applications are in the box under the TGCFSC bulletin board in the Sugar Land Ice lobby.
CURRENT BUDDIES
Sawyer P & Erin Kaufman
Julianne D & Amanda Hrbacek
Olivia J & Brooke Bartley
Eisha R & Jennifer Wong
Lindsay J & Jennifer Wu
Brynne J & Eden Lew
Congratulations to Nina Jiang for being named to the
2009-10 U.S. Figure Skating reserve team!
US Figure Skating Team Announcement
Congratulations to TGCFSC’s Adult Athletes who competed last week at 2010 Adult Nationals in Grand Rapids, MI. Kathy Blum, Jennifer Simon, and Tracy Scholtz represented TGCFSC at this event.
Adult Nationals Send Off Party and Exhibition
Kudos to Erin Kaufman and Kevin Wu on passing
Senior Moves In The Field Tests on Sunday, April 5th!
Way to go Amanda, Nina & Jennifer
Congratulations to Amanda Hrbacek and her MIF coach, Lisa Lueking,
on Amanda's passing her Senior Moves In The Field at the Feb 22nd test session!
Congratulations to Nina Jiang and Jennifer Wong on passing their
Senior Moves in the Field on February 22nd.
Congratulations, Dick!
On January 22nd the club celebrated Dick Gold's 25 years of judging. This is quite an accomplishment. We are proud to have Dick as a distinguised member of our club.
NINA IS A COVER GIRL
A photo of Nina competing at last year's Junior National's was front and center on Ice Network's home page on Monday 1/19/09..
Shanyn gives BJ some last minute advice at Junior Nationals (Dec 08)
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Nina Jiang on being named a
Michael Weiss Foundation
Scholarship winner for 2009.
www.michaelweiss.org/2009winners.shtml
BJ Conrad celebrates at his JNs send-off party at SLISC
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 August 2008 Kelly Tran wins the Club Directory cover contest. |
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SUMMER 2008
 TGCFSC and SLISC celebrated the accomplishments of our three 2008 national medalists: Nina Jiang, Sophia LaMay, and B.J. Conrad, by hanging banners from the roof of Rink A. Fellow skaters joined the celebration. |
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