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2015-16 Annual General Meeting June 12, 2016

Waterloo, Ontario

Mrs. Carolyn Fedy winner of the Western Ontario Section’s Hall of Fame in the Builder category

Mrs. Fedy with Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club competitive skaters who were recipients of WOS bursary awards during the Western Ontario’s Gala Event on May 7th in London, Ontario.

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Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club

Annual General Meeting - June 12, 2016 RIM Park room 202

AGENDA

A. Reading the Notice of Meeting and Declaration of quorum

B. Introduction of Board and Guests

C. Minutes of the Preceding AGM, and Special General Meetings, if any

D. Business Arising from the Minutes

E. Vice‐President: Finance’s Report and Auditor’s Report

F. Executive Director’s Report

G. President’s Report

H. Other Reports

I. Adoption of Reports

J. Amendments to the Constitution and By‐laws

K. Appointment of Scrutineers and Election of Directors

L. New Business

M. Appointment of Financial Auditors

N. Introduction of New Board

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Table of Contents

AGM Agenda Page 1 Board of Directors & Office Staff Page 2 Previous Year’s Minutes Page 3 - 5

Reports President’s Report Paul Mallet Page 6 Executive Director’s Report Marie Pringle Page 7 Skating Programs Manager’s Report Paul MacIntosh Page 8 Gold Test Achievements Page 9 Membership Coordinator’s Report Justine DeRabbie Page 9 Competition Results Page 10-13 Coaching Committee Melinda Kunhegyi Page 14 Coordinator’s Reports Page 14-15 Special Events

Gala Carolyn Eckert Page 16 FreeSkate Festival Angela Stark Page 16 Synchro Championships Stefanie Wright Page 17 Ice Show Alison Sims & Mike Levinski Page 17 StarSkate Sendoff Cheryl Dotzert Page 17 Sectional Sendoff Paul Mallet Page 18

Alumni Committee Marilyn Johnny Page 18 Trust Report Don Johnny Page 18 Grand River Council Duncan Millar Page 19 Board of Directors Slate of Officers Stefanie Wright Page 19 - 22 2015 Financial Statements detached insert

KWSC Board of Directors and Office Staff

Executive: President: Paul Mallet Past President: Lesley Germann VP Operations: Alison Sims VP Finance: Joanne Kuntz Secretary: Stefanie Wright Honorary: Carolyn Fedy

Directors at Large: Anders McKenzie Ken Stark Jill Brush Carolyn Moss Patrick Therrien Duncan Millar

Office Staff: Marie Pringle Executive Director Paul MacIntosh Skating Programs Manager Justine DeRabbie Membership Coordinator Debbie Weber Accountant

Melinda Kunhegyi (coaches Rep)

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KWSC Annual General Meeting Meeting Date: June 14, 2015, 4:00pm

Location: Room 202, RIM Park, Waterloo, ON

Board Attendees: Paul Mallet, Lesley Germann, Stefanie Wright (recording secretary), Patrick Therrien, Alison

Smerchinski, Melinda Kunhegyi (coaches rep), Ken Stark, Duncan Millar, Carolyn Moss

Special Guests: Marie Pringle, Debbie Weber, Paul MacIntosh, Cheryl Hugill (BDO Canada), Darcy Drummond

(City of Waterloo), Cheryl Dotzert (Chair Grand River Skating Council), Carolyn Fedy, Mark Psutka

(KWSC Trust), Steve Scherrer (Past Chair Skate Canada Western Ontario Section)

Regrets: Sally Heath, Jill Brush, Tina Weltz, Anders McKenzie, Martha D’Agostino

Meeting was called to order at 4:00 pm. The Chair welcomed all in attendance, and acknowledged that the KWSC constitution states that only honorary and voting members have a voice at this meeting, and announced that any questions from the floor must be made through the Chair. The Chair asked members to please stand, address the Chair and clearly state their full name and any affiliations for the record. The chair also asked, in the interest of opening up communications, for a motion to give a voice to all in attendance. Motion to give a voice to all those in attendance: M: Mark Psutka S: Melinda Kunhegyi Discussion: none Carried. The Chair invited Board Secretary Stefanie Wright to provide the notice of meeting: A) Board secretary announced that the Notice of Meeting and Notice of Elections was posted in the lobby and the

website on May 13th, with a nominations deadline of May 25th and a slate of nominees posted in the same locations on June 1st.

According to By-Law 8.9 of the KWSC Constitution: 8.9 Elections shall be determined by written ballot and an elected candidate must receive a majority of the

unspoiled votes cast. Voting on other matters will be by a show of hands, unless one-fifth of the voting members in attendance request voting by Yeas and Nays, or any one voting member requests a written ballot which shall have priority over any other form of voting. [Skate Canada By-Law 1306 (3b), Robert’s Rules of Order 38]

Quorum was reached with 27 voting members present. A majority decision on any motion was 14 (half plus one).

B) Introduction of guests and Board Members was made by the Chair. Guests: Darcy Drummond, City of Waterloo; Steve Scherrer, past chair Skate Canada WOS; Cheryl Dotzert, Chair Grand River Skating Council; Mark Psutka, KWSC Trust; Cheryl Hugill, BDO Canada; Carolyn Fedy; and KWSC Staff members Marie Pringle, Debbie Weber, and Paul MacIntosh C) Minutes of the 2014 Annual General Meeting: Chair referred to the minutes being in the AGM booklet. Motion: to accept the minutes of last year’s KWSC Annual General Meeting. M: Lesley Germann S: Ken Stark Discussion: none. Abstentions: none Motion Carried. D) Business arising from the minutes:

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None E) President’s Report As presented in the report contained in the AGM booklet. In addition to the President’s report in the booklet, the Chair also expressed sincere gratitude to the hard-working staff of KWSC who work tirelessly to keep KWSC running smoothly, especially this past season with the changes to the on-line registration system. The Chair also expressed gratitude to the board of directors for their important governance work. The Chair also announced that KWSC has partnered with Skate Canada and Waterloo Region District School Board and will be implementing a school-based learn to skate program for grade 1 students to begin in the fall. F) Executive Director’s Report: As presented in the report contained in the AGM booklet. The executive director Marie Pringle also highlighted some of the post-Olympic year endings as well as many new beginnings. New partnerships have been formed by the Athletic Centre with both the City of Waterloo and Krav Maga. Some longstanding volunteers have decided to move on to pursue other endeavours, while many new volunteers have joined on. A new on-line system has been implemented. The executive director also emphasized how very rewarding it is to work with staff who are so passionate about skating and KWSC. G) V.P. Finance Report and Auditors Report: Chair called on Joanne Kuntz – V.P. Finance to introduce Cheryl Hugill - accountant from BDO Canada. Cheryl presented financial statements and auditors report for KWSC for 2014-2015. The Chair invited to field questions from the membership. Motion: to accept the 2014-2015 financial report as presented. M: Joanne Kuntz S: Patrick Therrien Discussion: none Abstentions: none Vote: Motion carried. H) Other Reports: There were no questions from the membership regarding the reports.

I) Adoption of Reports: Motion: to approve the reports as presented in the 2014-2015 KWSC AGM booklet. M: Alison Smerchinski S: Michael Farrington Discussion: none Abstentions: none Carried. J) Amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws: The notice of meeting included a proposal to amend By-Law 3 of our Constitution. Previously, we had no term limits for Directors, and in keeping with modern board governance practices the board created a proposal to introduce term limits with the following by-law amendment: By-Law 3: BOARD of DIRECTORS 3.7 The elected Directors shall be elected for a two-year term with six people elected in even numbered years and five people elected in odd numbered years. A Director may be re-elected, and may serve up to a maximum 120 consecutive months and 168 lifetime months. Motion: to approve the amendment of By-Law 3 of the KWSC Constitution as presented. M: Lesley Germann S: Ken Stark Discussion: none Abstentions: none Carried.

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K) Retiring Directors and Appointment of Scrutineers and Election of Board of Directors: Past-president Lesley Germann acknowledged retiring directors Sandi Chalhoub, Martha D’Agostino, Sally Heath and Tina Weltz. As posted on June 1st, there was a slate of nominees for all but one of the vacant Director positions. A symbolic ballot was cast by the Board secretary Stefanie Wright to acclaim the nominees. The past-president announced that the board has expressed specific interest in looking for an individual with a legal background to fill the single remaining board vacancy. L) Introduction of new Board of Directors The 2014-15 board of directors includes the following individuals:

Jill Brush (2 year term) Duncan Millar (2 year term) Carolyn Moss (2 year term) Patrick Therrien (2 year term) Vacant (2 year term) Joanne Kuntz (1 year remaining) Paul Mallet (1 year remaining) Anders McKenzie (1 year remaining) Alison Smerchinski (1 year remaining) Ken Stark (1 year remaining) Stefanie Wright (1 year remaining) Lesley Germann, Past President Melinda Kunhegyi, Coaches Representative Motion: to accept the acclaimed slate of directors for 2015-2016. M: Lesley Germann S: Stefanie Wright Discussion: none Abstentions: none Carried. M) Appointment of Auditors: The Chair provided a brief background on the routine request for proposals for financial auditors. He stated that the Board recommended to retain BDO Dunwoody as financial auditors for 2015-16. Motion: to retain BDO Canada as financial auditors for 2015-2016. M: Joanne Kuntz S: Ken Stark Discussion: none Abstentions: none Carried. N) New Business: None. O) Meeting adjournment: Motion: to adjourn M: Patrick Therrien Meeting adjourned at 4:28 pm.

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President’s Report What an incredible year it has been for KWSC! Our skaters continue to shine on the regional,

provincial, national and international stages. At our annual awards gala we will unveil three new

championship banners to be proudly displayed in the Carolyn Fedy Skating Centre as a reminder of

what our skaters can accomplish. I congratulate Canadian novice ice dance champions Olivia Han and

Grayson Lochhead, as well as senior ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje for your gold medals

at both the Canadian Championships and the ISU Grand Prix Finals. I also congratulate Carolyn Fedy on

recently being inducted to the Skate Canada Western Ontario Section Hall of Fame. Carolyn joins a few

select individuals to this very special club as a testament to her lifelong commitment and outstanding

contribution to KWSC.

A special thanks to our volunteers who supported our many exciting events including our Freeskate Festival, Ice Show,

numerous test days, simulations and send-offs, and the Awards Gala to name just a few. Our volunteers also helped welcome

and orient our new learn-to-skaters, organized fundraising skate sales, served on committees, and played key roles in

planning, running and officiating at several figure skating competitions. You make up the strong backbone of this club, and I

can’t thank you enough for all that you do. If you are not yet part of our volunteer team but would like to meet new people

and help support our skaters, please let us know!

In this final year of my volunteer role of KWSC President, I have greatly enjoyed working alongside our hard working staff and

coaches, and our dedicated volunteer team including my colleagues on the Board of Directors. These individuals have worked

diligently with integrity and fair-mindedness to guide our organization forward. This year your board has invested a significant

amount of time developing a financial strategy and a strategic plan to guide our already-strong organization over the next 5

years. The plan includes a focus on five broad goals: (1) provide high quality learn-to-skate opportunities to our community as

a foundation for all ice sports in a wide-reaching, inclusive and innovative manner; (2) offer the best possible experience and

highest level of training for figure skaters of all ages who have recreational and/or competitive aspirations; (3) develop a club

identity for all skaters (skaters/club as a team); (4) improve our competitive success and develop a reputation as providers of a

world-class training environment; and (5) continue our commitment to best practices in organizational leadership.

Several strategies will guide our work towards achieving these goals. They include: developing the critical facilities

and infrastructure (e.g., ice, equipment, strong volunteer support team) needed to serve the Kitchener-Waterloo community;

continue developing opportunities for learn-to-skate engagement (e.g., SchoolSkate); further develop our program curriculum

to ensure the on-ice and off-ice needs of our athletes are being met across all LTAD stages; develop a sense of community in

our skaters by supporting club bonding and team-building opportunities; build a strong cooperative and skilled staff and

coaching team who will provide the highest level of training to our skaters. This will be achieved by developing strong team

leadership supporting cooperation amongst coaches providing opportunities for coach and program assistant professional

development; continue developing a strong educated board governance structure to lead the organization to achieve its goals.

Special thanks to our two retiring Directors, Lesley Germann, and Joanne Kuntz, for your invaluable service on the

board. I am especially grateful to Lesley, our Past President, for her guidance and mentoring, which proved invaluable to me in

my leadership role. I am also pleased to welcome to the Board our newest Directors, Yiyu Xie and Mike Levinski, and I look

forward to working with you next year.

I write this report shortly after attending the Skate Canada Ice Summit in Newfoundland as an invited speaker to

share information about our successful government-funded KWSC’s SchoolSkate pilot program. I was repeatedly reminded by

my colleagues at the Ice Summit that KWSC is not only one of Canada’s largest and most successful skating clubs, but we are

also innovators and serve as a role model for others to emulate. I couldn’t be more proud to have played a small part in our

club’s success serving as your President these past 4 years, and I look forward to the opportunities and new challenges that lie

ahead in serving KWSC in my new role of Past President.

Paul Mallet, President

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Executive Director’s Report This has been a year of renewal in terms of focus on the basics of operating a club open to change and constantly trying to improve on the things we do best. I am identifying some highlights here so the members may get some insight into the variety of work we do for you. Our 15 year lease with City of Waterloo is up this year and significant effort was made to secure our CFSC home for years to come. Through this process we are addressing many facility challenges in spring including relocation and parking. All organizations see staff come and go and we are no exception. We welcome Theresa Stiles who serves in two different capacities as our SchoolSkate administrator and Athletic Centre supervisor. Also, Ashley Osika has added KWSC STAR base coach to her Learn-

to-Skate coach role, and we were lucky to have a number of new co-op students help us deliver programs. We run a very large organization with a very lean staff and they all rise to the challenge in peak times, flexing their hours to meet the needs of the club, and I am thankful for their commitment and passion. A new service this year was Summer Sizzle practice Ice, which we plan to run it again this year. We are very proud of our ability to launch the new SchoolSkate program to reach is 1350 students in 31 public schools across both boards and provide 5 high school co-ops and a university co-op student with a meaningful placement opportunity. It took a skilled volunteer to get the grant, determined and inventive staff to launch, flexible and creative coaches to implement. When Skate Canada retired their online registration system we engaged a new vendor to provide this service. The program called Uplifter was implemented gradually over all programs, not just LTS and Twin City as the previous service had. This took a tremendous amount of self-education, trial and error and system categorization, planning and programming before we launched. I cannot say enough about how hard our membership coordinator Justine DeRabbie worked during and outside office hours to get his up and running. This program provides many new features. It also provided us with a new opportunity to move away from first in line style registration which has many negative impacts on proper session management. This spring our coaching team was able to negotiate a balanced schedule that provided small groups of skaters of similar skill level to train together and the system facilitated the proper registration of this process. However, this new system also created significant audit challenges for our club accountant Debbie Weber to create new processes to ensure our books remain correct. We are very proud that we have had consistent clean audits and that is due in large part to the daily, weekly and monthly attention to detail Debbie provides. My deepest thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to this new system. It was my honor to serve alongside KWSC Members Justine DeRabbie, Angela Stark, Duncan Millar, and Cheryl Dotzert as LOC for the Synchronized Skating National Championships. It was 3 days of fantastic skating and great friendships. Cheers, Marie Pringle, Executive Director

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Skating Programs Manager’s Report

The 2015/16 season was another whirl of activities and accomplishments. Skaters worked hard to prepare for test sessions, ice shows and competitions. There were many highlights as each skater worked towards their own personal and customized goals.

We hosted 8 test sessions with 23 skaters completing their “gold test” level this season. All the test sessions are organized and operated by Tanja Poje who continues to volunteer in the role of test chairperson.

Our skaters travelled around the province, the country and the world to compete and succeed. Skaters competed well and performed well with more medals than we could count! Some of the highlights events are skaters are as follows: Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje: K and A continue to make us very proud, they push the

envelope and continue to strive for excellence, this season they captured gold at 4 events, including the ISU Grand Prix Final and Nationals. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Mike Marinaro: KMT and Mike enjoyed a wonderful season with 2 international bronze medals as well as two amazing skates at the World championships in March. 5 skaters attended the International Children’s games in, Innsbruck, Austria and had the time of their lives. Susan Ritchie travelled as the team coach and all skated well highlighted by Bridget LeDonne and Jakub Smal capturing gold 18 skaters competed at the Challenge event in Edmonton highlighted by a national silver medal for Sophia Strachan and Everest Zhu in Pre-Novice dance. 14 skaters competed at the National Championships in Halifax highlighted by two National Ice dance champions, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje (Senior Dance) and Olivia Han and Grayson Lochhead (Novice Dance) 8 skaters travelled to Sudbury for the StarSkate Provincial Championships with Angela Ling and Aidan Wright winning gold in Juvenile Dance. 6 adult skaters competed at Adult nationals, competing in 10 different event bringing home 7 medals.

The year finished with the World Championship when both Kaitlyn and Andrew and KMT and Mike put on a great show and skated with finesse and class.

All the activities in 10 different rinks in both Kitchener and Waterloo cannot happen without the strong support of both cities and their respective staff. Kitchener and Waterloo are proud of their affiliated groups and are a wonderful resource and support for our club, its skaters and volunteers. The home rink, Carolyn Fedy Skating Centre at RIM Park, enjoys one of the finest skating facilities in the world. The staff at RIM Park make our lives much easier and they work with us closely and feel like members of our skating family.

KWSC had other new ice initiatives starting this past summer. KWSC Introduced a program called Junior Star accelerated. This program was for skaters in the Junior A or B program who wanted to have concentrated training near the end of summer training. It was very well received with 25 skaters enrolling and encouraging KWSC to host it again in the summer of 2016.

We also started some special recognition for Skaters and Program Assistants. Each month a skaters or skaters were named “Skater of the Month” and later in the winter season we started the “PA of the Month”. All in all we recognized 15 skaters through the season and 3 P.A’s. Skaters and Staff at KWSC thank the many hundreds of volunteers who make skating possible for over 2000 people at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club. Paul MacIntosh, Skating Programs Manager

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Gold Test Results

Skater Gold test Skater Gold test

Nicole Chalhoub FreeSkate Emma Chiera Dance

Annie Guo FreeSkate Nicole Gross Dance

Liam McKenzie FreeSkate Jane Hallet Dance

Paige Nobbs FreeSkate Marin Taylor Dance

Darienne Shaw FreeSkate Mai-Lien Thompson Dance

Nicole Chalhoub Skills Emma Chiera Interpretive

Zihan Gao Skills Liz Christensen Interpretive

Joy He Skills Olivia Han Interpretive

Ruth Meyer Skills Joy He Interpretive

Audrey Scanlan Skills Andrew McDonald Interpretive

Kaitlyn Wells Skills

Aidan Wright Skills

Anna Zhou Skills

Membership Coordinator Report I want to thank our whole membership for your wonderful understanding and patience through our new change to our Online System. This year I worked hard to make the transition as smooth of a process as possible. I overcame the momentous task of reworking our new system to help with problems for Parents, Skaters, Coaches and Staff but only with the wonderful support I received from each of you. Thank you again and look forward to another successful year at KWSC. In the chart below, you can see our registration is steady overall with some sessions up and others down.

Justine DeRabbie, Membership Coordinator Program Spring Summer Pre-

Season Fall Winter Program Spring Summer Fall Winter

Parent and Tot 5 N/A N/A 46 70 Intro to F.S 19 N/A 25 25

PreCanSkate 155 33 55 301 392 Junior STAR 96 44 111 111

CanSkate 343 85 102 506 613 Intermediate STAR 27 18 32 32

Learn to Skate N/A N/A N/A 28 45 Senior STAR 38 20 18 18

Adult/Teen CanSkate 11 3 N/A 18 30 16+ 9 6 22 22

Enrichment 33 20 N/A 32 26 Intermediate Accel 19 14 15 15

GroupStar 11 N/A N/A 22 19 Competitive 20 16 23 23

Social Dance N/A N/A N/A 6 6 Comp Dance 25 12 25 25

Adult Synchro Skills 22 N/A N/A N/A N/A Comp Pairs 2 3 4 4

Synchro Skills 26 N/A N/A N/A N/A Beginner Synchro N/A N/A 10 10

Pre-Power 15 N/A N/A 19 21 Elementary Synchro (x2) N/A N/A 27 27

TCHSS 150 37 45 219 176 Juvenile Synchro N/A N/A 11 11

15-16 Totals 771 178 202 1197 1398 15-16 Totals 255 133 323 323

14-15 Totals 802 226 249 1256 1473 14-15 Totals 242 135 305 305

13-14 Totals 749 207 170 1137 1435 13-14 Totals 303 207 268 272

12-13 totals(comparison) 643 252 162 1122 1524 12-13 totals (comparison) 190 158 283 283

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Competition Results Jul 21-25, 2015 - Skate Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan US)

Jul 30-Aug 2, 2015 - Minto Summer Skate (Ottawa, ON )

Novice Men 17th Liam McKenzie 80.72

Pre-Novice Dance Pattern Dance 1st Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 25.93

18th Matthew Wright 75.90

Pre-Novice Dance Free Dance 5th Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 29.25

Novice Women Flight 1 10th Natalie Mallet 66.72

8th Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 26.25

Novice Women Flight 2 14th Paige Nobbs 56.38

Novice Dance Pattern Dance 2nd Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 19.30

Novice Women Flight 3 15th Grace Condon 61.63

5th Kara Hogg / Andrew McDonald 16.64

Novice Women Flight 4 11th Sabrina Lezeu 60.12

Novice Dance Free Dance 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 47.30

Novice Women Flight 6 8th Natasha Tymko 81.27


Jul 29-Aug 1, 2015 - Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships (Lake Placid, New York US) Aug 13-16, 2015 - Thornhill Summer Skate (Thornhill, ON )

Intermediate Dance Pattern Dance 14th Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 18.88 Juvenile Dance Pattern Dance 2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 21.37

Intermediate Dance Free Dance 14th Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 28.46 3rd Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 20.15

Aug 7-9, 2015 - Summer Sizzle Invitational (Waterloo, ON )

4th Anya Sheltra / Joshua Mulder 19.34

STARSkate Junior Silver Women 7th Emma Chiera 16.75

Juvenile Dance Free Dance 1st Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 27.11

Pre-Juvenile Women under 13 Flight 1 11th Winifred Li 12.18

3rd Anya Sheltra / Joshua Mulder 19.22

Pre-Juvenile Women under 13 Flight 2 8th Keanna Davidson 17.12

Pre-Novice Dance Pattern Dance 3rd Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 21.76

Pre-Juvenile Dance Pattern Dance 2nd Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

16.17

5th Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 20.96

Juvenile Men U14 1st Eric Millar 22.03

Pre-Novice Dance Free Dance 3rd Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 31.72

Juvenile Women U12 Flight 1 6th Annika McKenzie 22.60


Juvenile Women U12 Flight 2 2nd Annie Guo 26.91


10th Angela Ling 20.09

Novice Dance Pattern Dance 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 20.26

Juvenile Women U14 Flight 1 4th Darienne Shaw 22.26


Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 6th Anya Sheltra 19.62

Novice Dance Free Dance 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 55.66

Juvenile Dance Pattern Dance 1st Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 25.59



Junior Women Flight 3 9th Stephanie Rechsteiner 76.82

Pre-Novice Men Short Program 3rd Liam McKenzie 28.20

Sep 18-20, 2015 - Isabelle Henderson Memorial Invitational (Paris, ON )

8th Aidan Wright 13.71


9th Everest Zhu 11.99

Juvenile Men U12 2nd Aiden Dotzert 18.68

Pre-Novice Men Free Program 2nd Liam McKenzie 46.80

Juvenile Men U14 2nd Eric Millar 19.73


Juvenile Women U12 Flight 1 1st Annie Guo 26.20


6th Annika McKenzie 23.68

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 2 2nd Olivia Han 26.04

Juvenile Women U12 Flight 2 11th Angela Ling 21.88

4th Natasha Tymko 25.21

Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 9th Darienne Shaw 20.40

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 3 10th Paige Nobbs 17.08

Juvenile Dance 2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 48.50

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 4 3rd Joy He 23.03

3rd Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 44.91

5th Natalie Mallet 22.75

Pre-Novice Men 2nd Liam McKenzie 72.34

9th Nicole Chalhoub 19.99


Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 6 2nd Anna Zhou 24.59

Pre-Novice Women Flight 3 11th Samira Rechsteiner 47.34

12th Samira Rechsteiner 17.30

Pre-Novice Women Flight 4 5th Natalie Mallet

58.50

Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 1 8th Grace Condon 36.59

Pre-Novice Women Flight 5 9th Paige Nobbs 52.69

Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 2 8th Natalie Mallet 40.51

Pre-Novice Women Flight 6 11th Heather Metzloff 52.33

17th Samira Rechsteiner 30.54


Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 3 2nd Natasha Tymko 42.17

Senior Pairs 1st Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri 117.89

4th Anna Zhou 40.44

Nov 20-22, 2015 - ISU Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup (Moscow, Russia)

Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 4 10th Paige Nobbs 36.62

Senior Dance 1st Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 173.58

17th Nicole Chalhoub 32.79

Senior Pairs 7th Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro

158.75

Pre-Novice Dance Pattern Dance 1st Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 25.23

Nov 27-29, 2015 - John McKay Memorial Invitational (Tillsonburg, ON )

2nd Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 24.21

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 4 7th Kailyn Davidson

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STAR 5 Girls 13 & over Flight 5 6th Emmaline Stark 12.67

Pre-Novice Dance Free Dance 1st Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 35.67

WO Development Level 1 1st Jacob Stark

2nd Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 34.25 2nd Kieran Deeley

3rd Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 32.85

WO Development Level 1 Women Flight 1 3rd Gabby Lahosky

Novice Men Short Program 3rd Matthew Wright 33.11 WO Development Level 1 Women Flight 2 10th Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine

Novice Men Free Program 5th Matthew Wright 51.70

WO Development Level 2 Women 7th Jessica Lahosky 13.90

Junior Men Short Program 1st Yi Zhou 34.49

WO Development Level 3 Dance 3rd Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

18.44

Junior Men Free Program 1st Yi Zhou 62.04

Open Solo Dance Short Dance 1st Marin Taylor 32.53

Junior Women Short Program 8th Stephanie Rechsteiner 28.58 Novice Solo Dance Pattern Dance 1st Marin Taylor 22.69

Junior Women Free Program 5th Stephanie Rechsteiner 50.12

STARSkate Silver Interpretive Women 6th Marin Taylor 32.84

Sep 16-20, 2015 - U.S. International Figure Skating Classic (Salt Lake City, Utah US) 9th Emma Chiera 29.98

Senior Pairs 3rd Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro

160.08

Dec 2-6, 2015 - Skate Canada Challenge (Edmonton, Alberta )

Oct 8-11, 2015 - Finlandia Trophy (Espoo, Finland) Pre-Novice Men 5th Liam McKenzie 87.61



Oct 2-4, 2015 - Skate Ontario Super Series Final (Ottawa, ON ) Pre-Novice Dance 2nd Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 68.46

Pre-Novice Dance 1st Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 61.45

4th Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 64.85

2nd Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 59.47



Novice Men 14th Matthew Wright 98.47

Novice Dance 1st 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 78.69

Novice Dance 2nd Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 81.81



Oct 14-18, 2015 - Octoberfest (Barrie, ON ) Novice Pairs 8th Mackenzie Ripley / Nathan O'Brien

74.45

Open Solo Dance Short Dance 5th Marin Taylor 24.08

Junior Men 18th Yi Zhou 104.17

Juvenile Women U14 Flight 1 9th Anya Sheltra 15.91 Senior Pairs 3rd Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri 140.52

Juvenile Dance 1st Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 51.73

Dec 10-13, 2015 - ISU Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (Barcelona, Spain)

2nd Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 49.22


6th Rebecca Brown / Aiden Dotzert 41.88

Dec 12-13, 2015 - Bill Phillips Memorial Synchronized Skating Invitational (Stratford, ON )

Pre-Novice Women Flight 4 16th Heather Metzloff 37.96 Pre-Novice Synchro 6th Revolution 35.40

Pre-Novice Dance 2nd Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 62.83 Jan 12-15, 2016 - International Children's Games (Innsbruck, Austria)


Boys 6th Liam McKenzie 71.17


Girls 14th Natalie Mallet 65.44


19th Paige Nobbs 58.01

Novice Dance 2nd Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 74.99

Ice Dance 1st Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 62.76


Jan 18-24, 2016 - Canadian Tire National Skating Championships (Halifax, NS )


Novice Men 15th Matthew Wright 89.26

Oct 30-Nov 1, 2015 - ISU Grand Prix Skate Canada International (Lethbridge, Alberta ) Novice Dance 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 90.26



Senior Pairs 3rd Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro

174.85

Novice Pairs 6th Mackenzie Ripley / Nathan O'Brien

93.62

Nov 6-8, 2015 - Skate Canada Western Ontario Sectional Championships (Lakeshore, ON ) Junior Men 18th Yi Zhou 109.46



9th Katie Zavitz 14.54

Senior Pairs 4th

Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro

183.58

Pre-Juvenile Women under 13 Flight 2 10th Zena Kim 17.11

7th Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri 159.75

12th Winifred Li 16.57

Jan 29-31, 2016 - Synchro Capers (Oakville, ON )

Pre-Juvenile Dance 4th Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

17.28

Beginner I Synchro Flight 2 7th Revolution 6.16

Juvenile Men U12 2nd Aiden Dotzert 19.90

Elementary Synchro Silver Final 3rd Revolution A 7.12

Juvenile Men U14 1st Eric Millar 26.07

7th Revolution B 5.71

Juvenile Women U12 2nd Annie Guo 28.92

Pre-Novice Synchro Silver Final 2nd Revolution 13.07


Feb 12-14, 2016 - Ontario Regional Synchronized Skating Championships (Kingston, ON )

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10th Annika McKenzie 22.99

Elementary Synchro 15th Revolution A 18.49

Juvenile Women U14 7th Darienne Shaw 19.33


Juvenile Dance 1st Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 49.00

Pre-Novice Synchro 12th Revolution 28.27

2nd Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 48.44

Feb 5-7, 2016 - Dennis Silverthorne Memorial Invitational (St. Thomas, ON )



Pre-Novice Men 1st Liam McKenzie 71.76

7th Kaitlyn Wells 9.79

3rd Everest Zhu 54.93

STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 3 3rd Grace Smerchinski 13.67


STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 4 8th Jessyka Brezina 9.65

Pre-Novice Women 11th Anna Zhou 68.40

WO Development Level 2 Women 3rd Jessica Lahosky 17.87

12th Natasha Tymko 68.39

WO Development Level 3 Dance Pattern Dance

3rd Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

18.64

20th Natalie Mallet 62.36

STARSkate Senior Bronze Women Flight 1 2nd Anya Sheltra 19.50

30th Paige Nobbs 54.07

STARSkate Gold Women 3rd Olivia Han 36.04

32nd Nicole Chalhoub 49.32

STARSkate Bronze Interpretive Women Flight 3

7th Ainsley Dotzert 27.28

35th Heather Metzloff 43.72

STARSkate Gold Triathlon Women 6th Jane Hallett 104.48

Pre-Novice Dance 1st Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 63.50

Juvenile Men 2nd Eric Millar 24.28

3rd Bridget LeDonne / Jakub Smal 62.87

4th Aiden Dotzert 14.85


Juvenile Women U12 6th Annika McKenzie 26.15

Novice Men 2nd Matthew Wright 92.24


Novice Women 14th Sabrina Lezeu 68.56

Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 1st Darienne Shaw 25.96

Novice Dance 1st Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead 85.48

Juvenile Women U14 Flight 2 1st Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 23.21

3rd Kara Hogg / Andrew McDonald 64.81 2nd Rebecca Brown / Aiden Dotzert 20.97

Novice Pairs 2nd Mackenzie Ripley / Nathan O'Brien

70.87


Junior Men 1st Yi Zhou 98.61 2nd Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 27.00

Junior Women 6th Stephanie Rechsteiner 87.77


Senior Pairs 1st Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri 136.78

Pre-Novice Men Short Program 2nd Eric Millar 19.10

Jan 8-10, 2016 - Charles Dover Memorial Invitational (Grimsby, ON ) 3rd Aidan Wright 15.33

STAR 4 Boys 1st Matthew Gajewski

Pre-Novice Men Free Program 1st Everest Zhu 37.61

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 1 3rd Charlotte Levinski

2nd Aidan Wright 27.63

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 3 8th Kailyn Davidson

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 1 7th Natalie Mallet 23.00

STAR 5 Boys under 13 1st Scott Sau 13.51

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 3 6th Annika McKenzie 20.33

STAR 5 Girls under 10 1st Lily Wilberforce 14.43


STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 1 4th Winifred Li 15.37

Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 2 6th Natalie Mallet 41.23

STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 2 3rd Katie Zavitz 16.57

Pre-Novice Dance Pattern Dance 1st Sydney Embro / Eric Millar 24.73

WO Development Level 1 Women 2nd Gabby Lahosky

Novice Men Short Program 2nd Liam McKenzie 30.97

WO Development Level 2 Women 1st Jessica Lahosky 18.09

4th Matthew Wright 29.42

STARSkate Silver Interpretive Women 3rd Marin Taylor 31.73

Novice Men Free Program 2nd Liam McKenzie 54.15

5th Sylvie McGeown 30.58

Novice Women Short Program 5th Natasha Tymko 29.84

STARSkate Gold Interpretive Women 1st Jane Hallett 49.74 12th Paige Nobbs 20.98

Adult Bronze Freeskate Women 2nd Jeanette Magurn 9.62

Novice Women Free Program 3rd Natasha Tymko 53.90

Adult Silver Freeskate Women 4th Patricia Clarke 15.43 Novice Dance Pattern Dance 1st Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu 19.78

Adult Masters Freeskate Women 2nd Elizabeth Bauer 18.30

2nd Rose Brawley / Owen Brawley 17.59

Adult Silver Interpretive Women 3rd Patricia Clarke 26.75

Mar 5-6, 2016 - Futures - Central Invitational (Ayr, ON )

Adult Gold Interpretive Women 4th Elizabeth Bauer 34.32

STAR 4 Boys 13 & over 1st Matthew Gajewski

Feb 16-21, 2016 - ISU Four Continents Championships (Taipei City, Chinese Taipei) STAR 4 Boys under 13 1st Kieran Deeley

Senior Dance 9th Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 173.85 STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 1 2nd Rebecca Brown

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Feb 26-28, 2016 - Western Ontario Section STARSkate Championships & Adult Showcase (Sarnia, ON ) 5th Kailyn Davidson

STAR 4 Boys under 10 2nd Jacob Stark

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 2 1st Sydney Embro

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 1 1st Sydney Embro

STAR 4 Girls 13 & over Flight 3 2nd Charlotte Levinski

STAR 4 Girls under 10 Flight 1 2nd Gabby Lahosky

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 3 3rd Avery McDonald

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 2 2nd Kailyn Davidson

STAR 4 Girls 13 & over Flight 3 3rd Christina Peters

STAR 5 Boys under 13 1st Scott Sau 16.30

STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 4 6th Meghan Wright

STAR 5 Girls under 10 5th Jessica Lahosky 15.97 Mar 18-20, 2016 - Skate Ontario Championships (Sudbury, ON)

15th Lily Wilberforce 9.49 STAR 5 Boys under 13 4th Scott Sau 13.63

STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 1 16th Jessyka Brezina 12.65

Pre-Juvenile Dance 4th Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

19.09


Juvenile Men U12 3rd Aiden Dotzert 18.76

STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 2 11th Ruth Meyer 14.83 Juvenile Dance 1st Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 50.39

STAR 5 Girls under 13 Flight 3 11th Grace Smerchinski 15.46 3rd Rebecca Brown / Aiden Dotzert 42.31

STAR 5 Girls 13 & over Flight 3 13th Ainsley Dotzert 12.87

Mar 19-20, 2016 - Deveau/Winfield Synchronized Skating Invitational (Chatham, ON )

Open Solo Dance Short Dance 1st Marin Taylor 30.37

Beginner I Synchro 5th Revolution 6.43

Novice Solo Dance 1st Marin Taylor 23.56

Elementary Synchro 6th Revolution A 23.92


4th Avery McDonald 30.44



8th Ainsley Dotzert 25.33

Pre-Novice Synchro 3rd Revolution 39.80

STARSkate Silver Interpretive Women Flight 1 4th Emma Chiera 36.50 Mar 28-Apr 4, 2016 - ISU World Championships (Boston, Massachusetts US)

6th Shannon Stone 30.83 Senior Dance 5th Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 182.01

STARSkate Silver Interpretive Women Flight 2 2nd Marin Taylor 35.72

Senior Pairs 8th Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro

190.90

5th Sylvie McGeown 30.83 Apr 21-24, 2016 - Skate Canada Adult Figure Skating Championships (Oakville, ON )

Adult Bronze Freeskate Women 2nd Deborah Bennett 10.10

Adult Bronze Freeskate Women Class II 7th Jeanette Magurn 8.71

Adult Silver Freeskate Women 6th Patricia Clarke 15.16 Adult Bronze Freeskate Women Class IV 2nd Deborah Bennett 7.97

Adult Gold Freeskate Women 1st Judy Chow 14.07

Adult Silver Freeskate Women Class III 5th Patricia Clarke 15.18

Adult Masters Freeskate Women 2nd Elizabeth Bauer 17.92

Adult Gold Freeskate Women Class III 2nd Judy Chow 13.26

Adult Introductory Interpretive Women 1st Deborah Bennett 19.03

Adult Masters Freeskate Women Class II-III 3rd Elizabeth Bauer 18.07

Adult Silver Interpretive Women 5th Patricia Clarke 29.11

Adult Introductory Interpretive Women Class IV

3rd Deborah Bennett 13.28

Adult Gold Interpretive Women 1st Elizabeth Bauer 40.30

Adult Bronze Interpretive Men Class II-III 5th Greg Harper 14.66

Pre-Juvenile Women under 13 6th Keanna Davidson 21.14 Adult Silver Interpretive Women Class III 3rd Patricia Clarke 29.81

7th Winifred Li 20.57

Adult Gold Interpretive Women Class II 3rd Elizabeth Bauer 37.50

15th Katie Zavitz 15.60 Senior Bronze Solo Dance 2nd Jeanette Magurn 10.51

16th Zena Kim 14.11

Apr 22-24, 2016 - Ursula Lehming Scarboro Skate (Scarborough, ON )

Pre-Juvenile Dance 3rd Sasha (Alexandra) Grichine / Jacob Stark

19.58

STAR 4 Boys under 13 5th Robert McKinnon

Juvenile Men U12 2nd Aiden Dotzert 19.56 STAR 4 Girls 13 & over Flight 1 1st Christina Peters

Juvenile Men U14 2nd Eric Millar 23.42 2nd Charlotte Levinski

Juvenile Dance 1st Angela Ling / Aidan Wright 54.57 STAR 4 Girls under 13 Flight 4 7th Kailyn Davidson

3rd Rebecca Brown / Aiden Dotzert 42.61 STARSkate Senior Bronze Women Flight 1 3rd Zena Kim 17.15

STARSkate Junior Silver Women 10th Emma Chiera 17.15

STARSkate Gold Triathlon Women 3rd Jane Hallett 86.02

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 1 12th Keanna Davidson 16.45

Pre-Novice Women Short Program Flight 4 10th Heather Metzloff 17.48

Pre-Novice Women Free Program Flight 2 9th Samira Rechsteiner 27.49

Junior Women Short Program 8th Stephanie Rechsteiner 30.23

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Coaching Committee It's truly surprising how quickly a whole year passes!

This year our coaching staff has seen a few changes. I'd like to welcome Ashley Osika to the club as our newest base coach. Ashley has a very bubbly, outgoing personality and is fast becoming a valued member of the coaching team.

Huge thanks to Kris Wirtz and Paul MacIntosh for leading and keeping us all on track throughout the season. Both of these individuals work very hard to keep the staff working well together and to bring new and exciting opportunities to our skating community.

Many changes will happen this year with our testing structure and I am happy to report that training is underway to update and keep us in the forefront of implementing these changes within our club. KW is a popular location, not just for training skaters, but also coaches, and not just from our club, but from the entire region. We are fortunate to have such a great place to work!

This year KWSC created, and piloted, a new School Skate program with grade 1 students from the KW area. A tremendous amount of work went into making this program fly, and boy did it fly! Many of our CanSkate and base coaches were up front and centre (on and off ice) helping to make this a hugely successful endeavor. It has to also be mentioned that Marie Pringle and Paul Mallet put their heart and soul into this project. There was so much background work done by these two that it was almost a full time job just to keep up .... thank you! Also a big thanks to Theresa Stiles who managed the day to day operations of this program.

I have very much enjoyed representing my colleagues on the board of directors. It is an honour to be part of such a fine group of individuals.

Best wishes to all for a very successful year ahead! Melinda Kunhegyi, KWSC Coaches Representative

Coordinators Reports Singles Discipline

Another successful year for the Competitive program at the Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club! The team has worked hard, becoming more harmonized and cohesive as a whole group. The training and work ethic has seen a huge improvement and I look eagerly to the future as this group of talented skaters move in the right direction towards LTAD and their own personal goals. Kris Wirtz

Learn to Skate

LTS program was busy and well delivered this year, with the Parent and Tot program growing in popularity. Our coaching staff of 25 coaches was motivated by our new young coaches that were past PAs in our club. Throughout the season there were 52 Program Assistants contributing to the operation of our sessions. We really appreciate these young volunteers! Our approach to customer service has really improved with our meet-and-greet tables and continuous communication through our member email system. The Grade One SchoolSkate program has certainly

put “our face” out there and it is exciting on the first day to have skaters tell us they did that program and liked skating so they joined us! We look forward to another successful Learn to Skate year! Carolyn Allwright

TCHSS Power Skating Our Twin City Hockey Skating School has seen some new changes this year. We are always competing with other programs for hockey players but this year we have seen a large increase in female hockey skaters coming into our program. Even though this opened up new challenges for us, we could not be happier to have more diversity in our sessions. This year we were also featured on the Rogers network, helping get our name out there to the public. Look forward to the coming years! Keith McCarthy

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Synchro Skating The 2015 Revolution Synchro season started in the spring with a successful skills session. After the summer off, synchro returned to uncertainty and it was well into October when decisions were made. After much creative scheduling, budgeting, use of ice and flexibility on behalf of the coaching and office staff, 4 teams were launched.

We ran a Beginner 1 team (10 skaters, coached by Sarah Vollmer and Jeannette Griffin Shaw, managed by Teresa Rahn and Kara Stevens) two Elementary teams (Elementary A - 15 skaters coached

by Susan Ritchie and managed by Ted Wilberforce, Elementary B - 12 skaters including one double teamer, coached by Sarah and Jeannette, managed by Melissa Lehmann and Kara Stevens) and a Pre Novice team (11 skaters, coached by Susan and managed by Patti Jo Csontos and Heather Strecheniuk). The move to four teams provided a place for skaters with a wide range of abilities to skate as well as athletes up to the age of 19. This has created a stepping stone of teams for skaters to progress through from year to year and is very exciting for the Revolution Synchro program!

The beginner team skated at two competitions this year placing 7th/8 (only .39 points out of first!) and 5th/13. Elementary A and B competed three times. Their placings were as follows: Elementary A: 3rd/8, 15th/16 ,6th/8. Elementary B: 7th/8, 16th/16 and 8th/8. The Pre Novice team competed four times placing 6th/9, 2nd/7 12th/14 and 3rd/6. All four teams were hitting their stride by the end of the year and skated season’s best programs at the final competition of the year in Chatham.

Several exhibitions were skated throughout the season as well and all four teams travelled by bus to St Mary’s to perform in their ice show. The Revolution teams participated in Ice and the prenovice team participated. The Pre Novice team participated in a running race dubbed “Rev it Up 5K!” which they had been training all season for. Susan Ritchie

SchoolSkate We are thrilled to have had the chance to work with local schoolboard to deliver the first

“SchoolSkate” year made possible by a provincial grant. The program has touched and changed the lives of some 1325 grade 1 students in the region. Our goals were met as we saw the positive impact we had on these children. Some of them have never seen an ice rink before. The opportunity to experience the skill of skating will be with these kids for a lifetime. What an accomplishment! Some of the reasons these children have not had this opportunity before are, the cost factor, time restraints or simply that it is not something their family is acquainted with. In looking ahead the SchoolSkate team is preparing for the new school year. We are currently looking for financial sponsors and coop students. The future of this worthwhile program needs the support of many in the skating world as well as our local community to pull it off in the coming years. There are two key roles for this program to be a success: the skating end of things and the

administration. Both are vital to see the program operates with continuity and success. Our head coaches are having to constantly adapt to unforeseen challenges such as late busses, behavioral challenges and the relationships with the teachers. The coaches are delivering a modified CanSkate program in a 6 week format complete with achievement ribbons. Challenging but so rewarding to see the students that were literally crawling on the ice week 1 to soring around the coaches by week 6. Our staff manages on and off ice injuries and the day to day communication with the teachers. Because most of their parents are not there, independence and responsibility are gained by the end of the 6 weeks. The teachers and schoolboard administrator can’t say enough about how fantastic the coaches, staff and coop students are! The SchoolSkate team is excited for the coming year! Theresa Stiles & Tammy Van Schyndel

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Special Events The following are brief summaries of special skating events we host for our members:

Gala - Carolyn Eckert We held our 2015 Annual KWSC Gala on Sunday, June 14'th to recognize our members, skaters, volunteers, sponsors and others with more than 100 awards for their commitment, passion and success. Our awards included presentations for volunteer recognition, Gold Test recipients, Synchronized Skating Team awards, KWSC Athlete of the Year, Carolyn Fedy Bursary Award, KWSC Achievement Awards and many more. We celebrated recognition and achievements with many friends and family in the KWSC community. Every year the goal of the KWSC Gala is to recognize our members and those who work so diligently year round in support of our club and programs. We invite coaches, judges, volunteers, skaters, families and everyone connected to the KW Skating Club to mingle and celebrate accomplishments. We were thrilled to welcome Canadian Champion ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who shared their stories and insights into their training and success. Pictures, autographs and congratulations were the highlight for many. As with all of our KWSC events, we had many groups and individuals who so graciously gave their time and expertise to make this event the success it always is. Special thanks to our decorating crew from the Synchro teams, photography by Danielle Earl and her team, as well as the audio/visual support duo - Bill Poje and Mark Psutka. Thank you to the Gala Committee, Award Committee and Volunteer Management Committee for the work you do ahead of the Gala. A personal thank you to Paul Mallet, KWSC President, Marie Pringle, KWSC Executive Director and our event MC, Paul MacIntosh, KWSC Skating Programs Manager and Justine DeRabbie, KWSC Membership Coordinator for all of your support ahead of the Gala and on the day of. Also, thank you to the many presenters who helped recognize our award recipients. The event was made complete with the unveiling of our special banners showcasing the successes of our many teams with all of our Gala attendees watching from the windows. A perfect place and event for this occasion! Thank you to everyone and all of our attendees for your continued support and encouragement of all our athletes through your volunteerism and participation. For anyone looking to share their special events planning skills or just to try something new and make new friends, please feel free to come forward and join us in the planning for this year's Gala being held Sunday, June 12 beginning at 4pm.

Freeskate Festival - Angela Stark FreeSkate Festival 2015 “Broadway” was held Dec 19, 2015 to great success. One hundred and fifty-seven skaters’ participated and over 180 programs skated. The day started with creative renditions of “Phantom of the Opera”, “West Side Story”, “Tommy”, “Crazy for You”, “Chicago” and “Grease” skated by teams that featured a total of 85 team members. Thank you to our brave Team Leaders for their time and energy! The exciting day saw skaters perform in the Star 1-5 Learn to Train, StarSkate, Adult and Old Fashioned Interpretive categories. KWSC Revolution synchronized skating beginner, elementary and pre-novice teams also performed a mash up exhibition. Many people pitched in as needed during the day. Volunteers numbered over 50 and truly helped the day run smoothly. Thank you to all the skaters and volunteers!

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2016 Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships - Stefanie Wright The 2016 Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships were held at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex February 19-21, 2016. Over 800 skaters from across the country gathered to compete at this event, comprising about 40 teams from Novice, Intermediate, Junior, Senior and Open levels. Although KWSC did not have any teams competing at the event, a large number of KWSC members and alumni did participate in the competition in various ways. KWSC skaters Angie Qi and Emily Wright (along with KWSC alumnus Nadia Vladco) were crowned national champions along with their Nexxice Junior teammates. Heather

Metzloff earned the silver medal while competing with Nexxice Intermediate and Leah Boileau also earned silver along with her Nexxice Novice teammates. During this event, the 2009 World Champion Nexxice Senior team, which trained part-time at KWSC and included a number of KWSC alumni as team members, was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame. Undoubtedly, KWSC’s greatest contribution to the event was the extraordinary turn-out of its members, including skaters, family members, coaches and staff, who volunteered at the event and helped to ensure that the event ran smoothly. No one who was present at the event will soon forget the energy and excitement that flowed throughout the building that is so typical of synchronized skating events!

KWSC’s Under the Big Top! Ice Show 2016 - Alison Sims and Mike Levinski, Co-Chairs The KWSC Ice Show took the ice on April 9th, 2016 at 3pm. at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex.

“Under the Big Top” was a fun family friendly theme both on and off the ice. The event was designed to include all club members and their families. The audience and performers enjoyed free off ice activities, including face painting, cotton candy, glitter tattoos, wandering clowns and balloon creations. The quick facts:

- Over 340 skaters performers - Over 1000 costume pieces - No participation fees to the skaters - An audience of over 1200 - ticket prices of only $20/adult and $5/youth - Event supported by the KWSC Board of Directors - Professionally directed and choreographed by Rebecca Babb - Professional Lights and Sound with primarily volunteer

operators and directors - Over 100 volunteers working a crazy amount of hours in the following areas: show production, costume

design,/sourcing/manufacture, skater chaperones, backstage, prop design and manufacture, stage managers, runners, ice captains, registration, volunteer management

Special thank you to all our volunteers in all areas. We could not put on a show of this size and quality without the generous gifts of time from our membership both current and alumni. The Ice Show Committee looks forward to our next production in April 2018.

STARSkate Championships Simulations and Send-Off - Cheryl Dotzert On February 12th, 2016 we held an enjoyable simulations and send-off event for approximately 20 KWSC skaters registered to compete at the Western Ontario Section STARSkate Championships & Adult Showcase. The skaters benefitted from a full dress rehearsal before a cheering audience in the lead-up to the championships held in Sarnia, ON from February 26th - 28th, 2016. The skaters also participated in a team-building event led by Senior Pairs' Team Shalena Rau & Sebastian Arcieri. Sebastian & Shalena shared insight on their journey as individual skaters & as a team. Their message was well received & appreciated by all in attendance. A very special thank you to Justine DeRabbie, Paul MacIntosh, Carolyn Moss, Paul Mallet, Mark Psutka & Alison Sims, for their assistance in hosting this event.

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Sectionals Simulations and Send-Off - Paul Mallet On Friday October 23rd, 2015 we held a well-attended simulations and send-off event. The day served as a full dress rehearsal and team-building event for our Western Ontario Sectionals competitors. Many coaches, spectators and skaters participated with 40 skaters performing either their short or long program. The event also included refreshments and a mental training workshop for skaters led by Dr. Kim Dawson. Dr. Dawson did a great job of helping prepare our athletes for the challenges that lie ahead in her fun and interactive workshop. We are grateful to KWSC President Paul Mallet for chairing this event and to Dave Martin, Justine DeRabbie and Paul Macintosh for their assistance in scheduling and running the event. We are looking for an energetic volunteer to chair or co-chair this event in the fall of 2016. If you might be able to support our 2016 sectionals team in this manner, please email [email protected] for more details.

Alumni Annual Report The Board of Directors requested that our committee develop a Bereavement Policy to recognize the death of a

member of the KWSC skating community and his/ her contributions to KWSC and/or the sport of figure skating. The committee has a plan in place along with appropriate condolence cards.

Jack Adams ( June 3,1924-Dec. 8, 2015) Waterloo Skating Club mourn the passing of Jack Adams. Jack served as President from 1972 to 1974. Thereafter he served on the Past Presidents Committee until 1982. During this period Jack was instrumental in efforts to create a home for KWSC, a project that ended when the Club moved into Rink in the Park December 1978. A true friend of KWSC and the community will be missed. The alumni attended the visitation and send a sympathy card; A condolence card was sent to the Peter’s family upon the death of Del Peters on Jan 26 2016. The visitation was attended. Del’s wife Mary is an active volunteer and adult dance skater and his daughter Sarah was a coach with our club; A sympathy card was sent to the family of Wilfred Blakely (Mar.11 1928 –Mar. 9, 2016. Wilf spent his retirement sharpening skates from the Rink In the Park; A card of condolence was sent to Carolyn Allwright on the death of her Father. Respectfully submitted Marilyn Johnny Committee members Al Dahmer, Carolyn Fedy, Joyce Haus, Chris Nanson Alison Smerchinski Sue Taylor

KWSC Trust Committee Annual Report 2015/16 The Kitchener Waterloo Trust Committee is entrusted with the stewardship and management of the KWSC Trust Fund’s assets. These funds have been accumulated over many years from various sources such as profit form competitions, donations, interest income and surpluses from Club operations. In 2016 a small committee with 2 members of the Trust Committee and 2 members of the Board of Directors began the process of updating the agreement and structure of the Trust. This on-going course of action will redefine the process for selection of Trustees, the make-up of the Committee and other aspects of the agreement while respecting the original intent of the founders. This committee will make recommendations for the consideration of the Board of Directors and the Trust Committee as to the future focus and direction of the Trust Committee and funds. A well, respected ‘not for profit’ lawyer, Stephen Cameron of Miller Thompson LLC, has been engaged to provide guidance and advice to ensure we are in compliance with current and future regulations regarding the Trust. The Trust Fund financials are included in the Club’s financial report. All funds entrusted to Trust Committee are currently invested in secure instruments as recommended by Belmont Financial. The KWSC Trust Committee consists of:

Don Johnny Chair Sue Taylor Treasurer Mary-Jo Fedy Secretary Mark Psutka Member Paul Mallet KWSC President

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The Grand River Skating Council The Grand River Skating council (GRSC) is one of nine regions that comprises Skate Canada's Western Ontario

section. KWSC is a member of the GRSC along with Ayr, Cambridge, Guelph, Hesepler, New Hamburg, Preston, Wellesley, and Woolwich skating clubs. The council meets on the first Wednesday of every month at a location that rotates around member clubs to exchange ideas, plan competitions, and organize skater development program activities. The elected KWSC representative on the GRSC for 2015-2016 was Duncan Millar and in recognition of the significant transitions coming to WOS in 2016/17, the Grand River Skating Council executive stood for re-election in April 2016 and is comprised as:

Cheryl Dotzert (Chair)

Alison Sims (Past Chair and Skater Development Chair

Valerie McDonald (Vice-Chair)

Norma Poyntz (Secretary)

Sheri Pratt (Treasurer)

Coaches Rep – Cheryl Ann Huston (retiring - position open)

Bursary Chair – Judy Chow

Synchro Rep – Sharon Hefley (retiring - position open) *Plus each club also has a sitting representative on the council Highlights of the councils activities this past year include:

Summer Sizzle August 7-9, 2016 at RIM park in Waterloo

LOC for 2016 Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships February 19-21, 2016

2016 Futures - Central Invitational March 5-6, 2016 at the North Dumfries Community complex, Ayr Upcoming 2016 – 2017 Events:

August 5 - 7 2016 – Summer Sizzle at RIM Park in Waterloo with practice ice available

GRSC Sectional Simulations Day: October 1, 2016 at the Waterloo Recreation Complex

GRSC Skater Development Days: Pending WOS input

On behalf of the Kitchener-Waterloo skating Club, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to all council members and congratulate them for their outstanding work this past year. Duncan Millar KWSC Representative, Grand River Skating Council

KWSC Board Members Returning:

Carolyn Fedy (Honorary Lifetime Member)

Melinda Kunhegyi (Coaches’ Representative)

Jill Brush Skating committees/events/volunteer work Since becoming connected with KWSC in 2014 I have assisted with Summer Sizzle, Welcome Tables during KWSC programs, and the 2016 Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships held in Waterloo. Community volunteer work includes the Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo (Director 2009-Present, Chair 2011-2014, Past Chair 2014-2016); Waterloo Condominium Corporation No. 280 (Director 2013-Present, Treasurer 2014-present); Engage! K-W 2010-2011; and KW YMCA Mentoring Partnership (Mentor 2008-2009). Other Information:

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As a child and teenager, I was a skater with the Forest and Watford Skating Clubs. I participated in both singles skating as well as synchronized skating for many years, and I achieved my Skate Canada Gold Level Dance and Skills tests. I am involved with the Board of KWSC as a way to give back to the community and to feel connected again to the sport. I provide a voice on the Board, as someone with knowledge of the sport but I will be objective as I do not have any current or historical ties to the club.

Paul Mallet Skating committees/events/volunteer work I have served as KWSC’s President for the past 4 years. I have chaired or co-chaired several committees (e.g., volunteer management, awards, gala) and serve as the KWSC webmaster. Outside KWSC I have served on the Grand River Skating Council, and I serve as a Skate Canada WO Section Data Specialist. I have volunteered at many skating competitions including lots of invitationals, Canadian nationals, and ISU events such as Skate Canada International and the World Figure Skating Championships. Other Information: My daughter’s love of skating sparked in me an ever-growing interest and commitment to the sport. Watching how much skating has taught her—not just skating skills, but also life skills—has inspired me to give back to the sport.

Duncan Millar Skating committees/events/volunteer work • Supportive parent at KWSC including welcome table and ice show set-up Other Information: When not at work, I can be found at the KWSC club skating rink where I spend my time watching my son in the competitive KWSC skate program master the art of figure skating under the tutelage of several great coaches. After watching my son progress through all the great programs and coaching available at KWSC including CanSkate, STARSkate, Enrichment, and Dance programs - my motivation has grown to volunteer and actively support the sport.

Carolyn Moss Skating committees/events/volunteer work I have volunteered for KWSC as program assistant, co-chair of 2015 StarSkate Send-off, Ice Captain for the 2015 KWSC Celebration of Excellence, Eistanzfest (Adult Social Dance) organizer, and costume committee and dressing room supervisor for KWSC ice shows. Outside of skating, I have been co-chair for the Ontario Psychological Association – Section on Independent Practice, a WeeWatch Board member, as well as the Environmental Director for the Cottage Association. Other Information: Skating has been a large part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I have been a member of KWSC for 20 years. As a skater, I have participated at many levels of skating over the years, including learn to skate, regular skating stream, synchro, varsity skating team, and adult skating. I also now have two daughters who skate at KWSC, who have been involved in Pre-Canskate, Canskate, Enrichment, Intro to Figure Skating, StarSkate, Synchro, and Competitive Dance. I believe all skaters should be encouraged and supported to reach their potential and learn what they can from their time skating.

Patrick Therrien Skating committees/events/volunteer work

At UW, volunteered for undergraduate Psychology Students’ society

I also sat on the Executive Committee as Charity co-chair and Vice President Administration

Volunteered for KWSC competitions and events, including developing and delivering two competitive seminars Other Information: Having been a competitive skater and employee involved with KWSC for many years in the past, I would like to return to apply my skills as an athlete and those I picked up during my university years. I’d like to help the club manage the development of our athletes and achieve our full potential as an organization.

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Returning Board Members for a new term: Anders McKenzie Skating committees/events/volunteer work • KWSC Finance Committee

• Past Board member of Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest Inc.

• Past Board member and executive member of the London Chamber of Commerce

• Past Chair of the Capital Campaign for the London Regional Children’s Museum

Other Information: I have two children in the competitive KWSC program and a third child in competitive tennis. I am an avid competitive tennis player myself, and I am also a squash and golf participant.

Alison Sims Skating committees/events/volunteer work KWSC: Ice Show - Chair: 2014, Co-Chair 2012 and 2016, Fundraising Lead 2010; Volunteer Recruitment and Scheduling, Welcome Tables Co-ordination 2012-current Grand River Skating Council: Past Chair 2013 – present, Skater Development Chair (2013-present), Chair (2012-2013), Vice Chair (2011-12), KWSC Rep (2010-2011); Competition Chair for Summer Sizzle 2011- present, Starskate Championship (2012), Special Olympics Co-Chair (2012), Competition Registrar, Security Lead, Catering Skate Canada: Data Specialist KidsAbility Foundation: Board Member 2002-2007; Kids Can’t Wait Campaign Chair 2004-2006 K-W Bilingual School: Board Member (1999-2004); “Hot” Lunch Mom (2000-current) Waterloo Co-operative Preschool: 1998-2001 Board member held positions as President, Treasurer, Fundraising K-W Gyrettes: I have held the positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Board Member. Other Information: I am a stay at home mother with 5 children and an active volunteer. Prior to having children, I worked in management of a small local software company and in professional recruitment. My five children have exposed me to all club programs including Learn to Skate, Star Skate, Competitive Singles, and Competitive Dance. My goal as a board member is to provide the proper environment for all stakeholders to reach their potential whether they are an athlete, a volunteer, a coach, or a supporter.

Ken Stark Skating committees/events/volunteer work I have assisted on the Santa Claus Parade float and the Ice Show/Showcase for KWSC, and my wife Angela has coordinated the Christmas Freeskate Festival. I also volunteer as a coach for the Waterloo Minor Hockey Association. Professionally, I volunteer as an Associate Editor of the journal Lipids and I am a founding member of the Agri-food for Healthy Aging group of the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. I am also a member of the Canadian Nutrition Society. Other Information: I presently have 4 children skating in various levels and programs at KWSC. As a child, I grew up on a farm near Hagersville, ON where I skated in the CanSkate program and took stroking lessons. I eventually played varsity hockey for Yale, the University of Toronto, and the University of Guelph, and I continue to play with in the K-W Oldtimers’ League. Through volunteering, I hope to help KWSC to continue to provide skating opportunities to skaters at all levels.

Stefanie Wright Skating committees/events/volunteer work Over the past 11 years I have volunteered at KWSC for a number of events and committees: Showcase, club competitions, and awards committee, and I was chairperson for the Celebration of Excellence in 2013 and 2015. I have also volunteered at various regional, national and international skating competitions. Outside of the skating world, I have also volunteered as coach and convenor for the Waterloo Minor Soccer Club and the Kitchener Soccer Club (2006-12), and I have also volunteered at the K-W Humane Society (2010-2013).

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Other Information: I have two children who have been skating at KWSC over the past 14 years. I have had first-hand experience as a skating parent at all levels, including Pre-School, Enrichment, CanSkate, STARSkate, and competitive singles, dance, and synchronized skating. As a former competitor in the sport of fencing I strongly believe in the notion of “sport for life” and I think that the “skater-first” philosophy must remain a priority at KWSC in order to give the skaters a desire to remain active in sport or other physical activity throughout their lives.

New Nominees: Mike Levinski Skating committees/events/volunteer work This past year I joined my first KWSC Committee by Co-Chairing the bi-annual Ice Show. This opportunity allowed me to become more familiar with the structure and functions of the club. Additionally, this past year I volunteered at the Canadian National Synchronized Skating Competition, Summer Sizzle, Freeskate Festival and welcome tables for our Learn to Skate members. Outside of skating I have also coached 2 years of indoor house league for Waterloo Minor Soccer as well as a 2 years coaching ball hockey. Other Information: Although I never had the opportunity to participate in skating lessons as a child my wife and I have watched our daughter progress from CanSkate to Intermediate Star and Synchronized skating teams over the last 7 years. I have truly seen first-hand what a positive and inviting sports atmosphere can do for increasing self confidence and forging great friendships. These are the characteristics that I hope to continue to develop for all skaters.

Yiyu Xie Skating committees/events/volunteer work I have volunteered for KWSC ice shows/showcases since 2012 and some other club level events. Other Information: I always enjoy watching figure skating on TV. Ever since my son started to learn skating in CanSkate eight years ago, and my daughter joined later five years ago, I've spent most of my time, at rink side, watching them enjoying every moment on ice. As they progressed through various programs offered by KWSC, I've witnessed the club evolved to better serve the community as well as strived to meet individual skater's need. I would like to make a contribution to the club’s growth and reaching its full potential, and be a more active supporter of the sport. In my spare time, I love Zumba, cooking, travelling and spending time with my family and friends.

Retiring Members of the Board:

Joanne Kuntz is retiring after 6 years of dedicated service to the Board, including 4 years as VP - Finance. Her contributions to the Board will be greatly missed, but we wish her best wishes as she moves on to other life adventures. Lesley Germann is retiring after an impressive 12 ½ years of Board service, which has included 4 years as Board secretary, 3 years as club president, and 5 years as club past-president. We are truly grateful for the time she dedicated to the Board and wish her all the best in her future endeavours. 2015 Financial Statements

The statements prepared by BDO are printed in a separate booklet and inserted in this AGM report as part of the total presentation to the membership.

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AGM Report compiled by Justine DeRabbie, June 2016

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