Milpitas runner competes among state elite

by Jeff Gire
Article Launched: 11/28/2007 02:24:02 PM PST

The girls team was led by junior Nastassia Hamor with a time of 20:22.

"She is a really hard worker," Hall said, adding that the junior would regularly head directly from practices and meets to high-level inline speed skating competitions and workouts.

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Top tuition available to SC skaters

GIVING BACK: World champion speedskater Nicole Begg, left, is to give free coaching lessons every Sunday up until Christmas as a way of saying thanks to the people of South Canterbury who have supported her. Also helping out will be her mother Cheryl, centre, also a former world champion, and German international Tina Struver, right.

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Skaters have need for speed

Skaters have need for speed
Gulf Coast Speed Skate Club members gain discipline, dedication through their participation

By Chris Umpierre
cumpierre@news-press.com
Originally posted on November 22, 2007


John David Emmett/news-press.com
Members of the Gulf Coast Speed Skate Club work out at the Palace skating rink in North Fort Myers. The club trains four times a week and has members ranging in age from 5 to 43.

LOOKING FOR SPONSORS
• The Gulf Coast Speed Skate Club is looking for public and corporate sponsors who would like to support its inline skaters. The team also has a Air Miles Club Sponsorship Program that helps in reducing some of the financial responsibilities placed on skaters and families. To help, contact Lynn Danko at 823-8326 or dankodsly@comcast.net.

Lynn Danko wishes more parents knew about the benefits of inline speed skating.

As treasurer of the Gulf Coast Speed Skate Club, she has seen many children gain discipline and dedication through the sport. Her team practices five days a week at either the Palace in North Fort Myers or Dunbar High School.

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Women On Wheels

"That same week I signed a contract with a new team, Verducci/Breakaway. We're an all-women's track team comprised of American Theresa Cliff-Ryan, Australian Jessie Maclean and myself. It's a pretty stellar cast of characters. Each of us has a rainbow of credentials: Jess as a Junior World track champ, myself as a Masters World track champ, and Theresa as a 29X Inline Skating World Champ. No matter how you cut it, that's kind of cool."

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The Rocky Mountain Racing Inline Speed Skating team

"The Rocky Mountain Racing Inline Speed Skating team, which trains at Wagon Wheel Roller Rink in Brighton, won three bronze medals and one silver medal from the USA Roller Skating Championships In Omaha."

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Speed skating: Malone climbing ranks

Malone, 23, has been competing in short track for less than four years after switching over from inline racing, but already has become one of the top ...




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