Synergy - Prince of Wales Skating Club

Synergy perform at Evening of Champions, September 2008

Welcome to the Synergy web page. Synergy is a synchronised skating team representing the Prince of Wales Skating Club in St. John's Newfoundland. They compete at Junior level in the Festival stream of national competition.

Synergy formed in the 2001-02 season, skating as the Princelles in novice. In 2001-02 and 2002-03, they won a silver medal at the Provincial championships, and in 2003 won bronze at Eastern Festival. In 2003-04 they moved up to Junior and finished an excellent fourth at provincials. In 2004-05 they captured a silver medal at Provincials, and travelled to Montreal for Eastern Festival, where they finished 13th. in 2005-06 they became provincial junior champions, and finished 9th at Eastern Festival in PEI. In 2006-07 Kayla Kennedy, Samantha Phelan and Lana McCaw joined the teamjoined by Valerie Ball in 2007-08. Kimberly Crocker decided to retire from synchro this year and we wish her all the best.

The 2008-09 team members are Allie Winter, Andrea Thistle, Kathryn Vardy, Jennifer Noel, Beth Liverman, Megan Burt, Robyn Ledrew, Siobhan Wilkins, Hayley Porter, Jenna Hillyard, Clara Pollard, Nicole Burt, Kayla Kennedy, Samantha Phelan, Lana McCaw and Valerie Ball.

The team is coached by Shirley Thistle and the manager is Susan Thistle. The music for the team's programme this year consists of a compilation of Madonna's music, choreographed by Nita Patel. Nita was a member of a World Championship Senior Team and has been coaching synchronized skating for many years at both the competitive and festival levels. This past season Nita coached the Ice Precise Adult team to their 2nd consecutive National Championship title, as well as Mississauga Motion Novice and Mississauga Ice E-Motion who placed third and first respectively at the National Championships.

News

>February 2009: At the Provincial Championships Synergy retained their provincial title with a score of 79.16 and were also the winners of the Cornel Trophy for the best team in the competition.
February 2009: At the 2009 Eastern Festival of Synchronised Skating, Halifax Synergy placed 8th in Junior, the top-ranked team in Atlantic Canada, scoring 79.80, just outside of their provincial record.
September 2008: Synergy share the ice with the likes of Kurt Browning, Jeff Buttle and Sale & Pelletier at Evening of Champions [photos]
February 2008: Synergy win provincial championship with personal best and provincial record score of 82.66.
January 2008: Synergy compete at Winterfest, finishing 10th out of 18, with a score of 73.46 combined [photos | video].
Sept 2007: Choreographer Nita Patel spent the weekend of Sep 7-8 with the team putting together a new programme. 16 of the 17 team members are returning this year. Nita, who skated on a world championship team, coached three teams to national medals last year [photos].
February 2007: at Provincials and Eastern Festival the team pulled together after a difficult first skate to capture a silver medal, 10th overall in Eastern Festival.
January 2007: The team had a great skate to a packed house at Mile One between periods at the Oldtimers hockey challenge for the second year in a row [photos].
December 2006: The team performed at the Christmas Funskate [photos]
Kimberly Crocker of Synergy was named "Most Spirited Player" for the Avalon all-star team at the recent Provincial Under-16 Soccer Championships.
Andrea Thistle, Kathryn Vardy and Meghan Burt showed the benefits of "off season" training with Synergy, as their team won the female Intermediate event at the Royal St. John's Regatta.
Synergy team member Robyn LeDrew completed the Tele 10 10 mile road roace on July 24 - congratulations!
Congratulations to our team manager Susan Thistle on her recieving the Elizabeth Swann award (for efforts in synchronised skating) at the Provincial AGM in April 2006.
Synergy performed as special guests at the CBS SC 30th anniversary ice show.
March 2006: Synergy finished 9th at the Eastern Festival of Synchonized Skating in PEI [Event web site | Photos].
Feb 2006: Synergy won a closely contested competition at the Provincials to win their first Provincial championship - congratulations to Shirley and the girls for a fantastic effort [Results | Practice photos |Competition and medal presentation photos].
A few pictures from December 2005 practice
Caroline Evans and Sara Squires decided not to return for 2005-06, Samantha Tetford, Samantha Phelan, and Stephanie Noel of the 2003-04 team did not return for 2004-05; we wish all the best of luck in their future!.
Nov 05: The team enjoyed a succesful 2 hours with Josiane Lamond at the Section Synchro Seminar in early November [photos]

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