Synchronized Skating Team in Championship

Synchronized Skating Team in Action

A group of 16 determined Boston College student athletes competed in Lowell against collegiate synchronized figure skating teams on the east coast. A placement in the top six would lead to qualification for the Synchronized Skating Nationals in Minnesota during BC’s spring break.

However, Saturday, January 30, 2010 did not go completely as planned. Although the skaters worked hard and performed extremely well for their division, they missed qualifying by one place, coming in seventh.

Upon congratulating the skaters for their excellent performance, the current president of the BC Figure Skating club (BCFSC), Jill Farver, mentioned having pulled the program together in just under 15 hours.

Compared to teams such as that from Delaware, who practice for at least two hours each day from the beginning of the skating season, the BCFSC team could not hope to be quite as well-trained and practiced.

“If only we had had more ice-time this season we could have made it to Nationals. Because it’s not that we didn’t work hard,” explained Farver.

The BCFSC placed first at the Eastern’s Sectional Championship in the open-collegiate division last year. In 2008, the team qualified for Nationals with third place in the closed collegiate division and secured ninth in the Nationals competition. The team is entirely capable of achieving outstanding levels of qualification.

The only difference between this year and the previous years is the amount of ice-time given to the BCFSC for practice, as well as the amount of funding. A team as exemplary as BC’s cannot be competing against teams that have three or four times the ice-time and funding.

While the competitive season has ended for our synchronized figure skaters until next year, they are not putting away their skates just yet.

You can come watch them skate, as the BCFSC will be holding an open showcase of the synchronized figure skating team as well as the club’s freestyle-skaters.

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