Terrace 2010 BC Winter Games

The Terrace 2010 BC Winter Games will be held March 4-7. Congratulations to River City Racers' Anneke Pederson, Sara Spence, and Josie Spence for making this team!

Bring a Friend Nite

TUESDAY MARCH 2

4:30 – 5:15pm 

ICE BOX SKATING ARENA

Come for a fun skate, exercise, and join in our Mini Olympic Games! Bring your family too....

• Get your picture taken with an Olympic torch bearer!
• Bring your favourite munchies to share
• Beverages will be provided
• Bring helmet, gloves (a neck guard and shin pads are recommended, if you have them)
• Wear long-sleeves and pants

If you would like to try speed skates please contact Mark Pederson by Feb 28th at mjpederson@shaw.ca. There is no cost for this event.

Practice times this week

There have been a couple changes to the speed skating practice times for this week:

1. Thursday, February 11 practice will begin at 4:30pm, and all skaters will be on the ice at the same time.
2. Friday, February 12 practice is cancelled.

Results from this weekend

Eric Spence, 11 years and a member of the River City Racers Speed Skating Club was crowned the new Midget Boys Canadian Champion at the Canadian Age Class Long Track Speed Skating Championships in Winnipeg over the weekend. Eric swept all four distances he skated in receiving gold medals for each of his performances in 300m, 500m, 800m and 1000m events. Eric set a new provincial record in the 1500m with a time of 1:50. 25. The old record was 1:52.96. Eric set new personal best times in the 500m, 800m, and 1000m races.

Sister Sara, 14 years, competed in the Juvenile girls division and set 4 new personal best times. She placed first in the 1000m and 1500m B finals and 5th and 6th respectively in the 300m and 500m A finals. Sara finished 6th overall in her age category.

In other action over the weekend several racers were competing in the Vernon interclub short track competition. Calvin Forbes won the bantam boys 333m event, brother Alex set a personal best in the 333m event, Matej Pederson and Tim Mburu finished with the gold and silver medal respectively in the PeeWee boys division. In the girls divisions Anneke Pederson finished with the silver medal in Juvenile girls and Gillian Michell took the bronze medal in Bantam girls.

Results from this weekend

Tori Spence (17 yrs) of the Kamloops River City Racers Speed Skating Club came home with a bronze medal finish at the Junior National Speed Skating Championships in Saskatoon over the weekend. Tori’s bronze came in the 3000m event setting a new provincial record with a time of 4:53.71. The old record was 5:04.66. Tori set provincial records in two of her other distances. In the 1500m she placed 5th with a record time of 2:18.26 (2:21.81 old record) and 7th in the 1000m in a record time of 1:29.01 (old record 1:31.42). She placed 11th in the 500m with a new personal best time of 45.08sec.

Tori placed 5th overall at this Championships. The 5 top skaters are in contention for a spot at the World Junior Championships to be held in Russia later this season. Only the top two skaters from this competition were officially named to the World team. The next three spots will be officially decided at the North American Championships in Salt Lake City February 12 – 14th.

Also in action in Saskatoon was sister Josie Spence (15 years) who skated to a 13th place overall ranking with an 8th place, and her best individual finish, coming in the 3000m event. Josie set personal bests in all of her distances skated.