Revolution Synchronized Skating Team
League:
Figure Skating
State / Area:
NSW / Metro
Funding Requested
$1500
Voting has now finished.
Recipients will be announced on 6th June 2016.
About Revolution Synchronized Skating Team
Revolution is an adult figure skating team with 15 members aged between 22 and 49. Formed in 2012, the team train every week and have won gold in the adult division at the Australian National Figure Skating Championships in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The team trains at Ice Zoo Ice Rink in Alexandria and occasionally at Penrith Ice Palace. The team has worked incredibly hard to fund themselves through travelling interstate and overseas for international competitions and earned a gold medal in New Zealand in 2013. The team has just returned from another self-funded 3-week trip to the USA and Canada to compete at the Mid America Championships and Winterfest. Winning a bronze medal in the USA secured the team’s place as the first Australian adult skating team to win two international medals. The team made the most of their time overseas training with top coaches and athletes and observing the world’s best teams in action. The effort was made more exciting by the dedication the skaters showed towards their training overseas, especially with two skaters bringing young babies on the trip!
Value to the Community
Our team is primarily composed of many high level skaters, a third of who have represented Australia at the World Championships in past years and are now older, but still looking to skate with a challenge. The team is full of passionate skaters who have been on the ice since childhood. We are united in our aim of bringing out the best in each other and all our competitions and enjoy strong relationships with many other teams and attending events where multiple synchronized skating teams across all divisions can come together to celebrate a small but much loved sport. Our team preaches the values of hard work, team work, persistence and patience and each member is a strong corner stone in the sport, with many team members also working for the community as figure skating coaches, judges and technical specialists.
Why the funds are needed
Our team has just had to relocate to a new training base this March where ice time is significantly more expensive and also further away for some. A lump sum of any funds received would potentially go towards helping lower training costs or competition entry fees. The team are also hoping to update uniform, particularly new jackets as we move to representing a new club; grant money received would be distributed equally between members to accommodate this as well as to pay for new costumes for the new season which begins in July. Equipment costs for boot maintenance including skate sharpening, boot taping and lacing costs would also be reduced with a small distribution of grant money to each skater.
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