Come take part in the Rising Stars Club Competition!

June 9th, 2013 at the Oakland Ice Center

Open to all Club members from Beginner to Preliminary levels, the goal of this event is to introduce beginner skaters to the fun and excitement of competition and to further their development into life long lovers of skating.

If you are enrolled in a Sharks Ice learn to skate class check out the announcement here and complete the application found here. Otherwise please read this announcement and complete the application found here.

Yes, it is almost that time of year again. All memberships (except Collegiate) expire on June 30. If you want to compete or test after that date then you need to renew your membership. Coach members must complete Club membership, and PSA and US Figure Skating requirements by July 1. Click here to go to the online membership site. Paper forms are also available here.

We have a few results from those St Moritz members competing at the 2013 ISU International Adult Figure Skating Competition in Oberstdorf, Germany. Congratulations to:

Ian Catindig, 1st Silver Men I Artistic

Rachael Crim, 3rd Gold Ladies I Freeskate

Brandy Lokken, 7th Silver Ladies I Freeskate

The Nominating Committee is pleased to present the following club members who are willing to run for election to the St Moritz ISC Board of Directors.

We have seven excellent candidates for the five seats.

The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

Ian Catindig

Jacki Paytas

Jean Fahmie

John Van-Camp

Katherine Specht

Phillip DiGuglielmo

Teressa Vellrath

Thank you to the members of the nominating committee - Dirk Vanderlaan, Patty Vicary, Irene Bacani, Kianoosh Samii, and Pattie Murphy for their hard work. Please thank them when you get a chance. A special thanks the the Dublin Parents of the Synchro Skating Team for their work into getting the ballots produced, stuffed and mailed. That's a big job!

The ballots are scheduled to be mailed on the week of May 12th, and need to be returned by May 29th - the election date - so the results can be announced at the Picnic/Annual Meeting on June 1st.

If you have any questions about the election please contact the Nominating Committee chair,

If you are graduating from high school this year, congratulations on completing a big chapter of your life and cheers to the many adventures to come! The St. Moritz ISC would love to have skating continue to be a part of those adventures. Through the SMISC Recognition and Gift Program, St. Moritz would like to offer you a complementary four year St. Moritz membership. In order to qualify and to be recognized in the club newsletter, you must submit your name and the college you will be attending to by May 10th. You must also submit this form and a one page essay describing how you plan on staying involved in the figure skating community and how the SMISC can help you do so. The form and essay must be submitted to Teressa Vellrath by May 20th.

Congratulations! We look forward to hearing from you!

Many thanks to Lisa Erle for her service as interim Test Chair for our Moves and Freestyle tests in Dublin. We are looking for two volunteers to take over the general scheduling of tests and the running of test sessions in Dublin. The Test Chair needs to be available to receive applications and schedule tests for both rinks (Dublin and Oakland). The test session coordinator in Dublin needs to be available about 7-8 times a year to run test sessions in Dublin. Generally test sessions in Dublin are during the day on Tuesdays, with a few in the evening on Tuesday or Thursday.

No experience is necessary as we will train you. It's not hard, just requires organization and follow up skills! Please consider volunteering as we will not be able to have test sessions if we can't find a replacement. Please contact or any board member if you would be interested or want more information.

Please save Saturday June 1 and plan to attend the club's annual meeting and picnic. It will be held from 11:30 - 3:30 at

Shoreline Center

Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline

7250 Doolittle Drive

Oakland, CA 94621

You can find the reservation form here.

We hope to see you there!

At the March meeting, the Board approved proposed changes to the Club's bylaws. Please click here to review the proposed bylaws. Changes have been highlighted with language to be deleted struck and language to be added underlined. There were a number of changes that were correcting typos, formatting or renumbering that are highlighted only. The proposed changes will have a final vote at our meeting on April 24, 2013 in Oakland. Members who have questions regarding the changes are invited to attend this meeting or you may send questions in advance to our Club Secretary, Phillip Diguglielmo.

Congratulations to all of the St. Moritz Ice Skating Club skaters competing at the 2013 Synchronized National Championships in Michigan! In honor of Synchro Nationals our featured skater article is written by Devin Wang. Devin started skating with the Silver Stars in Dublin and is now competing with the Haydenettes at the Senior level nationally and internationally. Check out her article by clicking here. Thank you for your story Devin!

Here are the synchronized skating opportunities you can become a part of:

Silver Stars

Silver Stars' Open Juvenile team just earned the Silver Medal at the Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectionals on January 25th 2013! Silver Stars is for skaters 7-17 years old who have passed the Freestyle 4 or higher group classes at Dublin. They just started Spring Training, so now is the perfect time for skaters to come see if synchro is for them! Practices are on Thursday evenings, and they should contact for more information.

Cold Fusion- Adult Master Team

Cold Fusion earned the pewter medal at the 2013 Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships! USFSA criteria is a minimum age of 25 to compete. Skaters should be tested on moves in the field through Adult Bronze. Individuals can join, work on their skills and take their test while practicing for competition. Coaches are Alyn Libman and Laurie Mellema-Haun and practices are Saturday mornings, starting at 6:30am at the Oakland Ice Center. Contact or

Please click here to see pictures of our teams.

Due to a some malicious hacking activity, the CCIA website (www.cciaskates.org) is requiring some repair. In the meantime, there have been requests for a copy of the CCIA calendar. The calendar is available here as a .pdf download.

Congratulations to all of the SMISC skaters that competed this past weekend in Murray, Utah! The SMISC is incredibly proud of the hard work and dedication of each of our skaters.

A big round of applause for our skaters that qualified for Pacific Coast Sectionals: Laney Diggs and Lizzie Goetz in Senior, and Nina Ouellette in Juvenile.

Results for all Club members are listed below. If you have any photos of your skater to share from the competition on the SMISC website, please email them to Katie.

Qualifying Results:

Senior Ladies

2- Laney Diggs

3- Lizzie Goetz

5- Deanna Jade Lim

6- Anna Marie Pearce

7- Sami Lew

Junior Ladies

9- Kaylin Yu

Novice Ladies

5- Chelsea Yim

7- Xylina Rusit

9- Molly Zeme

12- Emily Zeme

19- Renee Velasquez

Intermediate Ladies

8- Alice Yang

10- Mikaela Manoogian

13- Sarah Liao

14- Kaysie Yu

Juvenile Girls

1- Nina Ouellette

6- Sierra Venetta

8- Nozomi Hallberg

9- Tiffany Yim

24- Madi Hales

Non-Qualifying Results:

Mark Sadusky, Pre-Juvenile Boys Free Skate- 1st

Sara Zimmerman, Pre-Juvenile Girls Free Skate A- 5th

Kaori Quan, Pre-Preliminary Girls 10 & Under Free Skate B- 2nd

Did you know that St Moritz is now a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization? This means that any donations you make to the club are tax deductable to you. We have updated our donation page to explain the various giving opportunities that are available. We also now accept donations via Google checkout so you can give using your credit card. Thanks for helping your club and your fellow members.

The Honor Roll for the 2011 - 2012 membership season has been updated and is now available here. We have included our graduating high school seniors, Class of 2012. If you are not on the list it is because we could not confirm your information in time. Please contact Lisa Erle if you need to be added to our list.