Racquet Club of Victoria Skating Club

The Racquet Club has extra ice booked May 1- June 5. Click here for the details.

The Racquet Club of Victoria is pleased to offer our June Training Camp. To see the details, please click here.

Click here for the Junior, Intermediate, Senior and Pairs and Dance brochure. Click here for the Junior Academy and Canskate (Learn to Skate) Summer Brochure.

The Racquet Club would like to congratulate Heather Hanna who competed in New Brunswick in the National Starskate Championship in Gold Triathlon.

The Racquet Club of Victoria would like to congratulate the following skaters who competed at the provincial Pacific Starskate Championships in March:

Heather Hanna won the gold medal in Gold Triathlon and is heading to Starskate Nationals

The Racquet Club Has a Big Reason to Celebrate!

Congratulations to one of the TOP dance teams in CANADA!

Here are the results from the 2009 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals held February 11-14, 2009 in Calgary, AB

Pilar and Leonardo Maekawa have won the bronze medal in pre-novice dance!

Leonardo Maekawa placed 5^th in pre-novice men’s free skate!

Casey Beavil and Josiah Early placed 10^th in pre-novice pairs!

Malcolm Ronan O’Halloran and Nicole Orford (NSWC) placed 12th in novice dance!

Congratulations to you all! We are so proud of you!!

Click here to see a video of Leo and Pilar.

The Racquet Club would like to thank the following companies for donating to our 80's Party and Silent Auction in February. We appreciate your support very much!

4Cats Art Academy, Aviawest, Bark Bath & Beyond Pet Boutique, BearingPoint, Bikram Yoga Saanich, Butchart Gardens, Cordova Bay Golf Course, Lululemon, Mary Kay, Michael Steele Hair Salon, Mika Drywall Systems, Pharmasave – Tuscany Village, Rita Steenssens Photography, Roban's Designs, Roger's Chocolates, Saanich Parks and Recreation, SandiCakes,Starbucks, Yanik Giroux Performing Arts and Video Stop.

The support of our community and Racquet Club families helps to keep our club strong! Thank-you!

Special thanks to Lori Strandlund, Bonnie Dhami, and Cathy Basanta who went the extra mile to help out with his event!

Congratulations to all skaters who competed at Lynn Hetherington January 30- February 1, 2009 in Campbell River.

Special Congratulations to our Canskate soloists Rachel Grohovac 1^st, Erina Katsumata 1^st, Brooke Herring 2^nd , Danae Snell 3^rd, Emma Hanna 4^th, Garrison Beacom 4^th( the youngest skater at the competition).

Also, special congratulations to the skaters that qualified for the provincial StarSkate championship, Pacific Skate: April Turgeon 1^st in Gold Interpretive, Ashley Sawchuk 1^st in Silver Interpretive, Hanna Vincent 2^nd in Bronze Interpretive, Allee Friend 3^rd in Silver triathlon. Also, Heather Hanna will be competing in Gold triathlon.

Jillian Noel, senior bronze freeskate, Ashley Sawchuk, junior bronze freeskate, Hanna Vincent preliminary ladies freeskate, Kirsten Reder, pre-preliminary freeskate, Nicole Yung, pre-preliminary freeskate, Laura Sawchuk, Introductory Interpretive, Gillian McDonald, Introductory Interpretive.

Butchart Gardens Video

Thank-you to the Barnes family who videotaped the show at Butchart Gardens. Proceeds from the purchased video were donated to the Racquet Club. Thank-you!

Congratulations to Racquet Club skaters who competed at the 2009 BMO SKATE CANADA SUB-SECTIONALS and SECTIONALS in Nanaimo Nov.12-16, 2008!

Special Congratulations go to Pilar Maekawa and Leonardo Maekawa who placed first in Pre-Novice Dance, Malcolm Rohon O' Halloran who placed first in Novice Dance and Leonardo Maekawa who placed 4th in Pre-Novice Men's Freeskate. These skaters have all qualified on to the Western Challenge!

Bringing home the gold medals were: Pilar Maekawa and Leonardo Maekawa in Pre-Novice Dance, Malcolm Rohon O'Halloran and Nicole Orford ( NSWC), Novice Dance

Silver Medal: Casey Beavil and Josiah Early, Pre-Novice Pairs. Casey and Josiah will be competing at Junior Nationals!

Also competing at Sections were Dominique Banner in Pre-Novice Ladies, Pilar Maekawa in Pre-Novice Ladies, and Josiah Early in Novice Men.

The Racquet Club of Victoria Skating Club is proud of all skaters who competed at the Vancouver Island Regional Championships held in Victoria, October 24-26, 2008.

We saw fantastic performances, some personal bests and new programs debuted. Congratulations!

Bringing home the gold were: Leonardo Maekawa and Pilar Maekawa, Pre-Novice Dance; Allee Friend, Gold Interpretive.

Silver medal winners were: April Turgeon, Gold Interpretive; Allee Friend, Senior Silver Ladies; Laura Sawchuk, Introductory Interpretive.

Bronze medal winners were: Ashley Sawchuk, Silver Interpretive; Hanna Vincent, Bronze Interpretive; Brooke Herring, CanSkate Solo.

Special congratulations to first time competitors Brooke Herring and Karmen Tse who sparkled on the ice!

Congratulations to Leonardo Maekawa and Brianna Antypowich who competed at the 2008 Sask Skate Invitational Competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 10-12!

Racquet Club skaters Pilar Maekawa and Leonardo Maekawa pose with Olympians after performing at the Victoria Cougar's hockey game in September. Photo courtesy of the Victoria Cougars.

Congratulations to April Turgeon, Kelsey Ross and Kirsten Noel who all passed their Gold dance tests. April now has her gold in interpretive and dance, Kelsey has her gold in freeskate, skills and dance and Kirsten now has her gold in dance, interpretive, skills and freeskate.

Congratulations to Amanda Warwaruk who passed her gold skills.This is Amanda's first gold test.

See if you can recognize our skaters! Click on their website link to submitt your skater's picture!

Congratulations to Racquet Club Skater Sophie Knippel and Andrew Britten of the Wentworth FSC who won the bronze medal in Junior Dance at the Canadian Championships 2008 in Vancouver!

These three photos of Sophie and Andrew are courtesy of Brett Barden of Skate Today

It was a winter wonderland at the Racquet Club's Annual Butchart Garden's Holiday Ice Show. Not only did we have the magic of the snow, we had a special guest performance by Olympian Gary Beacom. What a great afternoon!

Check out the video footage here! Our skaters had a wonderful time at what is now a holiday tradition for the Racquet Club of Victoria!

If you are interested in volunteering for the Racquet Club, please contact Linda Sawchuk or speak to an executive member.

If you have skating pictures, please send them to us for the website at the Racquet Club.

to all families that are using their Thrifty Smile Cards! Keep using your Smile Cards!
to all families who brought in their bottles for our monthly bottle drive
to all of our volunteers and coaches for all of their behind the scenes hard work that they do
to Derek Morris for taking some great photos and letting us use them on the website
to Lynn Zdan for refreshing the look of our website

Learn more about the history of the Racquet Club of Victoria and Sandra Leard, coach, mentor and friend.