Gloucester Skating Club
| Gloucester Skating Club | |
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| Location | |
| Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| Information | |
| Homepage | http://www.gloucesterskatingclub.ca/ |
The Gloucester Skating Club is a non-profit skating club located at 1490 Youville Drive in Orleans, Ontario, Canada. The club has been serving skaters since 1971. The club is currently one of the 6th largest clubs in Canada with an active membership of more than 1100 skaters. The club offers a wide variety of skating programs including CanSkate, Competitive Stream, Test Stream, Synchronized, Dance, Pairs and Teen-Adult programs. The professional coaching staff include national, world and Olympic medalists.
The Elizabeth Manley skating rink at the Bob MacQuarrie Orléans Recreation Complex (formerly Orléans Recreation Complex) is named for Manley who trained there and who won a silver medal in women's figure skating at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. It is home to the Gloucester Skating Club and the Canadian Academy of Skating Arts, a program started by Canadian Hall of Fame coach, Peter Dunfield. Figure skaters who have trained at the club include:
- Elizabeth Manley, 1988 Olympic silver medalist
- Angela Derochie, 1998 Canadian national champion
- Yuka Sato, 1994 World champion
- Stefanie Partridge, 1998 Canadian Jr. silver medalist and international competitor
- Matthew MacMurdo, 1997 Canadian Winter Games champion
- Mark Butt, 2000 US National Collegiate medalist