US Figure Skating Comes to Lakewood | Tacoma South Sound Sports

May 21, 2012

U.S. Figure Skating Selects Lakewood Club for Regional Championships

The Lakewood Winter Club has been selected to host U.S. Figure Skating?s Northwest Pacific Regional Championships, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2013 at Sprinker Recreational Center.

The road to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships each year, and to the Olympic Winter Games every four years, begins with the U.S. Figure Skating qualifying structure of regional and sectional events. The structure consists of nine regional events and three sectional events. Skaters who place in the top four at a regional competition qualify for either sectional championships (novice, junior and senior) or the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships (juvenile and intermediate); skaters who place in the top four at a sectional qualify for the U.S. Championships.

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States as recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and the International Skating Union. U.S. Figure Skating is made up of more than 743 member clubs, collegiate clubs and school-affiliated clubs and more than 990 Basic Skills skating schools representing approximately 176,000 members. U.S. Figure Skating is charged with the development of the sport on all levels within the United States,? including athletes, officials, sanctioning of events and exhibitions, and establishing the rules and guidelines by which the sport is governed.

Sprinker Recreational Center has been the home of the Lakewood Winter Club since 1980.?Under the direction of former director Kathy Casey, well known skaters from all over the U.S. and world would come to train with her. Included in this list was Miss Rosalynn Sumners just before her competition in the 1984 Winter Olympics. Also included was Mr. Scott Davis, the U.S. National Men?s Champion.

In 1985, the United States Figure Skating Association awarded hosting of the 1987 National Figure Skating Championships to the LWC. For two years, the membership of the LWC worked hard to make this event a success. And a great success it was. Held at the Tacoma Dome, all National Championship attendance records were broken. Some of the events exceeded 20,000 in attendance. Headliners at that Championship include Brian Boitano, Tiffany Chinn, Debi Thomas, Karen Kadavy, Jill Trenary, and a young Kristi Yamaguchi, skating pairs with a future Men?s Champion, Rudy Galindo.

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