Basingstoke Synchronised Skating Teams
- Storm

Firstly I would like to say well done and a massive good luck for the World Championships to the whole of Storm, which I am proud to be part of.

It has been an overall amazing season for us all. We have reached, and in fact, smashed our goals that we set at the start of the season.

Beating Croatia at the Nottingham International started our confidence ball rolling, and we then went to beat two teams in the French cup, Rouen, breaking through all expectations.

After being told that due to our results from Nottingham we had qualified to go to the World Championships in Prague, hard work really has begun, not only on the ice for the team, Melissa and Fi, but the whole operation of even getting us all to Prague.

Here I would like to say a MASSIVE thanks to Janet Stanton and Sharon Digweed for all the hard work they put in to getting us there and also to Roger Gamble who has helped us all along the way with arranging our bag packing events, we couldn't do it without you, and also a thank you to everyone who is and have been behind us all the way.

Hope to see you all at the Gala evening on the 14th March, where I hope to hear you all cheering us along.

Thank you once again.

(Article by Nadia Sargeant)

Basingstoke Synchronised Skating Gala Event

The Synchronised Skating Club are holding a Gala Evening on Tuesday, March 14th, from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (doors open 5.30 pm). The evening will consist of performances by Stardust, Sparkle and Storm, as well as exhibitions by Antoinette Hempel, Laura Freeman, Matt Kershaw, Laura Webb and Katrina More-Molyneux. Entry will be £2 and any money raised will go towards Storm competing in the World Championships. Local TV and press will be there to cover the event, as well as invited guests. Pro-Skate will be selling merchandise. It would be lovely to see as many club members and families as possible to support the teams and wish Good Luck to Sparkle in the Hauts de France Trophy in La Compiegne and, of course, to Storm in the World Championships in Prague.