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OAKVILLE SPEEDSTERS QUICK OFF THE START

     Oakville Speed Skating Club members have again had a strong start to the

competitive season. 

     A group of Oakville skaters participated in the October 10^th - 12^th  Oktoberfest Meet in Calgary, Alberta.  There were many personal

best times achieved and Ryan McAnuff joined the Sub 50 club by

skating the 500m race in less than 50 seconds!  The same weekend, Patrick Duffy travelled to Sherbrooke, Quebec for an elite meet in which he was the only Ontario skater invited.

     On October 18^th and 19^th ten Oakville members competed in

Rochester, New York with great results.   Two medals were brought

home by Patrick Duffy - 2^nd and Erin Heidecker - 3^rd.

     Also on October 18^th and 19^th Oakville was represented by 43 of the

169 skaters participating in the London, Western Regional # 1 Meet

in Strathroy, Ontario.  The Club had an outstanding showing, with

17 top 5 finishes and two members achieving a perfect score.  Our medal

winners include:  1^st place to Kathleen Gildea, Conor McNamee, Quinn

MacHattie, Blake Sullivan, Mitchell Kothleitner (perfect score) and

Evan MacHattie (perfect score); 2nd place medals went to Cassandra

Boychuk and Tiago Santos and 3^rd to Sean McAnuff and Sean Stewart.

Connor Millar, Erin Stewart, Rachel Van Gemert, Mathieu Masaro and Gabriel Patron each placed 4^th.  Zubin Khan and Sydney MacDonald placed 5^th.  Congratulations to three of our Club members who skated the 500m

time under 60 seconds for the first time!   Brett Sullivan - 57.92

Evan MacHattie - 59.21 and Joshua Sullivan - 58.45.

     Special congratulations to Oakville Speed Skating Club member

Emma Hobson who has been selected to compete at the prestigious Elite

meets in Quebec.  Emma achieved this honour through hard work on the

ice and off ice training.

     These early successes give good momentum to a hard working club

as they look toward future competitions.