Skills, Tests, Achievement, Recognition – this is what STARSkate is all about!
STARSkate
offers opportunities for skaters of all ages to develop fundamental
figure skating skills in the areas of ice dance, skating skills, free
skate and interpretive skating. Unique in Canada, this
program teaches figure
skating skills in a group and/or private lesson format in a progressive
and sequential manner and includes specifically designed awards and
incentives. Skaters have the opportunity to take Skate Canada Tests
through a nationally standardized testing system. Skaters who have
mastered figure skating skills in STARSkate may also choose to pursue
synchronized skating or pairs skating.
CanSkaters
and STARSkaters who want to challenge their figure skating skills and
show potential as competitive skaters can participate in the
competitive program.
Skate Canada offers many different talent identification and
development programs. These include the Talent Identification database,
a record of information of competitive athletes across Canada,
monitoring at events throughout the year, and Section and National
Youth Camps.
Schools are getting into the competitive spirit through the
CollegiateSkate program which brings together skaters from different
test and/or competitive backgrounds to skate together as a team
representing their school. Skaters participate in a variety of events
such as singles, dance, pairs and synchronized skating and based on
their placements in these events, accumulate points for their team. The
school with the highest point total wins the overall competition.