Just in time for holiday gift-giving, tickets to the U.S. National Ice Skating Send-Off Exhibition are now on sale at UD. The exhibition is scheduled for 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 4, at the Rust Ice Arena.

Skaters who train at UD and have qualified to compete in national competition will be featured.

Tickets are $12 for the general public and $10 for senior citizens, children 12 and under, UD faculty and staff and groups of 10 or more and may be purchased at the box office at the Bob Carpenter Center or through Ticketmaster. Tickets also will be sold at the arena the day of the show.

All skaters who qualified for Nationals competed recently at the Eastern Sectional Championships in Aston, Pa. Skaters who ranked fourth or higher go on to compete at Nationals. All skaters who qualified for Junior Nationals (juvenile and intermediate levels only) placed fourth or better at the South Atlantic regional competition Oct. 8-12 in York, Pa.

The following skaters who train at UD qualified for Nationals and may appear in the show.

2003 UD NATIONAL TEAM

SENIOR LADIES
Jennifer Don, second place at Sectionals

Krissa Mille, fourth place at ??Sectionals

SENIOR MEN
Shaun Rogers, second place at Sectionals

Johnny Weir, currently at Cup of ?Russia GrandPrix event

SENIOR PAIRS
Tiffany Scott and Philip Dulebohn 2002 Olympic Team, reigning National silver medalists

Jennifer Don and Jonathon Hunt first place at Sectionals, Junior Grand Prix finalists

Laura Handy and Jeremy Allen second place at Sectionals

Emma Phibbs and Devin Patrick second place at Pacific Coast Sectionals

SENIOR DANCE
Christie Moxley and Alexandre Kirsanov, third place at Sectionals

Kendra Goodwin and Chris Obzansky, second place, Junior Grand Prix Croatia

JUNIOR LADIES
Megan Williams Stewart, fourth place at Sectionals

JUNIOR PAIRS
Andrea Varraux and David Pelletier, second place at Sectionals

JUNIOR DANCE
Stephanie Ellis and Patrick Connelly, third place at Pacific Coast Sectionals

NOVICE LADIES
Kimberly Meissner, first place at Sectionals

NOVICE DANCE
Katie Copely and Duke Wense third place at Sectionals

2003 UD JUNIOR NATIONAL TEAM

INTERMEDIATE
Nicole Tahtouh

Alexandra Gengler

Michelle Pennington and Stephen Quinn, pairs

Michelle Pennington and Zachary Varraux, dance

Lindsay Cohen and Evan Roberts, dance

JUVENILE

Lindsey Hoeg

Meghan Byrne

Megan Marschall and Peter Briccotto, pairs

Lauren Wlazelek and Kyle Herring, dance

Meredith Pipkin and Geoffrey Varraux, dance

Reigning World Champions, Russian skaters Ilia Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva, also are scheduled to skate at the send off. For more information, call 831-2868.