California gold
UD Collegiate Figure Skating Team wins third straight national title
9:14 a.m., April 23, 2015--The University of Delaware Collegiate Figure Skating Team (UDFS) has won its third straight national championship.
The team recently ended its competitive season by competing at the 2015 Intercollegiate National Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. The top three teams from the Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific sections traveled to Vacaville, California, to compete.
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At the end of the weekend, UDFS came away with the gold. The team claimed its third straight national title, totaling 110 points. Dartmouth College finished second with 92 points and Boston University finished third with 71 points.
“Winning this third consecutive national title feels absolutely incredible and surreal,” Hannah Kimberly, UDFS president, said. “I knew the team was capable of doing it, however seeing the entire team come together and put everything they had into their skating this weekend in order to achieve this national title made me so incredibly proud to be a part of this team.”
“Right away, I felt like we were a family,” Jacob Schedl, a freshman on the team, said. “And to have your second family there for you during the competition makes everything so much easier.”
“I love getting to see all of our friends from the Midwest and West Coast,” Beth Kalbach, UDFS secretary, said. “Berkeley especially is one of my favorite teams. Having shared a locker room with them in previous years, and seeing them all again at opening ceremonies was really exciting – it felt like we were coming home to our West Coast family.”
“I think that UDFS has a fantastic future ahead of us as we move past this weekend and start looking toward next season,” Kimberly said. “We have a very strong team that will be returning next year and I think that we have the potential to achieve even more than we did this season. I am so excited to see what else UDFS can achieve as we look toward building our team for next season.”
The UDFS winners for the 2015 Intercollegiate National Championships include:
- Amanda Chasten: first place, Low Team Maneuvers
- Kathleen Criss: third place, International Solo Dance; second place, Junior Ladies Short; second place, Gold Solo Dance; third place, Junior Ladies Championship Freeskate; fourth place, High Team Maneuvers
- Laura Gettier: first place, Juvenile Ladies Freeskate; first place, Low Team Maneuvers
- Jonathan Jerothe: third place, Junior Men Short; first place, Junior Men Championship Freeskate
- Beth Kalbach: fifth place, Novice Ladies Short; second place, Novice Ladies Freeskate
- Hannah Kimberly: second place, Novice Solo Dance; second place, Intermediate Solo Dance; first place, Senior Ladies Freeskate; fourth place, High Team Maneuvers
- Rex Lai: first place, Juvenile Men Freeskate
- Amelia Ludwick: first place, Preliminary Ladies Freeskate
- Mallory Metzner: fourth place, Juvenile Ladies Freeskate
- Natalie Motley: fourth place, Junior Ladies Short; second place, Junior Ladies Championship Freeskate; fourth place, High Team Maneuvers
- Chloe Roberts: third place, Pre-Juvenile Ladies Freeskate
- Bryan Schaeffer: third place, Juvenile Men Freeskate
- Shaun Schaeffer: first place, Pre-Juvenile Men Freeskate
- Jacob Schedl: first place, International Solo Dance; first place, Gold Solo Dance; first place, Low Team Maneuvers
- Courtney Taylor: second place, Preliminary Solo Dance; fourth place, Juvenile Solo Dance; second place, Senior Ladies Short; first place, Senior Ladies Championship Freeskate; fourth place, High Team Maneuvers
- Emily Young: first place, Low Team Maneuvers
- Morgan Young: third place, Junior Ladies Freeskate