PFSC Club Ice sessions available
Club Ice sessions are now available at Pasadena Ice Skating Center for the following dates:
June 19 and 26, 2021
Please follow this link for more details: http://pasadenafsc.com/members/club-sessions/
PFSC Spring Closet Sale
Closet sale items have been posted!
Click the image below for details.
A Statement from PFSC
The Pasadena Figure Skating Club joins with our governing body, the United States Figure Skating Association, to condemn anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate crimes. According to a study from California State University, San Bernardino, hate crimes against AAPI communities have increased 164% in 16 of America’s largest cities in the last year. We pledge to ensure that our club events are safe spaces for our AAPI members. We do not tolerate hate speech or other forms of discrimination within our Club. To learn more about the AAPI experience in the figure skating community, please check out the USFS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force’s Instagram Live series during AAPI Heritage Month. #StopAsianHate
The second USFS DEI Task Force AAPI Heritage Month Instagram Live is TODAY (May 13, 2021) at 2:00 P.M. Pacific. It will feature Michelle Kwan.
Link to first USFS DEI Task Force AAPI Heritage Month Instagram Live, which featured Maia and Alex Shibutani: https://www.instagram.com/tv/COgaItiH0lp/
PFSC Jr Board Presents – A Spring Bake-Off!
Do you enjoy baking?
Enter Junior Board’s Spring Bake-off and submit photos of your creations to our padlet: here
Submissions will be open until May 2 and winners will be judged based on presentation and creativity! To enter:
1. Use the link or QR code to open the Padlet website
2. Click the plus(+) icon on the bottom right corner of the website
3. Add your name to the title and upload your photos/videos
4. Post your creations!
Synchronized Skating Workshops
Have you been curious about synchronized skating? Have you missed being on the ice with your team? Join the Rose City Crystals in two skills workshops at Paramount Iceland.
RCC coaches will be on hand to run unconnected drills focusing on edges, turns, and twizzles. Anyone can join in – no synchro experience required.
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
2021 U.S. Championship Series Virtual Juvenile/Intermediate Results
PFSC is proud to announce that THREE of our intermediate ladies qualified for the 2021 National Development Team!
To do so, they had to compete in a virtual US Juvenile/Intermediate audition and place in the top 20 of girls age 11 to 13. Out of 162 competitors, our members placed FIRST, 4th, and 18th, meaning all three qualified!
In addition, the competitors were placed in groupings to be judged, and all three of our members “medaled” in those groups, placing first, first, and third respectively. Congratulations to all of them and their teams and families!
Elyce Lin-Gracey – First overall, first in Group L
Athena Huang – Fourth overall, first in Group J
Natasha Frank – 18th overall, third in Group I
Juvenile/Intermediate Girls Age 11-13 Overall:
https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2021/31521/Intermediate%20Ladies%2011-13.html?fbclid=IwAR3bdApFpBlvLGF9iJRdOufOVAz9V_scpQ7DS22IsALzulhx0Kb_U5Ni7To
All detailed grouping results:
https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2021/31521/index.asp
PFSC Jr Board Presents – A Virtual Scavenger Hunt!
Join the Junior Board in a virtual home scavenger hunt to win gift card prizes!
Mirai Nagasu is the new host of IceTalk!
PFSC is proud to hear that Mirai Nagasu is the new host of IceTalk Podcast!
For all the details, click on the link below:
Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Standing Together
The first black skater was not admitted to a figure skating club until 1965 when Richard Ewell joined a local Los Angeles based club. The figure skating community is not immune to society’s systemic racism.
Along with United States Figure Skating, our national governing body, the Pasadena Figure Skating Club stands united in support of anti-racism. We are horrified and outraged at the recent displays of police brutality to black men, in particular, and what has been happening continuously to people of color since our country’s founding. The PFSC Board of Directors is looking into what steps it can take to promote changes that are, finally, not empty or temporary but are systematically sustained through thoughtful determined strategies.
We see you and we stand with you. Black Lives Matter.
