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NEXXICE Senior and Les Suprêmes are on route to Hungary for the 2008 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships
(March 27, 2008 - OTTAWA, ON) – The ladies from NEXXICE Senior and Les Suprêmes will be heading to Budapest, Hungary to represent Canada at the 2008 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships. The competition is scheduled to take place March 28-30, 2008.
NEXXICE Senior, two-time Canadian Senior Synchronized Skating Champions, will be making only their third trip in a row to the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships, but the team is no stranger to the world stage. They represented Canada last year at worlds in London, Ontario, placing third. Earlier this year they captured first place at the 2008 Spring Cup, in Milan. NEXXICE Senior trains out of the Burlington Skating Club and the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club and are coached by Shelley Simonton Barnett.
Les Suprêmes, from CPA Saint-Léonard, are the second ranked Canadian team and this weekend they will be competing against 22 of the best teams from around the world. Earlier this year the team placed second at the 2008 BMO Canadian Senior Synchronized Skating Championships and followed this impressive achievement with a second place finish at the 2008 Spring Cup, in Italy. They will returning to the World Championships for the second time in a row, last year they placed sixth. Lyne Forget is the coach of Les Suprêmes.
The team manager for this event is Hélène Gagnon
of Laval Des Rapides, Que. Susan Morriss from Victoria, B.C. will
be a judge for the event. Marni Wesner of Edmonton, Alta. and
Cathy Striowski of North York, Ont. will be the medical team travelling
with the Canadian team.
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