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Paradice Rink Updates

For all the details on the July School holiday sessions, download the document below....

Life Membership - Maureen Forrester

On 20 June 2020 at the AIDC AGM Maureen Forrester was awarded Life Membership and Service to Club for the following reasons:"AIDC was registered as an Incorporated Society on 2/12/2003 and Maureen was listed as one of the 15 members required to sign the application form together with the constitution of the club which was originally named as the Aotearoa Ice Dance Club Incorporated.  The club name was changed to Allegro Ice Dance Club at the AGM on 24 June 2004.Maureen joined AIDC on 01/07/...

NZIFSA Newsletters

Download the latest NZIFSA Newsletter to find out all the news from the New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Association....

Update from Paradice regarding February/March Bi-Monthly

Hi Everyone Hope you are staying safe and well during the Alert level 4 lockdown, we miss you all and our ice very much. For skaters that were on February/March Bi-monthly the remaining portion from when we closed (Monday 23 March to Tuesday 31 March 2020) will be credited to when we re-open, the same applies for skaters that had purchased April/May Bi-monthly. Recommend skaters stay in contact with their coaches for guidance on off-ice training to remain healthy and active within the Alert leve...

Results for overseas Competitions that Allegro Skaters participated in during the 2019 skating season

WinterSun 2019, Brisbane, Australia 10-13 July 2019 Preliminary Ladies (NZ Elementary) - Sophie Pokorny Overall 2nd/7Basic Novice Ladies - Olivia Pokorny   Overall 8th/ 8 Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy International, Dongguan, China, 30 October – 3 November 2019 Basic Novice Ladies - Marina Chen Overall 9th/23Junior Men - Harrison Bain SP 6th FS 5th Overall 5th/9 Australian Nationals 2019, Melbourne, 30 November – 6 December 2019 Basic Novice Ladies - Olivia Pokorn...

2019 Allegro Ice Dance and Artistic Competition

The 2019 event was our 16th annual Allegro Ice Dance and Artistic Competition.  This artistic event offers a great opportunity for skaters to work on expression, movement and choreography which is so important in all disciplines of ice figure skating.  Dance events focus on essentials such as edge quality, footwork, timing and expression. This artistic event is unique in that it offers a variety of single and group events, catering for all ages and levels and does not focus on the tech...

NZIFSA International Squad for 2019-20

The following Allegro skaters have met the NZIFSA criteria to be eligible for selection to represent New Zealand at International Competitions. Skaters selected to the International A team will receive some funding from NZIFSA. Junior MenHarrison Bain...

Other important announcements made at the NZ nationals banquet

Administrator of the Year There were six nominations for this award this year and each of the nominees have made and continue to make a significant contribution to the administration of our sport. The nominees were Sally Garelja, Lynne Hodgson, Vicki Smith, Alan Greenstreet, Karen Smith and Jamie Adams-Campbell. The Administrator of the Year went to Jamie Adams-Campbell, however AIDC would like to acknowledge and thank Sally who was our club nominee. Sally Garelja (AIDC) has been involved w...

Selection of Skaters for the Australian Figure Skating Championships 2019-20

The following skaters have met our selection criteria to compete at the 2019 Australian Figure Skating Championships.  Basic Novice LadiesMarina ChenOlivia Pokorny Intermediate Novice LadiesJordon Laker Junior MenHarrison Bain Basic Novice SynchroPlatinum – Team Members areIvana Chen, Rachel Chen, Katrina Mitalauskas, Sophie Pokorny, Noelle Qiu, Mira Ren, Ava Spencer, Vicky Wang, Nicca Wu, Emily Yang, Kelly Zou Advanced Novice SynchroTitanium – Team Members areMacKenzie Anderson, Caitli...

NZIFSA Development Squad 2019-20

Elementary LadiesAddison Brennan Juvenile LadiesSophie Pokorny, Kelly Zou Basic Novice LadiesMarina Chen, Olivia Pokorny Intermediate Novice LadiesJordon Laker Junior MenHarrison Bain Basic Novice SynchroPlatinum – Team Members are:Ivana Chen, Rachel Chen, Katrina Mitalauskas, Sophie Pokorny, Noelle Qiu, Mira Ren, Ava Spencer, Vicky Wang, Nicca Wu, Emily Yang, Kelly Zou Advanced Novice SynchroTitanium – Team Members are:MacKenzie Anderson, Caitlin Carter, Ivana Chen, Ashley Ip, Julie Lu, Oli...

International Adult Skaters 2018-19

Bronze I Ladies - Olga Levien recently competed at the ISU International Adult Figure Skating Competition, Oberstdorf, Germany, May 2019 and was placed 14th / 29 in her Free Skate routine and 10th / 23 in the Interpretive / Artistic grade.Olga is a wonderful ambassador for our Adult skaters and prior to the NZIFSA Marketing and Promotions Officer, Juliet Siversten was commissioned to write a figure skating article for the NZ Herald Canvas magazine about adult figure skating. It’s an article is...

Reflections from our Allegro Figure Skaters

Ivana Chen – 4th place in 2018 North Island Championships in the Pre-Elementary Grade The first time I stepped on the ice when I was 7 years old and it has been 3 years while I am doing Ice Skating now. I love this sport much more than the others. I started in a Synchronized Skating which I enjoyed skating with my friends, then I decided to do a solo skater as well. I was glad to be selected as NZIFSC development squad in 2018, which encouraged me to keep going.In 2019 at Auckland Ice Figure S...

2019 OneTeamMVMT Synchro Development Camp

OneTeamMVMT, ISA and NZIFSA teamed up to seek funding from the International Skating Union (ISU) Funding for a Synchronized Skating Development Camp which was held Sydney, Australia 20-22 April Ice Skating Australia (ISA) and NZIFSA Australia in April.  Three coaches and thirteen skaters from New Zealand attend this camp.  OneTeamMVMT secured the services of Anu Oksanen, coach of the World Champions, Marigold IceUnity of Finland to run this camp, and she brought two of her skaters with...

Harrison Bain - NZIFSA Scholarship

2018 NZ Junior Champion, 1st / 5 Hollins Trophy 2019, Sydney, 5th place Asian Open 2017.  Harrison will be representing New Zealand at the ISU JGP Lake Placid, New York, USA, 28-31 August 2019.   He will be attending the JGP together with fellow skater, Dani Gebser and coach Bess Cao.   You can follow him and other New Zealand skaters on YouTube.  Harrison, pictured above with Ice Dancer Christopher Dean was the recipient of one of the NZIFSA Scholarship’s and use...

NZIFSA Development Squad for 2018-19

Pre-Elementary Ladies - Ivana Chen Juvenile Ladies - Marina Chen Basic Novice Ladies - Jordon Laker Junior Ladies - Nicola Korck Junior Men - Harrison Bain Basic Novice Synchro – Titanium ...

NZIFSA International Squad for 2018-19

Basic Novice Ladies – Jordon Laker, Marina Chen Junior Ladies - Nicola Korck Junior Men - Harrison Bain Basic Novice Synchro – Titanium – 2018 NZ Basic Novice Champions...

Life Membership – Craig Anderson

Craig and his wife Victoria Volkova used to Ice Dance together and were the founding members of the Allegro Ice Dance Club (incorporated in 2003), setting up the club to promote dance, and in addition to hold our annual Allegro Ice Dance competition to promote dance and artistic events that focused on choreography & interpretation of music.   Craig was the founding President of the club since its inception and remained the President until the AGM in 2016 where Tania Bellegue took over....