News

Upcoming Ability Meet – help needed!

On December 5th, the Club will be hosting its first meet of the season so come cheer our skaters on!  The Ability Meet involves all ages and abilities of skaters: our youngest skaters (under age 6 as of June 30th, 2015) are free and skate only during the lunch hour in the “Rocket’ category.  The fee for all … Read more

Oktoberfest 2015

Congrats to YKSSC skaters who participated at the Oktoberfest meet in Calgary October 17-18! Lauren Eggenberger, Alex Robertson and Jackson Christie qualified for the National Qualifier meet in Richmond BC next month and obtained Personal Best times.  Grace Clark also achieved a PB!  A special thank you and recognition to our Club’s own Robin Greig … Read more

Care of Rental Skates

Speed skates have a different type of blade than hockey or figure skates and therefore need to be sharpened in a special way.  To enable the sharpening of our club skates to enhance skaters’ abilities, skates should be sharpened before the season, at least once a month and before events/meets. Skaters from the Competitive group … Read more

New Executive for 2015/16

Thank you to our hard-working volunteers! Karin Clark – President Martin Rourke – Vice President Lisbeth van Blarikom – Secretary Jody Pellissey – Treasurer Myra Bowerman – Registrar                                                         … Read more

Used Equipment

If you are looking for used equipment for your skater, please visit our Equipment Swap Page. If you have equipment that you would like to sell, please email the message you would like posted to ykspeedskating@gmail.com

Tips on Skate Sharpening

For those  learning to sharpen your own or your child’s skates, check out this link