Stephanie Divin leads after elements competition

By Danielle Williams, Team BC Mission Staff
 
Special Olympian Stephanie Divin (Surrey) leads the Special Olympic ladies level 2 event after the elements portion of the competition.  Divin completed her elements strongly and confidently to place first.  Divin’s teammate Emily Walzak (Victoria) is in fourth place going into Thursday night’s freeskate.
 
The novice figure skaters completed their short programs on Tuesday at Kin I Arena.  Team BC’s Brian Le (Delta) skated a clean short program and brought down the house, scoring 37.85 to place second.  Benjam Papp (Burnaby) made a minor error on his double lutz and is in fifth going into the freeskate.
 
McKenna Colthorp (Kelowna) is sitting in fourth after the novice women short program.  Colthorp’s teammate and training mate in Ajsha Gorman (Kelowna) is sitting in eighth.
 
Novice pair team, Tessa Jones (Victoria) and Matthew den Boer (Victoria) are currently in fourth place after the short program and are looking to improve on their placing going in to the free program.
 
Novice ice dance team Ashlynne Stairs (Burnaby) and Lee Royer (Burnaby) skated two great pattern dances and are currently sitting in fifth place.
 
The pre-novice competition continues on Wednesday with the free programs at Kin I.

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