Saturday Morning

This mornings’ meetings started out by playing Davis & Whites OD from the Olympics. What a wonderful way to inspire the room to get our work done today.

The 2011 Film Project

David Raith (Executive Director of USFS) is coordinating a project to produce a feature length film telling the story of figure skating in the US and commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the loss of the 1961 World team.

The film is going to bring together Peggy Flemming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano and Michelle Kwan to discuss how they have been helped by the Memorial Fund. The production group of Lookalike Productions unveiled a trailer for the film and the release date of February 17, 2011.

The technical committee members each gave a quick report on their work over the year. They each recognized the new national appointments in their area. Our own Lisa Erle was received her National Referee appointment and Michael Ricigliano received his National Dance judge appointment.Business of the meeting began with debate on rule 307 which concerns non-US citizens ability to compete in USFS competitions. There can be many scenarios in which skaters would be affected. This basically pertained to skaters whose parents have moved internationally for economic reasons (ie. job relocation) and would like to compete in USFS qualifying events. They would not, however, be able to compete internationally representing the US.

Next order of business moved to rule 344. This change would allow an intermediate skater to perform ONE triple jump in the short program. (Remember that they are already allowed to do TWO triples in the long). There was good discussion on both sides of the issue. The delegation seemed pretty split on the issue. The council took a count of votes on the issue and it was resolved that the a triple jump WOULD be allowed in the intermediate short program.