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Current News and Information:
US Junior Short Track Championships
11/12/08
Good luck to all the skaters this weekend! - especially to all our Rocker Fund participants. (Morgan Izykowski, Dan Fiorenza, Kyle Uyehara, Barry Winslow and Jonathan Sermeno) Go Fast, Turn Left & No Injuries!
WORLD CUP 1 & 2
11/1/08
Well, World Cup 1 and 2 have come and gone, with a wonderful start to the season for Team USA.
WC1 in Salt Lake City found Kimberly Derrick, Jeff Simon, Apolo Anton Ohno and the men's team who took the relay silver medal all on the Podium!
WC 2 in Vancouver had Allison Baver, Anthony Lobello and Jeff Simon with individual medals, and the men's team topping their last performance to win GOLD in the relay! Woohoo! What a ride!
For more great pictures of WC2 courtesy of Tom DiNardo on Andrew Love's site, go to:
Zen and the Art of Speedskating
ROCKER FUND UPDATE
10/4/08
The Rocker Fund has raised over $2400 for the skaters so far - all from fans like You! The skaters appreciate everything you've done for them, and your generosity has afforded them more ice time and much needed boots, blades and such. Keep up the good work. With short track season underway, help with expenses are needed and appreciated more than ever.
AMERICAN CUP 1 UPDATE
10/03/08 (From Ohnozone)
U.S. World Cup Team & American Cup 1 Overall Results
Congratulations to the following members of the U.S. short track World Cup team! These are the teams that will represent the U.S. at the first 3 World Cups of the season in Salt Lake City, Vancouver and Beijing:
WOMEN
Allison Baver – Reading, PA
Kimberly Derrick – Memphis, TN
Allyson Dudek - Hales Corner, WI
Maria Garcia – Carson, CA
Lana Gehring – Glenview, IL
Katherine Reutter – Champaign IL
Jessica Smith
Note: Maria is declining her spot for the SLC World Cup only, but will skate in World Cups 2 and 3. Jessica will therefore take Maria's spot in SLC.
MEN
J.R. Celski – Long Beach, CA
Apolo Anton Ohno – Seattle, WA
Travis Jayner – Midland, MI
Charles Ryan Leveille – Atlanta, GA
Anthony Lobello- Tallahassee, FL
Jeff Simon – Las Vegas, NV
Thank You to Plymouth Ice Center for putting on a nice event. A good time was had by all...
COMING SOON - UPDATE AND SUMMARY FOR
(a) WORLD CUP #1 IN SALT LAKE CITY
(b) WORLD CUP #2 IN VANCOUVER
(c) US SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (NATIONALS) IN ST. LOUIS.
Yahoo Short Track Trip Planning Group
Website for fans to plan their trips for the 2008/09 Season Short Track events.
2008-2009 Short Track Season thread at GA
New Skaters on The Rocker Fund
July 27, 2008
The Rocker Fund introduces 2 more skaters, Dan Fiorenza and Jon Sermeno. Dan will be Skater of the Month for September, and Jon will be Skater of the Month for October.
We are sad to report that Jade Wheeler has chosen to retire from skating and is moving on to the next phase of her life. We wish Jade all the best in all her future endeavors.
Skyler McCormick is up next for Skater of the Month for August in a few days.
Kyle Uyehara's month is almost up for Skater of the Month, so if you would like to donate to this wonderful up and coming skater, now is the time.
We hope to see all the skaters at the first American Cup in September, which will be the qualifier for the first World Cups.
If you're a fan who would like to attend some of the events and hook up with your fellow fans, go to the Yahoo trip planning group Link below. You can also access trip planning information on the forum at GotApolo. The Link is also included below.
Yahoo Short Track Trip Planning Group
Website for fans to plan their trips for the 2008/09 Season Short Track events.
2008-2009 Short Track Season thread at GA
FYI
July 13, 2008
Just a reminder to refresh your screen when you visit The Rocker Fund. Information does get changed/updated periodically, and the website is cached, meaning your browser will pull up the page from the last time you visited if you haven't dumped your cookies and browsing history lately. If I can figure out how to make that feature 'go away', I'll let you know.
Skater Bling
July 1, 2008
Southern California Speedskating Association is selling some fun jewelry to help raise money for their skating program. Check out the link below to purchase your skater bling and support a good cause as well.
Southern California Speedskating Association
Update on Donations.
July 1, 2008
The Rocker Fund has raised over $1200 to date in donations for the skaters. Thank You to all who have donated so far to help the skaters with their expenses. We hope others will be moved to not only participate in this endeavor, but to come to the competitions this fall to cheer all these skaters on!
Growing Pains
By mtnme
The Rocker Fund was launched a few months ago on the fansites, GotApolo and Ohnozone, with our first Skaters of the Month - Lezleigh Jaworski and Barry Winslow. We are now on our third Skater of the Month, Anthony Barthell. Thank You to all of you who have participated by sending your donations to the skaters.
In the meantime, the website for the skaters has been evolving, suffering the growing pains of any new endeavor in uncharted territory. Now after several months, we think we have something work-able. We hope you take some time to check out the site. We look forward to your suggestions and feedback to make the site even better.
The Yahoo Trip Planning Group
By mtnme.
For the West Coast-ers, Southwest Airlines has some great deals for the upcoming Short Track World Cups in Salt Lake City and Vancouver in October. (Provided you don't wait too long to book your flights)
For those of you who are interested in joining the group, several of us will be attending the First World Cup (October 17-19) and flying from Salt Lake City on October 20th, on the 10:15 am Southwest flight to Seattle.
From there we are planning to rent a car and drive to Whistler and Vancouver - spending the week seeing the sights, possibly getting some hiking in. (Bring your boots...)
We will attend the Vancouver World Cup and drive back to Seattle on Monday, October 27th and fly home on Tuesday, October 28th.
Anthony Barthell, our third Skater of the Month, just posted this at the Yahoo Trip Planning Group. He works at the Hilton Garden Inn, just across the street from the host hotel. We've already made our reservations - Thanks, Anthony!
"Hey all! For those of you who are planning on coming to SLC. The hotel that I work at will be extending a rate just for you all. The rate will be $89 per night. For those of you who stayed there last World Cup, I'm hoping that you will return and bring more people with you. For everyone wanting to make reservations, feel free to email me your information. Name, dates, bed request (king or 2 queens) and address. Don't worry about a credit card. I'll just put a hotel hold on all reservations.
Once I make the reservation and send you the confirmation email you can call in to add a credit card if you'd like.
My work email is anthony.barthell@hilton.com.
If it takes me a few days to get back to you don't worry. I'll get your reservation for you. If you have any questions feel free to contact me anytime."
Anthony
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