Local skaters heading to Sochi Olympics
Posted Jan 13, 2014 06:26:52 AM.
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Members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club will be paying close attention to next month’s winter Olympics in Russia.
A pair, who trains at the club, has made Canada’s Olympic team.
Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch earned a silver medal in the senior pair event at the 2014 Canadian Tire Canadian Figure Skating Championships over the weekend.
Also on the team, Waterloo native and long time Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club member Andrew Poje along with partner Kaitlyn Weaver. They also won a silver in Ottawa.
The other K-W connections to the team is Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. The Canadian and Olympic champions used to train at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club.
The club will be holding an “Olympics Sendoff” on Saturday, January 25th at the Pillers Rink at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club located at RIM Park. The event starts at 7:30pm.
