New Ontario Speed Skating Website Coming Soon!

Ontario Speed Skating is excited to announce the upcoming release of our new website! 

The new Ontario Speed Skating website will feature:

- our newest OSSA branding 

- up-to-date pages for skater, coach and officials resources

- Safe Sport and COVID Return to Sport information 

- updated photos of our members in action

Our new website will have the same URL you are used to: www.ontariospeedskating.ca

There may be a period where the site is unavailable as we transition to the new look. We appreciate your patience during the transition. 

We will use OSSA E-News to keep our members informed of any updates during the transition. To stay connected, please sign up for OSSA E-News using the “join our mailing list” button HERE. We send important updates about 4-5 times per month, and you can opt out of E-News at any time.

We look forward to sharing our new look and easy-to-navigate website with our members very soon!

Equipment Maintenance Webinar Recording

OSSA’s Summer Webinar Series continued last week with an Equipment Maintenance Webinar led by Francois Drolet of Nagano Skate.

The link to the recording is now available HERE until the end of August.

Recording Password: OSSAequipment2020*

2019-2020 Officials Clinic Attendees and Upgrades

Congratulations to the following individuals who completed the Level 1 Officials’ Clinic: Introduction to Speed Skating this season:

Ainley McNamee, Alexander Brodeur, Angela Bladon, Christian Bourget, Christine McMaster, Claudia Huelgas, Darren Massel, Dave Codack, Elaine Friedrich, Franklin Guillaume, Heather Lee, Ingrid Sully, James Sutton, Janet Howse, Jason Bettez, Jeremy Andrews, Karla Gimby, Kelly George, Linda Cook, Lynda Gernon, Marc Hanvelt, Michael Karakolis, Mike Price, Nicole Vrazinovski, Spencer Bladon, Stacie Ogg, Stephan Lee and Tiger Song.

Congratulations to the following individuals who completed the Level 2 Officials’ Clinic in 2020:
Annick Menard, Colleen Murphy, Kaiyu Feng, Marc Besner, Mary-Evelyn Lather, Melissa Pool and Trisha Belleghem.

OSSA would also like to congratulate the following individuals who have been approved for upgrades by the OSSA Officials Development Committee: 

Lauren Adourian - Level 1 Announcer
Karla Gimby - Level 1 Judge
Trish Belegham - Level 2 Judge
Annick Menard - Level 2 Judge
Rebecca Champagne - Level 2 Meet Coordinator
Karen Adourian - Level 2 Meet Coordinator
Eric Lecompte - Level 2 Referee
James Simpson - Level 2 Referee
Melissa Pool - Level 1 Timer
Marc Besner - Level 2 Timer
Mary-Evelyn Lather - Level 2 Timer
Christopher Langridge - Level 2 Track Steward
Jason Bettez - Level 1 Starter

As a sport that is primarily run by volunteers, we are always looking for more members to join our dedicated team of speed skating officials. 
Thank you to these outstanding members for their dedication to officiating in speed skating!

2020 OSSA Award Recipients

We would like to extend our congratulations to the 2020 OSSA Award Recipients!

Club of the Year: Oakville and Milton Speed Skating Clubs
Official of the Year: Sandra Grenier-Howell
Volunteer of the Year: Kelly and Ken George
Coach of the Year: Benton McNicol and Mike Murray
Rising Star - Short Track Female: Yilin Liao
Rising Star - Short Track Male: Sam Galloway and Tyler Yue
Rising Star - Long Track Male: Bradley Chambers and Isaac Emblin
Skater of the Year - Short Track Female: Aaralyn McGill
Skater of the Year - Short Track Male: Ariz Lalani
Skater of the Year - Long Track Female: Daria Vogt
Skater of the Year - Long Track Male: Matthew Laxton
 
Thank you to the OSSA Awards Committee for their work on this year’s awards!
Committee Members are Julie Colbourne-Milne, Neil Monkman, Carole Emblin, Mike Murray and Kathleen Currie.

2020 OSSA Skater of the Year Awards

We are excited to announce our 2020 Skater of the Year Awards! 

Click the image below to view the Awards Announcement video!

Special Thanks goes out to Alphonse Ouimette, Short Track National Team Member, who did the commentating in this video!

Congrats to our OSSA 2020 Skaters of the Year!