OSSA Skaters Shine at Canadian Short Track Championships

Congratulations to our OSSA skaters who raced at Short Track Canadian Championships in Montreal over the past week. Renee Steenge (Brampton) and Ethan McKinley-Young (Ottawa) qualified through the pursuit rounds on August 19th to join Alphonse Ouimette (St Lawrence) in the main competition of top 20 in Canada.

The skaters raced 3x each distance (500m, 1000m, 1500m) over 5 days of competition! All 3 of our OSSA skaters qualified for A finals in this National Championship! Their impressive final results and top achievements include:

Renee: 8th overall with best result 4th in the 1500m #1

Alphonse: 7th overall with best results 3rd in the 1000m #2 and #3

Ethan: 14th overall with best results 7th in each the 500m, 1000m and 1500m

Thank you for representing OSSA on the National stage at Short Track Championships! We enjoyed watching you race and cheering you on from home in the first Canadian short track competition in over a year. Congratulations Renee, Alphonse and Ethan!

Full results can be found here: https://www.fpvq.org/fr/page/competition/resultats_en_direct.html

Last Week of the Community Better Challenge!

The ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge is coming to a close at the end of June. The updated leaderboard after 3 weeks is available and it's still anyone's race!

Support your club by attending the final two sessions of Spring Virtual Training on Saturday June 26 at 10am and Monday June 28 at 7:30pm! Register HERE.

Ontario Speed Skating has received funding through the Community Better Challenge, which is supported by the Government of Canada. OSSA will track the number of active minutes in each live session, and submit the minutes to ParticipACTION through our organization’s portal.

So far, we have logged 12,550 active minutes in June through the OSSA Virtual Training sessions!

At the end of the month, the club that shows up the most will receive $400 to support their club!

Congratulations Jackie!

OSSA would like to congratulate Jackie Fackoury, who has been nominated to the ISU Short Track Officials List and upgraded to an International Starter! Jackie regularly starts at meets across Ontario and at SSC National Events. The list of ISU Officials can be viewed HERE.

Thank you, Jackie, for supporting our racers in their development in Ontario and beyond!