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BIG WEEKEND AHEAD – From left, Tristan Muir, Caleb McPherson and Noah Taggart-Cox blast off to the races earlier this season at the Canada Games Centre.

Speedskaters to welcome top coach

Gearing up for this year’s Canada Winter Games and future Arctic Winter Games,

By Freelancer on January 27, 2015

Gearing up for this year’s Canada Winter Games and future Arctic Winter Games, the Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club will be hosting new and veteran skaters at a camp this weekend.

Skaters from Whitehorse and other Yukon communities are coming to learn from one of the best coaches in Canada – David Morrison, head coach of the short track program at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Morrison, a Level 5 nationally-ranked coach, spent nearly two decades as head coach of the Gloucester Concordes Speed Skating Club in Ontario before joining the Richmond Oval program.

A leader in the Canadian speedskating community, Morrison will be spending Friday afternoon and evening, and all day Saturday and Sunday on the ATCO ice surface at the Canada Games Centre.

With the camp open to both novice and experienced skaters, Morrison will be bringing a history of success in athletic development that includes training members of the 2011 Canada Winter Games team and junior world short track championship teams from 1994 to 2010.

Thanks to a City of Whitehorse recreation grant, the camp will be offered at no additional charge for all Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating members.

Non-members are able to attend the camp for $100.

For more information on this weekend’s camp, visit www.shorttrack06.com.

– Report courtesy of Mark Ritchie

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