Yukon skaters caught the right edge to end their season.

The Arctic Edge Figure Skating Club sent 13 skaters to the Pond to Podium Super Series hosted by Vancouver Island Skate International (VISI) at Parksville, B.C., from April 15-17.

Total medals – 12.

"Our skaters always fare fairly well when we go down there (to B.C.),” Arctic Edge coach Trish Pettitt said. "Every skater performed very well, they all had fun. It's almost a reward for the hard work.”

The VISI competition was the first of five events which make up the newly-initiated Super Series.

The remaining events are the Victoria Day in Vancouver, Summerskate in Burnaby, Autumn Leaves in Kamloops and BC Sections, which will be held in Kelowna for the second straight year.

Rachel Pettitt won first place in her long program and seventh in her short program to combine for a bronze in pre-novice ladies.

"I didn't have the best short, but I got pretty good marks on it, so when you combine them it was really good. It's hard to explain,” the 12-year-old said.

A fraction of a point separated five skaters after the short program.

Rachel had a score of 23.49 in her first skate, while Felicity Bao of the Inlet Skating Club near Vancouver finished in sixth with a score of 23.59.

"In the short, there was like 0.2 difference between third to seventh, so everyone was really close,” Rachel said.

She landed the difficult double lutz-double toe, double loop and an axle for that score.

She felt she skated cleanly.

"It wasn't my best skate but it was pretty good,” she said.

"Out of that program, my double lutz-double toe is my hardest jump.”

She followed that skate with her best performance of the competition – a first-place finish and a personal best in the free skate – good enough for a score of 44.98.

"In my long I had an awesome skate – I landed my double axle,” Rachel said.

"It's almost like a vote of confidence; it gives you a push to keep going.”

She's been working on her double axle all season, and first landed it at the

Canada Winter Games in Halifax, N.S., in February.

"It's improved a lot more since Canada Games, they're bigger and they have more rotation,” Rachel said.

"That was exciting. I had good speed.”

Added Trish: "To come back down off Canada Games and then get prepared again for another competition is quite hard to do.”

Rachel also nabbed a silver medal in the Silver Interpretive competition, which she described as a fun event, a tango piece with edges and spirals, and less pressure than programs filled with jumps.

Teammate Bryn Hoffman, who accompanied Rachel at the Canada Games, won second in the Gold Interpretive and a fourth place in both the short (23.79) and long programs (46.65) for fourth overall (68.77) in the pre-novice ladies category.

"It was good, her speed was up,” Trish said of Hoffman's long program.

"You're always working on speed and height in the jumps, and that comes with strength and age. As the girls get older their strength is going to increase; they're both at a growing stage right now too. But it was very good – they both did very, very well.”

For competitive skaters like Rachel and Hoffman, goals change after each competition and expectations rise incrementally, Trish added.

"It's like steps in a latter; you're taking another focus, you're making another goal, you move on,” Trish said.

"For this competition, Bryn did some changes to her program, there was a couple changes to the technical programs. Each skater had a different goal. For us it was a little more speed, a little more height in the double axle, a little more rotation in the double axle, and always about performance.”

Mikayla Kramer added to the Arctic Edge's medal tally with a gold in the elementary women performance program and a silver in the pre-preliminary elements.

"I really had lots of fun,” the eight-year-old said.

Those results are pretty good for her first ever Outside competition.

"I was nervous the first day, but then it was better,” Kramer said.

Fellow eight-year-old Tessa Moore felt the same.

Moore won silver in the elementary women performance program and sixth in the pre-preliminary elements.

"It's exciting,” she said of competing Outside. "Sometimes I feel nervous before I skate.”

How do you deal with that pressure?

"I just go out and skate I guess.”