Bruce Crosby - UHRSC Life Member and President (At the 2012 National Champs!)

Welcome

To the Upper Hutt Roller Skating Club Website. We hope that you will find this site informative about the club and our sport.

Latest News and Items

2012 Club Open Day

Public Open Day Saturday 4th February, 3.00 - 5.00pm. Free entry, skate hire free, blade hire $3. Skating demos and Club info for 2012 will be available.

2012 National Championships

The 2012 National Roller Skating Championships were held in Timaru in the first week of January 2012. Our club had great success with many of our skaters awarded placings in their grades.

Medal Tally

Artistic Precision Show Skate

Gold - 24 Gold - 1 Silver -1
Silver - 12
Bronze - 7

Plus special awards as below
Charles Jacobsen Trophy - Artistic Points Trophy - Upper Hutt 103 points, Hastings 39 points, MSSC 38 points
Joe Bright Memorial Trophy - Trainers Challenge Oscar - Imelda Coleman

Italian Cup - Sarah-Jane Jones
Jack Fanthorpe Shield - Jordan Bougen
Ian Mackie Memorial Trophy - Emma Patrick
Whittle Cup (youngest competitor) - Aria Coleman

I have posted several Galleries of photos from the Nationals in <Gallery 1> and <Gallery 2> and <Gallery3> and <Gallery4> and <Gallery5>. Thanks very much to the people that have contributed their photos. Full results will be posted when they become available. Congratulations to all Competitiors, Coaches and Officials.

Oceania Championships Team Selection 2012

We have 15 skaters selected and Chris Hazelwood as one of the Assistant Team Manager's for Oceania Championships which are in Auckland, April 2012.
Roger Boulcott, Paula Boulcott, Alan Thomson, Sarah-Jane Jones, Wil Cooper, Emma Patrick, Emma Hazelwood, Stefanie McCallum, Jack Patrick, Tanja deWilde, Grace Cooper, Kyra Thomsom, Jordan Bougen, Terriann Randle, Kirsten Foley.
Congratulations to all skaters who were selected.

2011 Club Championships

I have uploaded a gallery from Saturday's competition at our 2011 Club Championship. I have split the pictures into two galleries of roughly 200 photos in each so far. Click for <Gallery1> or for <Gallery2>. For Sunday's competition I have made a Speed <SpeedGallery>, and artistic <Gallery3>and <Gallery4> and <Gallery5>and <Gallery6> and <Gallery7>. There are quite a few photos to go through, but hopefully we have some of each skater, further photos are now in <Gallery8>. Results are available <Here>. Well done to all competitors, and many thanks to the Judges, officials and comittee members who made the event such a sucess.

2011 Speed King

I have uploaded a gallery from the recent Speed King event <HERE>

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2011 World Championship Representative Skaters!!

Four club members travelled to Brazil in November to the 2011 World Roller Skating Championships. Congratulations to Sarah Jane Jones who reached her goal of placing in the top ten in her event!!!!! Sarah-Jane placed 9th in Senior Ladies Solo Dance. Well done. Congratulations also to Emma Patrick who placed 17th in Junior International Ladies Figures among a field of 33 skaters and Emma Hazelwood who placed 18th in Junior International Solo Dance from a field of 25 skaters. The girls appreciated the assistance of Raewyn Hailes who travelled to Brazil as the team coach.

Learn to Skate

Learn to skate lessons are held each Tuesday night at 5.30pm at the rink in Goodshed Road. Learn to Speed Skate lessons are held on Wednesday night at 4.00pm at Riverstrone Recreation (next to H2Oxtream). The first Patch class of 2011 will be on Tuesday the 8th of February, and the first Kiwi Speed class on Wednesday the 9th of February. These classes do not run during the school holidays.

CLUB COACHING CALENDAR

Check out our new Artistic Skating Coaching Calendar here.

Latest Club Newsletters Loaded

The latest January 2012 issue of the club newletter has been loaded to the website. You can find it here .