Not content with providing the location and hospitalty for our awards evening, the staff of the North Beach Hotel took the time to present a sponsorship cheque to the Ayrshire Flyers. Their generosity is greatly appreciated and will be used to buy much needed safety equipment for the growing club.

We would like to thank John and Hardip Singh and their staff, Margaret Green, Shaun Coull and Laura Burns for a fantastic evening.

Just in case there is any doubt ...
The Fathers Won the Quiz

There were lots of other results and stories from a fabulous evening at the North Beach Hotel.

A full report with photos is available here.

Some highlights ...
 

Club Championships 1st Craig M. 2nd Euan T. 3rd Rhys B.

Handicap Championships 1st Euan C. 2nd Eve B. 3rd Lorna B.

Novice 1st Scott N. 2nd Kirsty H. 3rd Kristopher N.

Fall of the Year Stewart L.

Coach's Skater of the Year Samantha I. Skaters' Skater of the Year Rosslyn W.

Most Improved Man Roy W. Most Improved Lady Rosslyn W.

As I was somewhat occupied on Sunday, we have a race report as supplied by an impartial observer. As someone reknown for his tact and personal skills, Kev has provided a balanced, sensitive (and very long) write up. I take no responsibility for this, what-so-ever.

Club Championship and Parents Race 2008 as submitted by K. Waite.

This is one person's view of the racing. Can you do better? If so email it in and we will put it up.

Photos now available, and PBs have now also been updated.

[Do you get the feeling things are winding down for the end of the season?]

The Scottish Championships at Dundee this weekend was another success for Ayrshire Flyers in what has been the clubs best ever season.

In the PeeWee category Roy produced his top performance of the season to take his first Scottish title. Kathryn, also in the PeeWee category took second place.

The result of the Juniors was only decided in the last race, the 1000m super final, where Euan and Rhys were narrowly beaten into second and third place respectively.

In the seniors, Craig took the title to make it a clean sweep of all the major domestic trophies for Craig this season. This was reflected in the results of the Fitzroy Smith Trophy, which is awarded to the top Scottish skater. The Scottish Championships was the final event to be taken into consideration for this trophy, with the result that Craig won it for the second year in succession, this time with the maximum number of points possible. Ayrshire Flyers skaters took 6 of the top 10 rankings in this trophy, a full listing is available here.

Megan had a strong competition in the Novices, with PBs in every distance she raced in, resulting in 3rd place. The new boots were obviously worth the wait!

The relay competition provided a fitting end to the Scottish Championships for the Ayrshire Flyers. The Flyers A Team, consisting of Craig, Rhys, Euan and Samantha held off the very experienced Stirling team to take 1st place.

Full results are available in the Protocol.

• Podium Photos are now available on the British Short Track 2008 site.
• Action photos ... with more to come.

The long anticipated British Championships in Dundee were a great success. 18 flyers entered, ranging from PeeWees to Masters, which must be our largest entry to date. Between them, the flyers achieved 5 medals: 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. The medalists are:

Kathryn took a very decisive silver medal in the PeeWee Girls competition, coming 2nd in every final. Other than requiring to make use of her excellent figure skating skills in the first race, she encountered no major obstacles on her way to her first British medal. Eve was also in close running for a bronze medal in the Pee Wee Girls and missed out by only 3 points.

While there many excellent competitions in the championships, the Juvenile Girls must have been one of the most closely competed. None of the podium positions were decided until the very last moments of the very last race, with Shannon and Jennifer also fighting for a place on the podium. In the final results, Samantha retained her British title, with Alison a close runner-up, taking the Silver and Rosslyn taking the Bronze.

In contrast to the drama in the Juvenile Girls, Craig quietly and coolly applied himself to the task at hand and worked his way up from his initial 4th place seeding, to take the Bronze Medal in the Junior Boys.

In the championships there were Scottish records for Euan (Junior C – 333m) and the Flyers Junior C Ladies (Jennifer, Samantha, Alison, Rosslyn) in the 3000m Relay.

Thanks to all (and there are many) who spent months preparing for this event and spent the best part of three days running the event. Thanks also to coach Archie for preparing our skaters and for his support throughout the competition.

Full results are available on Short Track Online, and more general report can be found in the Sk8Scotland News.

If anyone has any photos, could they please send them in, thanks.

• Titles and Records
• Media Reports

Jnr Club Captain: Rhys

Jnr Vice-Captain: Kathryn

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