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Show Utah Figure Skating Club Heads For Championships The Utah Figure Skating Club will be well represented at the Central Pacific Figure Skating Championships to be held in Sacramento, Nov. 13 through Nov. 19. Twenty-eight local member skaters are traveling to Sacramento to participate in this first qualifying competition of the 1979 season. THIS COMPETITION is the first of the qualifying competitions, compe-titions, for those skaters who aspire to compete in national and international competi-i lions each year. ( The Utah Bees drill team, ' composed of 16 skaters, will be defending their first place title which they have held for the past two years. THE UTAH Bees are Lori , Welch, Lori Matern, Julie Rampton, Susan Williams, Stephanie Tanner, Renee Slater, Melanie Hyde, Lisa Hatch, Lynette Burr, Tara Konvicka, Jeri Elliott, Susie Smith, Kristen Mann, Shauna Tolman, Missy Alvey, Julie Godfrey. Their pro is Doree Ann Tateoka. Individual competitors are: senior ladies, Susie Brasher, age 17; junior ladies, Patti Favero, age 14; novice ladies, Lesleigh Anderson, age 15; intermediate ladies, Stephanie Tanner, age 13; juvenile ladies, Kathy Searl, age 11. ALSO COMPETING are juvenile man, Jon Jackson, age 14; sub-juvenile ladies, Missy Alvey, age 13 and Lisa Hatch, age 13; preliminary ladies, Holly Cook, age 7; Marilie Rowland, age 11; Buffy Lewis, age 11; Jana Blackburn, age 10; Melanie Hyde, age 13; Lynette Burr, age 13. Susie Brasher, age 17, is currently the Central Pacific Senior Ladies Champion. A senior at Olympus High, she trains in Denver and will be defending her title. OTHER UTAH skaters who are competing in other regional competitions are; Stewart Sturgeon, age 19, competing in the junior men's division for the Skating Club of New York in the Mid-Atlantic Mid-Atlantic Region. Jolene Linschoten, age 20, competing in the senior ladies division for the Charlotte Figure Skating Club in the South Atlantic Region. Terry Lacy, age 20, competing in the Silver Dance Division in the North West Pacific Region. Their home base is the Bountiful Recreation Ice Skating Rink. |