The 2017 Skate Canada Manitoba Synchronized Skating Championship took place at the Access Event Centre in Morden this past Saturday.

"I think it was a great weekend," said event chair Karen Crockett-Nicholls. "Everything came together. We had great volunteers. We had every postition that need to be filled, filled and any little extras that had to be done, was done. Our pre-novice team received silver and our elementary team got a bronze so it was very exciting."

Unless you have a daughter or son in synchronized skating - it's difficult to comprehend just how hard both Pembina Pizazz teams have to work in order to successfully apply their respective routines on the ice.

"When it comes together, it's beautiful," said Crockett-Nicholls. "There are certain parts of it that I love watching and so does everyone else. There are roughly 16 skaters on both teams and to have them all doing the same skill at the same time is amazing. How fast they have to go at the same time and they need to be thinking about what the person on the other side of them is doing and what's happening behind them. There's a lot of thinking going on when they're actually on the ice."


ELEMENTARY
1. Killarney - Gravity - 15.15
2. Neepawa - Ice Prec*Ice - 14.38
3. Morden - Pembina Pizazz - 13.88
4. Virden - Virden Velocity - 13.05

PRE-NOVICE
1. Killarney - Gravity - 26.70
2. Morden - Pembina Pizazz - 25.84
3. Notre Dame - Silhouettes - 19.84
4. Hazelridge - Highlights - 18.35
5. Neepawa - Ice Prec*Ice - 16.80

ADULT SYS I
Notre Dame Silhuoettes - 28.20

ADULT SYS II
Hazelridge Highlights - 27.85

OPEN
1. University of Manitoba - Ice Intrepid - 62.01
2. Brandon - Wheat City ConnXion - 54.50