Roller Sports Canada’s 2008 World Team was confirmed at the Canadian Championships, which were held June 28th- 30th.

The team will travel to Gijon, Spain, to represent Canada at the World Roller Speed Skating Championships from the 4th to the 12th of September.

RSC’s Speed World Team- photo from Shannon Hegarty

You can find additional information on the World Roller Speed Skating Championships thanks to Mundo Patin.

The 2008 RSC Speed World Team includes;

Manager: Wayne Burrett
Senior Coach: Alex Perrie
Junior Coach: Tyler Congdon

Senior Men
Alex D’mello
Peter Doucet
Travis Shaw

Senior Women
Morgane Echardour
Sarah Hopkins
Leah Kaluta
Chelsea Parry

Junior Men
Brett Leavens
Jade Pauley

If there is anyone who is going to be attending the Canada Day Event in Cambridge on July 1st and is not entering to skate but would be available to help out volunteering or you have family/ supporters who can help, please contact Wayne Burrett wayneb-speed[at]rogers[dot]com and Jim Mallard jmallard[at]rogers[dot]com as soon as possible.

Your help is sincerely appreciated to fully staff this event.

If you are skating it get your entry in early and save some money.

The latest memo regarding RSC membership has been posted to the download section of the website…

“The following changes in the fee structure will be implemented for 2008:

CHANGES

The fee for members applying for Provincial Membership is increased by $10.00

There will be no upgrades from Provincial to National Membership throughout the year.  If a skater initially registers as a Provincial Member and then wishes to change that status, a new National Membership form must be prepared with the full National Membership fee paid and processed.

There is a new registration form covering both…”

The complete memo can be found [here]

Hello everyone – we’ve received a number of visitors in the past few months so it’s time to provide a status on the website.  Unfortunately – it’s still under construction.  The website is a volunteer effort and this alone means that the project team works under a “best-effort” contract.  For the time being the following updates are available:

• Webmasters – a search for a webmaster has started.  At present I’m filling the role until a designated person can be found.  The site will be maintained by several Editors who will keep each respective section of the site up to date.
• Info – several volunteers have been assigned the task of validating the information we have on these pages.  If you discover any errors or omissions, you can leave your comments at the end of this post.  Please identify where the issue occurs on the site.
• Design – this is the final design and layout of the site.  Several small changes will occur to the content once the data has been validated.

A bit of background on how this new site works.  It’s built on top of an online content management provider called WordPress.  This software makes the maintenance of the website relatively easy for one or several authors.  Once those authors/editor’s have been identified – that information will be announced here.

Timeline – the timelines are changing and I’m setting a target completion date of March 2008.

Thanks for reading,

-Eric

Welcome to the new home of Roller Sport Canada.  This site is still under construction and may occasionally become unavailable.  All data and information on this site should be considered TEST data, unless otherwise indicated.

For more information please refer to the Roller Sport Ontario website located [here]