Heart-Streatham-Issue-8
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On December 13th & 14th, <strong>Streatham</strong> Ice and<br />
Leisure Centre will be hosting its first Christmas<br />
Ice skating show, West End Winter Wonderland.<br />
The show will include many talented<br />
nationally ranked skaters who<br />
train at the rink, as well as guest<br />
skaters including Free Skater<br />
Harriet Beatson and team<br />
GB Junior Ice Dance skating<br />
couple Charlotte Dyson &<br />
Rory Ross-Docherty. The<br />
<strong>Streatham</strong> ice coaching<br />
team’s own Roland Horsall,<br />
former principal performer with<br />
the International Holiday on Ice<br />
Company, will host the evening.<br />
The show will be opened on Saturday<br />
13th December by Lambeth Council Leader,<br />
Lib Peck, with Councillor Jane Edbrooke<br />
welcoming the audience on the 14th. Councillor<br />
Peck said “<strong>Streatham</strong> Ice and Leisure Centre is<br />
fantastic and I am delighted that over 400,000<br />
people have already used it in its first year… I<br />
am looking forward to seeing some wonderful<br />
displays from our very own <strong>Streatham</strong>-trained<br />
skaters." It is sure to be a fantastic family night<br />
out!<br />
PETER NICHOL<br />
ALEXANDRA<br />
SNOWDON<br />
The West End Winter Wonderland<br />
show includes local young talent<br />
who train regularly at the <strong>Streatham</strong><br />
Ice and Leisure Centre.<br />
Jessica Marjot at<br />
just 14 is the solo<br />
ice dance British Senior<br />
Ladies Champion and gold<br />
medallist and attends Harris<br />
Academy in Purley. Seven<br />
year old Alexandra Snowdon<br />
is the youngest skater ever<br />
to compete at the British<br />
Championships. Alexandra<br />
attends Ecole de Battersea Prep<br />
School, and joined the National Ice<br />
Skating Association’s development<br />
squad when she was only 6 (their youngest<br />
ever member). She won a silver medal at the<br />
<strong>Streatham</strong> Solo Ice Dance IJS Competition in<br />
May, and now skates with partner Peter Nicholl<br />
(12). He and his sister Nathalie were crowned<br />
Welsh Champions this year, and are also<br />
members of the National Development Squad.<br />
Peter has won 6 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze<br />
medals, and Nathalie 3 gold, 4 silver and 2<br />
bronze medals this season. Nathalie dances<br />
with Theodore Alexander, 12, who also had an<br />
impressive medal haul. Also performing is Rosie<br />
Hope, 11, a pupil at James Allen’s Girls School<br />
who is also in the national development squad<br />
and has won 6 silver medals and a bronze this<br />
season.<br />
These are very committed young skaters who<br />
are on the ice in <strong>Streatham</strong> by 6am most days<br />
of the week before school, and then again<br />
at weekends, as well as doing several hours<br />
off-ice training a week. Most of the skaters in<br />
the Christmas show are part of the <strong>Streatham</strong><br />
Supremes, the largest of the figure skating<br />
clubs at the <strong>Streatham</strong> rink under Head Coach,<br />
Diane Towler-Green MBE, Olympian and four<br />
time British, European and World Champion<br />
with her partner Bernard Ford.<br />
The club's coaches have produced numerous<br />
British champions over the years, and have<br />
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www.heartstreatham.co.uk
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