A trio of St. Albert Skating Centre performers are jumping for joy over the Alberta Winter Games.
Madison Kowaluk, Jenna Adams and Adele Romanin qualified for the multi-sport provincial competition for developing athletes 11- to 17-years-old at the Zone 5 to 8 run-offs last month in Whitecourt.
Kowaluk, 14, is entered in the senior bronze ladies category at the Feb. 13 to 16 Games in Medicine Hat.
“I’m really excited,” she said “All summer I was doing little parts to get to where I am now.”
Kowaluk described her 2:40-minute program as “classical with piano. It’s pretty slow and soft.”
“I’m trying to get double, double combos in it,” added the Grade 9 Vincent J. Maloney student.
Her goal is to skate a clean performance.
“I want to rotate all of my jumps,” said Kowaluk, who placed second in the senior bronze C ladies freeskate at last month’s Northwest Region Open in Whitecourt.
Adams, 12, is also “pretty excited” about the Games after placing second in the run-offs in Star 5 U13.
The Grade 7 Sir George Simpson student spent half the year perfecting her 2:10-minute Mission Impossible program.
“I’m going to try and land my Axel and double Sal,” Adams said. “I want to get my spins good too.”
Romanin, 13, will grace the ice in the juvenile ladies U14 category.
“It’s really exciting,” she said. “It’s really nice to be going.”
Romanin’s program is The Nocturne by Chopin and lasts 2 minutes, 40 seconds.
“It’s really slow piano. It’s really elegant and slow,” said the fourth-place juvenile ladies U14 skater at the Alberta/NWT/Nunavut Sectional Championships in November in Calgary.
The Grade 8 Westminster School student in Edmonton hopes to “land everything” after devoting her training sessions towards a Games berth.
“You have to work bit by bit together to be where I am.”
