A record 609 entries will participate in this season's Pond to Podium Super Series B.C. SummerSkate, beginning this Thursday through Sunday at Burnaby 8Rinks.
"This will be quite a competition," said B.C./Yukon section competitions chair Bev Viger, in a B.C. section press relase, "we have more than 100 entries over last year."
The entries are coming from British Columbia and neighbouring Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, as well as from outside Canada, including the United States, Japan, Korea and Poland.
One of the highlight events will be the senior men, featuring the country's number 2 skater Ken Reynolds, who recently finished fifth in the world. Also competing are former national team member Jeremy Ten of the Burnaby Centre of Excellence and former national senior men's champion Emanuel Sandhu, who will be making a comeback after several years of retirement.
The senior men's short program starts at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday with the free skate scheduled for 2 p.m. on Friday.
Also taking part are national junior ladies' champion Larkyn Austman and fellow Connaught clubmate and former national junior champion Mitchell Gordon.
Daily starting times are Thursday at 9 a.m., Friday at 8:45 p.m., Saturday at 9 a.m. and Sunday an early 7:45 a.m. start.
Skating action runs all day Thursday to Saturday, with Sunday's action finishing up at 5 p.m. Summer Skate is B.C.'s largest figure skating competition and officially kicks off the B.C./Yukon section season.
