![]() There are so many benefits to participating in a team sport, and synchronized skating is a great way for figure skaters to compete in a sport they love while enjoying all of the aspects of working with others on a team. The team performs a program set to music, with required formations including circles, lines, blocks, wheels, and intersections. For a synchronized team to flow in unison, individual skaters must be competent at a variety of skating skills, including speed, footwork, and ice presence. Synchronized skating or “synchro” is a discipline of figure skating recognized by US Figure Skating in which 8–20 skaters (the number of skaters on a team depends on the level) skate on the ice as a team, moving as one flowing unit. The Cleveland Ice Storm is the largest synchro organization in the state of Ohio. Since then, our club continues to field 7-8 teams every season. We merged with the United Ice from Strongsville the year after. The club’s name was changed to the Cleveland Ice Storm in additional to colors and logo. The Cleveland Edges was rebranded in Spring 2017. Officially changed its name to the Cleveland Ice Storm Skating Club. In the spring of 2017, the Club hired a new Program Director and head coach, Elizabeth Smith, and In 2003, the entire program moved to the North Olmsted Recreation Complex to provide a single home for all This time, the program represented three different figure skating clubs, skating out of four different ice arenas. During the mid-1990s the adult and youth program merged to form the Cleveland Edges teams. and adopted the new name, ClevelandĮdges. In 1992, the Synchroblades moved to the Greenbrier F.S.C. The same time, an adult team, the Synchroblades, was founded by Ann Ward at the North Olmsted RecreationĬenter. The youth program was founded by Marcia Sherman, as the Riverettes, at the Rocky River Ice Rink. The Cleveland Ice Storm Skating Club (CISSC) synchronized skating teams began in 1985 as two separate
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