Check out this article in the North Shore Outlook on VPW’s own Danielle ten Vaanholt: Go Big or Go Home. Danielle will be competing at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax later in February, in both the team event, and in duet with Jane McCulloch. Good luck girls! Go big!
Photo by Rod Newell
It is crunch time for VPW’s Canada Winter Games swimmers who are headed to Halifax later this month to swim for BC! Best of luck to Kelli Gustafsson, Madelyn Paterson, Kim Paterson, Jane McCulloch and Danielle ten Vaanholt. Congratulations also to Danielle and Jane, whose duet has qualified as one of two from BC to contend, and especially to Kim Paterson, who will be competing her solo in Halifax! Go Team BC!
VPW has received grant money from the Synchro BC - Towards Excellence Program, designed to support athletes training for competition in the 2010-2011 synchro season. We are offering ballet training to our athletes with this money. This training opportunity is open to all Provincial (13 – 15 and 12 & under teams) and National ( 13 -15, 16-18 and senior teams) club athletes and is optional.
The grant covers a large portion of the room rental and the instructors fee. Athletes who chose to participate in this training program will be required to pay $5.00 for 10 sessions.
The classes will be taught by a qualified instructor at Creekside Community Centre. The address is: 1 Athletes Way, Vancouver, BC. It is close to both the Athletes Village Canada Line and Main Street Sky train station.
Ballet training days are on the following Saturdays:
Please e-mail Ann Lacey if you daughter will will be participating. Payment of $5.00 is due on Feb 5th before class.
Thank you Kara for applying for this grant!