Minto Skating Club

Minto Skating Club
Formation1904 (1904)
HeadquartersMinto Skating Centre
Location
President
Josée Brisson
Director
Darryl VanLuven
Coaches
  • Anne-Marie Bergeron
  • Eric Loucks
  • Gordon Forbes
  • Tara McDougall
  • Gail Anne Ellis
  • Katrina Millard-VanLuven
  • Kristina Badour (Ruzhynska)
  • Darryl VanLuven
  • Derek Schmidt
  • Joanne Hough
Websitemintoskatingclub.com
RemarksColors: purple and yellow

The Minto Skating Club is a competitive figure skating club in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1904. The Club is a member of the Skate Canada figure skating organization in Canada, and was a founder of the predecessor organization to Skate Canada, the "Figure Skating Department" of the Amateur Skating Association of Canada in 1914.[1]

Notable skaters who represented the club include Olympic and World champion Barbara Ann Scott and Olympic bronze medallist and World champion Don Jackson. Notable skaters include Melville Rogers, Lynn Nightingale, Kim Alletson, Gordon Forbes, and the dance teams of Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay and Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet.

  1. ^ "About Skate Canada: History". Skate Canada. Archived from the original on 2004-03-18. Retrieved 2008-01-17.