Press Release:
 

July 2, 2008- Aston, PA - The IceWorks Skating Complex is pleased to announce several new additions to our figure skating program. A press conference will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at the IceWorks Skating Complex.

In April, the current Olympic Ice Dance Silver Medalists, American's Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto relocated to the IceWorks Skating Complex to train under world renowned coaches, Natalya Linichuk and Gennadiy Karponosov.

In late June, the 2008 European Ice Dance Champions, Russia's Oksana Domnina & Maxim Shabalin also announced they would be joining Linichuk and Karponosov's group in Aston. Belbin & Agosoto and Domnina & Shabalin are two of the top teams in the world and are expected to battle for the Olympic Gold Medal in ice dancing at the 2010 Olympics, taking place in Vancouver, Canada.

The growing figure skating program at the IceWorks Skating Complex also added a new coach to the already distinguished list of coaches training skaters in Aston. Vincent Restencourt, who is a three-time French National Championships medalist, three time World Junior Championships medalist and World Competitor arrived from Paris to his new coaching position in Aston, in late June. Restencourt was the first French man to land a quadruple jump.

In honor of these exciting arrivals, the IceWorks Skating Complex will be hosting a press conference at which time the skaters as well as their coaches and other members of the IceWorks Skating Complex staff will be available for questions and individual interviews. Following the press conference members of the press and community will be able to meet these skaters as well as our other elite level skaters and coaches during a reception. The press conference will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at the IceWorks Skating Complex.

The IceWorks Skating Complex is located in Aston, Pennsylvania and is one of the only four rink facilities in the country. The IceWorks Skating Complex is the training center for many elite skaters, such as; Morgan Matthews (World Junior Champion and US National Junior Champion) & Leif Gislason (Grand Prix Competitor and Canadian National medalist), Leonie Krail & Oscar Peter (2008 Swiss Ice Dance Champions, European and World Championships Competitors), Kim Navarro & Brent Bommentre (2008 US and Four Continents Bronze medalists and World Competitors). In addition to Linichuk and Karponosov, other world and Olympics coaches, such as; Uschi Keszler, Robbie Kaine and Cheryl Snyder train their skaters at the IceWorks Skating Complex. Additionally, the IceWorks Skating Complex has played host to many important figure skating competitions in its ten-year old history, including Regional and Sectional Championships as well as the Liberty Open Summer Competition, the largest non-qualifying competition in the world and one that attracts elite level skaters from across the United States, Canada and Europe.