Miller, Whittum Take Golds at Bay State Figure Skating
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Christmas Brook Figure Skating Club competitors Grace Miller and Samantha Whittum each earned a gold medal on Sunday at the Bay State Winter Games at Williams College’s Lansing Chapman Rink.
Miller of Williamstown placed first out of four girls in the Pre-Preliminary Girls Test Track Flight 4 division, where she earned four out five first-place votes from the judges.
Pittsfield’s Briana Palmieri of the Pittsfield Figure Skating Club placed third in the flight.
Williamstown’s Whittum won the Pre-Juvenile Girls Test Track Flight 1, which saw seven entrants. Whittum picked up a first place vote and two seconds among the panel of five judges in the highly competitive flight.
A third Christmas Brook skater to take home a gold medal was Pownal, Vt.’s, Lara Shore-Sheppard, who skated in the Adult Silver Ladies Free Skating division.
Pittsfield’s Aimee Boulais skated to a silver medal on Saturday in the Intermediate Ladies Test Track Flight 2 competition, where she garnered two of five first-place votes but lost on a tie-breaker to Scituate’s Kirstyn Haley. Boulais of PFSC competed against Christmas Brook’s Ashton Goyette of Adams, who placed fifth.
Cheshire’s Hannah Fuller of Christmas Brook reached the podium in the Pre-Juvenile Girls Test Track Flight 2. Fuller finished third in a seven-skater field that included CBFSC teammate Emily Daigneault of Adams, who placed sixth.
Lanesborough’s Takiera Darrow, who skates for Pittsfield, earned a bronze in the Preliminary Girls Test Track Flight 2, placing third out of nine skaters in one of the most crowded fields of the competition.
Christmas Brook’s Ayla Senecal of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., took home a bronze in Sunday’s Junior Ladies Short Program and finished fourth in Saturday’s Junior Ladies Free Skating competition.
A dozen skaters from each of the local figure skating clubs took part in the two-day competition.
