SKATEFEST!

Come see Southern California's rising stars on ice at Skatefest!
Including performances by California Gold Novice, Adult, and Team USA Senior Team.

Ticket Pricing
Adult- $10
Children -$5 (10 and under)
Lunch- $10 - Taco Bar hosted by Baja Sonora

Price includes a public skate with our stars! (Skate rental not included)

Taco Bar opens at noon and the show begins at 1:00pm.

The event also hosts a silent auction and raffle baskets made by our skaters. Raffle tickets at $1 per ticket or $5 for six. As well as an IPad raffle!!! Tickets for the IPad raffle are $5 each.

Come show your support for the California Gold skaters and enjoy a wonderful show! If you can not make it to the show you can still participate in the IPad raffle as well as our raffle baskets. Contact Team Manager Cheryl Meyer or one of the skaters for information on how to purchase raffle tickets.


If your on Facebook, the event invitation is right HERE!

Willkommen in Berlin!

Cal Gold at the Brandenburg Gate

California Gold has made it to Berlin! Our two practices earlier this week were extremely productive and we had some great run throughs.

After our practice thursday morning, we had the

opportunity to go out and tour the brilliant city of Berlin. We bought day passes for the "Bahnhoff," Berlin's subway system, and visited major sights such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall, and Checkpoint Charlie. After seeing the streets of Berlin, we walked just had to stop in a chocolate shop called Fassbender & Rausch and had ourselves a nice cup of hot chocolate. 

Our lifts on an outdoor sheet of ice outside the practice rink.

When we were preparing for short program last night, we were doing off-ice in a hallway in the hotel. There was a group of elderly German onlookers that were intensely interested in what we were doing. Our ridiculously happy smiles were probably very entertaining to them! 

In competition last night, we had an amazing time skating our short program. The fun and swanky program is always a blast to get into with our surprised and smiley faces! Going into long program today, we are sitting in 3rd place and are ready to push ourselves to skate a fast and clean program. GO TEAM USA!!

Preparing for the Cup of Berlin

  We're down to our last few practices before we leave for the Cup of Berlin and we couldn't be more excited!  Our focus on the ice, however, has not been altered and we have been training hard these past weeks with the goal of skating two flawless programs in mind.  We recently received our new Team USA jackets and pants.  We were fully expecting to take a nice picture all dressed up in our outfits, but Alison pulled her pants out of the bag and asked "Are these supposed to be capris?" The pants were tiny and could not possibly fit anyone older than 10!  Our team started busting up as we all pulled our own pants out and found that they, too, were miniature!  It turned out that the inseam and outseam measurements had been mixed up, and our team manager tried every trick in the book to get them fixed by the time we left for Germany.  They will probably arrive after the competition, but we realized we had enough of the old Team USA pants for everyone to wear and that our new pants will not have to get dirty from the rain/mud, so it turned out to be a positive thing.  Plus, it gave us a funny story to tell :]
  For those of you who are not coming along with us, this blog will keep you up to date on what Cal Gold is up to in Berlin.  The Cup of Berlin Website can give you more information on the competition.

California Gold Alumni Skate!

  We are looking for all California Gold Alumnae (formerly United Skates) to attend our Senior Practice on December 30, 2010 starting at 5:00am for breakfast. This includes Open Juvenile, Intermediate, Novice, Junior and Senior skaters from the 1999 season through the current 2011 season. 
       When: Thursday, December 30 - 5:00 am - 7:30 am
       Location: East West Ice Palace
  At 6:30am we will invite the skaters that were apart of the Junior and Senior teams to take the ice with our current senior team for an alumnae skate. It will be great to celebrate the team of skaters that helped build this organization from the ground up. Please send this invite out to the former skaters as well, we want to reach out to everyone. Please RSVP to the Facebook invite HERE! Hope to see you all there! 
  Also, if you have not already "like" our California Gold page to stay connected throughout the season on Facebook!

Long Program

  Sunday afternoon, we skated our long program with confidence and power. Although it was not our best run-through, it was certainly one we were proud to present.  Ending up in 5th overall, our team is committed to work with this intensity for the rest of the season.  Thank you California Gold fans for cheering us on, whether you were in the stands at the rink, or at home, cheering in front of the computer screen!

  As Porter ends, we begin to focus on our next competition, the Cup of Berlin! We are so honored to be representing the USA and to be traveling with Chicago Jazz Junior!  Our hard work in the next month will be fueled by the excitement of our upcoming competition.

  As we said when getting into the Robin Hood character before stepping onto the ice for long program, "We will rise and rise again until lambs become lions!"

Congratulations to both California Gold teams! Great Job at Porter!

Short Program and Novice Program

Yesterday, our Novice team performed their "Wizard of Oz" program and rocked it!  It was their best performance of the season thus far.  They improved their score by 8 points in only 1 month!

Last night, California Gold Senior skated an AMAZING short program.  The team described it as "effortless" and "smooth."  Being our first competition, we wanted to start off with a bang, and we feel we accomplished that.  Right now, we are sitting in 5th place, tying with Miami for top technical base score.

This morning, we skated our long program twice for official practice.  The first run-through was a little rough, but we were able to pull it together and skate the second one with more confidence.  Tonight, we skate very last (they saved the best for last :]) and are ready to skate a strong long program!

Hello, Michigan!

We're here! After a safe trip into Detroit and a short bus ride, we checked in at the hotel and went straight to Novice's official practice, which was awesome!  They said they felt great about their performance and were rewarded with a trip to Noodles & Company.  Tonight, we look forward to having a great practice for both teams.  Novice skates their program and Senior skates short tomorrow.  (The skate orders are up on the Dr. Porter Website if you want to know)