Ontario Speed Skating Association
100 St. Charles Street East, Maryhill, ON N0B 2B0 N0B 2B0

Go to the start, ready... Let's see your starts. Ice, dryland, snow. Your choice! Tag us @OntarioSpeedSkating #inmyskinsuit #weSKATEfast #winteractive2021 #embracewinter

We're 3 days into National Health and Fitness Day's Winter Health and Fitness Week! We hope you have been challenging yourself to get outside and move! Today is our first speed skating specific challenge: Superwoman or Superman Dives! Leap, hop, slide, dive or jump into this challenge! Whether you're in skates or boots, on snow or ice, we are looking for your unique twist on a Superman Dive! Tag Ontario Speed Skating Association in your video and be sure to use #InMySkinSuit #EmbraceWinter #WinterActive2021

Let’s get moving, OSSA! Today is the first day of Winter Health and Fitness Week! Join us this week as we #EmbraceWinter and get #WinterActive2021 We will be posting speed skating specific challenges (that you can do with or without ice, while physically distancing) throughout the week. To show your speed skating pride, we are challenging you to use #InMySkinSuit. National Health and Fitness Day (https://www.nhfdcan.ca/) has put out a 7 Days of Fitness guide to keep you activ...e this week as well! Our first challenge is coming on Wednesday. Who's ready to suit up? #weSKATEfast #EmbraceWinter #WinterActive2021 #InMySkinSuit

Speed Skating Canada | Patinage de vitesse Canada entered the World Cup circuit with a this weekend! Despite having to train outdoors, on inlines, short track and dryland this season due to mechanical failure at the Olympic Oval Calgary, our OSSA skaters representing Canada showed they were prepared to start the World Cup Season! Congratulations @ivanieblondin @i_weidemann @jbelch89 on a great World Cup 1 weekend in the Heerenveen bubble! Ivanie - in Ladies Team Pursuit, ... in Mass Start Isabelle - in Ladies Team Pursuit, 5th in 3000m Jordan - in Mens Team Pursuit, 4th in Mass Start, 7th in 5000m : Speed Skating Canada | Patinage de vitesse Canada ISU Speed Skating Dave Holland Pics

World Cup Speed Skating 1 is underway in Heerenveen! Cheer on our OSSA skaters representing Speed Skating Canada | Patinage de vitesse Canada - Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann and Jordan Belchos - this weekend from the safety of your own home. Together we can stop the spread of COVID-19. Stay home, stay safe, save lives. #StayHomeON #weSKATEfast

Happy National Coaches Week to all of our amazing coaches in Ontario Speed Skating! Our Coaches Conference kicks off tonight at 8pm! Registration is still open. Details: http://www.ontariospeedskating.ca/coaching-conference #ThanksCoach #weSKATEfast

We are excited to announce the upcoming release of our new website! The new Ontario Speed Skating website will feature: - our newest OSSA branding - up-to-date pages for skater, coach and officials resources... - Safe Sport and COVID Return to Sport information - updated photos of our members in action Our new website will have the same URL you are used to: www.ontariospeedskating.ca There may be a period where the site is unavailable as we transition to the new look. We appreciate your patience during the transition. We will use OSSA E-News to keep our members informed of any updates during the transition. To stay connected, please sign up for OSSA E-News using the join our mailing list button here: https://us10.campaign-archive.com/home/. We send important updates about 4-5 times per month, and you can opt out of E-News at any time. We look forward to sharing our new look and easy-to-navigate website with our members very soon!

Speed Skating, to a certain extent, is a very close knit family. We share in the wins and losses for skaters, we watch as young skaters start to express themselves as young teenagers and then adults, we see the skill progression and speeds dynamically increase over years. We are proud of our children and friends. We volunteer at the clubs, at events the small club meet or, if we are lucky the national stage. All the while becoming part of the bigger skating family over th...e years. It has, therefore, become a rite of passage for many skaters that they have found one familiar face on the ice over the years. To greet them on the starting line, to encourage them to keep skating to the bitter end, or to be handed some form of penalty as they raced their hearts out. Jacky Shoebridge has always been there advocating on behalf of every skater knowing them by name, knowing them by every action of their arms and legs their quintessential mannerism (although at times not knowing what they looked like with their helmets off). Passionate and stern in equal approach. Quick to offer advice that might provide a valuable lesson for the next race, or next year. Respected by her peers. And, yet has left many a Coach with a stern look from the centre of the ice. Ontario has been fortunate to have been guided by Jacky on the Board, on Technical Committees, Officiating at countless meets and as a friendly warm coach at the Cambridge Club. We would like to express our grateful thanks, for our teacher as she moves to Alberta to retire and spend more time with her family. For those of us still lucky enough to perhaps travel out to the Calgary Oval, we will be fortunate to have a friendly embrace and a debate over Speed Skating while sharing a warm cup of tea. Thank you Jacky and Paul for your contributions to the Ontario Speed Skating community and we wish you the best in your future endeavours!

Here are the 2020 Club of the Year, Coach of the Year, Official of the Year and Volunteer of the Year Awards recipients! Special thanks goes to our OSSA Awards Committee for their work on this year's Awards. Thank you to all of our OSSA Volunteers and Congratulations to our 2020 OSSA Award Recipients and Nominees!

We are excited to announce our Club of the Year, Coach of the Year, Official of the Year and Volunteer of the Year Awards! Special thanks goes to our OSSA Awards Committee for their work on this year's Awards. Congratulations to our 2020 OSSA Award Recipients and Nominees!