The 2019 Short Track Western Elite Circuit took place Jan 18th-20th at the Calgary Olympic Oval. Our River Heights/St. James short track skaters attended this meet and had a great time with many personal bests!
The Western Elite Circuit has a primary goal of providing quality racing opportunities for the developing Junior and Neo-Senior Short Track athlete. To be eligible participants have to be Junior C or up (born before July 1st 2005, Junior ISU).
This competition series has room for 60 male and 60 female skaters in every event, when the maximum is reached skaters will be ranked and selected for the competition based on the combination of their 500m & 1500m seed times.
The competition will run as one category for each gender. At the end of the competition, the ranking will be split in 2 different age categories – U17 & Open: Junior C and up