Skate Canada - Saskatchewan and DUSO'S offer the Skater of the Month Award to聽recognize two skaters聽throughout the聽province and聽within the Skate Canada program with a $100 bursaries to each Skater of the Month. Clubs are able to nominate skaters they feel demonstrate: working hard, helping out wherever possible, loving what they do, assisting the club in聽activities, helping other skaters, and are a great role model and ambassador for skating.聽
In February the Carlyle Skating Club coaches (Dawn Brady, Katy Soroka, Jenna Toms & Halle Doty) chose Nolan Cameron as their Skater of the Month and sent in their nomination. 聽
Nolan Cameron joined the Carlyle Skating Club in 2015 with tremendous success in his personal achievements in such little time. Joining as a Preliminary skater, he is now currently working on his Sr. Bronze FreeSkate, Jr. Silver Skills, and Jr. Silver Dances. While Nolan spends 2 days on the ice in his home town Kennedy, skating independently and as a PA with the CanSkate program, he also travels to Carlyle from Kennedy to be apart of our skating club 2-3 times a week for extra ice time and skating lessons. Nolan has a great attitude during lessons and is a very hard working skater. He is always willing to give everything his best effort and applies whatever corrections are given to him. He has also shown interest and and improvement in his dance partnering over the last couple of years.
Nolan has improved as a skater but also grown personally by breaking out of his comfort zone and becoming more confident in his skating. This year he decided to register for skating competitions again after taking several years off from the competition world. He took part in the Virden Fun Skate as well as Region 1 & 6 Invitational Competition here in Carlyle, both of which he had considerable success - bringing home a medal in all his events!
For the past 5 years Nolan has been a Program Assistant with the Kennedy Skating Club. He is always willing to help out wherever necessary and is kind and encouraging to all the skaters. The younger kids admire and respect him very much which keeps them focused and engaged while under his supervision. He was an asset to the Kennedy Club when he assisted the CanSkaters competing at the Virden Fun Skate event this year. It was obvious to see how much the skaters enjoy working with him.
While Nolan spends much of his week on the ice, he also manages to maintain his grades in school and plays in the school band and on the volleyball team. Meanwhile he is also very helpful on the family farm and enjoys riding horses. Nolan and his family are very community minded people. Growing up in a small town they are always found lending a helping hand to any family or organization in need.
Nolan's skating coaches聽feel that he is a very deserving candidate for the award and extremely proud of his success and to be chosen as the DUSO'S Skater of the Month!聽Nolan's wishes to thank his coaches, DUSO, and Skate Saskatchewan for selecting him as skater of the month and for the $100 bursary.
