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For those of you who do not know me, I attended my first figure skating competition at the Culver Ice Arena in 1976. Over the years since that day I have attended too many to count. My daughter had a very successful and rewarding career in skating. She now is a businessperson, wife and mother. I personally have worked my way up through the ranks of USFSA officials. I have served on the All Year Board of Directors, the USFSA Board of Directors, and on numerous other USFSA committees. I presently am a national singles and pairs judge and a national singles and pairs referee. My travels are many and often for skating.

I feel I have a very good grasp of how a successful club works and I know I have a good understanding of how All Year ranks relative to other clubs in the country.

All Year is unique in that it possesses such a wealth of abilities in both its senior and junior members. We have great athletes and, just as importantly, wonderful adult volunteers. Many of our adult members give tirelessly of their time and effort to make our club functions work. We have an amazing group of members whose kids left the sport years ago, but who continue to volunteer their time. Other members don’t have kids in skating or were athletes themselves.

We have an active Junior Board, great competitors in all disciplines of our sport, and wonderful volunteers in every aspect of figure skating whether it be announcing, accounting, judging, governance, or qualifying competition management. All Year has developed the ability to do anything within our sport and do it well.

Many of you know the names and faces of our judges, athletes, or our Board members. You see their names in print all of the time. The ones you don’t see in print often enough are the ones who do the “invisible” work for our club. They are the people who come in early and set up things for our competitions, the people who provide hospitality during our events, the people who clean up after club functions, the people who sit for countless hours on the registration desk or box office, do the announcing and music, run our test sessions, organize the monitors and volunteers, put out the club newsletter, solicit product donations, register our members, or just give of their time for any job that needs to be done.

These are the people who are the backbone of our club. They are what make our club stand out from the rest. I wanted to write this note to thank them and say how proud I am to be a member of the All Year Figure Skating Club.

Keep up the good work. Our club is growing in membership and prestige thanks to our athletes and the tireless work of our volunteer members.

An Open Letter to the members of the All Year
Figure Skating Club from Larry Kriwanek

WE NEED TO KNOW! We want to know what YOU would like to see come as a seminar, off ice training, training camps etc. to Southern California.