The Richmond News December 24, 2012 A25
Sports Richmond skater qualifies for national championships
A fresh start with a familiar coach He spent four days with her in LA and has added up to Kurtis Hori heading to they came up with a upbeat and inspiring next month’s Canadian Figure Skating program that features a medley of Beatles Championships in Mississauga, ON. music. The 19-year-old from Richmond will be Still, it was a bold move given Hori had competing in the Junior Men’s competition, just six weeks to nail it before the B.C./ just months after pondering his future in Yukon Sectional Championships. Typically, the sport. competitive figure skaters begin Hori grew up in the Connaught work on new programs in the Skating Club’s programs spring. before moving to the Centre of The short time frame didn’t Excellence in Burnaby after his stop Hori from finishing second Kevin Bursey had departed. at the Sectionals and winning the The transition didn’t pan out event’s Artistic Award, beating the way Hori had hoped and he out Senior and Junior competiconsidered retiring from competitors. tive skating before giving it one He continued to train hard for last try — this time reuniting with the next month, leading up to the Bursey at the Sungod Skating recent Skate Canada Challenge Kurtis Hori in Regina. Club. Sungod members crowded around a The North Delta organization welcomed him with open arms and Hori hasn’t looked computer monitor at the arena to watch his back since. free skate as the club was on the verge of His competitive season got off to a being represented at the nationals for the shaky start when he did not perform well at first time in recent memory. It wasn’t his the annual Summerskate event in August. best performance but it was enough to get He was encouraged by one of the judges him to Mississauga. to upgrade his program to bring it to the The Hori family has been greatly level required to be competitive at national touched by the support shown for Kurtis events. from the club, including a bake sale to help After a discussion with Bursey, Hori with his travel expenses. ditched his program and turned to LosHori, who is a full-time student at Angeles based and world known choregraKwantlen University, is also a member of pher Lorna Brown for a different direction. the Sungod coaching staff.
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