Miami Ohio University Athletics
MU Finishes First, Fourth at Midwesterns
2/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | Synchronized Skating
EDINA, Minn.—On the final day of the Midwestern Championships, the Miami University collegiate synchronized skating team came away with gold, while the RedHawk junior team finished fourth among a seven-team field.
Skating to music from the movie “Nine” featuring the songs “Cinema Italiano” and “Be Italian,” the collegiate team had a clean skate and notched a score of 96.78 with a program component score of 55.20 and a technical element score of 41.58. The RedHawks finished 15.22 points ahead of second-place Michigan State (81.56). Michigan finished in third (79.08) followed by Adrian (78.88), Western Michigan (75.30), Illinois (75.26), Wisconsin (64.94) and Notre Dame (61.52).
It was a season high score for the RedHawk collegiate team, who eclipsed their previous season high by 19.78 points.
Miami’s junior team dropped from third after the short program where they posted a score of 45.96 to fourth in the overall standings. With their free skate program set to music from the musical “Aladdin,” the RedHawks had a clean skate and notched a season-high free skate score of 81.30 with a program component score of 46.48 and a technical element score of 34.82.
Miami finished with a combined score of 127.26, also a season high. Chicago Jazz won the Midwestern Championships with a combined score of 142.84 with Team Braemar in second (136.00) and Crystallettes (131.26) in third. Hocketts followed Miami in fifth place with a combined score of 126.60 with the Fond Du Lac Blades (123.82) and Starlights (117.36) rounding out the junior field, respectively.
The RedHawk junior team has a quick turnaround, traveling to Marlborough, Mass., next weekend for the Junior World Qualifier Feb. 6-7. Miami’s collegiate and senior teams are off until the U.S. National Championships in late February.
