Sean Rabbitt

Hi everyone, this is Sean writing this one.

I just wanted to thank everyone who has helped me make a big improvement in my skating this year, and that has had a big influence to make me a stronger skater. I'm going to list the names of people that helped me in any way, and if your name isn't on here feel free to email me so i can add or correct it.


-Mingzhu Li
-Karen Kwan
-Peter Oppegard
-Diane Kovacic (off ice trainer)
-Shelley Dornbush (costumes)
-Ultimate skate and hockey staff (boots, sharpenings, misc work)
- GRAF boots
-Glacier Falls FSC
-Rudy Galindo
-Tracey Prusack
-and all the judges and officials that helped me this year

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

-Sean

Sean looked great in his short program at the Sectionals. His poise and technical precision placed him 4th in the field of Junior Men for the short. An injury suffered in practice the previous week which made the execution of the triples a challenge. Having landed one of two triples and a confident skate, he moved into fourth place going into the Free Skate (long program).

In the Free Skate program difficult elements of the program receive weighted scores from the judges, so triple jumps heavily effect the skater's final score. Sean's muscle pain from the injury again prevented him from delivering a good executions on his triples, attempting four of the six planned and executing only 2, pulling his score down and placing him 7th overall for the Junior Men competition for the Pacific Coast.

Sean was very pleased with his performance in the short program because he didn't think he would be able to place very high in the technical program due to his injury. Not only that, but feels very pleased with his overall performance and improvement this season. He is already planning and working toward a top four finish overall next season.

Congratulations and thanks to the U.S. Figure Skating Association and the Coyotes Skating Club of Arizona for a beautiful and successful Pacific Coast Sectional Championship. See you next year!