{"id":55435,"date":"2019-11-13T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/synchronized-skaters-nab-bronze-in-california\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:15:00","slug":"synchronized-skaters-nab-bronze-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/synchronized-skaters-nab-bronze-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronized skaters nab bronze in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okX-OgZGEp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Team Forget Me Not lived up to its name on Sunday at the Synchronized Fall Classic at the Great Park Ice &#038; Fivepoint Arena in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-member youth synchronized skating team placed third of 13 teams in the open juvenile division, a result that left much of the team in shock.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never competed against that many people, and this is the best we&rsquo;ve ever done in a competition. So it was kind of like, &lsquo;Is this actually happening?&rsquo;&rdquo; co-captain Meredith Fritsch said in an interview Wednesday. &ldquo;And then once it kind of sunk in, it was very exciting to have been able to do so well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The teams were ranked by a panel of five judges. Team Forget Me Not received one second-place score, two third-place scores and two fourth-place scores for a majority third-place decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Fond du Lac Blades of Wisconsin and Team del Sol of California placed first and second, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Leah Farzin said a big emphasis was on presentation. Farzin said judges put down marks for not only technical skills, but also for how well teams interact with the music and come across artistically.<\/p>\n<p>The Juneau team also mastered the technical skills of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Team Forget Me Not started the program by skating backwards length-wise down the hockey rink in two single file lines. After crossing over the center ice, the two contingents meet for a brief second in the middle of the ice, crisscrossing each other in close proximity.<\/p>\n<p>On a video of the routine, the move drew loud applause. All together, the routine took just under three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Fritsch, 17, who competes along side her twin sister Katherine, said competing earlier in the season helped lead to their success.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the difference this year was this competition was a lot earlier than most of our competitions,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Usually we compete in early to late January, so the fact that we didn&rsquo;t have as much time to get our program together was definitely an incentive to work a lot harder than we usually do. I think we were all just more motivated this year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch their next performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Forget Me Not will perform at the Juneau Skating Club&rsquo;s Holiday Show on Sunday, Dec. 15 at Treadwell Arena. 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