January 9th, 2015, Charlottetown – P.E.I. short-track speed skater Carly Connell hits the ice this weekend in Trois-Rivières, QC to compete in the Canadian Junior Short Track Championships. She’ll be among the top 32 junior female skaters in the country, with a chance to represent Can

December 23rd, 2014, Charlottetown – Speed Skate PEI has named eight short-track speed skaters to the Island’s 2015 Canada Winter Games team. The team, consisting of five male and three female skaters, will compete in Prince George during week one, from February 15 to February 20. The

December 18th, 2014, Charlottetown – P.E.I. short track skaters won fifteen medals including three gold at the recent Charles Gorman Memorial Speed Skating Championships in Saint John, N.B.. With that total, the Island team tied the host Saint John club for tops in the overall medal c

December 3rd, 2014, Charlottetown – A dozen Island short-track speed skaters brought home medals from the recent Harold Joyce short track championship meet in Fredericton, N.B.. Jared Vriends of Pleasant Grove in Division 3, Kristen Binns in Division 6, Simon Hale in Division 9 and Ro

November 11th, 2014, Charlottetown – P.E.I. speed skaters swept top division gold over the weekend at the Atlantic Cup Speed Skating Championships at the Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown. Michael Rogers and Carly Connell led the way for the Island team, taking top honours among male a

November 6, 2014, Charlottetown – Short track speed skaters from across Atlantic Canada will be converging in Charlottetown this weekend for the Atlantic Cup Speed Skating Championships. The two-day event, being hosted by Speed Skate PEI at the Eastlink Centre, is the first major comp

September 4, 2014, Charlottetown – With the Canada Winter Games only five months away, the coming season holds special significance for a number of P.E.I. speed skaters. Up to ten P.E.I. skaters could be taking to the ice for Team PEI in Prince George, B.C. in February. The group has

April 29, 2014, Charlottetown – Warren Grove native Scott Beamish has announced that he is retiring from competition in short-track speed skating. The announcement comes after a season that Beamish was not able to complete. Beamish sustained season ending injuries in a car accident on

April 22, 2014, Charlottetown – Jared Vriends and Carly Connell have been named the top male and female speed skaters on P.E.I. for the 2013-14 season. The awards were handed out recently at Speed Skate P.E.I.’s 15th annual spaghetti dinner and awards banquet in Charlottetown, with mo

April 18, 2014, Charlottetown – P.E.I. short-track speed skaters closed out their competitive season at a pair of meets in Quebec and Ontario recently.  A contingent of six Islanders were among over 120 of the top 11 to 15 year-old skaters from Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut and the Atlanti