Excerpts from, "Injuries force Bellmare out"

- The Province. Wednesday, January 12 2005

Figure skater Annie Bellemare, a perennial contender at nationals, will continue to heal her body working with PI conditioning coach, Steve Ramsbottom. After 10 straight appearances - two at junior and eight at the senior level - injuries unfortunately caught up with the 25 year old. A sore hip flexor last year developed into a more serious pulled stomach muscle which ultimately sidelined her from the Canadian Nationals on Jan 17-23 rd .

Bellemare said that she did not want to "go to London and finish 10 th . I'll be back next year. I'm really looking forward to the 2006 Olympics in Turin , Italy ."

Despite having and all-round rough year this season, things appear to finally be looking up for Bellemare. Taking time off skating has allowed her body much needed healing time. Throughout her re-hab process, she has been able to maintain on off-ice training regimen with Ramsbottom three times per week and she is now looking stronger than ever.

In other skating news, figure skaters who train at Performance Institute who did compete at the recent 2005 Figure Skating Nationals up the following impressive results:

In the junior competition;

Singles: Kevin Reynolds - 2 nd

Singles: Matt McEwan - 5 th

Singles: Tanika Gibbons - 2 nd

Pairs: Amanda Ribeiro / Stuart Chutter - 12 th

In the senior competition;

Singles: Emanual Sandhu - 2 nd

Singles: Keegan Murphy - 9 th

Singles: Cole Stanbra 22 nd

Singles: Vanessa Hunter 34 th

Pairs: Jericho Boulin / Jesse Sturdy 9 th