(Aug 28) We are excited to open registration for our very special Beginner program. With two locations (Boston or Metrowest) for our Beginner teams, parents can choose whichever is more convenient for their family. The schedules and locations are designed to offer flexibility while ensuring each young skater the opportunity to learn and develop. We also offer an option to sign up for a single session (fall-winter) or both sessions (September-April). Both teams will skate at synchronized skating competitions during the competitive season.
Our Beginner teams are a fun and easy way to learn the fundamentals of synchronized skating. The program provides an opportunity to enjoy the synchronized skating experience at a skill and age appropriate level. Our program is designed to prepare skaters for the next higher level. We also provide educational seminars for parents about the sport of synchronized skating.
View action photographs from last year's competitive skates at the Thanksgiving Classic and Boston Basic Skills.
For more information, please download our registration form or send email to Team Excel.
(Aug 10) The Skating Club of Boston and Team Excel are pleased to announce the Team Excel Collegiate Scholarship and Open Collegiate Tryouts for the 2010-2011 season! The Team Excel Collegiate Scholarship will enable our Collegiate AND Open Collegiate lines to be FULLY FUNDED for the 2010-2011 season.
Tryouts for Open Collegiate will be help on Sunday, September 12, 8:20-10:20 at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough. There is no charge for the tryouts. Please arrive at 7:30 pm for off-ice and registration.
The Open Collegiate division is open to any skater who is a full-time student at any college or university.
To inquire further about the scholarship or tryouts, please visit our Collegiate page or email excelcollegiate@gmail.com.
(Jun 13) Team Excel is selling four sets of dresses from last year. Please visit our dress sale page to view the dresses that we are offering for sale.
(Jun 13) Congratulations to Lydia P whose bid on the Monster Seats at the July 30th Red Sox games. Thanks for your support of Team Excel and thanks to everyone who bid! Enjoy the game.
(Jun 13) With spring training completed, we would like to invite interested skaters to tryout for the limited number of opportunities still available to skate with Team Excel and train with Merita Mullen, one of the foremost professionals in U.S Synchronized Skating and her talented coaching staff. Team Excel is fielding Beginner, Preliminary, Novice, Junior, Collegiate and Open Collegiate teams for the 2010-2011 season. Anyone still interested in joining our expanding organization or would like to be re-evaluated, should contact Team Excel at excelsynchro@gmail.com. If you will be attending a tryout, please download the registration form and bring it with you. There is no tryout fee.
Team Excel and The Skating Club of Boston will host the 2nd Annual Boston Synchro Classic on January 21 and 22, 2011 at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough, MA. This competition is open to all 6.0 and IJS teams and is participating in the Eastern Synchronized Skating Challenge. More information will be available in August, 2010. Please contact Deanne Benson at info@bostonsynchroclassic.org with questions.
(Updated Apr 11) Team Excel and The Skating Club of Boston are pleased to announce the Team Excel Collegiate Scholarship for the upcoming season! The Team Excel Collegiate Scholarship will enable our collegiate line to be FULLY FUNDED for the 2010-2011 season. For information, please send email to excelsynchro@gmail.com.
The Team Excel Collegiate Scholarship was created to assist athletes in financing a competitive synchronized skating career at one of the premier figure skating clubs in the country while they attend college. The Scholarship provides funds to qualified skaters for ice and coaching fees, clothing, and travel. Skaters are required to make an initial deposit which is refundable upon the completion of their full commitment to the team. The Scholarship makes it possible for the team to train as if they were at a large university, but athletes have the ability to attend any of the many New England area colleges or universities that suit their academic needs. Join the 2010 Eastern Championship Silver Medalist Team now!
Go to any school you want, and continue
the sport you love with an intercollegiate
synchronized skating team.
(Jan 11) We invite you to become a fan of Team Excel on Facebook. We plan to use our Official Facebook Page to publish updates during the course of the season. We've already published team and action photos.
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To become a fan, log on to Facebook and search for our official fan page "Team Excel Synchronized Skating Teams" and then click the "Become a Fan" button. |
If you have ideas, want to send congratulations or wish the team good luck, you can write on a note on our "Wall." Please also visit our blog and feel free to leave a comment there as well!
(Jan 6) It's an exciting time as the synchronized skating season kicks into gear and it's a particularly interesting time for Team Excel. It's our first year as an organization and we are sharing some of our experiences in a team blog. We invite you to visit our blog and share your thoughts with us.
Starting with Merita Mullen, our Director of Synchronized Skating, we plan to post regular articles over the course of the season. During that time, we will be pleased to feature articles contributed by our coaches, volunteers and skaters. We've selected topics and authors with an eye towards what might interest fans of synchronized skating. And if you have ideas for additional topics, we can try to add them.
All the articles will be published on our website and will be accessible at www.ExcelSynchro.org/blog.
Please visit, subscribe to receive updates and feel free to leave comments. We look forward to hearing from you!
(Feb 3) Less than a year after forming as an organization created to promote synchronized skating and prepare synchronized skating teams for national and international competition, Team Excel qualified all eligible teams for the upcoming U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships and the Preliminary team qualified for the Championship Round.
The Junior line was awarded a silver medal after a two days of rigorous competition. After the short program on Friday, Team Excel’s inspired performance to Josh Groban’s "You are Loved" was tied with another team for the top spot on the points, but was awarded first place on the strength of its higher technical scores. On the following day, the Junior line performed its long program to a medley of Celtic tunes, showcasing the skaters' grace and power.
In only its second performance of the season, the Team Excel Collegiate team, skating to Slumdog Millionaire, earned a silver medal in a field of nine teams with a score of 78.42. This was a 26 point improvement over its initial competition performance just a couple of weeks earlier.
Skating to a medley from the Twilight soundtrack ranging from romantic to gothic, the Novice program featured beautifully choreographed arm movements designed to coincide with the dramatic musical transitions. The program, showcasing intricate circle footwork and a flowing moving wheel, earned them a pewter medal.
The Juvenile team received a pewter medal for its Mulan-inspired program with featured artful spiral circle, spread-eagles, and Ina Bauers. The technically challenging program gave the Juvenile team a chance to highlight its strong skating skills.
Competing in a field of fourteen teams, the "practically-perfect" Mary Poppins program of the Preliminary team wowed the crowd from the very beginning with a circle accented by blade-grab teardrop spirals. The performance earned them a berth in the Championship Round where they finished sixth.
Merita Mullen, Head Coach and Director of Synchronized Skating for Team Excel said, "Being a new organization, I am very proud that our skaters, coaching staff and volunteers worked so hard in a short timeframe to accomplish what they did. We qualified all eligible teams for the U.S. Championships and I was pleased they finished in the top four places. Our success this weekend validates the vision of a synchronized-skating organization that combines experienced coaches, trainers and supportive volunteers with older accomplished skaters who mentor and nurture younger skaters, inspiring them with personal passion and excitement for our sport."
