Team Name Precisely Right Founding Year 1991 Team Colors Teal, Purple, White | Founder Pat Lynch Home Rink Mennen Sports Arena | |
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Coaches Pat Lynch, John Towill, Lynn Alberi, Suzanne Laki-Echevarria, Kathy Ortolani, Janelle Craft, Linda Kilponen | ||
Precisely Right is the name for synchronized skating teams representing the Skating Club of Morris from Mennen Arena in Morris Township, New Jersey. The team was founded in 1991 and is, as of 2014, twenty-three years old. The team has competed in the developmental youth introductory, beginner, preliminary, pre-juvenile, open juvenile, and open adult divisions as well as the competitive juvenile, intermediate, and junior divisions. The team and the arena hosted the 2009 U.S. Eastern Sectional Championship on January 28–31, 2009.
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Founding to 2007-08 Season
Precisely Right synchronized skating team was founded in 1991 by Pat Lynch, now a USFSA judge at Mennen Arena. The team eventually became a junior level team and existed until 1999, when John Towill became head coach. The team split apart; with older skaters graduating high school and going to college, and younger members going "to other junior and senior level teams."
Since then, the team has competed at lower skill levels. It has fielded an intermediate-level team every year since 2001 except for the 2005-06 season, in addition to teams at the developmental levels. The intermediate team went for the first time to the U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships in 2007, after earning fourth place at the Eastern Sectional Championships in Providence, Rhode Island with a score of 35.32 for the free skate. The intermediate team then obtained ninth place at the U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, with a score of 34.32 for the team's free skate. In 2008, the intermediate team received fourth at the Eastern Sectional Championships in Richmond, Virginia with a free skate score of 46.43, and proceeded to receive seventh at the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Providence, Rhode Island with a free skate score of 47.49.
2008-09 to 2009-10 Season
During the 2008-09 season, Precisely Right competed at the junior and juvenile levels. At the Foot of the Lake Competition in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, held in conjunction with the junior world qualifier, the junior team placed ninth after coming in ninth in both the short program, with a score of 37.92, and the free skate, with a score of 56.64, totaling to a score of 94.56. The juvenile team placed third at this competition for the team's free skate. At the 2009 Eastern Sectional Championships at the team's home rink in Morristown, New Jersey, the junior team placed second after the short program with a score of 44.56, and finished third after the free skate with a score of 63.81, finishing third with a total score of 108.37. The juvenile team placed ninth after the free skate. This allowed the junior team to progress to the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Portland, Maine, at which the team received a short program score of 38.55, putting the team into tenth place, and a free skate score of 57.23, putting the team into eleventh place, and into eleventh place overall with a final score of 95.78.
For the 2009-10 season, Precisely Right competed at the junior and intermediate levels. At the Colonial Classic in Lowell, Massachusetts, held in conjunction with the junior world qualifier, the junior team placed ninth with a final score of 119.62 after placing eighth in the short program with a score of 48.43 and ninth in the free skate with a score of 71.19. The Intermediate team placed twelfth with a free skate score of 35.13. At the Eastern Sectional Championships in Lowell, Massachusetts, the junior team placed fourth overall with a total score of 119.76 after coming in fourth in the short program with a score of 48.50 and fourth in the free skate with a score of 71.26. The intermediate placed eighteenth with a free skate score of 24.71. This allowed the junior team to go to the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at which the team received a short program score of 44.27, putting the team into ninth place, and a free skate score of 54.00, putting the team into tenth place, and into tenth place overall with a final score of 98.27.
2010-11 to 2011-12 Season
During the 2010-11 season, Precisely Right competed in the intermediate and juvenile levels. At the Eastern Sectional Championships in Lake Placid, New York, the intermediate team placed eighth with a free skate score of 44.15. The juvenile team placed seventh in the team's free skate.
For the 2011-12 season, Precisely Right competed in the junior and intermediate levels, and following assistant coach Lynn Alberi's retirement, coach Kathy Ortolani became a new assistant coach. At the Colonial Classic in Lowell, Massachusetts, held together with the junior world qualifier, the junior team placed eighth with a final score of 69.41 after placing ninth in the short program with a score of 25.39 and eighth in the free skate with a score of 44.02. The intermediate team placed thirteenth at this competition with a free skate score of 36.15. At the Eastern Sectional Championships in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the junior team placed third overall with a final score of 75.32 after placing third in the short program with a score of 27.42 and third in the free skate with a score of 47.90. The intermediate placed seventeenth at this competition with a free skate score of 35.22. This qualified the junior team to compete at the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Worcester, Massachusetts on March 1 and 2, 2012, where the junior team finished tenth in the short program with a score of 22.02 and again tenth in the free skate with a score of a score 40.74, finishing in tenth place with a total score of 62.76.
2012-13 Season to Present
During the 2012-13 season, Precisely Right competed again in the junior level. At the Mid-America Synchronized Skating Championships in Fraser, Michigan, held in conjunction with the world junior team selection, the junior team placed eleventh with a final score of 65.32 after placing eleventh in the short program with a score of 24.16 and eleventh in the free skate with a score of 41.16. At the Eastern Sectional Championships in Lake Placid, New York from January 31 to February 2, 2013, the junior team placed fourth with a total score of 75.22 after placing fourth in the short program with a score of 26.74 and fourth in the free skate with a score of 48.48. This allowed the junior team to qualify for the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Plymouth, Michigan from February 28 to March 2, 2013, where the team placed tenth with a final score of 78.31 after finishing tenth in the short program with a score of 25.65 and placing tenth in the free skate with a score of 52.66.
For the 2013-14 season, Precisely Right competed again in the junior level. After having to withdraw from the 2014 junior world qualifier, held at the Foot of the Lake Competition in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, because of flight cancellations resulting from winter storm Hercules, the junior team placed third at the Eastern Sectional Championships in Hershey, Pennsylvania from January 30 to February 1, 2014, with a total score of 75.15 after placing third in the short program with a score of 30.36 and fourth in the free skate with a score of 44.79. This allowed the junior team to qualify for the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from February 27 to March 1, 2014, where the team placed twelfth out of fourteen teams with a final score of 82.52 after finishing twelfth in the short program with a score of 28.41 and twelfth in the free skate with a score of 54.11.
In the current 2014-15 season, Precisely Right is competing in the intermediate level. At the Eastern Sectional Championships in Lake Placid, New York from January 22 through January 24, 2015, the intermediate team received a score of 46.25 for the team's free skate, placing them in sixth place.