Baltimore Figure Skating Club

Denine Page began her figure skating career at the age of seven, and just two years later she performed her first “solo” at the Cobourg Figure Skating Club’s Annual Skating Show “Carnival”. By the age of twelve Denine was skating seven days a week, spreading her time between her home club in Cobourg and the Oshawa and Belleville Skating Clubs (where she would also skate as a featured soloist during their annual shows, oftentimes as the youngest performer on the ice). This demanding routine would continue for the next few years. Doing everything to maximize her ability as a figure skater she travelled to skating schools throughout the province and beyond; East York, Brantford and in the summer of 1969 the Banff School of Fine Arts, where she attended classes to improve her skills, such as ballet. Over the course of her own skating career, she passed an astounding twenty-four Skate Canada Dance Tests in addition to four Free Skate Tests. In 1973, Denine graduated High School and began working for her father at the Colborne Lumber Company and with the Cobourg YMCA on Saturday’s coaching Gymnastics. Still skating, she was also hired by the Cobourg Figure Skating Club to coach in the evenings and on the weekends during the winter months, which eventually forced her to focus her time and efforts on coaching and leading her to join the YMCA on a full-time basis. At the same time, in 1975,  Denine was approached by a group of parents in the Baltimore area to solicit her help in launching their own Figure Skating Club. Denine took the lead in communicating with Skate Canada to get sanctioning for the new club, which was given full sanction in 1976 and Denine has been a volunteer with the Baltimore Figure Skating Club ever since, continuing to spend countless hours of her time spearheading the organization. As a coach Denine has received 67 certifications, and has seen a number of “her” skaters qualify to compete at the All-Ontario Championships. Her impact on our local figure skating scene over close to six decades has been enormous and her impact on so many prospective figure skaters in that time has been immeasurable, providing a lifetime of cherished memories for so many.