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Team NunavutSA国际影视传媒檚 speedskating team has been confirmed following the Nunavut Speed Skating Championships in Iqaluit on Nov. 16.

Mike DeMaio, vice-president of the Nunavut Speed Skating Association, led the organization of the meet at the Arctic Winter Games Arena and said a total of around 30 skaters, all from the capital, hit the ice for the annual competition but not everyone was trying for the big show in Whitehorse this coming March.

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From that group, 12 in total managed to make it onto the team along with one alternate but thereSA国际影视传媒檚 one group notable by its absence. There are juvenile girls, juvenile boys and junior girls but no junior boys.

DeMaio said that all has to do with the numbers.

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Running the event took plenty of volunteers to pull off, he added, from the timers right on down to the lap counter.

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The head referee for the event was Chris Gauthier, a Level III official from New Brunswick, and his designation means he can referee anywhere in Canada.

It also allows him to run clinics and thatSA国际影视传媒檚 what happened prior to everything getting underway as Gauthier hosted an officials training workshop on Nov. 14 to get everyone ready for the main event.

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With the team now picked, DeMaio said those skaters will continue training but the focus will also turn to the younger skaters for the remainder of the season.

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Fact file
AWG speedskating team members (all from Iqaluit)

Juvenile girls
Akutaq Williamson Bathory
Aura Kwon
Alessia Sessua
Kirsten Sessua
Maple Faulks

Juvenile boys
Miles Brewster
Victor Pothier
William Pothier
Jaxon Ellsworth

Junior girls
Rosalie DeMaio
Olivia Ashley
Emma Carpenter
Taryn Lavallee

source: Nunavut Speed Skating Association