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Meet the Board
Finance & Organisation Director: Bryan Morrice
Elected Chairman at the Sk8scotland Board meeting on 3rd October 2010
Bryan has been passionately involved with ice skating for over 30 years and in 1991 was the founder of Rink Link newspaper, the forerunner of Ice Link, which became the official publication of NISA in 1994. He remained the voluntary editor of Ice Link from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2007. Apart from a period between 1996 and 1998, he was also fully responsible for the design, layout, advertising, distribution and administration of the newspaper. He was also responsible for producing many of the NISA official publications such as the Year in Review 1993-1997.
In 1994, Bryan was instrumental in the creation of the first NISA Recreational Skating Committee, and was co-opted to this committee. Around the same time he devised the Recreational Ice Dance League (RIDL) which proved highly popular and injected new life into the Southern Dance League scene, which was sadly declining in popularity. In 1995 Bryan was elected both to the NISA Board, and elected NISA Vice Chairman. He was also at the time involved in the club scene in London, having been treasurer, and acting chair of Romford IDFSC, then founder and chair of the new Alexandra Palace Ice Dance club. Still actively involved in RIDL, he was also a member of Queens IDC. Having a minor disability himself, he became involved with the British Winter Sports Commission in 1995, the "umbrella" governing organisation for disability winter sports, and represented NISA on the Commission. He was appointed Vice Chair of the BWSC in 1997. He has also been a Trustee of the NISA Charitable Trust since 1995 and remains a Trustee.
In 1998, he was elected to the NISA Ice Dance Committee, as Vice Chairman, and re-elected as Vice Chairman of NISA. The following year, having retired to Aviemore, he was appointed Convener of the newly formed NISA Scotland working group. This new working party was responsible for the inaugural NISA Scotland Open Championships in 2000 in Dumfries, an event which has since become the largest skating competition in the UK, and remains the only event to encompass all disciplines – singles, dance, pairs, synchro and short track.
In 2003, he was elected NISA Communications Director under the new organisational structure, and in 2004, on the formation of Sk8scotland, he was elected Chairman. In 2007 he opted to stand down from the NISA Board in order to focus on developing the sport in Scotland.
Email: chairman@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Development Director Speed: Archie Marshall
Re-elected as Vice Chairman at Sk8scotland Board meeting on 3rd October 2010
A former Scottish Champion, British Champion and record holder, Archie has competed and coached for Britain at 6 Olympic games and 20 World Championships. During his time as British coach the team took individual and relay medals at Europeans, Worlds and Olympics. Archie is a fully qualified Level 5 Coach. He has enjoyed 44 years in the sport as a competitor, coach, event organiser, official, administrator and since 2004 as a director of Sk8scotland.
Archie has been coach and mentor to many Scottish Short Track skaters, and it is a testament to his dedication and skills during his tenure on the Sk8scotland Board, that in the British Short Track Championships in Dundee in April 2008, of the 10 National titles competed, Scottish skaters took three, winning 9 of the 30 available medals in total. He has been the driving force behind the establishment of a Scottish Short Track Development Squad, and it is clear that his efforts are now showing great success.
Email: speed@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Development Director Synchronized Skating: Judy Clinton
Judy began her skating career at Queens, Streatham and Richmond ice rinks in London, training in figures, free and dance. She later continued her training in Toronto, Canada. She was the Oxford Test Organiser when the rink first opened, until her move to Scotland, and was an Ice Dance Judge in the early 80s, and with eligibility reinstated briefly returned to judging, this time across all disciplines, in 2006.
As a coach she held NCCP LEVEL 3 and was a British Ice Teachers Association Advanced Qualified Coach and Member of Sports Coach UK. She founded the Moray School of Skating in Inverness, which taught all disciplines and pioneered Synchronized Skating in Scotland. She was a director of the Inverness Ice Centre 2002-2004, and was first elected to the Sk8scotland Board in 2004 as Director: Volunteers & Officials. In 2006 she was elected to the NISA Board with responsibility for the development of Synchronized skating, and in 2007 she was re-elected to the Sk8scotland Board as Development Director – Synchronized Skating, and has now returned to the board for the new term in 2010.
Judy has been totally dedicated to promoting Synchronized Skating over the past few years, and under her stewardship, both the UK and Scottish Synchro scene has blossomed. The Scottish Championships leapt from 13 to 30 plus team entering and have each year been followed with highly successful camps lead by world class coaches.
Judy is now working with Chris Buchanan (Chair ISU Synchro Tech Committee and Chair UK Synchro Tech Committee) on a world development programme, as well as continuing to develop Scottish Synchro.
Email: synchro@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Development Director Figure Skating: Simon Briggs
Simon Briggs: Competed for 15 years and became British Junior Mens Champion in 1989 & British Senior Silver medallist in 1990. He represented Great Britain on many occasions between 1989 & 1992. He also competed at National Novice & Senior Championships in Pair skating. Simon is currently a Level 4 licensed coach in both Singles & Pair skating, based in Dundee.
Simon is currently the elected NISA Board Director for Coaching, and believes this is a good asset to bring to the Sk8scotland Board. Having introduced the NISA Coaching Licence, and being an ISU Technical Specialist in Singles & Pairs, along with his day to day involvement of the sport, he believes he has a lot of knowledge & experience to offer.
Email: figure@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Development Director Ice Dance: Noel Grimshaw
Noel draws not only on a rich skating background, but also on his 28 year career as a Sports Development Administrator. His coaching experience extends over 15 years, as Senior Ice Dance coach at Murrayfield ice rink in Edinburgh, and as visiting coach to Northern Ireland, Aberdeen and Crossmyloof in Glasgow (now closed).
His judging career has been equally auspicious, as a Gold Star Panel ice dance judge, he has refereed and judged at many Championships and competitions throughout the UK. He is also currently a Level 8 Figure judge. However it is in the increasingly popular discipline of Synchronized Skating that he has truly excelled – the first GB International Synchro judge to be appointed and officiated as a judge at the very first Synchro World Championships. He is currently an ISU Synchronized Skating Championship Judge and ISU Competition Referee, and has also officiated as GB Team Leader at World Championships.
Noel is currently the Chairman of the NISA Synchronized Skating Technical Committee, and also sits as a member of the NISA Ice Dance Technical Committee. He served as a NISA Board member (Development/Technical) from 2003-2006. He is currently NISA Test Organiser for Murrayfield.
Noel was elected to the Sk8scotland Board in 2004 as Development Director, and was re-elected in 2006 as Development Director - Ice Dance. In 2006 and 2007, Noel organised the highly successful Sk8scotland ice dance development camps at Murrayfield, and has also been a driving force behind the success of the British Solo Dance Championships over the past decade.
Email: dance@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Club Development Director: Erica Woollcombe
Erica has a good knowledge of figure skating, ice dance and synchro as her daughter participates in all three. Although very much enjoying skating as a spectator, her main qualification comes through involvement with club committee work and the creation of the new Synchro club in Aberdeen. In addition to experience on club committees, she recently organised the first ever Dance Open to be held in Aberdeen.
In 2009, she made representation to the Scottish government’s “Pathways into Sport” enquiry seeking greater recognition for sports clubs and their role in promoting health and wellbeing in young people. This has given her contacts in the ice skating clubs of Scotland which she will use to promote inter-rink competitions to create a competitive skating “circuit” in Scotland and run shared workshops to promote improved skills. Her Aberdeen club is already involved in the “Club Cap” initiative in Grampian that is seeking to increase access to sport by involving children and adults with disabilities and the Club Development role could help to extend this nationally. Erica was co-opted to the Sk8scotland Board earlier this year to fill a casual vacancy.
Email: clubs@Sk8scotland.org.uk
Events & Special Projects Director: Lorele Mackie
Lorele is a General Teaching Council of Scotland qualified nursery and primary education teacher with experience of working with pre-school and primary children in both mainstream and additional support needs sectors. In her current post as a Lecturer in Education (ITE Primary) she works with primary, secondary and P.E student teachers in a variety of contexts.
As a child and an adult she was a gymnast and is a qualified British Gymnastics Association coach. This entailed working with children of different ages and at a variety of levels. She participated at various gymnastics festivals as a coach and member of the Scottish Gymnastics Display Team.
She started skating recreationally as an adult in 1994 taking part in both free skating and ice dance. She has now been successfully competing in adult national and international ice dance competitions for the past seven years. She is a member of the NISA consultation group for adult skating.
She has gained experience in judging at NISA Skate UK competition level and is being encouraged to pursue qualifications for both ice dance and free skating. She has acted as an announcer at a variety of competitions, including theSk8scotland Championships, for a number of years.
She has been a committee member for Murrayfield Ice Skating Club for the past six years where she has undertaken a number of roles such as Depute Chairperson, Secretary and committee member. This has entailed development and organisation of a variety of aspects of club level activities.
As a Primary Education Teacher and now Lecturer in Education (ITE Primary), she has well developed organisation and communication skills as well as an in depth knowledge of issues relevant to this post such as child protection and supporting children and adults with additional support needs. Lorele was co-opted to the Sk8scotland Board earlier this year to fill a casual vacancy.
Email: projects@Sk8scotland.org.uk
IJS Technical Group Director: David Johnston
David has over 25 years professional IT experience in both the private and public sector. Early in his career, he wrote and ran several computer results systems for sports such as swimming, diving, golf and ice skating. Working mainly for BBC Sport nationwide, this required interfacing with various timing/scoring systems and TV character graphic generators to display results live on the television. David is currently an IT Manager in the utility industry in Scotland.
Living in Dundee, David has been on various Dundee Ice Skating Club committees helping to organise events from Xmas shows to open competitions. His eldest daughter currently figure skates at novice level for the Club.
Having started running the results service for RJS figure skating competitions in Dundee, David soon got involved in working with NISA to pilot the International Judging System at club level and qualifying as a level 3 results official. He was instrumental in providing the technical experience to allow Dundee Ice Skating Club to become the first club in the UK to purchase, configure and operate its own IJS equipment for open figure skating competitions.
David was co-opted to the Sk8scotland board in August 2011 to chair IJS Technical Group in the delivery of IJS events across Scotland.
Email: ijs@Sk8scotland.org.uk