Congratulations to the Steel City Blades Open Juvenile team who won the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Easterns Sectional Championships!
Synchronized skating is a fun and rewarding experience for skaters of all ages. It is the newest and fastest growing discipline in the sport of figure skating. Team skating first appeared in the late 1950s at the University of Michigan, and synchronized skating has now become an international sport. U.S. teams now compete with teams from around the world.
In September 2025, the Pittsburgh Figure Skating Club provided a check to the Steel City Blades to cover the cost of the registration fees for each team attending Eastern Synchronized Skating Sectional competition which will be held at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts in January 2026.
Synchronized skating is all about teamwork. A synchronized skating team consists of 8 to 20 members, skating various formations and steps in union to a choreographed program set to music. The objective is for the team to skate as one unit rather than as individuals.
Synchronized skating also benefits figure skaters in the development of their singles skating by enhancing on-ice performance and overall skating development.
Synchronized skating offers you the oppotunity to participate in a group activity and make new friends, while sharing in the experience, energy and camaraderie of a team sport.
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