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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, January 10, 2014 | 16 Skate Oakville will host Synchro Capers meet Jan. 25-26 Skate Oakville, in collaboration with Skate Canada ­ Central Ontario, will host this year's annual Synchro Capers invitational skating competition at Oakville's Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. The event, scheduled for Jan. 25-26, is one of the largest synchronized skating competitions in Canada. This year, 105 teams from across the province will be in attendance, including eight from Oakville. More than 1,600 competitors will be participating. Anyone with a love for figure skating, community involvement or family fun is encouraged to attend the competition. Tickets will be sold at the door, with fees for adults set at $8 and children at $5. photo by Terry Wilson --OHL Images Blueliner Leblanc dealt to Steelheads Stefan Leblanc is coming back home. The Oakville native and rookie Ontario Hockey League defenceman was traded yesterday (Thursday) by the Sudbury Wolves to the Mississauga Steelheads. Trevor Carrick, a 19-year-old Carolina Hurricanes prospect who is sixth among OHL defencemen in scoring, was the main player that went the other way in the deal. Leblanc, 17, scored three goals and added 13 assists in 38 games for Sudbury. He spent last year with the Ontario Junior Hockey League's Oakville Blades, collecting 33 points -- including 29 assists -- in 49 games. "Stefan is a quality young defenceman in our league that we are excited to add to our hockey club," said Steelheads general manager and head coach James Boyd. Leblanc will face his former team in his first game with the Steelheads when Mississauga visits Sudbury tonight (Friday). The Oakville Edge senior team performs its long program at Skate Oakville's Gala of Synchronized Skating earlier this season at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. | Oakville Beaver file photo W I N N E R S I N W H I T B Y OT grad earns NCAA soccer honour Oakville Trafalgar High School graduate Madison Hudson was recently named to an NCAA allconference team for her strong university soccer season with Philadelphia's Holy Family University. The junior defender was selected to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Women's All-East Region squad, earning third-team accolades. Hudson's selection to the AllEast team came despite the fact she missed the final two games of the playoffs due to a spiral fracture to the fibula suffered in the quarterfinals. She was also the only Canadian named to any of the NSCAA all-conference teams. The post-season honours were the second this season for Hudson, who previously received AllCentral Atlantic Collegiate Conference first-team recognition. Hudson anchored a Holy Family defence that allowed the secondfewest goals in the conference and recorded 10 shutouts. She also earned a career-high six points, scoring two goals and assisting on two others. The Oakville peewee AA Hornets blanked the London Devilettes 3-0 in the championship game of the recent Tournament of Heroes girls' hockey competition in Whitby, the Hornets' sixth win in as many games. Earlier in the tournament, Oakville defeated Waterloo (twice), Ottawa, Whitby and Clarington. Members of the Hornets are Mikayla Hanson, Emmy Lou O'Neill, Mackenzie Calvert, Erin Gibbons, Ainsley Svetek, Chloe Saxton, Laura Cote, Megan Carter, Hannah Rettinger, Olivia Wallin, Meghan Grouix, Avery Vickers, Chelsea Coderre, Isabell Hardy, Meg Harley, Andrea Fausto, Ashley Taciuk, Kaitlin McMahon and Sarah DaSilva. Coaches are Dominick Hardy, Tracy Hanson and Christina Mancusco, and Antonietta Cote is the trainer. St. Joseph girls enjoyed strong elementary school volleyball season The St. Joseph Lady Jags won the Oakville elementary girls' volleyball Catholic championship earlier this season, going on to finish second in Halton. Members of the team (pictured, left) were Olivia Banfi, Ella Carter, Celeste Clarke, Brooke Dzida, Alisa Ermarkaryan, Brittany Fernandes, Ellie Glavota, Hannah Minty, Bailey Pinsonneault, Victoria Recagno, Monica Stevens, Maddie Watson and Anastasia Wu. The Lady Jags were coached by Linda Rinaldi, Patricia Magill and Sabrina Wu. The team attributed much of its success to the support it received from school staff, parents, grandparents and siblings. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR European Engineering Combined With Traditional Workmanship Service upgrades Pot lights Aluminum Wiring Call EDDIE ESA 7001664 Panel changes Renovations Repairs 905 845 2065 Licensed & Insured "Building on the Brightest Ideas Around Glass" 905.849.0266 ambianceelectrician@gmail.com