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Skate Cornwall Figure Skating Club

By Victoria Klassen figure skating. The competitive
skaters attend competitions around
or over thirty years, Skate Prescott, Morrisburg, Smiths Falls,
FCornwall Figure Skating Club and Ottawa. Often the Star Skaters
has been helping children and adults help as program assistants with the
learn to love the ice. The CanSkate CanSkate program, sharing their
program teaches beginners how love of skating with the young
to skate. This program is open to athletes. Roundpoint’s 14-year-
adults as well as children. old daughter, Angelina, is in the
StarSkate program.
“The young ones like to get on
their skates and learn. When they “Angelina enjoys working
first get on the ice, they’re just trying towards that next level. In the Star
to walk. By December they’re program, they have levels of dances.
learning to glide and are becoming She’s right now working on silver
better skaters, and their morale dances. The further they move up
picks up,” said Tina Roundpoint, the ladder, they start getting faster
media chair of Skate Cornwall. and faster footwork on the ice. She

“They see the older skaters when really enjoys that and she wants to
they’re doing their routines after jump and do her spins. She loves to
the young ones get off. So they be on the ice. If she could be on the
try hard and are disciplines to get ice every day she would be,” said
to their next level—to twirls or Roundpoint.
skating backwards. It gives them
The programs begin in September
confidence in themselves, to go out Back L-R : Alexa Ravary, Montana Vierling, Shelby Petzak, Bianca
and go until March. If you are
there on the ice and work on their Caron, Angelina Roundpoint, Tiana Caron, Nadine Kamm-Ramirez,
interested in signing up or finding Makenzie Mitschke, Anthony Macdonald
skills and try hard.”
out more information about Skate Middle L-R: Ella Mazerolle, Brooklyn Provost, Gracey Cleary-Valade,
The StarSkate programs are Cornwall, please visit: www. Kyra Kelly, Kylee Thompson, Teenn Wickramarachchi, Alissia
for skaters interested in learning skatecornwall.ca Macdonald
Kneeling L-R: Fiona Laplante, Sarah Marleau Photo Submitted

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Mandy Cox

Mandy Cox, nee Daye, is a Cornwall girl, born and raised.
She’s been heavily involved in sports since she was very
young. She was a swimmer, and she studied karate with her
father, local black belt Stephen Daye.
During her high school years, she played almost every sport
available to teenaged girls: volleyball, basketball, badminton,
soccer… anything to get out of class and to stay active.
Today, Mandy is a registered practical nurse at Saint Joseph’s
Complex Continuing Care Centre. She’s been there for 12
years and loves her work. In fact, most of her friends are
colleagues. She’s married to Travis Cox, a local construction foreman. Travis is also a
baseball and indoor soccer coach.
The couple has three children: Memphis (9), Jericho (6), and Briseis (2). Last season,
Mandy volunteered as an assistant coach for her son Jericho’s Cornwall District Minor
Baseball team, and she has been a head coach in the past. When she’s not busy coaching,
she’s very active in her oldest son Memphis’s baseball career as a team mom and supporter.
On summer afternoons, she can be found in her back yard with her daughter Briseis, teaching
her basic hitting and catching skills. Briseis is going to be a ball player, too.
Mandy also supports her children in other ways. She was a member of the parent council at
Bishop Macdonell, the school her sons attend. “I think sports are important for everybody.
It’s good to keep active, and to learn sportsmanship.”
The Coxes are a baseball family, and a trip to Toronto to watch the Jays is often a summer
treat. In fact, Mandy and Travis met playing softball three-pitch in the Cornwall league. It’s
a mixed league, meaning each team must carry four women on its 12-player roster. They
still play
Other than softball, Mandy plays pick up recreational volleyball at La Citadelle on Monday
nights.