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Congratulations to Ann Shaw OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is pleased to announce that Ann Shaw will be inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in the builder category. Active in the sport since the age of seven as a skater, judge and board member, Shaw will be inducted on October 31, 2010 at 2:30 pm in Kingston, Ontario during Skate Canada International. "Ann is truly recognized as a builder of this sport and we are pleased to honour her many contributions to figure skating. She has continuously devoted time and energy back to the sport at the local, national and international levels, whether through her work on the Hall of Fame Committee or as an international judge," said William Thompson, Skate Canada CEO. "The decision to induct Ann was unanimous with the board and we look forward to honouring her in Kingston." A native of Toronto, Shaw represented Canada at her first World Championships in 1959 and placed fifth with partner Eddie Collins in ice dance. In 1960 she partnered with Gilles Vanesse and placed sixth at the World Championships in Vancouver. Shaw began her judging career early; she was a national judge by 1969 and by 1976 she was an international level judge. She judged her first worlds in 1983 and then judged her first Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1984. Shaw was elected to the International Skating Union Ice Dance Committee in 1992 and re-elected on a four-year basis until she retired in 2006. She has been an active Skate Canada board member since 1988 and in 2008 was awarded the ISU Gold Award of Merit. Shaw is currently Chair of the Skate Canada Hall of Fame and Museum Committee. In 2002 when the new judging system was being created Shaw was appointed by the ISU to serve on the ISU Ad Hoc Committee whose task was to create the new ISU Judging System. Shaw was in charge of applying the concepts of ice dance to the system and is considered to have had an influential role in creating the new system. Shaw will be inducted at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston following the Ice Dance free dance on the last day of competition at Skate Canada International. |
