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The Brampton Guardian - Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Twenty-one athletes from the Brampton Acro Ropers participated with great success in this year's National Jump Rope Championships in Abbotsford, BC.

Two 4-person teams became National Champions. In the 10-11 mixed category the team of Thomas Rewa, Jake Whyte, Alana Coughlin and Sydney van Engelen won 4 out of 8 events and the overall National Title. In the 15-17 female category, Brittany Gillies, Olivia Bruce, Megan Jarchow and Kylie Matheson won 5 out of 8 events, set 4 new Team Speed Records and won the overall National title.

Starting Saturday Sept 20th, Fox, CW, ABC, My TV and affiliates will feature a a new series: The Real Winning Edge TV series for teens. The shows are unfortunately only be available in the US. The Winning Edge delivers to our  youth the kind of entertainment value they enjoy watching, while promoting a value system that enforces a strong source of purpose and worthiness. This 13 week television series includes three profiles of young achievers per 30 minute episode.  On week 8, Anna Schemmelfing, from H.S. Jump Rope. National Champion, NC will be featured.   Check out the website for more info:  http://www.challengerfilms.org/index.php

The Brampron Guardian - Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Two members of the Brampton Acro Ropers competitive jump rope team brought home medals from the AAU Junior Olympics competition held in Detroit last month.

The AAU Junior Olympic Games competition is the largest youth multi-sport event in the world with 16,000 athletes competing in 21 sports from nearly all 50 US states and many countries from across the world. The BAR skippers fit in well among the 575 jump rope athletes from 39 teams, coming from as far away as Singapore and Australia to jump rope.

Competing in the 9 year-old category, Alana Coughlin (Georgetown) came home with a gold medal in power, a bronze medal in speed and finished 6th in freestyle. Sydney van Engelen (Brampton), also competing in the 9 year-old category, received a bronze medal in power and came in 10th in speed.

Alana and Sydney also competed in the pair's competition where they placed 9th and 10th in power and speed.

Windsor Star - Wednesday, August 06, 2008

National skipping champion Shelby Toews of Leamington won a gold medal at the Junior Olympics in Detroit on the weekend.

Toews also broke a Canadian record with 187 consecutive skips (the previous record was 171 skips) at the world championships in Cape Town, South Africa. Toews, who ended up 20th at the championships, maintained a top-10 spot before missing the bronze.

The junior olympic medallist and several of her Leamington Acro-Ropers students will demonstrate their rope-jumping talents at 10:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Steam Engine show at Co-An Park in McGregor.

Read the article in the Windsor Star.

The Hamilton Spectator - June 7, 2008

Local Hero:  Emily MacRae, 12
City: Burlington
Sport: competitive rope skipping

Accomplishment: She won her fourth straight Canadian Rope Skipping Championship in Halifax on Victoria Day weekend. She competes in the junior division (ages 12, 13, 14). Her competition features four events: 30-second speed, three-minute endurance, three-minute power and freestyle. In order, Emily finished third, first, first and first.

 Link to the article on line: http://www.thespec.com/article/383173

The Brampton Guardian  Wednesday May 14 2008

BRAMPTON - The Brampton Acro Ropers (BAR) has qualified 23 of its 25 athletes for the National Rope Skipping Championships in Halifax from tomorrow until Saturday.

The club had plenty of success at the recent provincial championship in Stoney Creek. Club gold medals were in the junior 12 to 14 division to the BARbarians (Jenna Watson, Krystal Veldhoen, Emily MacRae, Sheyenne Chappell and Ellory Bruce).
Gold also went in the intermediate (aged 15 to 17) to Raising the BAR (a team made up of Erika Wolter, Jaclyn Santamaria, Samantha Santamaria, Brittany Gillies and Shelby Toews).
Also collecting gold for Brampton was the senior mixed (aged 18 to 29) team Drop the BAR (Brittany Yard, Kathleen O'Callaghan, Matt Delorey and Amy Chiappetta).

The Brampton Guardian  Thursday July 12 2007

BRAMPTON - Amy Chiappetta (left) and Kathleen O'Callaghan of Georgetown competed recently for the Brampton Acro Ropers in the National Rope Skipping Championships in Abbotsford B.C. As a club the Brampton team was highly successful, claiming two national champion gold medals in individual events. In team events, they took silver in 12-14 age division and gold plus 4th place in the 15-17 division.

Chiapetta's team won three out of eight team events in winning the overall gold for 15-17 year olds. O'Callaghan's team won two events and set a new national record in the double dutch speed relay, recording 324 skips in two minutes, breaking the old record of 311. Although fourth overall, they finished just two points short of the silver medal.

Hopes are high for next season when the Brampton team will be well positioned to have a number of its skippers qualify for Team Canada for the bi-annual world Championships, to be held in Cape Town South Africa in July 2008.

Competitive skipping is lots of work, but it's really tons of fun too
Toronto Star - Brand New Planet - Thursday, February 15, 2007

Have you ever been challenged and had fun at the same time? Well, I have. I am a skipper with the Brampton Acro Ropers and every time I pick up my jump rope I am eager to tackle difficult skills. Skipping is a very unique sport because there are both team, and individual events. My skipping club in Brampton has athletes from the ages of 7 to 15, divided into teams of four or five by age. Even though I am only 11, I skip in the 12-14 age category. Skipping is for both boys and girls, but so far our team only consists of girls. I have been skipping for four years. My friend Emily introduced me to skipping and I joined my first competitive team when I was 7. I love to skip! You make a lot of friends while skipping. I have not only become close friends with my five-person team - Olivia, Jenna, Stephanie and Emily - but I also have developed a strong bond with the other jumpers.

Oakville Beaver - July 21st 2006

A trio of Oakville girls is set to skip its way onto the world stage this weekend.
Brittany Gillies and her cousins, twin sisters Samantha and Jaclyn Santamaria, are competing in the International Rope Skipping Federation World and Maple Leaf International Championships that officially began yesterday (Thursday) at Humber College in Toronto. This is the first time Canada has been chosen to host the event, which will feature approximately 800 athletes from 14 countries.

It's also the first international rope skipping competition for the three local teens, all members of the Brampton Acro Ropers, though all are armed with plenty of big-meet experience. Gillies and Jaclyn Santamaria each won masters (individual) titles at the national championships earlier this year, also helping their Rope Illusions squad to a second-place finish in team competition. Samantha, meanwhile, was part of the U Can't D-feet Us team that finished third.