The MIT Figure Skating Club hosted the first Eastern Intercollegiate Figure Skating Team Competition of this season on February 4-5, 2017. Skaters representing 30 different colleges from across the East Coast came to the Johnson Athletics Center to compete. Boston University won the competition with 84 points, followed closely by the University of Delaware with 80 points. Dartmouth College came in 3rd with 66 points, while MIT earned 23 points to place 7th overall.
The MIT team will compete again at the next Eastern Intercollegiate Team Figure Skating Competition, to be held at Liberty University the first weekend of March. The MIT Figure Skating Club’s next event will be their annual Spring Exhibition on Sunday, March 12, 2017.