Club Meets 2025-26 Season

Desert Classic 2025- Salt Lake City, Utah

Andrew was able to place 1st in his ability level.

US Championships

Ethan was able to qualify for this meet with a 44 second qualifying 500m time. He finished 9th in a field of 15-17year olds across the nation.

Franklin Park Meet

Great Lakes Meet

Josiah representing Gateway for 2nd place!

An amazing showing of our Club skaters at this meet up at Milwaukee’s Pettit Ice Center- one of the few ovals in the nation.

Summer of Speed 2025

Thanks to the work of parents from Champaign-Urbana and Gateway Clubs to create a one week summer camp with Coach Linlin Sun from the Utah’s Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, Utah. This summer was our 2nd year running. A big thank you to Sarah Wu (Victor’s mom) for all her detailed logistical skills in planning this event. And a big Thank You to Coach Jai for taking time off work to help coach alongside Coach Linlin to allow for this camp to be bigger! Thank you to all our amazing volunteer coaches who dropped in when they could to additionally help us out. And we always love and appreciate wise words from Jim Chapin Jr.- our very own STL native Speedskating Olympian.

Jim Chapin Jr.- STL’s very own Speedskating Olympian!

Club Season 2024-2025

Land of Lincoln Meet in Champaign-Urbana, IL

Northburke Meet in Northbrook, IL

Gateway skaters know how to represent at Northbrook’s skating meet!

Brothers Josiah (L) and Caleb (R) both medal and have lots of personal bests (PBs)!

Rent Blog Feature

Our club was honored to be featured in this wonderfully written blog about activities to do in the winter season in STL! Thank you to Emily Pascale for finding our club and sharing our sport with others

Club Meets 2023-24 Season

Gateway Short Track Championships- St. Louis, MO

And a big shout-out to the meet’s Masters and Elite level skaters!

Congratulations to all our amazing club skaters and out of town visitors who made this meet such a fun event!

A big shout out to the work our volunteer parents and alumni do to make this meet happen. From the food to the awards setup to our sponsors, the on-ice crew, and our medal podium.

Bay State Meet- Boston, MA

Ethan and Andrew Sonn representing at the Bay State Meet.

Annual Capitol City Speedskating Championships- Jefferson City, MO

Congrats to an almost entirely Gateway podium standing! From L to R: Grant, Sawyer, Faith, and Caleb

Park Ridge & Franklin Park Dual Meets- Chicago, IL

Victor, Coach Sam, Isabella, Tony, Carter, Aubrey, and Parker strongly represent Gateway at back to back meets in Chicago!

Isabella winning her first medal in her first short track meet ever!

Isabella in position 3 (the shortest one) at the start with skaters from Chicago and Indiana

Great Lakes Track Championships- Milwaukee, WI

Victor and Andrew skating to represent Gateway- strong skating guys!

Corin (position 2) and Ethan (position 5) representing Gateway in the Heartland Mens B group.

The infamous Pettit speedskater sculpture

Andrew, Victor, Corin, and Ethan wrap up their full day of skating hard.

Buffalo Short Track Championships- Buffalo, NY

Sophia Ashley-Martin- Women’s Heartland Series

Chicago Silver Skates- Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Carter and Aubrey Hausman represent Gateway at the meet and set several PBs!

Carter starting the race in Lane 1. Carter ends up placing 1st in his division!

Desert Classic Meet- Salt Lake City, Utah

The lean is so tremendous, the knee is at the ice!

Club Events

Anna Quinn- long track speedskater- leads a pack of skaters training at Utah’s Olympic Oval. Anna, and her brother Ian, grew up skating with our club.