April 23, 2005

GOTEBORG, Sweden - Miami's senior synchronized skating team used a seventh-place finish in the free skate on Saturday afternoon in Goteborg, Sweden to move up one spot from Friday's short program finish and place seventh overall at the International Skating Union World Championships.

Miami earned 100.74 points from the panel of 12 judges in the free skate, with 49.22 points coming from the technical element score and 52.52 from the program component score. With the short program added in, the RedHawks claimed a total of 156.06 points.

Team Sweden 1 finished first in both the short program and in the free skate to win the overall world title. Both Finnish teams filled out the top three, with the Haydenettes, Miami's fellow American representatives, in fourth and Team Germany 1 and Team Canada 1 rounding out the teams ahead of Miami. A total of 20 teams competed at the ISU World Championships.

The world meet wraps up the senior team's schedule for the 2004-05 season. Miami's collegiate squad puts on its second performance of its annual Ice Show on Saturday evening at the Goggin Ice Arena at 5 p.m.