The 2024 season is a go! 

Dear Saratoga Stars Participants, Family Members & Volunteers –

We are back on the ICE!  Our season will start with our skate fit, on Saturday January 6th,   Then we start on the ice on January 13th, 2024 for our first full session!  We are a bit hit or miss again with skate sessions this year as we had to work back into the schedule and are truly thankful for Saratoga Hockey and Skidmore College Hockey for helping us out to get our current dates!

2024 Saratoga Stars Schedule

 

2024 Saratoga Stars Skater Participation Form

2024 Saratoga Stars Volunteer Form

 Saratoga Stars – A Saratoga Springs Lions Flagship Program

Saratoga  Stars brings together physically challenged kids, youth volunteers and members of The Saratoga Springs Lions Club in an inspirational program that helps physically challenged kids learn to ice skate.  The highly successful program now in it’s 23rd year,  touches the hearts of all the volunteers who participate. Stars offers volunteers the opportunity to see the results of their volunteerism, usually the smiling faces of excited kids.

Program Overview

  • The program runs from January through March and is held at one of City’s two public ice skating rinks.
  • Kids and volunteer skaters take to the ice 60 minutes once per week
  • The program culminates with a choreographed ice show where kids and their volunteers skate together.
  • You do not have to be a Lion to participate.  We invite anyone willing to give of their time for an hour or two to show up and strap on a pair of skates.
  • The “Stars Program” uses equipment specially designed for the safety of the skaters by  Gliding Stars Inc., Buffalo, New York.

For questions please contact Lion Mike Baxter at: mbaxter@saratogaspringslions.com

 

The video below is a recap on Saratoga Springs Lions Club Ice Stars.   Hear what both volunteers and participants think about this great program.

Saratoga Stars – A Saratoga Springs Lions Flagship Program