BRUNSWICK — Maine’s only Adult Synchronized Skating team, comprising a wide range of ages from 19- 63, and of varying levels of skating skills just completed its first competitive season as the DownEasters.

The team finished the season with two gold medal performances, a bronze medal performance and a fifth-place finish at the U.S Figure Skating Eastern Synchronized Skating Championships in Hershey, Pa.

The team will be performing on March 19 at the Skate Club of Brunswick’s Spring Exhibition at Bowdoin College. The team is based out of Auburn’s Norway Savings Bank Arena.

The DownEasters are coached by John Niles Merrill. He is a member of U.S. Figure Skating and a certified A level coach with the Professional Skating Association. He has skated professionally around the globe with Disney on Ice and the Ice Capades for almost 20 years. He returned to competitive skating recently, placing third at the U.S. Adult Masters Championship in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Synchronized skating is a discipline of figure skating where skaters perform on ice as a team moving as one flowing unit while completing difficult footwork. The team performs a program set to “Hooked on a Feeling” with required formations including circles, lines, blocks, wheels, intersections and moves in isolation.

Synchronized Skating uses the same judging system as singles, pairs, and ice dancing skating, and is judged primarily on teamwork, precision, speed, difficulty and performance.