He never made the cut to compete in Quebec City but that won’t stop Andrew Dunaenko from going out for the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships again next year.

The Lethbridge College broadcast student was one of 200 selected for the trial runs in Edmonton last weekend. The rink was set up with a double-lane obstacle course where the qualifying time was around 12 seconds.

Dunaenko finished his two runs near the 14-second mark but says he fulfilled his expectations of simply having “good clean runs,” especially considering age 16 was the last time he was on skates aside from pre-competition practice runs.

He says simply getting to meet all the different people competing was the best part.

“The funnest part about my (experience) was just meeting so many different people who’ve already raced in the event that I’ve dreamed about being in since it came out.

“Although they’ve been to it four times, they still want to keep going back because they just have so much fun there.”

He’s not letting this year’s shortcoming stop him from chasing his dream next year.

“I plan on trying every year until I go,” he said, adding he’ll have to work on the technical side of the training.

“I just need to be a bit quicker on the turns. That’s what killed me.”