Schmeck
05-30-2009, 07:45 AM
After ten years of skating, the first four just recreationally, my 18 year old daughter is performing in her very last ice show today. She's skating with some of the best friends she made in synchro, at the request of her skating coach. She's off to MIT in the fall, and she'll continue to take ice dance lessons if she can fit them in, but this is it for the freestyle stuff.
It's been a wonderful 10 years. Icy has made friends from all over the place, mainly due to synchro, and those friends made her a much better person than she would have been without them. We have been honored to have gotten to know little skaters that have grown into internationally ranked skaters. We walk into rinks around the region and we see people we know, and it feels so wonderful.
She went to Synchro Nationals twice, skated with Kurt Browning, Sasha Cohen, passed her senior MITF this month, and brought the rest of us along for the joyous ride. We have been blessed!
So, if you see a woman dabbing at her eyes while a bunch of beautiful young women skate together for the last time, it will most likely be me. Feel free to hand me a tissue!
It's been a wonderful 10 years. Icy has made friends from all over the place, mainly due to synchro, and those friends made her a much better person than she would have been without them. We have been honored to have gotten to know little skaters that have grown into internationally ranked skaters. We walk into rinks around the region and we see people we know, and it feels so wonderful.
She went to Synchro Nationals twice, skated with Kurt Browning, Sasha Cohen, passed her senior MITF this month, and brought the rest of us along for the joyous ride. We have been blessed!
So, if you see a woman dabbing at her eyes while a bunch of beautiful young women skate together for the last time, it will most likely be me. Feel free to hand me a tissue!