Event Recaps

  By Daphne Backman While I’m loving the live online coverage of Skate America by icenetwork, a high-speed internet connection is essential and today I found myself without one up…

  By Daphne Backman I attended the 2006 Skate America in Hartford and heading to Reading in 2007 was an original plan, but plans change. Instead, I chose to attend…

  by IDC rookie blogger D. Szabo Ok, my sister is the ice skating fanatic. I am not.  Don’t get me wrong. I really like skating. It’s just that I’m…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Fun With Math for the junior free dance. By the numbers (for the five teams who completed the event): Number of Grades of Execution awarded for…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Welcome to “new school” original dances. Hope you are good at math. For the top five teams after the compulsory dance, not one of them ranked…

  by Michelle Wojdyla It was a foregone conclusion that a hometown skater would capture gold in the intermediate dance competition. Both teams, Jennifer Stuart & David Lenz and Rose…

  by Michelle Wojdyla It is hard to know what to write for an intermediate compulsory dance competition that only had two teams, both of whom will be moving on…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Three juvenile dance teams. Three medals. Two gold. Huh? When Zoe Sakas & Christopher Larosa finished their free dance and saw their overall score (48.50) posted,…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Lesson learned this morning: do not stop to chat on the way to juvenile compulsory dance competition, because with only three teams and a packed schedule…

  by Melanie Hoyt With their program to “Singin’ in the Rain,” Jennifer Wester and Daniil Barantsev danced their way to the top of the free dance standings and the…

  by Melanie Hoyt Jennifer Wester and Daniil Barantsev won the original dance, but not without some difficulties. Their program, a hoedown to “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” carried good energy throughout, but…

  by Melanie Hoyt The compulsory chosen for seniors was the Austrian Waltz.  I’ve never seen this one live before, and I’m more enthusiastic about compulsory dances than most people…

  by Melanie Hoyt With a free dance score of 79.43 that edged their personal best from last year’s National Championships, Madison Hubbell and Keiffer Hubbell secured the Junior Midwestern…

  by Melanie Hoyt Keiffer Hubbell has only been back on the ice for a month, but the Hubbells’ original dance was impressive even without this qualification. Their score of…

  by Melanie Hoyt It’s been a busy week for me, so it isn’t until I arrive, twenty minutes before the junior compulsory, that I think to ask which dance…