Event Recaps

  COMPULSORY DANCE BLOGBy Michelle Wojdyla When I received word from the new editor at Ice Network that they wouldn’t need me this season, I was sad. I love covering…

  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…

EASTERNS EXPERIENCE – TRAVEL DAY by Michelle Wojdyla In all my years covering figure skating, I have never attended a Regional or Sectional Championship. This week marks my first, as…

  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 The junior ice dancers are not going to make it easy for the judges. After the Cha Cha Congelado compulsory dance, the top four teams are…

  by Michelle Wojdyla For the novice dancers, earning a trip to St. Paul, Minnesota for the U.S. Championships in January came down to less than a point. The top…

  by Michelle Wojdyla The dance competition at the Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships opened this afternoon at the Factory Ice House in Wake Forest, N.C. with the novice compulsory…

  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…