January 2012
One of my favorite skaters, both when I was growing up and now also, is Scott Hamilton. He’s from my hometown of Bowling Green, Ohio; he’s a wonderful role model and a great person; and, of course, he’s such a great entertainer and skater. This year, for my first time, I had the privilege and honor to be a part of Scott’s show, the 12th annual An Evening with Scott Hamilton and Friends ice show and gala. This year’s show starred Sheryl Crow as the live artist, and it was so much fun to meet her and to skate to one of her songs. And, of course, I had fun with all the other...
Read MoreFashion on Ice & More – October 31, 2011
As promised, I’m trying to update my blog more often!! I’ve been super busy, between training and traveling, doing shows and competing, but I’ve been enjoying all of it Ever since I was young and heard about the Fashion on Ice show, I’ve wanted to be in that show. And this year, finally, I was invited to be a part of the show. The designers for this year’s show were Betsey Johnson and Giles Mendel (of J. Mendel). Betsey Johnson designed the costumes for the first half of the show, in which I skated my “Dancing with Myself” program. I loved the...
Read MoreSummer Update – September 6, 2011
Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a great summer! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my newly-redesigned website! I had a fun summer, filled with lots of traveling and performing and training and enjoying time with friends and family. Beginning in June, I don’t think I spent more than a week or two at home at one time, without traveling somewhere. My first show of the summer, though, was actually at home, at the Detroit Skating Club’s annual ice show. This year, we dedicated one night of the show to benefit the relief efforts in Japan, and we skated in an additional...
Read MoreJune 16, 2009
I consider it an honor to represent the United States as the 2009 National Ladies Champion, an aspiration that I have worked to attain for a very long time. I was so happy to have achieved that goal in my skating career, and even more so this year because the competition took place in Ohio, the state in which I was born and lived most of my life, until recently. My family and many of my friends from both Ohio and Michigan were in attendance that weekend, making it a very special time for me too. Scott Hamilton (from Bowling Green) was commentating; Melissa Telecky (a Bowling Green skater who...
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2009
Happy New Year! 2008 was an exciting year, and I am looking forward to the highlights and challenges that this New Year will bring. I have been busy with school this past year, and I haven’t really had the opportunity to do any journal entries. I am definitely looking forward to graduating this upcoming May, and I will be taking full-time course work at BGSU again this semester, so I thought I would at least try to summarize some of the things I did in 2008, before classes begin again. I started off 2008 with a cast on my hand because of a broken thumb, but within a few weeks after U.S....
Read MoreSeptember 5, 2006
WOW! It’s September, back to school time, and I haven’t written anything in my website journal. Since my sister and I used A-Beka’s correspondence program through high school; we were never really assigned to do an essay about “How I spent my Summer Vacation”, nor will I probably ever have to do one of those in college either. If I were to do one for this past summer, it would probably go somewhat like this (a rough draft with very long run-ons): May….finished finals at BGSU, packed for a month away from home, drove to Detroit to do the Champions tour there, drove that evening to...
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