Rachael Flatt is the real deal when it comes to student athletes. The 2010 U.S. Champion will enter Stanford University in fall 2011, a year after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Danny Curzon, a bronze medalist in the junior pairs event at the 2008 U.S. Championships, has announced his retirement from competitive skating. In his three year partnership with Chelsi Guillen, the couple competed on both the Grand Prix circuit and the Junior Grand Prix circuit as well as at the 2008 World Junior Championships, where they placed 10th. Guillen and Curzon ended their partnership in 2009 following her knee reconstruction surgery in which the surgeon replaced her completely torn posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).

Ballroom dancer Katrina Burch remarks on Evan Lysacek’s samba.

April 29 performance will be followed by a Cocktail Reception with the performers.

On April 16-17, more than 50 skaters including 2009 U.S. Junior Men’s Champion Ross Miner and 2009 World Junior Championship bronze medalists Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir joined together in the fight against pediatric cancer. This year’s Evening with Champions celebrated the non-profit organization’s 40th anniversary.

Ballroom dancer Katrina Burch remarks on Evan Lysacek’s rumba.

The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic athletes of Team USA have received an invitation to visit the White House by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and they will have the honor of meeting the first couple on Wednesday, April 21. Nearly 225 of the total 264 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic athletes will visit the nation’s capital where they will come together for one last time to celebrate their great achievements.

Ballroom dancer Katrina Burch sat down with Figure Skaters Online to explain the basics of the rumba, which is the dance that Olympic Champion Evan Lysacek and partner Anna Trebunskaya will be performing on tonight’s episode of Dancing with the Stars.

The 2010 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams that competed in Vancouver this February and March are coming together once again for a three-day visit to Washington, D.C., April 20-22. Nearly 225 athletes will participate in a variety of functions and activities in and around the nation’s capital, highlighted by the time-honored White House visit to meet President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Johnny Weir nominated for a ‘NewNowNext Award” in the “Most Addictive Reality Star” category. The “NewNowNext Awards” gathers icons and stars-on-the-rise to crown the next “big things” in TV, music, film, print and new media long before they hit the mainstream.