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 in the same spot in the original dance. Another odd…
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 less than two points apart. All four competed on the…
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 three finishers distanced themselves from the rest of the competitors,…
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 dance. After the American Waltz and the Kilian, Chloe Wolf…
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 & James Dolan, train at the Factory Ice House in…
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 to the U.S. Junior Championships (“Junior Nationals”) no matter what…
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, they assumed they would have a bronze medal. Danielle &…
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 all day, you might miss something. In my case, it…
Raleigh, NC – November 17-21, 2007 Juvenile Compulsory Dance Report Juvenile Free Dance Report Intermediate Compulsory Dance Report Intermediate Free Dance Report Novice Compulsory Dance Report Novice Free Dance Report Junior Compulsory Dance Report Junior Original Dance Report Junior Free…
ROCHESTER REFLECTIONS – DAY 1 – NOVEMBER 14, 2007by Katie Weigel Greetings from Rochester, Michigan! Today marks a few firsts for me. Not only is this my first time to the state of Michigan, but this is also my…