WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Kelley Morris and Michael Seibert claimed the 1977 U.S. silver dance dance title.
by LOIS ELFMAN H said.
Renée Roca and Donald Adair, the 1986 U.S. ice dance champions, were always crowd favorites.
As the history books show, Adair finally got his U.S. title in 1986, becoming U.S. ice dance cham- pion with Renée Roca. In addition to two trips to the World Championships, they competed internation- ally for several years before Adair called it a day after the 1987 U.S. Championships. “I was burned out,” Adair said. “It was time for me to walk away from it even though it was two weeks before Worlds in Cincinnati. I’ve never really looked back since. I don’t miss competition. I’m here to inspire young ones to go on and do great things with their skating.” Morris-Adair’s competitive career ended before
her 18th birthday. Shortly after winning silver dance, Seibert ended their partnership to move to Califor- nia where he ultimately teamed with Judy Blumberg. Morris-Adair skated for a while with another partner but eventually set her sights on college. Her parents had paid for college for her older brother and sister but indicated that skating had eaten her college mon- ey.
“So I started teaching to earn money to go to
college,” she said. “I was teaching in my hometown of Columbus, Ind., a small town where I was well- known. I caught the bug pretty fast. I really enjoyed the process of being able to help develop young ath- letes and show them their potential. “My master ratings with PSA (Professional Skat-
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eading into the 1977 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Hartford, Conn., ex- pectations were high for local boy Don- ald “Donny” Adair and his partner Feli-
cia DiGiusto. Te medalists from the prior year in what was then known as silver dance (now junior ice dance) had moved up to seniors, and DiGiusto and Adair were next in line. “Tey really did up the story in the hometown
papers ready for him to be the next champion. Ten Michael [Seibert] and I snuck in there and won,” Kel- ley Morris-Adair said. “So I married her to get the trophy back,” Adair
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KELLEY MORRIS-ADAIR
U.S. FIGURE SKATING PHOTO
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