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ABBOTT GIVES BACK


When Jeremy Abbott was a young skater growing up in Aspen, Colo., he didn’t always get to hone his skills in competition. T ere just weren’t enough local boys in his skill category. “We went through it for years and it’s discouraging,” Abbott’s mother, Allison Scott, said.


“You grow through competition.” So after winning the U.S. junior title in 2005, Abbott established his Boys Fund to en-


courage boys to stick with the sport. For the past three years, his Japanese fan club, headed by Minori Yanagashima, has raised funds for it. In Kent, they made the presentation in person, to 10-year-old Ivan Brown. “Japanese fans enjoy giving gifts, so Jeremy said, ‘If you want to give me a gift, please go ahead and collect money for the Boys Fund,’” Scott said. Money raised goes to a boy with artistic and athletic ability not yet eligible for U.S.


Figure Skating funding. “It’s a pat on the back to say, ‘Keep it up, we can’t have you


quit,’” Scott said. Brown, who skates six days a week with coach Rebecca


Safai at Highland Ice Arena in Seattle, won his regional compe- tition for preliminary boys last season, but this season there were not enough pre-juvenile boys to fi eld an event. “T is is really happening?


T is isn’t a dream?” Brown said. “I don’t know what to say. T ank you so much.” T e money raised, $500, will go toward buying a new pair of skates. — Lynn Rutherford


PASSING THE TORCH Colin McManus can’t seem


to stay off the ice. “I’ve been doing a lot of


coaching,” McManus said. “I wake up, I train, I coach until I go home and go to sleep, and then I get up and do it all over again.” McManus made his Grand


Prix Series debut at Skate Amer- ica with partner Anastasia Can- nuscio, an experience he hopes to make possible for future gen- erations of skaters. “I have a young dance team


and they’re just sort of getting together now,” McManus said. “T e boy is actually my only male student. I don’t see my- self in him quite yet; he’s still so young. I’m hoping I can teach him how to be a good strong partner and how to really enjoy ice dancing. I want him to keep going in the sport for a long time.”


— Mimi Whetstone


FLATT KNOWS SHE CAN DANCE Rachael Flatt has a relaxed smile on her face these


days. Well-known for balancing school, skating and volunteer work, the sophomore biology major is put- ting even more on her plate. But this time, it has a lot to do with that smile. Flatt has joined Urban Styles, a contemporary dance company at Stanford University.


ly loving it,” she said.


“I auditioned for it on a whim and I am absolute- When a friend in the dorm invited her to audition


for the troupe, Flatt wasted no time. “I said, ‘Well, I have an extra two hours, so sure, why not?’” Flatt, the 2010 U.S. champion and 2010 Olympi- an, is used to having the stage — or the ice — all to herself. She admits it was diff erent working as a team. “When we were doing auditions — and I had


never auditioned for anything — it was a little strange for me to be dancing with four or fi ve other kids in this mini group. T en, to be dancing with the whole company, it’s so full of energy. It’s really cool.” T e company has about 30 dancers, both men and women. T is year, television dance per- sonality Jamie Goodwin of “So You T ink You Can Dance” and the reality show “All the Right Moves” joins the troupe. “We have a lot of cool shows with a lot


of really unique dances,” Flatt said. “I’m really excited. And, it’s another thing to do on campus … not that I’m not busy enough.”


— Barb Reichert SKATING 21 BOARD CALL


When Doug Razzano landed the opening quad toe in his free skate to Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever,” one person in the arena jumped higher than he did: Razzano’s longtime coach, Doug Ladret, who trains the skater in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ladret, a former Canadian pairs champion, ducks, weaves, crouches and spurs on Razzano from the boards. When the skater hits a jump, he shouts encourage- ment.


“He’s this way because we’ve been to-


gether for 12 years,” Razzano said. “We’re very close. I think he treats me almost like a son; he wants to see me succeed. And of course I like to hear him yell, because that means I’m on my feet.” Ladret got particularly animated during one of Razzano’s fi nal elements, his straight- line steps. “He’ll shout, ‘Push, push, push, you can


do this,’” Razzano said. “At that point I’m tired so it’s encouragement.” Ladret makes no apologies. “I remember watching the Olympics


when Evan [Lysacek] won,” he said. “You could hear Frank Carroll counting, ‘Five, six, seven, eight!’ of the revolutions of the spins. So if it’s good for the Olympic champion’s coach, it’s good for me.”


— Lynn Rutherford


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