The Dallas Figure Skating Club’s The Ice @ Stonebriar Centre rink was dyed pink for breast cancer awareness month. DFSC hosted exhibitions here on Oct. 13 and a skate-a-thon for breast cancer research on Oct. 27. The rink is in Frisco, Texas.
YOUNG SKATER TO HELP HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
Joseline Pretto Simmons will host her fourth an-
nual skating tribute show on Jan. 12, 2013, to help Hai- tian earthquake victims. The show will take place at the Tucker Road Ice Rink in Fort Washington, Md. The 9-year-old, who is a member of the Gardens
FSC of Maryland, went on a mission trip last summer to Haiti, where she helped the local community build an earth oven and assisted with music education, charac- ter development and English literacy. She also collect- ed more than 250 books to start a children’s library in the village of Lebrun, Haiti. A follow-up mission to Haiti is planned for next year, when she plans on donating 1,000 books to the children’s library. She also volunteers through her skating, helping
beginning skaters in the Kids on Ice program at the Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Washington, D.C.
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Joseline Pretto Simmons hands out candy to the children of Haiti during her mission trip.
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The Phillips Academy Skating School in Andover, Mass., off ered 30-minute classes each week that introduced skaters to the sport’s diff erent disciplines. Two days a week, skaters focused on the ba- sics of ice dancing. Throughout the 10-week summer season, skaters learned about partner position- ing, timing and proper technique. Coaches Ron Kravette and Andrew Miller Korda taught the skaters the steps of the dances that compose the preliminary and pre-bronze pattern dance tests. All skaters in
the class, whose ages ranged from 9 to adult, had prior freestyle experience. “These classes give skaters the opportunity to try out a diff erent discipline of skating that they may not have been otherwise exposed to,” said Codirector of Skating Andrea Mohns-Brillaud. At the end of the season, the school organized a test session and some of the class participants were given the opportunity to take their dance tests. “Class participants were extremely proud of the accomplishment of passing their initial dance tests, but more importantly, motivated to continue to learn about ice dancing,” Mohns-Brillaud said. Participating in a dance test session off ered at the Phillips Academy Skating School are (l-r) Andrew Miller Korda, Mauryn Tyack, Lily Rauh, U.S. Figure Skating judge Lenny Colarusso, Kate Nuzzolo, Erika Van Andel and Theona Harwood-Scola.