Gold nominated for Kids’ Choice Sports award
Gracie Gold, the 2014 U.S. cham-
pion and Olympic Team Event bronze medalist, was nominated for a Nickel- odeon Kids’ Choice Sports award in the category of Best Female Athlete. The award show, which premiered
for the fi rst time this year, let Nick- elodeon viewers choose winners in categories such as Favorite Newcomer, Best Male Athlete, Best Female Athlete, Slickest Moves and the Don’t Try This At Home Award.
Hosted by NFL Hall of
Famer Michael Strahan, the show’s format followed that of the network’s long-run- ning Kids’ Choice Awards, including an abundance of both sweat and slime. Michelle Kwan, who was slimed in 2005 after winning a “most-admired” award at China’s Kids’ Choice Honors in Bei- jing, won a Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Female Athlete in both 2002 and 2003. Other nominees in Gold’s category included Olympic
champion Gabby Douglas (gymnastics), NASCAR driver Dani- ca Patrick, Olympic champion Lindsay Vonn (skiing) and No. 1 ranked women’s tennis star Serena Williams.
Davis and White to sit out next season
Olympic ice dance champions Meryl Davis and Charlie
White announced on June 6 they will not compete in the 2014–15 fi gure skating season. “We’re so grateful for the support we’ve received
through this truly amazing year in our lives,” Davis and White said. “Trying to stay in the present, we’ve decided not to look too far ahead regarding our competitive careers. We’ll be taking the 2014–15 season away from competition. We will not make any further decisions until a later date.” Michigan natives Davis and White began their part-
nership 17 years ago and are the most‐decorated ice dance team in American history. Together they have won the last six U.S. titles, two World Championships (2011, ’13), fi ve consecutive Grand Prix Final gold medals and the 2010 Olympic silver medal. Undefeat- ed the past two seasons, Davis and White capped the 2013–14 campaign by becoming the fi rst American ice dancers to win an Olympic gold med- al at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. They also won a bronze medal in the fi rst Olympic Team Event alongside six of their teammates.
HQ Profi le – Emmaline (Emma) Repp I am the coordinator of giving programs. I am
responsible for managing U.S. Figure Skating’s var- ious giving programs, including the annual fund appeal, auction program, scholarships, Memorial Fund and Friends of Figure Skating. What is your favorite part about this job? I don’t know very much yet, but my team
is proving to be amazing and extremely patient through a constant stream of questions and re- quests.
What do you like to do in your spare time? I’m a total geek. Any time spent outside of
work is spent cuddling up with geeky movies, geeky books and the more-than-occasional shop- ping spree. (That last bit is completely unrelated to geekiness, but I’m trying to keep you on your toes.) What would people be surprised to know about you?
I’m a classically trained singer who didn’t choose the blues life; the blues life chose me. What would be your ideal vacation? I love to explore and am an avid traveler, but I have yet to walk the Hob-
bit Trail in New Zealand. Yes, it’s a real thing. Tell us about your family. I am an only child. My mum likes to tell me I was so perfect at birth that
she didn’t need to have any more children, but she’s also British. Only time will tell whether she truly meant it or if my life has been one dry joke. My father is retired Air Force, a chief master sergeant to be exact. This is a hard act to follow, but I enjoy the challenge. I talk about my parents a lot because I am, much to their chagrin, still unmarried. However, what I lack in grandbabies I make up for in wit, charm and an utter lack of grace — I’m sure they’re proud.
Castelli, Tran to skate together The summer has been fi lled with new pairings,
coaching changes and decisions to sit the next one out.
Quickly following her former partner’s an-
nouncement, Marissa Castelli confi rmed that she will skate with Canadian Mervin Tran. Castelli and Tran plan to compete internationally for the United States after Tran completes a waiting period and is released by Skate Canada to compete for Team USA. In the meantime, the newly formed team will train in both Montreal and Boston and submit paperwork to compete in the 2015 U.S. Figure Skating qualifying season. Before competing one season for Canada with Natasha Purich, Tran represented Japan and won the 2012 World bronze medal with Narumi Takahashi. Castelli’s news comes on the heels of Simon Shnapir’s announcement that he has teamed up with DeeDee Leng. Also on the pairs front, Caydee Denney and John Coughlin, the 2012 U.S.
champions, announced they will sit out the 2014–15 season as Denney con- tinues to rehabilitate a right ankle injury she sustained in March. As Denney works to once again be competition-ready, she and Coughlin will continue to skate together in shows. During Denney’s rehabilitation period, Coughlin has worked with U.S. Figure Skating as an athlete ambassador at the 2014 ISU Skating Congress and at various camps. Like Denney and Coughlin, Colorado Springs-based Agnes Zawadzki has
opted to take of the 2014-15 season. Zawadzki is a two-time U.S. bronze med- alist.
Two-time U.S. champion Alissa Czisny announced this summer that she
has retired from competitive skating. Finally, Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton have commenced training
with Marina Zoueva and Massimo Scali at the Arctic Ice Arena in Canton, Mich. The two-time U.S. junior champions previously trained with Pasquale Camer- lengo, Angelika Krylova and Scali in Bloomfi eld Hills, Mich.
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