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Logano excited to direct opening ceremonies in Greensboro


BY KAMA KORVELA Figure skaters and spectators are in for another dose of Southern hospitality, as the


2015 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships return to Greensboro, North Carolina, and Danielle Logano wants to ensure the competition is one to remember. Logano is the living, breathing human equivalent of Southern hospitality — warm,


sweet and welcoming — so she was the natural choice to direct the opening ceremonies of the event. “I was completely caught off-guard to be asked to be the director,” she said. “It’s pret-


ty exciting.” The opening ceremonies will feature 107 skaters from North Carolina clubs, includ-


ing 35 athletes from the Extreme Ice Center in Indian Trail, where Logano is the director of figure skating. Logano, a former elite figure skater, has been living in North Carolina for the past


eight years. Though she is a Southerner now, Logano was actually born in Connecticut. She comes from an athletic family — younger brother Joey is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car driver. “Our family moved to the South for both of our athletic careers,” she explained. “We


first moved to Atlanta, where I skated for several years. My dad and Joey relocated to North Carolina for racing. It was tough to have our family split apart.” Logano eventually moved to North Carolina to be closer to her family and to work at


the Extreme Ice Center. The rink is also home to Paul Wylie, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist. “Paul is such a motivational coach,” Logano said. “He’s just real — what you see on TV


is exactly how he is in everyday life.” Wylie will not only serve as the honorary chairman of the 2015 U.S. Championships, but will also be performing in the opening ceremonies of the event. For more information on Wylie’s role as the honorary chair for the 2015 U.S. Champi- onships, check out Nick McCarvel’s story this month on icenetwork.


U.S. silver medalist and Olympian Jason Brown meets the daughter of the late Chicago blues legend “Little Walter,” Marion Diaz Reacco, prior to the final performance of the 2014 Hilton HHonors Skate America. Brown performed to Little Walter’s 1952 harmonica instrumental hit “Juke” for his short program. Rohene Ward, left, choreographed the program and was also on hand to meet Diaz Reacco, along with Phil Moy (second from left), director of the Little Walter Foundation, and Billy Branch, right, a Chicago blues star who played with his Sons of Blues Band at the competition.


SKATING 5 Danielle Logano


PHOTO BY LYNN ORMAN


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