Juliana Mia Gusak AGE:7


CLUB:Aviator FSC LEVE :L No Test


HOW I STARTED:I went to the rink with my famli y when I was barely 3 years old.


COACH:Fllora Mag d HOW OF ET N I SKATE:


CO ora Magiid


ve or six days a week, including off -ice training


Fiive or six da s a


and synchro team practices


FAVORITE SKATERS:Ashley Wagner, Gracie Gold and the amazing skaters at my rink


FAVORITE MOVES: Loop, double loop, back spin, sit spin and Axel jump


FAVORITE MEMORIES:When I started gymnasti sc at 2 years old and w n I started skating at 3 ye ra s old


he


GOALS: To become an Olympic skater and math teacher


MORE FAVORITES:Foods – Sushi, sausages and blackberrie ;s Color – Pink; School s bju ects – Math (especially fractions and multiplication problems) and writing; Movie – Frozen


Collision, Division, Precision, Revision, Provision or Decision.


8 Nathan “Mr. Quad” Chen was born and raised in ___ Lake City, Utah.


10 To keep your boots and blades in their best condition, after skating is it best to make sure they are wet or dry? (See the Skate Shop page.)


14 The senior Crystallettes of Dearborn, Michigan, snagged the ___ medal at the U.S. Synchros, held near Chicago.


15 Big surprise (not!) when the ___ grabbed the U.S. Synchro gold — for the 25th time!


DOWN


1 A basic element for synchro skaters is the ___ formation, consisting of at least three rows of skaters, appearing as a square or rectangle when viewed from above, moving in unison.


CROSSWORD ACROSS


1 At the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in February, the senior Skyliners of New York skated away with the ___ medal.


6 The ice dance silver was grabbed by Maia and


___ Shibutani at the Four Continents Championships in PyeongChang, South Korea.


7 The fi rst U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships happened in 1984, but back then it had a diff erent name. It was called the U.S. ___ Championships. Pick one for the blank: Incision, Television,


2 Madison Chock and ___ Bates of the U.S. ice danced their way to their second Four Continents bronze medal in February.


3 Another synchro skating element is the ___. All the skaters rotate around a central point, while forming two to fi ve spokes.


4 Now 17 years old, Four Continents gold medalist Nathan Chen fi rst strapped on a pair of ice skates at the ripe old age of ___.


5 ___ Nagasu of the U.S. grabbed the ladies bronze medal at Four Continents for the second time.


9 When you watch the ice- dancing ShibSibs do these traveling turns on one foot, they are always in perfect unison. What are these elements called?


11 Successful coach ___ Arutunian’s present and past students include Nathan Chen, Mariah Bell, Adam Rippon, Ashley Wagner, Mao Asada, Jeff rey Buttle, Sasha Cohen and Michelle Kwan. Wow!


12 Props go to North America for their medal haul at Four Continents. Of the 12 medals awarded, how many were won by the U.S. and Canada combined?


13 How do you tell if you’re watching ice dancers or pairs? If the man picks the lady up and throws her, or lifts her high over his ___, you are defi nitely watching pairs doing their thing.


If you would like to be featured in the KIDS Spotligh , email your information to m erry@usfi guresk ting org and include action and nonaction skating photographs of yourself. Include in your submission your name, address, home phone number (not for publication) and U.S. Figure


f you would like to be featured in the KIDS Spotlight, email your information to mterry@usfi gureskating..org and include action and nonaction sk ting phot graphs of yourself. Include in our submission your name, address, home phone number (not for public tion) and U.S. Figur Skating member number. Complete as many of the categories that you see printed in the KIDS Spotlight as you want, and we might feature you.


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