Michigan girl making wishes come
true When it all started, Aubrey Cohoon said, “I just wanted to make a wish come true.” That was before raising more than $20,000 for the Michigan chapter of Make a Wish Foundation.
Cohoon, 11, who started skating at the Muskegon Lake Shore Figure Skating Club when she was 6, has been raising money for charity for the past four years. She went from raising $630 and $700 re- spectively with the help of family and friends to raising $1,600 and $18,400 in the past years with the help of the local business community in Spring Lake, Michigan, and the surrounding area as well as internet campaigns.
Aubrey Cohoon, wearing a white t-shirt, skates with a friend.
The Association for Fundraising Professionals is honoring Co- hoon with a youth award.
Several local business have run online campaigns to help Cohoon raise money by donating $1 for every Facebook like during certain time periods, as well as coordinated eff orts by family members and eff orts by her school.
She recently earned an MVP award for her mission, vision and philanthropy work at the annual Wish Ball, where Cohoon met Olympic ice dance champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White and skated for them that evening.
Cohoon, who is described as quiet and shy off the ice, will have a chance to skate with Davis and White this month at Nancy Kerrigan’s Halloween on Ice performance at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“We can’t even believe it,” Cohoon’s mother, Nicole, said. “Skat- ing has done amazing things for her.”
— Keith Ryan Cartwright
The Forestwood Figure Skating Club took part in the Parma Heights, Ohio, Fourth of July Parade. Club members marched with their fl oat, handing out goodies and more than 1,000 fl yers to promote their Basic Skills program.
Ann Arbor FSC holds Basic Skills
pairs seminar The Ann Arbor FSC in Michigan hosted a fi rst-of-its-kind seminar in pairs skating for Basic Skills skaters, their parents and their coaches.
Ann Arbor learn-to-skate director Mary Johanson put on the June 14 event, using the badge requirements within the U.S. Figure Skating Ba- sic Skills curriculum.
U.S. pairs silver medalist Brandon Frazier, 2014 U.S. World Team ice dancer Daniel Eaton, former World Team member and longtime pairs coach Gary Clark taught at the seminar, with help from former junior pairs medalist Alicia Bertsch and gold medalist and former pairs skater Max Sokoloff .
“I saw the opportunity to expand the scope of our learn-to-skate pro- gram by taking advantage of the talents of some of the people working, teaching and training in our area this spring,” Johanson said. “Pairs was something we had not previously taught, but there is a section in our book with pairs badges, so why not have a seminar and see if there is interest.”
Each participant earned the fi rst two U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills badges, as well as learning more advanced skills. Several participants expressed interest in taking private lessons in pairs or dance and had hopes to take U.S. Figure Skating beginning pairs and/ or dance tests.
“This was a good way to start rebuilding the U.S. pairs program” Frazier said. “Encouraging young skaters is an important part of building stron- ger pairs teams.”
Added Clark, “Generating this kind of interest regardless of the type of pairs skating (dance, mixed, or similar pairs) is exactly what we were hoping to accomplish. Given this option in the beginning, the possibili- ty that more boys will stay in the sport also exists.”
Printed rulebook available for purchase
A printed 8.5-by-11 inch hard copy of the 2016 U.S. Figure Skating Rule- book is available through U.S. Figure Skating’s Print-on-Demand Portal.
To purchase your copy, go to usfi
gureskting.org and hover your mouse over the red “Shop” button on the right side of the main menu bar. Click on the Print-on-Demand Portal and follow the directions.
The publication contains all test diagrams and test information.
The rulebook can also be viewed online (click on “Technical Info” on the main menu bar, then click on “Rulebook”), downloaded and printed from your personal computer or saved to a data storage device (e.g. thumb, jump, fl ash drive, etc.) for printing at your local copy center.
The rulebook can also be accessed free of charge through the U.S. Fig- ure Skating Publications App using: IOS, Android and Kindle mobile de- vices; just click “Resources” and download the rulebook to your mobile device.
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