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SKATING Editor


Troy Schwindt _____________________________________________________________


Assistant Editor Mimi McKinnis


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Advertising Kim Saavedra


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SKATING is the offi cial publication of U.S. Figure Skating.


U.S. Figure Skating President ... Sam Auxier


U.S. Figure Skating Executive Director ... David Raith Board of Directors Offi cers


Bob Anderson, Sam Auxier, Anne Cammett, Lainie DeMore, Heather Nemier, Sharon Watson


U.S. Figure Skating Senior Directors Ramsey Baker, Bob Dunlop, Mitch Moyer,


Mario Rede, Kelly Vogtner, Susi Wehrli-McLaughlin _____________________________________________________________


SKATING and U.S. Figure Skating neither endorse nor take responsibility for products or services advertised herein. The publisher reserves the right to reject or cancel any advertising at any time.


The mission of SKATING magazine is to communicate information about the sport to the U.S. Figure Skating membership and fans of fi gure skating, promoting U.S. Figure Skating programs, personalities, events and trends that affect the sport.


SKATING (USPS 497-800) (ISSN: 0037-6132)


(Issue: Vol. 92 No. 8) is published 11 times per year in January, February, March, April, May, June/July, August/ September, October, November Basic Skills Edition and December by U.S. Figure Skating, 20 First St., Colorado Springs, CO 80906-3697. Subscription rates: United States, one year $32.50 (U.S.); Canada, one year $42.50 (U.S.); Foreign, one year $52.50 (U.S.). Allow 6–8 weeks for delivery of the fi rst issue. Periodicals postage paid at Colorado Springs and at additional mailing offi ces. Copy- right ©2015 by United States Figure Skating, Colorado Springs, Colo. Phone: 719.635.5200. SKATING magazine assumes no responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. Postmaster: Send address corrections to SKATING, 20 First St., Colorado Springs, CO 80906-3697. Canadian return address: Station A, P.O. Box 54, Windsor, Ontario N9A 6J5. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without permission from the editor.


To submit a news item or offer a feature story idea to SKATING, email tschwindt@usfi gureskating.org.


To be featured in the KIDS Spotlight, email your informa- tion to rfelton@usfi gureskating.org and include action and nonskating photographs of yourself. Include in your submission your name, address, home phone number (not for publication) and U.S. Figure Skating member number. Answer as many of the questions that you see printed in the KIDS Spotlight as you want, and we might feature you.


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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.


White joins USOC on Road to Rio 2006 Olympic ice dance silver medalist Tanith White announced in June she had


joined the United States Olympic Committee’s Road to Rio Tour. The tour, which began in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July, will make promotional


stops in Boston (Oct. 17–18, 2015); New York City (April 27, 2016); Oklahoma City (May 7–8, 2016); Indianapolis (June 24–25, 2016); Birmingham, Alabama (Sept. 10, 2016); and Chica- go (TBD) in celebration of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Fans visiting the tour will have a chance to meet Olympic legends and 2016 hope-


fuls, participate in interactive fan activities and test their own athletic abilities with skills demonstrations. White will appear in several Road to Rio viral videos, interviewing hopefuls, giving


tour stop recaps and even trying her hand at summer sports with tutorials from some of the nation’s best athletes. For more information, visit teamusa.org/road-to-rio-2016.


U.S. Figure Skating membership grows 4.5 percent U.S. Figure Skating announced in August its membership for the 2014–15 fi scal


year increased 4.5 percent over its 2013–14 fi gures. For the membership cycle starting July 1, 2014, and ending June 30, 2015, the organization had 178,317 members, includ- ing 120,518 Basic Skills members, 57,397 full members and 402 Friends of Figure Skating members. U.S. Figure Skating is composed of 690 member, collegiate and school-affi liated clubs,


more than 950 Basic Skills programs and 539 synchronized skating teams. “We are pleased with U.S. Figure Skating’s membership growth over the last year,” U.S.


Figure Skating President Samuel Auxier said. “We credit the hard work and dedication of our member clubs, Basic Skills program directors and instructors, coaches, athletes, vol- unteers and staff for making it possible to welcome more members into the U.S. Figure Skating family each year.” The U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills Program continued to welcome new skaters in 2014–15, as membership exceeded 120,000 members and experienced the third-highest enrollment in the program’s history (highest was 132,125 in 2005–06). The Basic Skills Pro- gram contains numerous curriculums, including preschool, hockey, speedskating, adult, synchronized, pairs, ice dancing and Special Olympics/Therapeutic. During the 2014–15 season, Basic Skills enjoyed a membership increase of 6 percent. For 2014–15, 63 pro- grams saw enrollment of more than 400 skaters, while 13 programs enrolled more than 1,000 members for the year. The Rinx, located in Hauppauge, New York, registered nearly 3,000 Basic Skills members, the most in the country, for the second consecutive year.


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Tanith White joins nine- time Olympic track and fi eld champion Carl Lewis onstage at the USOC’s Road To Rio Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia.


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