2017 U.S. ADULT CHAMPIONSHIPS
CHAMPIONSHIP ADULT GOLD LADIES
Salchow-single toe loop combination. Stuever, 27, received Level 3s for all her spins. She fi n- ished with 39.93 points and the silver medal. It was her best fi nish since returning to skating three years ago. Anna Drozda (SC of New York) per- formed a tribute to Peggy Fleming’s 1968 Olympic program and won the bronze medal with 36.42 points. Drozda wore a bouff ant hairdo and streamlined lime green dress to capture the legend’s look from the Games in Grenoble, France. “[T e program] concept is on becoming
Peggy because we start with the contemporary lyrical piece and the last part of my program is T e T ieving Magpie, which she used for her Olympic program,” Drozda, 33, said. “So I’m typically by myself, more of a
Moore wears glass slipper to victory
BY TROY SCHWINDT Lynsey Moore (Lansing SC) delivered
one of her career-best programs en route to the title.
An event planner and graphic designer,
Moore skated to music from the Cinderella movie soundtrack. She cleanly landed all her jumps — including a double Salchow — and received Level 3s for her spins. Moore fi nished with 42.08 points. Last year’s winning score was 38.93. “It felt like practice,” Moore, 24, said.
“It’s one of the best skates I’ve had. I’m real proud that I landed all my jumps, because that’s always a struggle for me. I think I got all of my levels on my spins, so I’m proud I could put it all together.” Moore, who lives in Howell, Michigan, was making her third appearance in Cham- pionship Gold Ladies. She also competes in
National Showcase. By day, Grace Stuever (Pittsburgh SC)
wears a construction hard hat and yellow vest as a loading dock sales representative. Her performance, however, to Barbra Streisand’s cover of “Somewhere” from the movie West Side Story, showed a softer, more tender side. “We wanted music that was going to be
very emotional,” said Stuever, who last year placed fourth in the same category performing to music from Moulin Rouge! “So we want- ed something that I could really hold that heart-wrenching feeling — like we want to be together but we are not meant to be. With the twinkling sounds in the beginning, it made me think of stars so I wanted a light color with a lot of crystals on my dress, so my mom and I designed it with that in mind.” Stuever skated clean, with the excep- tion of a fall on a jump series. She, howev- er, rebounded immediately with a double
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lyrical skater, but I really loved doing this Peggy-inspired program because it taught me to get down into the ice, because Peggy was always so powerful on the ice. So through this program, I really learned that with grace you could have a lot of grit, too.” Drozda, who lives in Brooklyn, New
York, and works for David Zwirner Gallery in its publishing department as an editor and proofreader in Manhattan, has competed at four U.S. Adult Championships. It was her fi rst time competing in the Championship Adult Gold Ladies. Diana Cheng (Baltimore FSC) earned the pewter medal with a score of 36.28.
(l-r) Grace Stuever, Lynsey Moore, Anna Drozda, Diana Cheng
PHOTO BY JAMES GODWIN
JAY ADEFF/U.S. FIGURE SKATING
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