“And now the scores for Chicago Jazz Junior…” As the announcer is slowly saying these words, I am squeezing all of my teammate’s hands. Everyone in the arena is at a dead silent. We were the last team to skate in our division. In about four point five seconds the world will know who the 2016 US Synchronized Skating National Champions are. We all waited very impatiently starring at the jumbo screen waiting for the numbers to pop up. Squinting as hard as I can, one small number and two little letters were thrown onto the screen: 1st. I watched how my team and I achieved more than we ever thought possible. Standing next to my best friend, since we were both in sixth grade, we looked at each other and knew we had done it all. From being 2012 national champions, 2014 Junior World Team members, 2016 Neuchâtel Trophy and Spring Cup Champions, and at that moment, 2016 National Champions, it was all over. It was not all the medals
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If you ask any little skater where they want to go to college they automatically say Miami. It is every skater’s dream school. As I started growing up and entering high school, thinking about college became a serious topic. My parents would sit me down for monthly check-ins asking me if skating is something I wanted to do more professionally than I already was doing. Of course I would have my off days and wanted to be a normal high school teenage girl, but at the end of the day skating was what mattered most to me. Junior year, to me and many others, is the most important of all high school years. I had a very rigorous course schedule with an extra major class than I have been previously taking. My skating season was more intense and not as successful as previous years. Getting though that year with a 3.8 GPA and a pewter medal at the 2015 Nationals proved that I can defeat anything and collegiate skating was something for
If you ask any little skater where they want to go to college they automatically say Miami. It is every skater’s dream school. As I started growing up and entering high school, thinking about college became a serious topic. My parents would sit me down for monthly check-ins asking me if skating is something I wanted to do more professionally than I already was doing. Of course I would have my off days and wanted to be a normal high school teenage girl, but at the end of the day skating was what mattered most to me. Junior year, to me and many others, is the most important of all high school years. I had a very rigorous course schedule with an extra major class than I have been previously taking. My skating season was more intense and not as successful as previous years. Getting though that year with a 3.8 GPA and a pewter medal at the 2015 Nationals proved that I can defeat anything and collegiate skating was something for