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Article: Sychronized skating a family affair
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2002
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While a judging drama was unfolding at the recent Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Glen Ellyn's Brittany Carey was helping wrap up some international ice theatrics of her own.
The Hadley Middle School eighth-grader is a member of the Chicago Jazz, a synchronized skating team that recently bested 13 other novice teams from around the world to win the French Cup International Competition in Rouen, France.
To understand synchronized skating, consider the challenge of synchronized swimming, then place it on 1/4 -inch-wide blades on ice.
Add 19 other skaters 14 and younger whose mission is to coordinate required elements such as the "pass-through" and "the wheel" during a 3 1/2 -minute ...