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USUALLY GOES TO THE RINK TO CHECK OUT HOCKEY PRACTICE. INSTEAD, SHE WENT TO FIGURE SKATING PRACTICE. THERE’S ONE CENTRAL IOWA FIGURE SKATING CLUB THAT IS DOING GREAT THINGS, AND ONE MEMBER WHO’S REACHING NEW HEIGHTS. SHE HAS THE STORY. EFFORTLESSLY MAKING CIRCLES ACROSS THE BLUE LINE IS A BORN HOCKEY PLAYER. MY PARENTS REALLY LIKED HOCKEY. THEY SECRETLY WANTED HER TO PLAY HOCKEY. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, I MEAN, SHE’S PETITE AND, YOU KNOW, JUST NOT ROUGH AND TOUGH. TURNED FIGURE SKATER. SHE TOOK A COUPLE CLASSES, SOME PRIVATE LESSONS WHEN SHE WAS JUST THREE. I LIKED IT, SO I KEPT PRACTICING. AND THEN I GOT BETTER. AND THEN NOW I’M HERE. SHE ALSO DID HOCKEY WHEN SHE WAS FOUR WITH IOWA WILD. HATED IT BECAUSE BY THEN SHE HAD ALREADY FALLEN IN LOVE WITH FIGURE SKATING. SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH FIGURE SKATING WHEN SHE WAS THREE, STARTED COMPETING AT FIVE. MY PARENTS SAY I HAVE LIKE TWO MODES. LIKE LIKE PRACTICE MODE AND COMPETITION MODE. AND JUST MADE HISTORY AT TEN YEARS OLD. THIS SUMMER I QUALIFIED FOR NATIONALS AND IT WAS HONESTLY, REALLY HARD. SHE BECAME THE FIRST AND ONLY SKATER FROM IOWA TO MAKE NATIONALS. YOU HAVE TO GET HIGHER SCORES, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TO, LIKE, QUALIFY. IN HER 8 TO 13 AGE GROUP, SHE QUALIFIED NINTH OUT OF 347 COMPETITORS AT THE NATIONALS COMPETITION. I GOT SO USED TO BEING NERVOUS THAT I JUST WASN’T NERVOUS EMOTIONALLY. IT WAS NERVE WRACKING. OBVIOUSLY, AS A MOM, WATCHING HER COMPETE WITH SKATERS FROM, YOU KNOW, SKATE FROM STATES WHERE I SPORTS WAS BIG. YOU KNOW, UNLIKE IOWA. HOW DID YOU END UP DOING GOOD? I GOT FOURTH PLACE IN MY NATIONALS COMPETITION. IT WAS FUN. IT’S NOT JUST AV WHO FIGURE SKATES IN IOWA. THIS IS THE CENTRAL IOWA FIGURE SKATING CLUB, AND THERE ARE OVER 40 MEMBERS. THESE ARE JUST A FEW, BUT THEY WANT YOU TO STAY WITH US. I HAVE GOTTEN A LOT OF REALLY GOOD FRIENDS FROM SKATING, SO IT’S REALLY FUN. THE MUSIC, THERE WAS A NICE TOUCH AT THE END. I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO PUT ON THE SKATES. NO. MISSED OPPORTUNITY, I KNOW. MAYBE NOT. SHE COULD HURT. SHE MIGHT HURT.