Synchronized Skating Season Finale
Get the Flash Player to see this media. In the video above, BU’s synchronized skating team works to become as one. They finished their winter season at a national competition in Minneapolis earlier...
View ArticleChampion Athletes in Missouri
In the slide show above, Meghan Chura (SAR’12) and Tiffani Burks (SAR’12) reflect on their spring break experiences in Springfield, Mo., playing sports with people who have developmental disabilities....
View ArticleTwo-Time National Figure Skating Champs?
Get the Flash Player to see this media. Members of the BU Figure Skating Club are headed to Delaware this weekend to defend their national championship title. Learn more in a video from last year,...
View ArticleBorn to Skate
Watch this video on YouTube In the video above, learn more about the Sperry sisters. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Figure skaters and ice hockey players may practice at the same rink, but that’s about all...
View ArticleA Dream Come True
On a recent weekday morning, Jimmy Morgan donned a pair of skates and glided out to TD Garden’s center ice to meet his figure skating partner, Alex Shaughnessy. Staring intently at the bench where the...
View ArticleFigure Skating and Premed: an Unlikely Combo?
Gretchen Donlan loves a challenge—none more than being tossed into the air and spinning three times before coming down on the ice on a single skate blade. And doing it with the grace and agility of a...
View ArticleBU Synchronized Skaters Go for Gold on World Stage
Two Boston University students are hoping to become part of history this week when they compete in the synchronized skating world championships with the Boston-based Haydenettes, a team that has won...
View ArticlePoints of Departure: “Skating the Program of My Life”
Katharine Huntley-Bachers (COM’15) was initially drawn to Boston University because of its Figure Skating Club. She had taken up the sport at age four and wanted to keep skating after high school, a...
View ArticleFigure Skating Club Going for Championship Ending to Season
Andrea Mohns-Brillaud believes this year’s BU Figure Skating Club has the talent to compete against anyone—including the University of Delaware, which has won the Intercollegiate National Championships...
View ArticleAthleticism and Artistry Hallmark of BU Figure Skating Club
As Andrea Mohns-Brillaud was about to graduate from BU, she jokingly told figure skating coach Barbara Pinch, “Let me know if you ever retire: I’m taking your job.” Mohns-Brillaud (COM’87) made good on...
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