The Sun Valley Figure Skating Club is proud to announce that member Shayna Moellenberg has become the newest US Figure Skating double gold medalist in Free Skate following her successful Senior Ladies Free Skate test February 13 in Sun Valley. Shayna, a Community School tenth grader and honors student, has been skating since the age of five. This accomplishment represents eleven years of year-around training and progression through two testing tracks, “Moves In the Field” and Free Skate, each of which has eight test levels. Progress through each test level requires that the skater pass a challenging test evaluated by judges certified by the US Figure Skating association. According to US Figure Skating, nationwide, only about twenty skaters each year obtain their double gold medal free skate status.
Shayna is the current Northwest Pacific Region Junior Ladies Free Skate Champion. She also represented the Sun Valley Figure Skating Club at the 2011 Western Sectionals in Culver City, California. Her head coach is Lisa-Marie Allen, a 1980 Olympic ladies figure skating competitor and Sun Valley resident. Shayna resides with Lisa-Marie and her husband Peter Hendricks. Sun Valley Figure Skating Club coaches Gia Guddat, Dawn Peterson, and Craig Heath also have coached Shayna. Shayna is the current chair of the SVFSC Junior Board and has performed in the Sun Valley Company’s Christmas Eve ice show for the last three years.
Shayna began skating in Arizona and has competed in local, regional and sectional competitions in Arizona, California, Idaho, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wyoming. Her highest placement nationally was sixth at the Juvenile level at the 2007 Junior National Championships in Cleveland, Ohio. She was selected to participate in two international competitions, Morges, Switzerland in 2008, and Grindelwald, Switzerland in 2009, where she placed fourth in Novice Ladies Free Skate, through US Figure Skating’s former Young Internationals program. In addition to skating, Shayna enjoys acting and singing and has performed in dozens of musicals with several lead roles. Some of her favorites include Cat in the Hat in “Seussical,” Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Peter in “Peter Pan.”
Thirteen additional local skaters also passed USFS tests at the February 13 test session. Gracie Eagan passed both the Juvenile Free Skate and the Juvenile Moves InThe Field tests, Tara Ware passed the Pre Juvenile Free Skate test, and Emma Stuessi passed the Preliminary Free Skate Test. Mary Claire Fisher, Sheldon Gentling, Blake Letourneau, Lane Letourneau, Claire Stickney, and Alexandra Stuessi passed the Pre Preliminary Free Skate test. Grace Hoffman and Chloe Rose-Lewis passed the Tango and Rocker Foxtrot ice dancing tests. Rose-Lewis also passed the American Waltz and the Kilian dance tests to complete the Silver Ice Dancing Level. Moves In the Field tests were passed by Grace Hoffman- Pre-Juvenile Moves, Sage Curtis– Preliminary Moves, and Grace Cleveland – Pre-Preliminary Moves.
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