WPCNR PRESS BOX. By John F. Bailey. March 26, 2006: The Ebersole Skating Rink Skating School and Advanced Figure Skaters "iced" their 43rd Annual Show at Good Ol' Ebersole Saturday night and delivered White Plains best hour and a half of entertainment. Skaters -- 115 of them from Tot to 50-something showed off their camels, spirals, laybacks and spins to an appreciative audience of parents, grandparents, boyfriends and old friends on a perfect night to skate, showing what a recreation skating program is all about: relationships, tradition, and handing down skills to the young skaters coming on up.
The Terrific Tots Open the Show. Photos by WPCNR Sports
Skating their last Show at Ebersole, Alison Goldstein, left, and Mattie Salonger after entering the ice in white cap and gown take a star skate to close the show the company looks on.
Tots 1 & 2 and Special Alpha Skaters dressed as immigrants opened up festivities.
Katie Irmler, left and Nadia Abdulwahab were the first of a series of pairs, skating in syncronized rhythm to "Heart of Rock & Roll"
Pre-Alpha, Alpha & Beta Skaters Rock the USA
Allison Fuerst foreice, and Emily Brotmann got down with "Down in Mississippi."
One of four soloing Seniors, Meghan Laub spins to "What You Own"
"California Girls" Chelsea Pickholtz, left and Jenna Bisignano nail The Beach Boys hit with side by side sit spins.
Gamma, Delta and Freestyle 1 performers take us to "Miami" on ice.
Peter Marinelli and Louise Marin waltz on ice to "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
Molly Seidel and Dawn DeMarco ice-boogie to "New Orleans"
Nora Steinman returned to Ebersole to skate to "Streets of Philadelphia," with a performance of grace and interpretive style.
Those energetic high-stylin' Freestyle 2 & 3 princesses have the right stuff to form an Ebersole Synchronized Skating Team. In their skate, the ice princesses formed a moving circle, a wheel and a spiral in a line to "Kids in America"
Maggie Dunne lead off the final solo performances with a wonderful skate to a Swing Medley, spinning, jumping and lindying.
Jen Bisignano executed a tight, swinging on the music skate to "New York, New York," packed with footwork, spins and jumps.
The elegant Daria Marinelli skated her last solo at Ebersole Rink memorably and gracefully keeping "Georgia on My Mind". She also skated a sharp tango with her father, Peter in the senior moments at the close of the show.
Juliana Bailey, Ebersole's "Double Gold Medalist" in United States Figure Skating moves in a breathtaking layback spin, improvising to "Proud to Be an American"
Skating Director Kristen Fuerst ready to bring her charges on to the ice in her ninth Ebersole Ice Show.
Ice Pals: What makes hometown recreational skating venues like Ebersole Ice Rink so special and important to keep going, is that girls and boys, figure skaters and hockey players grow up together across ages and the miles. They become friends for life. Here Allie Salonger, left, a sophomore at the University of Delaware and member of the Nationally prominent University of Delaware Syncrhonized Skating Team meets up with Juliana Bailey, a Junior at WPHS and Allie's sister, Mattie, right, a senior at WPHS who was skating her last Ebersole skate tonight.
