Sentence examples for competitive skater from inspiring English sources

Ms. Samuels, a former top-level competitive skater, can still leap and twirl impressively.

Skaters shivered as Manuel Corredor, 31, an instructor and competitive skater, slid a bright red Zamboni-like machine over the ice like a sleigh.

He's probably the best all-around competitive skater in the world, so footage of new tricks or feats is much anticipated and frankly worth a lot.

A memoir of the decade Walden spent as a competitive skater – having taken to the ice as a small girl, she did not abandon it until shortly before she graduated from high school – it conveys brilliantly not only the dedication involved in mid-level competitive sport, but also the occasional (and sometimes more-than-occasional) loathing.

"Today's competitive skater is widely versed; the scope of their athleticism is phenomenal," she says.

"If a competitive skater does well, they continue on and they influence other people to be competitive skaters," Sagarsky said, citing the impact of such Californians as Boitano, Tiffany Chin and Debi Thomas, who won the bronze medal at the Calgary Olympics.

But most research concerns competitive skaters.

Participants: Thirty-six adolescent female competitive skaters (10 with fracture, 26 without fracture) to 22 age-matched controls.

Competitive skaters now spend more time on conditioning and weight training than they did in the 1970s and '80s.

Hamel, Dilley, Ba and the only female skater in the pack, Pascale Jodoin, all started out as competitive skaters.

"She needs to skate with more competitive skaters than we have here on Long Island," Ms. Bennett said.