It's Your Community - June 5, 2016

Vanessa interviewed various guests from the Detroit Skating Club about the 17th Annual Detroit Skating Club Ice Show: Skating Across America. The event is June 9th through June 12th at the Detroit Skating Club (DSC) located in Bloomfield Hills. The first guest interviewed was Jerod Swallow, managing director of the DSC about the possibility of the Detroit getting the 2018 National Championships. If they do, some of the competitions will be at DSC. Jerod is a five-time U.S. national champion, two-time Skate America champion, and competed twice in the Winter Olympics. The next guest interviewed was Rachel Lee who is the Learn to Skate Director, Ice Show Director and National Coach for Detroit Skating Club. Rachel talked about the 2016 Ice Show called Skating Across America and the Learn to Skate Program. The show features Olympic Skaters including Patrick Chan and Jeremy Abott. The last guest interviewed was Terry Watson, owner of the Ice Sports Cafe at the Detroit Skating Club, who talked about eating habits of athletic skaters and how they derive gourmet and healthy food options at the cafe. For more information about the Detroit Skating Club and the Skating Across America show, log on to www.dscclub.com/.