Miami Synchronized Skating Team to Skate with Champions
5/4/2006 12:00:00 AM | Synchronized Skating
May 4, 2006
OXFORD, Ohio - The Miami University Synchronized Skating team earned one last honor this season, being invited to skate with the world renowned tour of John Hancock Champions on Ice this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. This is the team's second appearance with the tour.
Miami will join the likes of Michelle Kwan, the United State's most decorated figure skater, Evgeni Plushenko, a three-time world champion and 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist, and the Olympic gold medal pair of Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin.
The RedHawks made program history this year, posting a fourth-place finish (178.79) at the 2006 World Synchronized Skating Championships in Prague Czech Republic. Miami's 1.53 margin from third place made it the closest a team from the United States had ever been to earning a medal at the World Championships.
The fourth-place finish at the World Championships brought an end one of the most successful seasons in school history. The Red and White, which won its second U.S. National Championship in Grand Rapids in March, finished first in all three of its U.S competitions while finishing second at the Milan Cup, its only international competition of the regular season.