Olympian Emily Hughes to Attend Harvard University While Continuing Skating Career
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Lifetime did show Juniors one year and Nancy Kerrigan was the host.
Also Connecticut channel shows Juniors, but I can't get Connecticut. I do get Chicago, you figure.
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ITA. But then why doesn't she retire outright? How did it become so fashionable to quit without actually uttering the R-word?
Maybe Emily is trying to do something that her sister Sarah didn't do---compete while going to college. Sarah took a year off from Yale to skate in SOI, but her lack of jump skills on the tour was downright embarrassing, and gave naysayers all the evidence they needed to prove that Sarah's OGM was indeed a fluke.
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i agree with the above posters. Emily must know that she doesn't have the jumps or the stlye to make it far as a skater. Especilly with the new crop of jumping balllerinas. I think it's great that she is going to college, she should take advatange of theis great opportunity. not everybody can get her grades, and even if they dom still cna't get to harvard. But she shoud admit that her competing days are through.
By saying she's going to compete while in college, she's not admitting she doesn't have what it takes to be a top skater. Maybe somewhere in the back of her mind is the idea that if Sarah could win the OGM, anything can happen. The USFS has gotten a lot of mileage out of the Hughes name, so Emily may see that as further encouragement that she continue to compete.
I still think Emily believes she can beat Kimmie for the US championship. That may be her #1 goal, rather than a World medal.
I still think Emily believes she can beat Kimmie for the US championship. That may be her #1 goal, rather than a World medal.
Don't see why that's so "unrealistic" since it almost actually happened.
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I applaud her ambitiousness but this is an extremely tough task to take on. Still Debi Thomas was a pre-med her amateur career, while being one of the top women skaters in the World. She did take 1 year off from pre-med, the Olympic season, and we all see how that season turned out for her.
But did amateur skaters need to train as intensively as they do nowadays to stay competitive? How many kids in her days were home-schooled to maximize training time? I have the impression that the popularity of home-schooling among skaters really exploded in recent years? Is that correct? Personally I think it's a shame that being an "amateur skater" nowadays means you can't have a normal childhood/adolescence; school is not just about schoolwork, it's part of growing up.
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I think it totally doable as an undergrad unless she wants to make the team for Worlds every year, or straight As at school. You could take leave of absence, reduce the number of classes to attend etc, so many things are possible as a student. Especially, undergrads always find a way to relax. Besides, just getting into Harvard (and getting out through whatever ways possible) gives you a lot of opportunities open to you.
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Kimmie Meisner is supposed to be attending the University of Delaware next year - she wants to be a physio. No one has mentioned the r word about her!
Lots of 17-year old skaters are entering university next season, and still planning to train for winning. Nothing says that it can't be done. Even Joannie Rochette is still attending university. Jeff Buttle is taking time off from engineering at U of T..........
I think its great that such role models are proving that higher education is possible and just as important as being a good competitor.
Lots of 17-year old skaters are entering university next season, and still planning to train for winning. Nothing says that it can't be done. Even Joannie Rochette is still attending university. Jeff Buttle is taking time off from engineering at U of T..........
I think its great that such role models are proving that higher education is possible and just as important as being a good competitor.
The difference is that Kimmie is attending UD part-time and there will be no change in her training environment. She will pretty much have the same schedule she had when in high school and about the same amount of training time.
Alissa Czisny is in college, but last year (and presumably this year, as well) most of her courses are online.
Emily is carrying a full course load at Harvard and will have two sets of coaches: one at Harvard, the other on Long Island. She is bound to have considerably less training time than she did while she was in high school.
Alissa Czisny is in college, but last year (and presumably this year, as well) most of her courses are online.
Emily is carrying a full course load at Harvard and will have two sets of coaches: one at Harvard, the other on Long Island. She is bound to have considerably less training time than she did while she was in high school.
Why is everyone bagging on Emily's ability to balance school and skating? It's not as if there isn't any flexibility in college. You choose the classes you take and your schedule. Plus Emily has a good team of coaches in Massachusetts. Mark Mitchell isn't anything to scoff at. I wouldnt' be surprised if her skating improves with the switch.
Most of the time the past two years, Emily spent hardly any time at school. She did her assignments on her own. At Harvard, she will have to attend class if she wants to get decent grades. That is bound to take time away from training, to say nothing of study time and doing assignments.
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I think Emily has already reached her peak in skating. Still it's very, very impressive for a teenager - to compete at such high level, in the meantime, to get such good grade in school. Any other Hughes in the family are up and coming?
Amateur skaters had to train very intensely and long hours back in Debi Thomas' day, since they had figures to do as well as freestyle. They'd usually train at least 3 hours daily on figures (usually the 4 a.m.-type times so they could get ice time), then have two or three freestyle sessions, as well. Lots of kids back then were homeschooled and/or tutored/home study (or moved away from home to a training base) so many of them didn't go to "real" school a lot, and of those who did, they were usually not in class much and didn't participate in the "other" parts of growing up in a school environment.
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Maybe this post is the omen of the decade. How quickly we forget Arakawa who was "finished as a skater ', but finished her schooling, even kind of down, depressed and distraught about her future, and came back for practically the skating comeback of the century. Granted luck played a part. Two and arguably (3 with Kwan) blew it who shouldn't have. We'll just have to wait and see. I think as well she made a wise decision to at least take this opportunity now. No question. One thing, the "freshman 15" cannot happen, no way Jose, Emily.I think Emily has already reached her peak in skating. Still it's very, very impressive for a teenager - to compete at such high level, in the meantime, to get such good grade in school. Any other Hughes in the family are up and coming?
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MIF is painful enough (but useful, ok, ok), but 3 hours of figures daily at 4am?! That's why they used to have such beautiful, deep edges, and funky transitions back in the days. Now at best you get energetic, fast transitions, but no time spent on making any one edge deep and beautiful.Similar threads
