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Ferrell Mack, 12 (left), and Heather Jobling, 15, will compete in the National Showcase In Colorado Springs, Colo.
Girls to compete at national ice skating event
By JANET PHELPS mom, who is, president of the local Center opened four years ago.
janet.phelps@theeagle.com teclub, said girls are ens fromtthe local rink to t om- much e eryone started new,"
ete in a national event. Williams said. "So this is very
is not unusual to and t twowirls at local the pThe U.S. Figure Skating National exciting for us."
girls doing flips and t Showcase 2009 event will take place by p1ateesprigthe top our con
lice skating rink in College Thursday through Aug. 15 in at the Bluebonnet Open in
Station. Colorado Springs, Colo. The girls testants
On hot summer days, friends individually in the Austin in June.
Heather Jobling and Ferrell Mack compete artistic event. The girls raised money for their
ask-
said they would rather be inside Becky Jobling said the 25 local trip by having a car wash and ask-
practicing than outside i the heat. skating members and their sponsors ing for cash with their skates, "like
Their hard work paid off this and families are rooting for them. firefighters with boots," Mack said.
year: The two girls will skate at a "It's such a good support system Heather Jobling said she earned I
national showcase next week.
Mack, 12, said she isn't nervous. at Arctic Wolf," she said. "It's like a several hundred more dollars by
I've been to a few competitions, small family." baby-sitting and pulling weeds.
" The girls' coaches, Kim Williams The Bryan High School sopho
so I'm kind used to this," she said. and Jennifer Schoennagel, said it's more said she's nervous, but mostly
Although numerous members of
the Brazos Valley Figure Skating been thrilling to watch the skaters See SKATERS, Page A6
Club have earned awards, Jobling's progress since Arctic Wolf Ice
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SKATERS:
Have -different outlooks
Continued from Al Mack, a student at Sam watching it on TV. We were
Rayburn Middle School, said just going to let her try it and,
excited, about next week's she• wouldn't mind being in if she enjoyed it, let her stick
competition. the Olympics some day but with it," she said.
"Some people make it com- doesn't want to get her hopes Mack said she and her hus-
petitive, but I just kind of go up, try to
for fun. And if I think about "I see, now that I've quali band
k tin keep their Baugh-
it too much, I don't do as fled for this, that I can really g "under control"
good," she said. "I'm kind of do things with this," she said. and tethe same time.
there just to be with every- Her mom, Julie Mack, said But Mack and the coaches
one, and if I place, that's she was surprised how good said her daughter pushes
good, and if not, it doesn't her daughter was when she herself hard and is very self
really bother me." started skating four years ago. disciplined.
The.two girls are good "We didn't really know a "People have no idea what
friends, they said, but they whole lot about it when we it takes to look that great on
take a different approach to started except that we enjoyed the ice," she said.
figure skating.
Mack said she first got
interested in skating while
watching the 2006 Olympics,
but Heather Jobling said she
really doesn't like to watch
other people skate.
"I think it's kind of bor-
ing," she said. "I like doing it
but not watching."
Heather Jobling started
skating when Arctic Wolf
opened. She had her' 11th
birthday party on the ice,
and "just kind of kept with
it," she said.
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