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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Frozen in Time The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team by Nikki Nichols Barbara Ann Roles. Barbara Ann Roles (also Barbara Roles Pursley, Barbara Roles Williams), born April 6, 1941 in San Mateo, California) is an American figure skater and skating coach. She is the 1960 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1962 United States Champion. Roles began skating at age 8, after being invited to try figure skating by a friend. [1] She became a student of Nancy Rush, who was her only coach throughout her career. Roles competed in ice dance with Jim Short. The pair placed second on the junior level at the 1958 U. S. National Championships, and passed two of their gold dances. However, Roles gave up ice dance to focus on her singles career. [1] After a successful novice and junior singles career, Roles placed second to Carol Heiss at the U. S. Nationals in 1960, earning a spot on the 1960 Olympic team. She retired after winning the bronze medal at those games. [2] She was asked to come out of retirement after Sabena Flight 548 crashed and killed the entire 1961 US Figure Skating Team. [3] Roles won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1962. She was the first skater to win U. S. novice, junior and senior titles. Only Kimmie Meissner is the only other skater to do this. [1] She missed the 1963 competitive season, while touring with the Ice Capades. [1] . She came back out of retirement in an attempt to qualify for the 1964 Winter Olympics, but only placed 5th at the national championships and failed to make the team. [4] In 1969 Roles began coaching; her pupils have included Lisa-Marie Allen, Wendy Burge, Brian Pockar, Vikki DeVries, and Scott Williams. She has coached in southern California, Colorado Springs (at the Broadmoor), Las Vegas, and Delaware. In 1983 her bronze Olympic medal was stolen. The USFSA helped her recover it in 2003 and it is now part of their collection. [5] In addition to coaching, Roles works as a Technical Specialist. [1] Frozen in Time : The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U. S. Figure Skating Team by Nikki Nichols (2008, Trade Paperback) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет. См. подробные сведения с дополнительным описанием товара. Frozen in Time. The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team. 2.3 • 3 Ratings $9.99. $9.99. Publisher Description. Read the deeply moving and impeccably researched account of the events surrounding the plane crash that killed the 1961 US figure skating team. Only once has the United States lost an entire national team to disaster: 1961, when all eighteen members of the US figure skating team died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548. Sixteen family members, coaches, and friends died with them. Frozen in Time takes you, for the first time ever, inside the lives of these skaters, revealing their friendships and romances, rivalries, sacrifices, and triumphs. The skaters you’ll read about were the top finishers at the 1961 US National Championships. Winning a medal at Nationals earned each skater passage aboard Sabena Flight 548, a state-of-the-art Boeing 707. The plane would take them to Brussels, where they planned to board a new plane for Prague, host city of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. Some of the skaters brought parents or older siblings as chaperones. Coaches and judges also boarded the plane, and some of them brought spouses and children. When the plane crashed in a Belgian field on February 15, entire families were shattered, and the American skating program suffered a staggering blow that threatened to cripple it for many years. Frozen in Time takes you on a journey to experience the highly competitive US National and North American championships of that fateful year. This story takes place in the final days of what now seems like an antique era, when the world was black and white, when figure skating was not a well-publicized sport. The book portrays strong, accomplished women leading unconventional lives on a national stage in a conservative era. The story of the Owen and Westerfeld women—along with all the dedicated athletes—transcends the world of sport and touches the human heart. It is one of the most powerful and tragic stories in the history of American sports. “. a reverential tribute. Skating enthusiasts will want to add this to the shelf.” Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team by Nikki Nichols. Frozen in Time presents a deeply researched account of one of the most iconic stories in the history of American sport. Most sports fans have heard the tragic story of the plane crash that killed all the members of the 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating Team, and sixteen of their friends, family and coaches, en route to the World Championships in Prague. This account takes readers inside the lives of the skaters, revealing the friendships and romances, the rivalries, sacrifices, and triumphs of the world-renowned competitors. The dramatic focus lingers on two families of powerful women: the Owens and the Westerfelds. Maribel Owen, without question the most famous woman in figure skating at the time, relentlessly drives her two young daughters, pairs champion Mara and the spectacular Laurence, who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated on the day she died; Myra Westerfeld, meanwhile, loses her marriage while guiding her daughters Sherri and Steffi to the pinnacle of the sport. Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team (2006) Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is an amateur historian's labor of love: A story about a group of people, a sport, and a time for which she obviously has enormous affection. It's untainted by any sense of perspective, proportion, or any of the larger contexts into which it might have been fitted. All the skaters profiled are -- to hear the author tell it -- flawless human beings: charming, decorous, polite, well-mannered, sportsmanlike. The world in which they competed is a kind of lost Golden Age -- so far removed from the high-intensity world that is competitive figure skating today that they almost seem to be competing in a different sport altogether. Nikki Nichols' nostalgia for that era -- its greater formality, its more sedate routines, its styling of the female skaters as "ladies," and the conceptualization of both male and female skaters as performers more than athletes -- is palpable, and for a while it's intriguing (even charming) in its intense earnestness. After a while, though, I found it limiting, and frustrating: I wanted Nichols to drop back a bit, pull back her focus, show how the culture of the figure skating world reflected the time, the place, and the socio-economic world in which it grew. I also found myself wanting to see more about the inevitable climax that hangs over the story, from the beginning, like a dark cloud: The plane crash that killed virtually everyone in the book in 1961. Nichols -- taking a page from Sebastian Junger's final chapter in The Perfect Storm -- imagines what the crash might have been like, but there (again) she stops. What did Americans outside the figure skating world make of the crash (if anything)? How did sports journalists cover it? How was the story framed, before the rise of Peggy Fleming to stardom in the mid-1960s created the perfect coda to it? On all that, Nichols is silent . it's not the story she wants to tell, any more than the larger, dispassionately analyzed story of figure skating in 1961 is the story she wants to tell. The story she does want to tell is there on the page, in gushing, breathless, resolutely uncritical prose -- and, if you share her enthusiasm for that quieter, more genteel world of sport, you'll love it. ( ) Frozen in Time" is a well researched and well written look at the entire U.S. Skating team that was killed in a 1961 plane crash in Brussels. Author Nikki Nichols focuses mostly on the Owen family (nine time National Champion Maribel Vinson Owen and her daughters, "Little Maribel" and newly crowned National Champion, 16 year old Laurence) and Stephanie Westerfield, Laurence's closest rival and her sister Sharon. The book also gives insight into what skating was like at that time, with detailed explanations of elements such as school figures which are no longer included in competitions and the different competitions themselves, including the North American Championships which no longer exists. Finally, the book also talks about the devastating affect the deaths had on family members left behind as well as how the deaths forever changed the United States figure skating program. Although I was just a baby when it happened, I'm a long time figure skating fan and I grew up hearing about the plane crash and wondered what had happened. This long overdue remembrance is a poignant read and by the end readers will feel as if they knew each skater. Nikki Nichols intersperses the history of skating with her narration, including the fact that 1961 was the first time Nationals was shown on television (although on tape, not live).