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Up close with Eliot

Eliot has been motivated from a young age. "I have never had any trouble getting up early if I knew I was going to skate," he said.

"When we used to drive a long distance, even at age ten, I would wake up at 5:00 a.m., eat, pack my lunch, make my mom’s coffee, start the car to warm it up, and then wake her up," he said.

"I like the challenge of developing new skills, setting goals, working strenuously and accomplishing them -- the best reward."
 


• My parents: for without them skating would never have been possible

• My brother and sister: for giving up so much and for being my biggest fans

• My extended family: especially Phil and Debbie Price, Lynn Wirth

• My friends: "You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar!" -T.S. Eliot

• My coaches: Ted Engelking and Ann Eidson

• My choreographer: Svetlana Kulikova

• St. Paul Figure Skating Club [website]

• Latino International Skating Coalition (LISC) [website]

• Unseen Skaters [website]

• Dan Riegelman, Vice President, Riedell Skates [website]

• Deb Erickson, Owner, The Line Up [website]

• Janet Kittle: my hair "guru" five years running!

• Di Shomion:  photography 

• Twin Cities Figure Skating Association

• Minnesota Skating Scholarship

• Memorial Fund Committee

• US Figure Skating [website]

 
 
       
       
   

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