Lindsey Weber has been on the ice for most of her life.

When eighteen month old Lindsey refused to stay with a babysitter while her Mother went to teach skating, her Mom decided to bring her along to the local ice rink.

"I hated staying with babysitters," Lindsey remembers of her early start in the sport. "My Mother taught skating so she would just put me on the ice."

After skating along side her mother for a couple of years, Lindsey began to participate in the skating shows at the local rink.

Her earliest memory on the ice was "dressing up as Winnie the Pooh" in the annual ice show.

Lindsey began competitively skating when she was only four years old. Although she does not remember much about her first competition, she remembers "being excited" that she "placed first."

It was shortly after first competition that her dream to compete at the United States Figure Skating Championships began.

"I wanted to qualify for Nationals," she remembers.

Lindsey won the silver medal at the Junior Nationals in 1995. Two seasons later, she qualified for the United States National Figure Skating Championships on the Junior level.

"It was extremely overwhelming," she remembered of her sixth place finish at the championships. "But, I knew that I finally got where I wanted to be."

"I was only 12 and had skipped the novice division, I had no idea I would end up at Nationals that year."

Months after competing at her first United States Figure Skating Championships, thirteen year old Lindsey tore a disc in her back. She was unable to compete the following season.

The injury could have ended her career.

Lindsey won the Regional Championships one season later.

After her win at the Regional Championships, the disc tare forced her to withdraw from the Sectional Championships that served as the qualifying competition for the Nationals.

Despite the set backs, Lindsey pushed forward with her figure skating career.

She won a bronze medal in Junior Ladies at the United States Figure Skating Championships in 2001.  

"I was so happy to win a medal at Nationals," Lindsey reflects.

As a result of her bronze medal finish, Lindsey was selected to compete at the Gardena Spring Trophy in Italy.

It was her first invitation to an international event.

"When they called my name," Lindsey comments, "I was proud to be representing the United States of America."

She finished an impressive sixth in her international debut.

Lindsey was also selected to compete on the Junior Grand Prix circuit the following season.

However, because of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that occurred weeks before the Junior Grand Prix circuit was supposed to begin, the United States Figure Skating Association withdrew all American skaters from the Junior Grand Prix events.

Lindsey did not compete the rest of that season.

"It was a disappointing year."

Lindsey bounced back from the disappointment the following season. At the 2002 Skate Detroit competition, she won with two great performances.

She also finished seventh at the Finlandia Trophy. The event was her first international competition on the senior level.

Lindsey also skated one of her best short programs at the 2003 United States Figure Skating Championships.

"I was so excited to be competing at Nationals as a senior, and I was so pleased with my performances."

Overall, she finished thirteenth in the event.

In the summer of 2004 Lindsey again had a stellar performance at Skate Detroit, winning a second straight year.

"This was the first time I had done a clean 7 triple program, I think this was my favorite memory of all my skating competitions," she explained.

"I was skating in the rink I grew up in, and I received a standing ovation in front of all my friends and family, to me that was the best."

After Skate Detroit Lindsey was again selected for the Finlandia Trophy international, in Helsinki, Finland.

"It was great to go back, and we had a awesome team that year."

However, the high expectations that Lindsey had for the season were not met. Her back injury forced her to sit out the remainder of the season.

"I had high expectations for the year," Lindsey said. "It was disappointing when they weren't met.

I had never been skating better, I think that's the worst when you know you could have done it."

Lindsey did not plan to compete in 2004.

"But a week before Regionals, I decided to compete for fun since it was in town," she said.

She finished third at the Regional Championships.

"I shocked myself by qualifying for the Sectionals."

In the 2006 season, Lindsey is no longer aiming for one of the three spots on the United States' Winter Olympic team.

She is instead looking forward to skating pain free.  Lindsey recently underwent surgery to repair a disc tare in her back.

"I would love to compete again, and hope to," Lindsey explains. "But, time will tell if my back holds up."

"I'm just crossing my fingers!"

Lindsey continues to perform in figure skating shows for skating clubs throughout the Midwest.

She also teaches skating full time, and is highly involved in many committees throughout U.S. Figure Skating Association.

Lindsey is also full time student at Oakland University, majoring in Human Resource Management.

Song
"Unwritten"

Hobbies
Ballet, rollerblading,
designing costumes