DECEMBER SKATER SPOTLIGHT

Holly Arend

Coach(es)?

Grant, Maryhelen, Kelsey 

Best advice your coach ever gave you?

Keep striving for your goals because you can reach them no matter what.

Test level?

intermediate moves, pre free skate

Hometown? 

Born in Livingston, New Jersey; Las Vegas, Nevada, Overland Park KS

School?

Blue Valley West High School

College/Career Plans?

 

Attend NYU and major in neuroscience or cognitive science composition

Astrological sign?

Sagittarius

Long term skating goal?

Pass my senior moves by my senior year

Short term skating goal?

Take intermediate test and then pass novice within the next year

Favorite skating discipline?

Dramatic Skate

Favorite skating element?

Camel spin

Favorite personal program?

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Who do you admire? 

 

 

 

I admire a lot of people I can't really pick one but I definitely look up to

my Drum Majors at school and my coaches at skating and guard.

 

 

 

Favorite book 

Looking for Alaska 

Favorite hobby outside of skating 

Color guard / winter guard 

Favorite movie 

Scott Pilgrim vs the World or Skyfall 

Favorite song 

 

Love Me - the 1975

 

 

 

 

Favorite TV show

Red Band Society

Favorite food 

Spin Pizza

Favorite quote


“The world is filled with nice people, if you can't find one be one."

Or, “The past isn't the past it’s still relevant today.”




Favorite joke 

I don't have one 

What advice would you give to a newbie?

If you practice hard and believe in yourself you can do it. I know it might be hard sometimes but you got this.

If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

Invisibility or flight