OCTOBER SKATER SPOTLIGHT

Sam Margolies

Coach(es)?

Dixie Knudson and Grant Huang

Best advice your coach ever gave you?

 Pretend like no one is watching.

Test level?

 Preliminary FS, Pre-Juv MIF

Hometown? 

 Manhattan, KS

School?

 Eisenhower Middle School

College/Career Plans?

 After skating and dancing careers are over, air crash investigator

Astrological sign and birthdate?

 Scorpio, Dec. 7, 2001

Long term skating goal?

 Make it to the Olympics

Short term skating goal?

 Land axel

Favorite skating discipline?

 Singles

Favorite skating element?

 Spread eagle or Ina Bauer

Favorite personal program?

 Into the Woods

Who do you admire? 

 Jason Brown, Rohene Ward

Favorite book 

 Divergent Series and Hunger Game Series

Favorite hobby outside of skating 

 Dance and tuba

Favorite movie 

 Phantom of the Opera

Favorite song 

 None.  I like them all.

Favorite TV show

 Once Upon a Time and Doctor Who

Favorite food 

 Spaghetti (no sauce) and pizza

Favorite quote

 “If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never spent the night with a mosquito.” “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”

Favorite joke 

 What do you call a dog with no legs?  Answer:  It doesn’t matter what you call him, he won’t come.

What advice would you give to a newbie?

 Be yourself.    

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

To Fly