Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.