SportraitSportraitWhen it comes to figure skating competitions, seven-year-old Kelsey Nagy doesn't know the meaning of the word quit.
"Last year I skated with chicken pox - but I was just getting rid of them," Nagy says modestly. At last year's Weyburn First competition, the young member of the Weyburn Skating Club forgot her entire program but performed well enough to place no less than fifth out of 10 participants.
Nagy is no stranger to life on the ice. "When my mom first put me on skates I was two," she says, adding that her motivation to do well is a strong one. "Because I want to get medals," she says with a smile.
There's more to the sport than that, of course. She enjoys being on the ice - so much that she considered playing hockey next year - and has made numerous friends through the club in addition to her friends from Assiniboia Park Elementary School. Her younger sister Jayme also skates with the club.
Nagy, a former resident of Kipling, enjoys playing baseball in the summer months when the only ice in town is floating in a cool drink. She is thinking about playing soccer next year, but figure skating remains her favourite sport.
It demands a lot of time, however. Nagy must spend hours at the rink several days a week practicing jumps and spins, which are her favourite moves. She doesn't mind, though.
"Otherwise if I go home I'll be totally bored," she says.
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