Melissa Alcorn's Daughter Wins Second National Gold Metal
Amanda Alcorn, the 16 year old daughter of our Vice President, Melissa Alcorn and Granddaughter of our CEO, David Anderson received her second National Championship Gold Medal for artistic roller skating on August 6th. Amanda's skating career began in January 2008 when she and her 12 year old sister Megan started taking lessons at our local rink, Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale, California.
She quickly moved from the beginning class, to the intermediate class and then on to the advanced class. In September 2008 she joined the "Junior Precision Team-In-Sync" and went on win many Gold Medals in competitions with local rinks in our region. The team worked their way to Nationals in August of 2009 and she won her first National Gold Medal. In 2010 she decided to focus on individual events, such as freestyle, dance and figures. She won many medals in local events. Her younger sister Megan was also competing in the local contests in the individual events and won medals as well.
This season, she was asked by the coaches join the team again, this time as a Senior Precision Team-In-Sync member. She continued to skate individual events as well along with her sister and even her mother. The "Senior Team-In-Sync" won a Gold Medal at our Southwest Regional Championship event in July, and went on the win the Gold Medal in August at the United States National Championship event that was held in Ft. Wayne Indiana in August. |
