Cathy and Chris Reed Capture Novice Dance Gold
by Daphne Backman
 (St. Charles, Mo., 1/9/05) - Cathy Reed and Chris Reed (SC of Morris) performed an innovative program to the music “Concierto de Aranjuez” to win the gold medal in novice ice dancing Monday afternoon at Family Arena.
Their performance included intricate choreography and several lifts in which Cathy held her skate blade to her head. The Reeds training environment contains several senior teams including the reigning World silver medalists, Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov.
“It’s a great opportunity to train with all those senior teams,” Cathy said. “We see them and train with them every day, doing their compulsories. They’re so fast. It’s a great opportunity.”
Reed and Reed are excited to be able to attend the Team 2010 novice training this week and to take part in the championships exhibition.
“We will be skating our free dance at the exhibition,” Cathy said.
Madison Hubbell and Keiffer Hubbell (Ann Arbor FSC) skated a strong, expressive program to a tango medley and missed the gold by just more than one point, possibly due to a problem on their dance spin. Their tango music was dramatic and powerful.
“We always really like dramatic music,” Madison said. “Our coaches picked it out and we liked it.”
”Our coaches spend a lot of time looking for music to find something original,” said Keiffer.
Samantha Tomarchio (Columbia FSC) & Nicholas Sinchak (Bowie FSC) skated a dramatic interpretation to “Carmen.” This program was special to them as their coach, Genrikh Sretenski, had skated to this music when he was competing.
“Even though I try my hardest to portray it like he did it, but I mean he took the play from beginning the end,” Sinchak said. “The beginning with love and then when they got in a fight and until he killed her.”
Tomarchio agreed.
“He (Sretenski) really made the story come alive and when I’m doing it, I feel, especially the last part of our free dance I get chills. It feels like I’m Carmen.”
As for next season, Tomarchio and Sinchak will move up to junior and are looking forward to creating a new free dance and for the first time an original dance, with their coach.
Finishing in fourth, Michelle Pennington and Brad Coulter, a new team this season, performed to music from Cirque du Soleil. Pennington moved to Dallas to train with Coulter under Warren and Olivia Maxwell. Pennington and Coulter’s free dance was choreographed by Ruslan Goncharov.
“It was amazing," Coulter said. "Just wearing their costumes and having lessons from them was just incredible."
“We’re so excited to be here at this competition,” said Pennington.
Shannon Wingle and Ryan Devereaux finished fifth. Wingle last competed at the U.S. Championships in 2003, when she and then partner, James Warren, won the bronze medal. Devereaux finished fifth at the 2005 U.S. Junior Championships at the juvenile level with Elizabeth Susko.
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