Selig says she started to become more serious about skating when she was about eight years old.
“When I started to land more complex jumps and going to competitions more often,” says Selig.
She can now land a double axel. Double axels include two and a half rotations during a jump.
Inspiration
Selig is a solo, competitive skater, she doesn’t participate in pairs or dancing but she loves watching all types of figure skating.
“I love Kaetlyn Osmond,” says Selig. “Shawn Sawyer is one of my favourite male skaters as well.”
Osmond is a young skater from small town Newfoundland and Selig says she is inspired by that.
“I relate to her,” says Selig.
Selig also likes Osmond’s musical tastes and style.
Contemporary music is one of Selig’s favourite things to skate to, she’s also working on an interpretive program to modern music for fun. The interpretive program is not based on technical jumps or spins but rather on the overall performance.
Balancing school
Selig is in her last year at Liverpool Regional High School and her schedule is pretty packed. Besides teaching and practicing figure skating, Selig is working on scholarship applications, she’s on several other sports teams, and she works part time at Memories Café in Liverpool.
“I’ve worked there since they’ve opened,” says Selig. “It’s great, (my boss) works around my schedule, I can’t imagine having another boss as great as her.”
She recently took a course to give her a higher certification in the CanSkate program, which means she can teach higher level students and not just the beginners.
“It’s actually really hard to be a figure skating coach and it’s really expensive but there’s all these different courses you can take,” says Selig.
Selig says she may continue to upgrade her coaching certificates, but has not decided how far she would like to go.
To stay in shape and to keep in good form, Selig was traveling back and forth to Halifax in the summer to practice. Since Queens Place Emera Centre keeps their ice in year round, she no longer has to leave Liverpool for practice. She trains up to 15 hours a week. Selig also works out at least an hour a day on the days she doesn’t skate.
Skating has taken Selig to some interesting places including New York City where she spent a month practicing with some top figure skating coaches.
“I went with really great coaches, some from the Olympics,” says Selig. “It was amazing.”
Though she loves skating, Selig doesn’t intend to choose a university based on their sports programs. She is looking to get into sciences but she says figure skating would be a bonus if she ends up at a school with a varsity team.
Selig says she started to become more serious about skating when she was about eight years old.
“When I started to land more complex jumps and going to competitions more often,” says Selig.
She can now land a double axel. Double axels include two and a half rotations during a jump.
Inspiration
Selig is a solo, competitive skater, she doesn’t participate in pairs or dancing but she loves watching all types of figure skating.
“I love Kaetlyn Osmond,” says Selig. “Shawn Sawyer is one of my favourite male skaters as well.”
Osmond is a young skater from small town Newfoundland and Selig says she is inspired by that.
“I relate to her,” says Selig.
Selig also likes Osmond’s musical tastes and style.
Contemporary music is one of Selig’s favourite things to skate to, she’s also working on an interpretive program to modern music for fun. The interpretive program is not based on technical jumps or spins but rather on the overall performance.
Balancing school
Selig is in her last year at Liverpool Regional High School and her schedule is pretty packed. Besides teaching and practicing figure skating, Selig is working on scholarship applications, she’s on several other sports teams, and she works part time at Memories Café in Liverpool.
“I’ve worked there since they’ve opened,” says Selig. “It’s great, (my boss) works around my schedule, I can’t imagine having another boss as great as her.”
She recently took a course to give her a higher certification in the CanSkate program, which means she can teach higher level students and not just the beginners.
“It’s actually really hard to be a figure skating coach and it’s really expensive but there’s all these different courses you can take,” says Selig.
Selig says she may continue to upgrade her coaching certificates, but has not decided how far she would like to go.
To stay in shape and to keep in good form, Selig was traveling back and forth to Halifax in the summer to practice. Since Queens Place Emera Centre keeps their ice in year round, she no longer has to leave Liverpool for practice. She trains up to 15 hours a week. Selig also works out at least an hour a day on the days she doesn’t skate.
Skating has taken Selig to some interesting places including New York City where she spent a month practicing with some top figure skating coaches.
“I went with really great coaches, some from the Olympics,” says Selig. “It was amazing.”
Though she loves skating, Selig doesn’t intend to choose a university based on their sports programs. She is looking to get into sciences but she says figure skating would be a bonus if she ends up at a school with a varsity team.
