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Show Gomiiotiliuo Igg gitalin j By DAVE WIGHAM "In competitive ice skating the kids parents give the support sup-port but the responsibility of the coach to give the confidence." con-fidence." THOSE ARE the words of Kns Sherard. and who knows more about coaching ice skaters than Kris. Miss Sherard is the coach of Suzie Brasher, the local girl who just won the Junior World Championship in France. Kns went on to explain that the skater and the average person on the street can't always al-ways see what's wrong with a skater. The coach can notice little things, like wrong hip movement or lack of heighth on a jump. MISS SHERARD doesn't feel any added pressure because she is coaching Suzie, ' she really doesn't get any special treatment from me or any of the other skaters I teach. Suzie helps them and they listen but that's about as far as it goes." Just how did Kris end up teaching and coaching Suzie in the first place? Kris explained that a friend of hers, whom she taught with in Illinois referred her to Suzie's mother. MRS. BRASHER then called Kris and asked her to teach her daughter. It was two years before Kris actually made it out to Utah. She was on her way to California to visit her brother and decided to stop in Utah and see Suzie and the facilities available to her. KRIS INDICATED that probably the hardest aspect of skating to handle is the mental men-tal pressures involved. I .... . 1 i KRISTIE SHERARD "I skated with Janet Lynn and she really had a difficult time with the mental aspect of skatinR. So really it's not just the young skaters that haw a hard time the seasoned veterans go through mental strains as well." WHAT MAKES a great skater from an average skater? 'There's alot of good skaters around, but the really great ones have a style all of their own. They alt have that little special something People can just see a nice smooth style in the great skaters", explained Kris. IN RECENT years the judges of the ice skating competitions have come under alot of fire, many people feel politics are very much a part of the judges decision. Miss Sherard doesn't fully agree with that point of view. She indicated that politics a certain extent buiVTy ''-the ''-the judges are lra, judges. lc THEY FIRST go f"in,ng school (h1' 1 icomemal ...:,, . judges they various compel,,,, ," out test shee,5 the sheets at of those rompe,,, l:" theyareonther, , ' Kirs noted thai orT won't decide the w, competition. (hert '" V ' judges in the majors."'' events. ' -i AS MENTIONED b Kns is a talented ska. '' self, she has been s4i - about 15 vears no, ' teaching for the pisl , '' In 1968 Kris Midwestern Chanson ,.' year later was a cotnrr , ' ' the Nationals. IS BEING a voune disadvantage dis-advantage or dia.j. ; "My age miftnt C ' problem but I don i . .', People might thmk ir ..' coach knows more -skating, but a mr.K': knows all the ne :. ' that are now beirg throughout the worm'" " j MIS SHI IURD ! skaters have to alot to become one o( skaters in the world v. - i the nation. "About all Suzie ; . ! skate and pn to scrv. . that's her choice Sr .. at the rink about 6 a T , skates until Sam thr '. ' to school. After sch,. back to the ice and tfy-to tfy-to do the studies " TO BECOME the .. anything in this w-orid you have to make sac-and sac-and dedicate yourvil it |