Shelby Simmers Hungary for success
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A KEITH teenager is hoping to leap and spin to international success when she represents Great Britain later this month.
Shelby Simmers (15), an S4 pupil at Keith Grammar School, has been selected to represent her country in figure skating at the Avas Cup, an international skating competition being held in Hungary.
It will be her second international event, having represented GB last year at a competition held at the Olympic ice rink in Lillehammer, which hosted the winter Olympics in 1994. She has been skating since she was six and competing since she was seven and trains five times a week with Moray Figure Skating Club in Elgin.
Shelby, who lives with parents Mick and Pauline and sister Holly (19) at Drum Road, Keith, is not the only local skater hitting the heights. Kiernan O’Shea (10), from Mulben, a pupil at Milne’s Primary School in Fochabers, is also part of the 25-strong squad of skaters training at the ice rink at Moray Leisure Centre under the guidance of international coaches Graeme Summers and his sister Sue Summers-Farrell.
The Simmers family will fly out to Budapest in Hungary on March 31, travelling from there to the ice rink at Miskolc where Shelby will perform her short programme on Friday, April 1, followed by her free programme the next day.
