The seats are packed, the change rooms full with ice skating teams going through last minute checkups Hair, make up, tights, costumes, and skates! And as the top NSW junior team the Ice crystals stand in a huddle five minutes before we skate, I remember back to when we first skated as a synchronized ice skating team.

I remember learning the routines, those early morning practices with the on ice fights over the smallest things. Where the coaches are yelling at us to skate faster, bend your knees, use those edges, heads up, ultimately to bring us to our goal, to skate as one.

But it is not about just winning gold and going overseas, it is more than that. Its that feeling that you get just before an exam or a really important job interview, you feel like you are going to be sick and then just before you have time t...

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