About Cindy

Professional Figure Skating Instruction and Services

Cindy brings 25 years of skating experience to the ice. Her main competitive career was out of the New England region, representing the Colonial Figure Skating Club of Boxborough, MA. There, she was coached by former Olympians and national and international level coaches. She completed her Gold (Senior) level tests in Figures and Freestyle in 1989. She was the Intermediate Ladies Regional Champion in 1984, a New England regional medalist in Senior Ladies Figures in 1994, and an Eastern Sectional competitor in 1984 and 1994. She also participated in competitive "precision team" skating (now known as synchronized skating)--competing at the sectional and national level as a member of the Nashoba Valley Colonials. Cindy came to Oklahoma in 1995. Representing the Oklahoma City Figure Skating Club, she competed in both the 1997 Southwestern Regionals (with a silver medal in Senior Figures) and the 1997 Midwestern Sectionals. She traveled to Lake Placid New York for the 2000 Adult Nationals competition, where she earned bronze medals in the Adult Masters Figures and Adult Masters Interpretive events.

Cindy spent one year as a bronze level test judge for USFS. She also has 15 years of club show experience with Colonial FSC and OKCFSC. In 1990 she tried out for and was accepted into Disney on Ice, but opted to go to college instead.

Cindy spent her first year of teaching in Massachusetts in 1990 as part of the Collegiate Skating Institute, a program that allowed skaters to earn money for college without forfeiting their amateur status. She took a break from teaching for a number of years to attend college and the first few years of graduate school. She began teaching here in OK in 1999. Since then, she has taken students through the Intermediate level, and looks forward to taking her students beyond.

Off the ice, Cindy earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Planetary Science from Caltech in 1994, where she took part in scientific research regarding earthquakes and helped to pick out image sites for the Mars Observer space probe. She achieved her Masters of Science from OU in 1998, for her work on understanding the physics of hurricanes. Her research on using satellite measurements of Earth lightning to learn more about how to interpret lighting data from Jupiter earned her a Ph.D. from OU in 2001, and she has been an active participant in projects to gather data about severe weather (tornadoes and lightning) for many years. When she isn't on the ice, Cindy is now working on her lifelong goal of becoming a science fiction and fantasy author. She lives in Norman with her husband, Seth.