DETROIT — Figure skaters Candice Tamakloe and Angela Blocker-Loyd have turned their passion project into reality.
The Dream Detroit Skating Academy co-founders both started skating when they were young girls and always found themselves returning to the rink. They met when they were both skating for the same club outside Detroit and reunited last year as adults.."And she's like, 'What do you think about starting a skating program, a skating club?' I'm like, 'Yeah, I've always wanted to do that. I never knew how I was going to do it, how I was going to go about doing it.
Even though Dream Detroit offers kids' sessions, adults are welcome as well, whether they're complete beginners or stepping back onto the ice after a long hiatus. One of the main goals of the academy is also to introduce skaters to opportunities outside the Olympics. "There are a lot of great skaters that have come from Michigan, but there has never been a skater that has come from Detroit," Blocker-Loyd said."We want to bring in those kids and teach them and then we want to mold them and hopefully have a skater come out of Detroit, a professional skater that everyone knows and they can say, 'I came from a rink right in the city.'"
"These kids should be able to come, be comfortable, and not have ugly looks and remarks said to them," Blocker-Loyd added, noting that she didn't experience racial issues in skating until she started coaching.
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