Ledger-Enquirer.com | 04/29/2007 | Soldiers skate for speed

Ledger-Enquirer.com | 04/29/2007 | Soldiers skate for speed

By day he is surrounded by the quiet of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) library but after hours it's all about speed for Yamill Collazo. The information specialist and manager of the library is also the coach, teacher and mentor of GT Speed, an area inline roller skating team

Northwest Herald - Local News and Video for McHenry County, Illinois - Around Town: CL teen skates onto national stage

Northwest Herald - Local News and Video for McHenry County, Illinois - Around Town: CL teen skates onto national stage

For Hailey Leech, winning a race during an open skate at X-treme Wheels in Crystal Lake when she was 8 provided a springboard into the world of competitive inline speedskating.

Leech received a speedskating lesson as a prize for the win. Now 13 and an eighth grader at Lundahl Middle School in Crystal Lake, she will train for a week this month at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs as a member of the U.S. National Team.

Inline marathon returns to Dome

Some people might walk a full lap around the Metrodome's narrow upper concourse in search of a short bathroom line. On Saturday, though, laps around that concourse will have a much more official and pleasant purpose: the Metrodome Inline Marathon.

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Walt Disney World Inline Marathon Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Inline skaters from across the country will have the chance to experience the Walt Disney World Resort on wheels as part of the Walt Disney World Inline Marathon and Half Marathon on Sunday, Apr. 1 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

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ound Rock Welcomes Inline Skaters to the 4th Annual Texas Road Rash Inline Skate

ROUND ROCK, Texas, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Round Rock and
Hill Country Speed will host the 4th Annual Texas Road Rash Inline Skate
Marathon and Half Marathon on Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 8:30 am in Round
Rock's Old Settlers Park.

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Inline skating: 'A great sport for kids'

By JARED HASTINGS
jhastings@dnj.com
— Jared Hastings, 278-5167

Do you want to go fast? Get in line — or inline.

That's what more than 60 competitors from across the Southeast did Sunday, gathering at SkateCenter West on College Street in Murfreesboro for a USA Roller Sports inline speed skating meet.

Local club sets fast pace for young and old alike

Gerald Tang February 01, 2007

As someone who enjoyed instant success in a deceptively demanding sport, Trey Coomes will be the first to admit he was no stranger to looking bad.

At his best, Coomes is barely more than a blur as he whips around corners and glides at maximum speed lap after lap. But competing against the top inline speed skaters in the state can make for some disheartening moments.

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A world champion at 19 – for Nicole Begg it is a dream come true

The talented speedskater has jetted her way home to Timaru with a fistful of medals.

The year, by her own assessment has "been amazing", capped off by taking out the senior women's 10,000m points-elimination race at the World Inline Championships in Angyong, Korea.

The race is considered one of the hardest track races but Begg had little time to celebrate or reflect. She was racing to a bronze medal in the 1000m just 30 minutes later.

"I have to admit the bronze medal seemed real but I struggled to think I was a world champion – but it is a dream come true."

Begg also scored a silver in the 42km road marathon to give her a complete set of medals.

The outstanding results made her second overall on the track, with the points from an athlete's best three track results tallied, and she went one better on the road, named champion.

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Melvindale's Smith wins 500

Melvindale's Jessica Smith -- one of the latest inline skaters to switch to ice skating -- won the women's 500 meters Tuesday in the U.S. Allround Long Track Championships in West Allis, Wis.

Smith won the race in 41.04.2 seconds, beating Maria Lamb of River Falls, Wis. (41.12. 3).

Locally, Smith skates with the Roseville-based Wolverines inline club.

A world champion for the U.S. inline team, she qualified for the U.S. speedskating team in October with an eye on the 2010 Vancouver Games.

"It's not that ice is more exciting than inline," Smith told InlinePlanet.com then. "I'm just ready for a new challenge. And this is a way to get to the Olympics."

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Switzerland for skating's supercoach

Bill Begg's career as an inline skating coach continues to blossom with his appointment as the Swiss national coach.

The 60-year-old Timaru man shows no signs of slowing down and will return to Europe in March having been at the helm of the German national team for the last two years.

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