Palisadian Becky Hughes, a junior at Marymount High, has advanced to the 2006 State Farm United States Figure Skating Championships to be held January 7-15 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her fourth-place finish in the Junior Ladies Division at the Pacific Coast Sectional Competition held in Roseville, California, in November, qualified her for the national competition where she will perform against the top 12 skaters in the country at the Junior Ladies level. There is only one other competition level above Juniors, the Senior Ladies, from which skaters qualify for the Olympics. The winner at the U.S. Championships will automatically qualify as a member of the 2006-2007 U.S. National Team B and the second- through fifth-place skaters will be placed on Team C. The International Committee will also assign the top finishers to international competitions later in the season. Hughes has skated since she was seven years old and now trains alongside many other Olympic hopefuls at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo . She is a member of the Junior Board of Directors of the All-Year Figure Skating Club, which competes within the Southwest Pacific Region’one of the most competitive regions in the country, having produced Olympic figure skaters Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen. At Marymount, Hughes volunteers in the Admissions Office as a student Ambassador.
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