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...that she wanted to take a year off to train with an eye towards competing in the World Junior Squash Championships in July 2005. “I just wanted to single-mindedly be more focused on my squash,” says Lorentzen, who preserved her amateur status by not accepting prize money for any of her competitions. The summer after high school, she competed in the Pioneer Junior Open in Germany and the Dutch Junior Open, taking fifth and third. She spent the first half of last year at home in Connecticut working with a new coach, working...
...coach the ballroom team next week. Following her daughter’s lead, Mariko’s mother began taking ballroom lessons at a Waltham dance studio. While there, Mrs. Cantley took lessons from Peter Walker. After Mrs. Cantley introduced Peter and Mariko, the two began competing in professional-amateur competitions together.My partner, Peter Walker, and I started dancing together at the end of my junior year, when I stopped dancing with the Harvard ballroom team. We began as a Pro-Am couple, he as the professional and me the amateur. I paid him for training and competing with...
Dear FM’s amateur ethicist...
...love Sumo," says Levan Gorgadze, 18, a former judo champion from Tbilisi, Georgia. And he's good at it too. Gorgadze hit the amateur European sumo tour two years ago, and in this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen...
...Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist that would reveal the movie to be “his” documentary of his and his friends’ lives—that at least would explain the enterprise’s amateur production value.A few of the film’s scenes do succeed: The “Santa Fe” musical number is especially inspired. The cast performs the song in a crowded subway car and recruits unsuspecting commuters into their impromptu revelry. Keith Young’s spirited choreography...