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...Davison, a professional skater who spent much of her high school days competing against well-known champions like Dorothy Hamill and Elaine Zayak, has picked up a hockey stick and donned bulkier skates for the Harvard women's team...
Once a year, figure skaters in the Harvard community get a chance to perform some of their most intricate stunts in the Eliot House-sponsored "Evening of Champions," and then they seem to just disappear. But Elise Davison, a freshman who made her Jimmy Fund show debut this year, is still...
...women, Davison spends a lot of the game time on the bench, mainly because most of the squad played hockey in high school, and she has to catch up on her stick work. She started playing hockey at Harvard "because I wanted to be in some sport," the athletically-built Davison explained, confident about picking up a stick for the first time. She didn't think that learning a collection of new skills would be that difficult. "Once you're athletic, you can play practically any sport," she said...
Harvard women's hockey Coach John Dooley said of Davison, "There's still some question of her eligibility for our squad, because of her professional status Even then, she still has to develop a lot of the wrist and upper body skill hockey requires. But her skating is solid...
...blondes, with a Dorothy Hamill haircut, brought the same confidence to her figure skating. At age 10, she put on her first pair of skates when a friend had asked her to come skating. Davison then proceeded to attempt jumps and spins, despite having little idea of what she was supposed to be doing When her mother later saw her trying similar stunts, Davison got her first skating lesson. When she graduated from high school, she was averaging 15-20 lessons a week, plus coaching sessions on weekends...