In The News

January 13, 2006
Pettit Speed Skaters Shine At U.S. Olympic Trials

The Pettit National Ice Center, a U.S. Olympic Training Facility, is proud to announce the success of several speed skaters from the U.S. Olympic Trials in Salt Lake City. There were some great performances by athletes who train at the Pettit Center on a daily basis,
year-round.

Making her Winter Olympic debut in Turin, Italy is Margaret Crowley. Crowley, a native of Evanston, Illinois, has trained daily at the Pettit Center for the past few years with her training partner Nancy Swider-Peltz, Jr. The two Illinois products have trained under the watchful eye of former Olympian Nancy Swider-Peltz, Sr. while at the Pettit Center. Crowley will skate the 3000m along with Catherine Raney, who hails from Elm Grove.

Dave C/ Nancy Sr. Quote

Other skaters who have earned a place on the U.S. Olympic Long Track team, includes: Verona, Wisconsin’s Casey FitzRandolph (3rd Olympics), Kip Carpenter of Brookfield, Wisconsin (2nd Olympics), Janesville, Wisconsin’s Tucker Fredricks (1st Olympics), River Falls, Wisconsin’s Maria Lamb (1st Olympics) Raney of Elm Grove, Wisconsin (3rd Olympics) and of course West Allis, Wisconsin’s Chris Witty. This will be Witty’s 5th Olympics and 4th Winter Games (she also competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in cycling).

Ryan Leveille, a skater from Atlanta, Georgia, was a member of the Pettit Center Short Track team since June 2005 and first attempted long track skating on the Pettit’s Olympic Oval

Other skaters http://olyparks.com/UOO/SpeedSkating_results.asp

For more information on any of the speed skaters listed above or any other skaters that train at the Pettit Center, please contact Rob Multerer by phone at 414.266.0100, ext. 132 or by email at rmulterer@thepettit.com.


Contact: Rob Multerer
Director of Operations
Pettit National Ice Center
414.266.0100, ext. 132
rmulterer@thepettit.com