Katherine Reutter In US Speed Skating
By shantanu, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, December 15, 2009
San Francisco- Katherine Reutter is hopeful about her participation in the 2010 Olympics. If she makes it, it will be the first time she will be included in the United States speed skating Olympics team. She will be participating in the short track speed skating category. Hailing from Champaign in Illinois, she completed her training at St. Louis, where she has recently returned to join as a training coach in the clinics.
Katherine Reutter’s track record in US speed skating has been outstanding in the short track speed skating category. In the last two World Championships, she had ranked among the top five. She ranks fifth in the world in the 500m category and sixth in the 1000m category. By the time she was 17, she had already participated in three United Sates Championships and had won gold medals. In 2007, she debuted in the senior category, and won the first World Cup medal of her career. Her win in the United States Championships was a clean sweep, as she had won gold medals in all of the 1000m, 3000m, 500m and 1500m categories.
Katherine Reutter admits that it is her number one dream to be standing at the Winter Olympics with a gold medal around her neck, soaking in the strains of the “star spangled banner” as it is played in the background. She admittedly loves to sing the national anthem, but it is something she is not allowed to do any more, as it supposedly unnerves her. She knows, though, that it is not going to be an easy feat, considering that she will have to compete on the tracks against Meng Wang, two time winner of the US speed skating.
