Ballet is junior Salome Mouliere’s favorite type of dancing and ice skating adds a little extra depth to the art that she loves. Working on her arabesque and feet positioning off the rink, increases her stability and performance on the rink.
“I love to dance on and off the rink as well as come up with my own choreography,” Mouliere said.
However, skating and ballet take up a lot of her time.
“I practice two to three hours six days a week, and I have to do an extra workout by myself,” Mouliere said. “On average, it is about three hours a day.”

The rink is a stress-free zone for Mouliere. However, when she gets off the rink, it’s time to catch up on studying and homework. By training so much for figure and synchronized skating, Mouliere has to manage her time with tremendous skill. Mouliere always makes sure that school is her top priority.
“If I have to skip skating because of school things, then I’m going to,” Mouliere said.
“School is more important, and even though I love skating I will skip it.”
Mouliere lives by very high standards, trying to be the best that she can be in school. By taking classes like AP Chemistry and AP Language, it is hard for her to miss school for her dance competitions. For Mouliere, it seems that it may always be like this.
Not only does she want to go to a good college, but the schools that she has chosen are close to some of the best skaters in the country.
“It’s hard to communicate with teachers,” Mouliere said. “But I’m used to it because I miss a lot of school.”
Mouliere missed the first few days of school due to a competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Even though she loved the escape from her first few days of her junior year, it was hard for her to catch up in her classes and this happens more often than one would think.
“If it’s a good season, I’ll have nine out-of-state competitions that I have to miss school for, and maybe one out-of-country” Mouliere said.
In 2018, Mouliere went to the National Austria Cup for synchronized skating. Even though she had to miss two weeks of school, she and her family were so proud that she was one of the few to be chosen by Team USA officials to represent the United States. Mouliere has a large support system that helps her to go to these competitions.

“She has seven coaches, plus two physcial trainers,” Ingrid Macquin-Mouliere, Mouliere’s mom, said.
The cost of ice skating is immense,travel, training and ice time. Yet Mouliere’s parents pay the price to see her happy on the ice.
With her large support system at the competitions and her friends sending her the homework from all her classes, Mouliere can both do well at competitions and in school. Not only does she have friends in school that help her, but she also has her teammates who all do homework together, because they all want to succeed.