Anyone who has ever bought a pair of new skates can tell you that it takes a while to break them in.
That’s why 19-year-old Julia Scott was so upset when her custom $2,000 figure skates were stolen from her grandmother’s car Friday night, one month ahead of her on-ice audition for Disney on Ice.
On Sunday, Scott shopped for a new skates. They won’t come cheap as a new pair costs well over $1,000.
“It is actually really quite upsetting,” says Scott’s mother Nancy. “As a single mom, we don’t have the budget.”
Scott’s family pitched in to buy her new skates, and now she has to worry about breaking them in ahead of an audition that she says means everything to her.
“New skates were not at all in the schedule,” says Scott, a lifelong Disney fan who first started taking skating lessons when she was six years old.
Scott says she hopes her old skates will pop up again, but until then she’ll work to get her new skates ready for her big audition, which will take place when the popular touring ice show comes to Vancouver in November.
“I’m going to skate as much as I can, wear them at home, live in these skates,” she says.
Her coach Shauna Proke says losing a pair of skates can be devastating for an accomplished skater, but she’s confident Scott will come through.
“Those are the tools of her trade, those skates,” says Proke, a former Disney on Ice performer. “It’s just one more level of stress she just didn’t really need right now. I have complete faith that she’s going to pull it off and she’ll find some skates and do great.”
“This is a dream that is completely attainable.”
-with files from Jennifer Palma
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