NT skaters respond to crash
Amber Glenn, the 25-year-old openly queer Plano native who defended her U.S. Figure Skating championship last week in Wichita, Kan., in social media posts said she is “in complete shock” following the American Airlines crash Wednesday night (Jan.
29) that took the lives of several skaters, coaches and family members who had just attended a development camp that followed the national championships. “I’m sorry I don’t even know what to say.
Young skaters, coaches, parents, so many bright lights in our community. My heart goes out to the victims and their loved ones,” Glenn said in an Instagram post this morning (Thursday, Jan.
30). North Texas Ashley Cain-Gribble, a former Olympian and national champion whose pairs skating partner was non-binary skater Timothy LeDuc, said in a social media post that she had worked with several of the young skaters on the flight and that she “can’t even process this horror.” American Eagle Flight 5342, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members from Wichita, Kan., to Washington, D.C., collided in mid-air near Reagan International Airport with a U.S.
