Sports
Acton Figure Skater's a National Champion
Iris Zhao, a pre-teen figure skating phenom from Acton, took first place in the Juvenile Girls division at the U.S Figure Skating Championships in Boston.
She went. She saw. She conquered.
Iris Zhao, a pre-teen figure skating phenom from Acton, competed against the nation's best at the U.S Figure Skating Championships in Boston. And she won.
With a score of 56.36, Iris took first place in the Juvenile Girls Free Skate competition. And now she's a National Champion.
>>See a breakdown of the scoring here.
Iris trains at the Colonial Figure Skating Club in Boxborough, where Acton Patch caught up with her during a training session this past fall as she prepared for the competition season.
A middle-schooler here in Acton, Iris's National Championship capped off an impressive run which included a second-place finish at New England Regionals and a fourth-place finish at Eastern Sectionals.
>>Read Acton Patch's profile of Iris Zhao.
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