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Jo Ann Schneider Farris began ice skating in 1964. In 1975, she won a silver medal in the United States National Figure Skating Championships and became a United States Figure Skating Association Gold Medallist in 1976. In 1983, she began her career as an ice skating coach, and has trained skaters of all ages and levels. When in-line skates came out in the early 1980s, Jo Ann and her husband, Dan, were among the first to buy the original Rollerblades, and enjoyed all the attention the skates attracted when they skated on them in the streets, beaches and parks in California. In 1995, the Pic Frame Skate was developed, and Jo Ann was one of the first to buy the product. She has spent the last few years working on learning to re-create everything she can do on the ice on the in-line skate. She lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her husband and three children, Joel, Rebekah, and Annabelle. She teaches both ice and in-line skating, and directs and coordinates skating programs at both the Ice Arena at Chapel Hills Mall and at Honnen Ice Rink at Colorado College. Jo Ann is a graduate of Colorado College, and holds a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from California State University at Long Beach. When Jo Ann is not coaching skating or jumping and spinning on her Pic Frame Skates, she enjoys cross-country skiing, swimming, creating web sites, playing hockey with her son Joel, in-line skating outside with her family, and playing and singing with her husband and children. |
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