Four Skating Medals and Counting for High School Student

Alyssa Mahatme, a freshman at Lake Placid High School, has a knack for excelling in both academics and sports. At thirteen years of age, she is a high honors student with a full load of academic courses, including many advanced-grade level courses. Despite her busy school schedule, Alyssa won three gold medals this year in figure skating in the Intermediate Ladies level at the Green Mountain Open in March, the Darien Open in April and the Moran Memorial Championships in August, respectively.

Most recently, she competed at the Mid-Atlantics Championships in September, finishing with a Bronze medal, and she will soon be competing at North Atlantic Regionals where, if she wins a medal, will be qualifying for the Sectional Championships.

Alyssa is most pleased with the fact that she not only skated a clean program, landed a double Lutz-double loop-double loop combination, she was the only Intermediate level skater to land a double axel in one of her competitions.

One would think that school and skating would be all this young lady could handle, but when she isn’t working hard, she enjoys cross country skiing, reading, traveling and hanging out with friends. In addition, she is an associate member of the Skating Club of Lake Placid and enjoys helping young children learn to skate through the SCLP's Learn to Skate program.

Coached by Gilberto Viadana and Michela Boschetto, Alyssa’s immediate goals include landing triple jumps this year. In the long-run, she hopes to qualify for a berth at the National Championships and to be invited to International competitions to compete with the best in the world. She believes that such experience would not only help her develop her fullest potential as an athlete, but also as an individual.