Archive for August, 2008

Kimmie to Skate at “An Evening of Hope”

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Two-time U.S. figure skating champion Evan Lysacek will be joined by an all-star skating lineup when he hosts “An Evening of Hope,” a show benefiting The Stephanie Joseph Memorial Fund in collaboration with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois.

The show is set for 7 p.m. on Sept. 27 at the Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva, Ill., not far from where Lysacek was born and raised in Naperville, Ill. Lysacek decided to organize this show as a tribute to his friend, Stephanie Joseph, who died at 21 in February after battling soft tissue sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, since she was 8.

Joining Lysacek are Olympic ice dancing silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, world champion and 2007 national champion Kimmie Meissner, U.S. silver medalist Ryan Bradley, 2007 pairs champions Brooke Castile and Ben Okolski, world ice dancing champion Shae-Lynn Bourne and national champion Rudy Galindo.