Cory Haynos U.S. Determine Skating/YouTube
Cory Haynos was the toast of the U.S. Nationwide Improvement Camp simply hours earlier than he was killed when American Airlines flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac River.
Haynos, 16, was considered one of roughly 40 skaters who was invited to take part in a particular coaching session on the camp on Wednesday, January 29, a showcase for the brightest younger skaters the nation has to supply.
Through the session, Haynos impressively hit a triple axel, considered one of determine skating’s most troublesome jumps, in entrance of the esteemed panel of coaches.
“I’d been watching him work on all of it week, simply combating to do it,” Mark Mitchell, one of many coaches on the camp, instructed The New York Times on Thursday, January 30. “So after I noticed him, I simply mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh! Cory simply landed the triple axel!’ And he was so completely satisfied, simply so completely satisfied.”
Determine skater Maxim Naumov boarded a flight out of Wichita simply days earlier than his dad and mom have been killed when their American Airways aircraft crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 29. Naumov, 23, competed on the U.S. Determine Skating Championships in Wichita on Sunday, January 26, together with his dad and mom, Evgenia Shishkova and […]
Mitchell mentioned the “stage of pleasure was off the charts” on the camp, which concluded the identical day Cory and his dad and mom, Roger and Stephanie Haynos, all died within the aircraft crash that additionally took the lifetime of at the least 13 different determine skaters.
Cory was a member of the Skating Membership of Northern Virginia, who mourned the lack of the determine skaters on Thursday.
“This heartbreaking accident has shaken the native skating neighborhood in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia — in addition to in Boston and throughout the nation,” the Membership wrote via Instagram.
The Skating Membership of Boston additionally misplaced six members of their neighborhood within the aircraft crash, together with 16-year-old determine skaters Spencer Lane and Jinna Han.
“Our hearts exit to households, mates and family members mourning this unimaginable grief,” the Skating Membership of Northern Virginia’s put up continued. “As we proceed to course of this tragedy, we honor the reminiscences of these now we have misplaced — their ardour for the game, the friendships they cultivated and the enjoyment they dropped at the ice. Their presence at our rinks and in our neighborhood is deeply felt, and their absence is indescribable.”
In a Facebook post on Thursday shared by Roger’s cousin Matthew Alan LaRaviere, Cory’s father was remembered as a person with “absolute love for his household and dedication to offering solely the most effective for his spouse and youngsters.”
“Roger and his spouse died flying house with their son from the US Ice Skating Championships in Kansas,” the put up learn. “Cory was a tremendous skater with a really vivid future with the US Skating Crew. Lately in a dialog with Roger, he was enthusiastic about his son’s future and appeared honored that my spouse and I have been planning to journey north to see Cory carry out. All of us have been anticipating Cory to signify our nation within the US Olympics sooner or later.”
In complete, 67 folks died in Wednesday’s aircraft crash, together with the aforementioned determine skaters.
