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Created in 2013, Skate Guard is a blog that focuses on overlooked and underappreciated areas of the history of figure skating, whether that means a topic completely unknown to most readers or a new look at a well-known skater, time period, or event. There's plenty to explore, so pour yourself a cup of coffee and get lost in the fascinating and fabulous history of everyone's favourite winter sport!

Billy Lawe

William Charters Lawe 

November 15, 1963-March 26, 1995 

Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine

Born in Santa Monica, California, Billy Lawe started training at the Broadmoor Skating Club in the late seventies. After winning the Midwestern junior men's title, he made his national debut at the 1983 U.S. Championships in Pittsburgh, placing tenth. The following year in Salt Lake City, he lept all the way to first, winning the U.S. junior men's title. Two years later in Lake Placid, he finished second in the U.S. Collegiate Championships. He later toured with Walt Disney's World on Ice and represented America twice at the World Professional Championships in Jaca, Spain. He passed away in Colorado Springs on March 26, 1995 at the age of thirty-one, leaving behind his partner Robert Wagenhoffer.

Photos courtesy Kitty DeLio Laforte (left) and Debbie Might (right)

*Source for inclusion: National AIDS Memorial, The Names Project Memorial Quilt 

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