It’s been 10 years since four figure skaters from Ellenton stunned the sport and reached the Winter Olympics. Jeremy Barrett of Venice has watched his wife battle cancer.
It was just a photo, nothing personal, an unremarkable flash in time.
Jeremy Barrett was an 11-year-old kid from Venice when he walked up behind Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in men’s figure skating, and his half-sister, Shauna Andrews, and snapped the shot. Hamilton — appearing at a Clearwater event in 1996 — was so caught off guard he wasn’t even looking into the camera.
Barrett kept the photo for 14 years, apparently for inspiration, because he took it with him to Vancouver, where he competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in pairs figure skating. His sister snuck into the NBC booth and gave the photo to Hamilton, a popular figure skating analyst, who showed it on national TV and then kept it.
Hard to believe, but a decade has passed since the Vancouver Olympics, where four figure skaters who trained in Ellenton changed people’s perceptions of winter sports. Figure skaters from Florida? Anything is possible now. Barrett and his partner, Caydee Denney from Ocala, finished in 13th place overall. Mark Ladwig and his partner Amanda Evora finished 10th.
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No one among the four still competes, though all are still involved in the sport. Perhaps no one has faced more challenges than Barrett over the last 10 years.
On April 30, 2016, he married Lucy Galleher, a former competitive figure skater. About a year later she began experiencing nose bleeds and shortness of breath. Tests revealed leukemia. She was six months pregnant at the time.
The couple’s son — Watson Barrett — was delivered six weeks early so Lucy could receive the proper dosage of chemotherapy. While pregnant, the dosage was too low. Among the early callers to offer support was Hamilton, who has survived testicular cancer as well as three brain tumors.
She was treated at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, and a bone marrow donor was found to save her life. Her cancer has been in remission for two years, and the family lives in Park City, Utah, where Jeremy is a figure skating coach and Watson is a healthy 2 year old.
“The things I saw her go through in the hospital and overcome were remarkable,’’ Barrett said.
Jeremy and Lucy recently became ambassadors for the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation, which is partnering with Moffitt Cancer Center for a skating event at Amalie Arena on March 29. The show will feature local skaters as well as past Olympians. The proceeds will benefit both entities in the fight against cancer.
There is a photo on Hamilton’s foundation website, though it is not of an 11-year-old kid from Venice posing with an Olympic champion.
It is of a man in a hospital, kissing his bald wife while she looks down and smiles at the newborn in her arms, and he knows better than most that anything is possible.
Contact columnist Chris Anderson at chris.anderson@heraldtribune.com.
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