Price, Paul – Interview

Paul Price
3-time World Pairs Champion/USARS Hall of Fame

What was your significance to artistic roller skating?
What a great question to start this interview. I guess in some way any athlete always wants to leave his mark on his sport. I would have to say that for me it was attaining the highest quality and athleticism I could achieve at a time when artistic roller skating was at its peak. People may only remember the World Championship medals I won or the way Tina (Kneisley-Dulong) and I pushed pairs skating, but I considered myself an individual athlete as well as a pairs skater. Although I never achieved skating as a single skater on the World stage, I was proud during the 1980 and 1981 season to be the only male skater to make it into finals in three World Class events (pairs, freestyle, and figures).