Post by lanie on Oct 12, 2008 1:09:08 GMT -5
Basic Information
Character's Full Name: Alice Iseabail Ordway
Nickname: Allie, Al
Date of Birth: September 22, 1982
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Height: 5'2 1/2"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Family: Mother Anna (born January 20, 1949). Father Ross (born September 1, 1949). Siblings: Louise (March 13, 1976), Alexander (May 28, 1978), Sophia (October 17, 1985), Philip (February 6, 1989), and Victoria (December 6, 1992).
Education: MA Hons Psychology, The University of Edinburgh (2004)
Personality: If you looked up the definition 'outgoing' in the dictionary, chances are everything applies to Alice. She's excitable and happy-go-lucky, the kind of person who's almost always in a good mood. She is also very serious about her Catholic faith and is generally a conservative, traditional person. She's honest and blunt to the point of being rude and tactless, though figures it's someone else's problem if it bothers them. Alice is perky and can be a lot of fun, although she tends to be bossy.
Skating
Started Skating: 1986
Discipline (men, ladies, pairs, dance): Pairs
Competitive Status (Eligible, Professional, sitting out): Professional
Country Represented: Great Britain
Competitive Highlights: two time Olympic gold medalist (2006, 2008), two time Olympic bronze medalist (2002, 2004), three-time World champion (2005-2008), five-time European champion (2003-2008), ten-time British national champion (1998-2008)
Character's Full Name: Alice Iseabail Ordway
Nickname: Allie, Al
Date of Birth: September 22, 1982
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Height: 5'2 1/2"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Family: Mother Anna (born January 20, 1949). Father Ross (born September 1, 1949). Siblings: Louise (March 13, 1976), Alexander (May 28, 1978), Sophia (October 17, 1985), Philip (February 6, 1989), and Victoria (December 6, 1992).
Education: MA Hons Psychology, The University of Edinburgh (2004)
Personality: If you looked up the definition 'outgoing' in the dictionary, chances are everything applies to Alice. She's excitable and happy-go-lucky, the kind of person who's almost always in a good mood. She is also very serious about her Catholic faith and is generally a conservative, traditional person. She's honest and blunt to the point of being rude and tactless, though figures it's someone else's problem if it bothers them. Alice is perky and can be a lot of fun, although she tends to be bossy.
Skating
Started Skating: 1986
Discipline (men, ladies, pairs, dance): Pairs
Competitive Status (Eligible, Professional, sitting out): Professional
Country Represented: Great Britain
Competitive Highlights: two time Olympic gold medalist (2006, 2008), two time Olympic bronze medalist (2002, 2004), three-time World champion (2005-2008), five-time European champion (2003-2008), ten-time British national champion (1998-2008)
The middle child of a large and loving Catholic family, Alice grew up wanting nothing. All of the Ordway children were spoiled by their lawyer father and stay-at-home mother, who was more strict than their gregarious dad. She did everything: gymnastics, skating, art, music, dance. You name it, Alice probably tried it; but it was skating she loved, and skating she was talented in. Or so people said. She started at the age of four, and started seriously skating in group lessons and with a private coach at the age of six. She was destined to be a skater (or so she thinks). At the age of ten she started skating with Christian Dwight, thanks to a pairs clinic put on by NISA in the summer of 1992.
The following year it became clear that they would continue skating together, mostly because they had become such fast friends, despite their age and personality differences. Christian's saintly mother kept driving him back and forth for skating, and soon enough they were competing internationally as Juniors. They didn't do so well, but they did win the British National title in 1996, when Alice was 14 and Christian was 18. They won the World Junior title that year. After that, things got more complicated. Christian started university in St Andrews, close to Edinburgh. They won their first senior national title in 1997, went to the European and World Championships, having dismal finishes in both events--but the most important thing was, there was a lot of potential. They were being touted as possibly the next "big ones" in pairs skating, perhaps by the 2002 Olympics. They attended the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, finishing a very respectable seventh, when Christian was 19 and Alice was just 16.
Their first international medal came in 2000, when they won the silver medal at the European Championships and placed fourth at the World Championships. It was impressive. Their skating career carried on in the same vein, as they started winning medals--mostly bronzes--in most of the events they entered. At the 2002 Olympics, they won the bronze medal, the first medal ever to be won by a British pair since 1908. It was a big deal. An even bigger deal, at least in Alice's personal life, also happened at those Olympics. She never really was into having boyfriends, she was just too busy for that crap. And she was too religious, not wanting to get herself involved when she knew it could ruin her emotionally and spiritually. It didn't help she had a thing for her partner. The night of their long program, after the medal ceremony and the interviews, they were talking in his room in the Athletes' Village. She was the one who told him she liked him (she didn't use the word love), but he told her he was pretty sure he was in love with her. They decided the best thing would be to be in a relationship, but not tell anyone. They kissed. A few days later, caught up in the moment, they slept together. Alice regretted it.
In 2004, Alice graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Psychology. Why? She had to go to college, then damn, she better pick something she thought was interesting. She wasn't very academically inclined, hated school, and was just glad it was over so they could focus on skating. When their relationship off the ice took off, their career did too: they won just about everything they entered starting in the fall of 2005, including the Olympic gold medal twice in 2006 and 2008. By the time of their retirement in 2008, they had won the British national title ten times, the European title four times, and the World title three times. Who would have thought two kids from Scotland would have been named among the greatest pair skaters ever?
Her personal life didn't go as swimmingly. Though they dated for years, Christian avoided commitment; they broke up for nearly a year, before getting back together. Alice demanded he commit to her, or she was walking. She wasn't going to give herself up to disappointment and heartache. He proposed, much to her chagrin (and surprise). Alice and Christian were married on August 15, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland. They are expecting their first child in April of 2011.
Now retired, Alice contents herself with choreographing mostly, although she wouldn't mind being a coach. She's the one who really didn't want to retire; they did just because of Alice's chronic knee and back problems. She jokes she's an addict and needs rehab from skating, because she can't stay away and loves skating in shows and pro-am competitions because she's an adrenaline junkie.