Ice Princess
Michelle Trachtenberg plays Casey Carlyle, a brainy bookworm and physics geek. Casey decides to use her academic skill by pursuing a scholarship offered to the top students in the state. For the scholarship, Casey must do a 'personal' project about physics. While watching a figure skating competition featuring Sasha Cohen, Casey realizes that her hobby, skating, would make a perfect project for getting her scholarship. Initially, she watches other skaters at the local rink, but decides to try to improve her own skating by applying the physics and what she found out from analysing other skaters. She becomes exceptionally good at skating, even skipping two levels to get a Junior Pass.
Unsure of what she really wants, Casey has a difficult time juggling schoolwork, skating, and a job to pay for her skating lessons. Her mom wants her to focus on her studies so she can get into Harvard, but Casey dreams of becoming a championship figure skater. But when she gets the chance to train with a former skating champion, she decides to make her dream a reality. But in the process, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess."
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