Diana Schaefering:  

When I lived in Phoenix, I had moved there from Collinsville, IL (just outside of St Louis) with my Grandmother to train in figure skating. I had spent my summers before that at Michigan State with my coach, Don Stewart and he moved to Phoenix. The original plan was to spend one year but that quickly changed. I missed my family but I loved Phoenix. After high school, I spent a year touring with Ice Capades and injured my back on a snow mobile toward the end of the tour. I went back to St Louis to heal with the complete intention of moving back to Phoenix and starting to teach skating. Then I met my future husband, John Schaefering. We were married in 1977 and just celebrated our 40th anniversary. We have three amazing sons, Blake, Drew and Tyler. Blake, his wife Yvonne and their daughter Lumen live in Oslo, Norway. He is a model and also trains competitive boxers, hockey players, tennis players and UFC fighters as their strength and conditioning coach. Drew lives in Brooklyn, NY when he isn't traveling, which is about 70% of the time. He is on the team with Loreal International as an artist and instructor, does hair at Fashion Week in NY, London, Paris and Milan and has trained at salons in the US, Australia, Bali, Bolivia and Dubai. He also is one of the stylists for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show! Our youngest son, Tyler, works for KCI in wound care management and he lives here in St Louis (thank God!) with his new bride, Jennifer. He is a very gifted athlete who, after playing soccer in college and graduating, went to Australia and played professionally for 18 months. He continues to play hockey a couple of nights a week and is one of my instructors doing private lessons and the Learn to Play Hockey program. In 1992, I hung up my figure skates for hockey skates and start running my own hockey power skating schools, Schaefering Power Play Hockey. It was the best decision I could have ever made! I was able to be one of the original board members for the Chesterfield Hockey Association, which has given thousands of kids a place to play. To be able to be a coach for the Gateway Locomotives, a developmentally disabled team where we competed in the first international tournament and all the players and coaches have our names on a trophy in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I have worked with players in the NHL and every level down to beginners all over the country and trained ...Expand for more