Surry, ME (NEWSCENTERMaine) -- Olympic bronze medal Nancy Ludington Graham still gets nervous watching the games.
"I find myself just tightening up on every jump and saying, please, please, please land it!" she told NEWSCENTERMaine.
She was a pairs skater who competed on the world level for four years. She and her partner were third in the Worlds in 1959 and third in the Olympics a year later.
She left amateur skating after the Olympics. "It was time to make a living," she mused. She became a coach in Boston, the center of one of the strongest skating regions in the country.
In 1961l, a plane crash took the lives of the entire U. S. figure skating team. It still haunts Nancy whose coach and best friend were on the plane.
She would marry a physicist and have two children. The couple would move to their summer place in Surry about thirty years ago. Nancy retired from coaching just a couple of years ago.