5 years ago, these women launched a side hustle for Black figure skaters — now Olympians are wearing their tights
Imani Rickerby and Jasmine Snead had a problem.
It was 2017, and the College Park, Maryland-based synchronized skating coaches had preteen and teenage athletes falling apart during competitions. Confidence drained, their shoulders slumped before they even took to the ice.
The coaches, both Black women, knew what their predominantly Black team was competitively – and emotionally – struggling with. Rickerby, now 26, remembers her childhood teammates’ matching makeup and tights complimented their complexions. Hers didn’t. “I didn’t feel like I belonged in the sport at all,” she tells CNBC Make It.
With Sydney Parker, 25, a former dancer and their sorority sister at the University of Maryland, College Park, they started hand-dyeing their own tights. They bought dyes from craft stores and hand-mixed the colors with vinegar in their apartment, creating shades to match Black skin tones.
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