Ashburn, Virginie-It was the only house in Cul-de-Sac with a rink in the courtyard.
When the gel settled, Peter Livingston anchor two by four in the floor behind the house, filled the water space and created a ice rink where his daughters of figure skating, Alydia and Everly, could practice their jumps and their lutzes , a neighbor said.
But the real ice cream at home for girls was the Ashburn ice house. Their mother, Donna Livingston, was a must during the practices early in the morning when her daughters trained with world -class artistic skaters like Inna Volyanskaya.
They were known online under the name of “ice skating sisters”, and when they swallowed the country for competitions and camps in places like Boston, Seattle and Austin, Texas, their parents went with them , said friends and neighbors.
It was no different when Alydia and Everly were invited to participate in a prestigious training camp after the 2025 American figure skating championships in Wichita, Kansas.
For their return trip, the four rose aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening on the Potomac river in Washington. Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the accident.
Alydia, 11, and Everly, 14, died with their parents and 60 other people on the convicted flight. The accident also cost the life of three soldiers on the army helicopter.
A few days later, on Livingston’s cul-de-sac, the sorrow was still fresh at Helen Li, 13, who played with Alydia and Everly on the rare occasions that they did not train or did not compete . For her, the younger sister was only “Lydia”.
Everly was shy and reserved compared to Alydia, according to a tribute published on a Facebook page called skating lesson.
However, Everly “came to life on the ice-becoming a champion in the cup at intermediate and juvenile levels,” he said, adding that Aalydia “was the youngest skater of the plane and an ice dancer in increase”.
Alydia was recently associated with a new partner and “was known for his living personality and her strong desire to improve ice – whatever the criticism,” said the position of social media.
His new partner, Matt Jacoby, 15, has published a statement through his mother, Liz Abercrombie, saying that “words cannot express” his pain in the loss of his partner and his friends on flight 5342 .
He said that “Alydia’s passion for skating and sparkling personality has brightened up the ice and that we will miss a lot”.
Abercrombie, in a brief telephone interview with NBC News, said that the living rooms were “a loving family who devoted their lives to their daughters and ice”.
Donna and Peter Livingston were described in the tribute of the skating lesson as “among the most dedicated parents” who “tried to manage the breeding of two skaters”. They had spent many nights in hotels recently while dividing time between New Jersey, Michigan and Virginia. Peter “liked to film his daughters everywhere and everywhere”, while Donna “will remain memories for his optimistic nature,” said the post.
Li’s father, Doug Fague, said Livingstons moved into the neighborhood about 10 years ago, and that he was close to Peter.
“He had a personality that was greater than life, difficult to contain,” said Fague. “He gave me a hard time because I was mowing my court too much.”
At the girls’ rink, a memorial of flowers, balloons, candles and cards continued to develop a few days after tragedy, and therapy dogs were brought to help skaters to face the death of their friends.
Zere Scholz, whose 8 -year -old daughter skates the skating rink, said that even if Everly and Alydia had very different personalities, they both worked. She described Alydia as “a little firecracker” – “funny and full of ideas, energetic” – while Everly was “a little reserved”, but kind, happy and very dedicated to ice skating.
During the summer, Everly posted online that she had been operated on after injuring the right knee with a meniscian tear. The injury could have prevented her from participating this season, but she crossed and won a place in the national American figure skating development team, a training program for the best skaters.
Everly won the Autumn Classic in Texas at the intermediate level in September. Two months later, she contributed to the final in the simple sectional of the East and American pairs in Norwood, Massachusetts.
She was a skater that many girls admired, said Mauricio Lastres, whose 5 -year -old daughter patina in Ashburn.
“I did a huge thing because my daughter, 5, joined a dance lesson with Everyone this month, and she was next to someone who was going to be, you know, a skater of of American national team “, Lastres dit. “She was going to be potentially at the Olympic Games.”
Megan Lebowitz reported in Ashburn, Virginia, Minyvonne Burke reported to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Corky Siemaszko reported in New York.
