Growing up in Japan, Oura took figure skating lessons for years. It wasn’t until college that Oura fell back in love with skating again and was hoping to pick it up. While there were plenty of SIGs available, figure skating was not one of them.
While keen to create a figure skating SIG, the first year student did not think many students would be interested as it is quite a unique and uncommon sport.
Still, she posted a poll online among her peers to suss out interest. The overwhelming response was all it took to motivate Oura to start the group for those who liked figure skating or wanted to try skating for the first time. After some planning to get support and funding from the university, the figure skating SIG was born.