With just one month to go until the Milan Olympics, athletes from Central Florida are preparing to represent their region on the world stage. Bowe is a distinguished 37-year-old American long track speed skater from Ocala, Florida. She began inline skating at age 8 and transitioned to speed skating in 2010.

She was the dominant force at U.S. Speed Skating Trials in January, winning not only the 1000m and 1500m, but also the 500m after World No. 1 Erin Jackson slipped in her race and lost precious time. However,

An award at the school was named in her honor, the Brittany Bowe Character in Athletics Award, after she relinquished her spot in the 500m race at the 2022 Olympic Trials to give her friend and teammate Erin Jackson a chance to compete.

Ocala's own Erin Jackson, 33, and Brittany Bowe, 37, are bound for the Winter Olympics once again. Jackson and Bowe each secured spots on the U.S. Speed Skating team over the weekend at the 2026 Olympic Team Trials in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. Her path to get there is a Hollywood script that would be returned and rewritten because no one would believe it. Jackson grew ...

There are so many compelling parts of Erin Jackson’s story it is hard to know which to begin with. Do you start with Jackson being such a good inline skater she was a four-time world medalist named the U.S. Olympic Committee’s female roller athlete of ...

Refugee athlete Mina Bahgat is nervously trying out a new pair of inline skates. Sitting on a bench at the side of the rink, he fusses with the strap of his helmet and adjusts his knee pads, worried that he might fall over. His mother, Maria, bends down ...