Virginia Day BAXTER

Ginny Baxter represented the Detroit Skating Club and attended Michigan State University. In 1949-51 she won three bronze medals at the US Figure Skating Championships. Baxter competed at the Worlds in 1949, 1950, and 1952, finishing seventh in 1949-50, and winning a bronze medal in 1952. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, Baxter finished fifth, but was ranked first in the free skating phase of the competition. After the Oslo Olympics, she turned professional, skating with the Ice Capades for a few years, in the Land of Lollipops Show. She was later given a letter sweater by Michigan State, the first female to receive one from the Spartans.