Jo Ann Schneider Farris began ice skating in 1964. In 1975, she won a silver medal in the United States National Figure Skating Championships and became a United States Figure Skating Association Gold Medalist in 1976. In 1983, she began her career as an ice skating coach, and has trained skaters of all ages and levels. She lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her husband, Dan, and three children, Joel, Rebekah, and Annabelle. She teaches both ice and in-line skating. Jo Ann is a graduate of Colorado College, and holds a California Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential from California State University at Long Beach. Jo Ann is the author of How To Jump And Spin On In-Line Skates, the only book of its kind on in-line figure skating. She also is on the faculty of Branson School Online!, the first ever online K-14 public school in Colorado. She home schools her own three children, in addition to mentoring other home school families in Colorado. When Jo Ann is not coaching skating or jumping and spinning on skates, she enjoys skiing, swimming, tennis, piano, music of all kinds, creating web sites, playing hockey, in-line skating outdoors with her family, bike riding, skate-skiing, reading, and playing and singing with her husband and children.