BY KAREN BOSSICK

Caught Olympic fever?

Then trot over to Sun Valley Resort for a Sun Valley on Ice Show showcasing figure skaters you have seen in past Olympics or will see in future Olympics.

The ice show, now in its 87th season, has three more opportunities to see the stars in person:

Ice dancers Kaitlyn Hawayek and Jean Luc Baker will perform on Saturday, Aug. 10. The two Stars on Ice performers were 11th at the 2022 Winter Olympics and eighth at the 2022 World Championships. They earned four U.S. bronze medals from 2019 to 2022.

Jason Brown, the 2015 national champion and a Sun Valley favorite, will return on Aug. 24. He was a four-time U.S. national silver medalist through 2024 and won a team bronze at the Olympics 10 years earlier.

The 2024 U.S. national pairs skating champions Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea will perform Aug. 31.

But the shows are about much more than the headliners. They also feature a stable of ice show veterans who set the audience abuzz.

Ashley Clark, a three-time U.S. Gold Medalist, has returned this year. And her light and fire show boasts some new razzle dazzle.

Clark, who coaches and choreographs routines for Olympic skaters when not performing in Sun Valley on Ice, said she loves the creative freedom she’s allowed at Sun Valley. Her death-defying back flips and fire shows? Just something to wake people up, she says.

Craig Heath has been skating for two dozen years in Sun Valley performing in giant oversized cowboy hats, clown barrels and more--always with a big smile and energy that is good for a bunch of laughs along with some amazing skating maneuvers. This go-around he’s clad in pink polka dots for a surf number.

Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre, who were the nation’s ice dancing bronze medalists in 2008 and 2009, add some romantic grace—and the death spiral--to the show. They’re joined by pairs skaters Natalia Zaitseva and Jeremy Barrett, who were the 2019 national pairs champions and remind spectators “What a Wonderful World” we live in.

Then there’s crowd favorite Ryan Bradley, a U.S. national champion in 2011, who is still flipping his way across the ice at 40, punctuating his flips with a one-legged backflip

Expect a contemporary flair this year with numbers from Taylor Swift--the “Queen of Pop” and Beyonce’s “Texas Hold’em.” Swoon out to “Luck Be a Lady” and relive “Now We are Free” from the movie “Gladiator” as you await the debut of “Gladiator 2.”

And leave it to the youngsters—yup, the ones as young as 5—to get the ball rolling with “A Million Dreams” from “The Greatest Showman.”

To get tickets, call 208-622-2135, visit the Recreation Office in Sun Valley Village or visit https://www.sunvalley.com/.