Nice article in USA Today about Legge

[rabbit]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/2005-05-03-women-drivers_x.htm

:thumbup:

[rosawendel]

it's good to see amy rosewater landed in a good place. she was the beat reporter at the plain dealer who got supplanted by elton alexander every year the g.p. came to cleveland.

[theunions]

That's the first I've heard her sponsorship - and presumably her ride - is only good for six races at this point...???

[Napoleon]

How long has Amy been at USA Today?

I know she got married and moved to Baltimore and has had some stuff in the PD as a freelancer. She did that shortly after her dad died (she was at the Olympics on assignment in Australia when he did which must have really sucked).

[rosawendel]

i do remember her doing some articles on figure skating... i always thought that was an interesting (read: odd) combination, but, she knew what she was writing about (at least on the racing side. i can't speak of the skating side...)

[Napoleon]

i do remember her doing some articles on figure skating... i always thought that was an interesting (read: odd) combination, but, she knew what she was writing about (at least on the racing side. i can't speak of the skating side...)

She was a skater (look towards end of article).

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2003-02-23-ten-hardest-quad_x.htm


To the extent she wrote about racing it had to be something she was assigned and learned. There is nothing in her background to remotely suggest she would have been exposed to or liked racing growing up. Her dad (whom I had meet several times and talked to) was a 1960 Harvard Law grad who practiced real estate law and liked Gilbert and Sullivan plays and lived in tony Shaker Heights, Ohio (although I am going to make a mental note that the next time I talk to people who worked with him, or Amy's mother, to ask).

http://www.harvard60.org/rosewater.html

She is your classic very well off, private school type woman.

[rosawendel]

aah. makes perfect sense, then. thanks for the insight.

[Napoleon]

PS, I wonder if her father grew up in Shaker Heights where he lived (he grew up in the area). If so he would have been around the age of Roger Penske who grew up in Shaker Heights (as did Paul Newman who likely was much older then her father). Could that be the link to an interest of hers in auto racing?