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Olympic Skater and Central Florida native Caydee Denney is making the rounds in Florida this week. The 16 year old was born in Ocala and represented the US in the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver. She is a World Skating Champion and recently returned from a competition in Italy. Today Caydee met with Governor Charlie Crist and discussed her most recent competition. Crist gave Caydee some words of encouragement.

“It was an honor to get to meet Governor Crist and when I was in there it was to see how much support and how hard work really does pay off like he said, so that was really cool,” said Caydee.

Caydee will sign autographs tomorrow at the Ocala Square at noon. Next week she is being honored by the president in Washington D.C. Caydee is the first Floridian to skate in the Winter Olympics. Her younger sister is also a skater. The two of them hope to skate together in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.