The air was cold and blades scraped against the ice. Jake Kearley tied up the laces on his skates and hit the rink.
It all began when he was two years old. Wide-eyed and eager to learn, he spent more time falling and getting back up than he did actually skating, but that didn’t matter. Kearley fell in love with being on the ice.Twenty years later, he is the team captain of the UNLV Skatin’ Rebels.“Every year growing up we went to the rink everyday with our buddies and just had a blast,” Kearley said. “Then you add the competitive component to it and I just kind of fell in love with it.