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Whitney Lawson prepares to enter the rink to skate in competition Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 next to her instructor Lauren Shmalo at Northland Ice Center in Evendale, Ohio.Click to enlarge

An episode of the MTV show "Made" featuring local teenager Whitney Lawson will air at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.

The Fairfield High School senior had a film crew follow her for several weeks this past summer filming her transformation from a self-proclaimed "theater geek" to a figure skater.

At the end of the 2007-08 school year, MTV producers came to Fairfield High School to audition students for the show. Lawson's mother died from breast cancer in 2001 when Lawson was 10 years old, and she shared with producers the story of how her mom loved figure skating and had a dream for her daughter to be a figure skater.

"Skating was something that I enjoyed with my mother, as well as my family," Lawson said in an interview in July. "When I was little, birthday parties were usually at ice skating rinks."

Lawson's six-week training began June 30. On Aug. 1, Lawson ended the experience when she performed in the Queen City Invitational Skating Competition with a partner and skated an exhibition routine for a crowd at Northland Ice Center in Evendale. The event helped raise money for breast cancer research.

Lawson said in a July interview the experience provided her confidence in her abilities, and hopes it will carry her through when she will attend Miami University in Oxford.

Contact this reporter at (513) 755-5112 or mpitman@coxohio.com.