Early Life

Nancy Ann Kerrigan was born in Stoneham Massachusetts on the 13th of October in the year 1969. Bellew is the youngest of four children of Daniel Kerrigan, a welder, and Brenda Kerrigan (neé Schultz), a homemaker.

Nancy has two brothers, the elder one Michael and the younger brother Mark, both were fond of playing hockey. Nancy Kerrigan was wed to her agent Jerry Solomon in 1995. They have three children from the marriage; Solomon has a son from her previous marriage.

Kerrigan started figure skater from her childhood and started taking private lesson when she was of age eight. In order for her to be able to support her figure skating career her father at times had to take as many as three jobs in order to be able to meet all the needs that were required of him.

He even got a job at the local ice rink, in which he got to drive the ice resurfacer in return for lessons. Kerrigan had initially trained with Denise Morrissey after which, at the age of sixteen, she started practicing under the supervision of Evy and Mary Scotvold.

Nancy Kerrigan Net Worth?

Nancy Kerrigan is an American figure skater, she has a net worth of $10 million. Nancy Kerrigan has the Olympic silver medal and Olympic bronze medal and was the U. S. Figure Skating Champion in the competitive season 1993.

She is perhaps most famous for an event which involved the competitor Tonya Harding. That meeting, which was in January 1994, was one of the most famous events of the 1990s and made both skates world famous.

Career

At the age of nine, she was able to participate in a skating competition known as the Boston Open which she emerged the winner. She also persisted and finished fourth at the junior level of the 1987 U. S. Figure Skating Championships.

She was particularly good at the hop but was generally less powerful than she was at compulsory figures. She recorded her senior debut season in 1988 and at this time she had a national ranking of 12th. Nancy kept moving up the rankings; she was fifth in 1989 and the fourth in 1990.

In 1992 Nancy again fared better and moved up to a higher level; she placed second at the championships that year. Then at the winter Olympics in Albertville, France in 1992, she received a bronze medal followed by the silver at the world Championships of the same year.

Sponsorships

After the 1992 Olympics the opportunities of advertisement contracts were offered to Kerrigan. Among the companies which she was sponsored by include; Camilla soup, Evian water, Reebok shoes and Seiko watches.

The Cobo Arena attack which took place in January 1994 – a month before the start of the Olympics – shot up Kerrigan’s fame. Commitment indeed rose to a new level as before the 1994 Olympics began, Nancy signed $9.2 million in endorsements contracts while the latter signed two endorsement contracts worth 5 million.