Andy Roesch
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Andy Roesch (1906-1977) was a champion speed skater in the 1920s.
Roesch was born in Smithtown, New York in 1906, son of Main Street, Smithtown barbershop owner Andrew Roesch and his wife, Johanna Roesch.[citation needed]
He won a three-mile race on Hessian Pond in New York in February 1927.[1] He was a member of the first United States Speed Skating Team[2] In 1929 he won the New York Silver Skates finishing the two-mile course in 6:52.[3]
Roesch was nominated for the 1936 Olympics. He lost his amateur status, however, when he took a job teaching figure skating at the Brooklyn Ice Palace.[4]