- Before leaving Europe the Schillings had skated at the Casa Carioca, the Vienna Show, and made guest appearances in European movies. One of her outstanding memories was skating in Moscow with the Vienna Ice Show. Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev came to see the show and she graced the cover of Promenade magazine. She recalled the enthusiastic cheers of the Moscow audience.
- With a mix of self-discipline, determination and good timing, she rose to the upper echelons of the figure skating world.
- At 19, with stars in her eyes she traded her toe shoes for a pair of ice skates.
- In 1968 she left Ice Follies and her husband for Los Angeles. Frank Carroll and Tom Lawler, friends from Ice Follies days, invited her to work with their students teaching grace and style at the Van Nuys Iceland. Schilling's dance and ballet training was put to good use.
- Her first professional skating appearance was in the Olympia Ice Review. After a short partnership with Felix Kasper she was reunited with Willi Schilling.
- She and Tom Lawler were encouraged to enter the World Professional Championship in Jaca Spain in 1975. Schilling's performance surpassed that of skaters twenty years her junior, and she and Lawler proudly won the Bronze Medal.
- Moved to the U.S. in 1962 and joined Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies.
- Went to Athens in 1954 to perform in the Olympic Stadium.
- Joined the "Bayer Ice Ballet" as a spotlight operator. Her stumbling, yet graceful, attempts to skate were noticed by Willi Schilling, a performer in the show, who became not only her teacher but eventually her skating partner and husband.
- One of Carroll's students was future World Champion Linda Fratianne.
- Schilling's life was busy with teaching, designing, and manufacturing Inga Creations, and periodic performances with Lawler.
- An offer to skate in Sydney Australia was presented to Schilling in 1974. Where she debuted with her new skating partner Tom Lawler .
- The pressure of trying to run "Inga Creations" from Mexico led to Schilling's decision to close the business. Now retired from the hotel business, they make their home in Brooksville, Florida.
- A trip to Mexico introduced her to Bart Varelmann, the owner of the hotel where she was vacationing. They married in 1985 and continued to manage the hotel as well as a home in the U.S.
- Trained to be a ballerina and classical dancer but more than anything, she just wanted to entertain people.
- Was exposed to theatrical skating at age 19 when she followed an Aunt who was performing in the "Bayer Ice Ballet" starring Maxi Baier and Ernst Baier who were 1936 Olympic pair champions.
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