Faith Cook isn’t shy about her aspirations as a figure skater. She hopes to one day perform in the Olympics.

“I think it’s every skater’s goal,” says the 13-year-old Cook. “It’s not a sport that everyone does. It’s very competitive.”

This Friday, April 10, Cook will get to share the ice with Olympic skaters when she performs at the “Stars on Ice” tour at KeyArena. Cook will be participating in a choreographed group number at the event, which features both Olympic and regional amateur skaters on its current tour.

Cook, the youngest of seven children, started skating at age three at Lloyd Center in Portland, but stopped a year or so later, resuming the sport at age eight when she moved to Mercer Island with her mom and brother, Kwame.

“It’s kind of like a habit sport,” she says. “I remember when I was eight watching the Olympics, I was like, ‘I want to skate again.’ So I started again and I really liked it.”

She is coached by Jeri Campbell, the 1987 Junior Ladies Nationals Champion and the Olympic alternate in 1988, who she’s worked with for the past five years. Cook practices five days a week, waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to practice at Sno-King Ice Arena in Renton.

“I know she wanted to go to the Olympics, so we were going to do whatever we could to get her there,” says her mother, Victoria Cook.

Cook says she likes to do jumps on the ice and says the axel — a jump with an extra half rotation and landing with the skater gliding backward — is probably her easiest jump that she can perform. She says her toughest is the double lutz, a jump from the back outside edge of one foot and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.

Cook says competing as a skater requires a good amount of determination and mental strength. She also plays basketball, volleyball and track, and she hopes to continue playing volleyball and track in high school, but skating takes priority.

Taking on so many activities has helped teach Cook how to prioritize her time, but she says finding time to do schoolwork hasn’t been a problem. Though when things do get tough, Cook says she turns to her mom.

“It’s all about encouragement and having support,” Victoria Cook says. “When you are down, you get somebody, your mom or friends and say, ‘you’ve come so far, don’t give up.’”

The “Stars on Ice” tour at KeyArena will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10 in Seattle. To purchase tickets to Stars on Ice, visit www.starsonice.com/get-tickets.html.