The Skating Club of Brunswick is hosting a Skating Exhibition for a Cause on Sunday to support the families of the U.S. Figure Skating members who died in the plane collision outside Ronald Reagan International Airport on Jan.

At the end of his figure skating performance, when the last note of his parents’ favorite song played in an arena packed with spectators and heavy with sorrow, Maxim Naumov dropped to his knees at the center of the ice. He remained there for what seemed like forever, awash in a spotlight, looking lost and sobbing.

Figure skater Maxim Naumov returned to the ice for a powerful routine in honor of his late parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who died in the Washington, D.C. plane crash in January. Maxim,