A young Maritime figure skater may have just spun her way into the record books during a recent trip to Poland.

Olivia Oliver, 11, was born in Poland, but moved to the Maritimes when she was three-years-old. On a recent trip back to her birth country, the young figure skater attempted to break the world record for fastest spin on ice at the National Stadium in Warsaw in front of 2,000 fans.

“A couple days before I didn't really feel nervous and then when it came to that day I got really nervous and when I stepped on the ice to go do it, I didn't feel nervous anymore,” says Oliver. 

Three individual judges and a small device attached to Oliver, clocked her spinning at 342 revolutions per minute. The previous record was 306 RPMs.

“Now of course, she doesn't quite spin for a full minute and the way the technology works is they take a slice from that, the fastest slice and that is what the machine records,” says Oliver’s coach Charleen Cameron.      

Oliver is currently waiting to hear back from the Guinness Book of World Records with confirmation that she is the new record holder.

“I'm anxious to hear back from them, I'm just waiting. I just want to hear from them right,” says Oliver.

Oliver’s father Gary says he couldn’t be prouder of his daughter.

“It’s just a great result for her, for her determination and her passion and her dream came true.”

Now that she’s home, Oliver is back to practicing five days a week, for anywhere between one to three hours a day.

“She's quite a hard worker, she loves being on the ice. She tends to stay longer on the ice then she sometimes suppose too,” says Cameron.

While Oliver awaits word from Guinness on the status of her record, she'll continue training for a competition two weeks from now and someday, she hopes, the Olympics.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Matt Woodman