What is Joannie Rochette Up To These Days?
Fulfilling a Lifelong Dream Almost a decade has passed since that heart-breaking week at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, when Rochette lost her beloved mother, Thérèse, to a heart attack.…
Skater Mirai Nagasu on Career and Anxiety
When Nagasu landed her triple axel she had suffered a painful labral tear that chipped away at her hip bone for two years. The triple axel is a legendary figure…
5 Traits of Successful Ice Dancers and Skating Pairs
Source: Working together so intensely for such long periods and for such high stakes, many pairs skaters and ice dancers — whether romantically involved, or siblings, or just friends —…
Life After Figure Skating. Life After the Olympics
From the Olympics to Wall Street: The athletes who become brokers Emily Samuelson competed at the highest level as an ice dancer over the course of her 15-year career, retiring…
Patrick Chan to Catch Up in Barcelona?
The world keeps on spinning, with or without you. This is no less true in the spinning world of elite figure skating. Patrick Chan took his leave of it —…
Olympic Skater ‘Held Hostage’ is Set Free
HACKENSACK — A recent court ruling has set an 18-year-old Olympic figure skater free from an agreement that, according to her attorney, held her career "hostage" and prevented her…
Counseling a Child & Parent Off a Sport that Child Doesn’t Really Like
by Author: Catherine Collings (CEO Ultimate Edges of Excellence) As an elite figure skating coach and hockey skating technique specialist of over, cough 37, cough… years, I have seen all types…
The Key to a Beautiful Skating Program
by Catherine Collings , CEO Ultimate Edges of Excellence The "Ultimate" goal in Figure Skating is to score the highest amount of points. In order to do this, it has been…
Conversations at the Ice Skating Rink
A PERSPECTIVE The kids in the change room at the local skating rink are talking about university. Have they applied? No, they will soon: this very weekend in fact. Out…
The Coach-Friend Conundrum in Figure Skating
Hot Topics in Adult Skating by Renee Lacy You are an adult skater who loves skating. Your coach is an adult who also loves skating. Should you socialize away from…
