Associate Coach

• Coaching private lessons since 1999.
• U.S. Figure Skating Test Completions:
• Senior (Gold) Free Skate, and Senior (Gold) Moves-in-the-Field.
• Brian skated competitively for 10 years, including colligates, and is a Regional gold medalist. He trained under 1960 Olympic Gold Medalist Carol Heiss Jenkins and 1974 World Silver Medalist Glyn Watts at the Winterhurst Figure Skating Club in Lakewood, Ohio. He also had several years of off-ice strength and conditioning training at the Cleveland Clinic in Independence, Ohio. He is a coach with the Center Ice Learn to Skate and Jr. Club Programs. Brian has served on the Center Ice Skating Club board of directors and has performed in and helped choreograph various ice shows. He has a MS of Architecture from Kent State University and is currently a full time employee of Lawrence and Dykes Architects in Canton, Ohio.

I coach a wide range of students from the recreational to the highly competitive. I believe that skating provides an opportunity to learn life lessons that skaters can apply to other aspects of their lives as they mature into young adults. Skating should be fun while distilling the ideals of discipline, mental and physical preparation, and hard work.