Frank Carroll
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Frank Carroll is an American figure skating coach and former competitive skater. He was coached by Maribel Vinson-Owen and was thrust into coaching following her death. Carroll had narrowly won the silver medal on the junior level at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships behind Douglas Ramsay[1] and had turned professional after that. Carroll was skating with the Ice Capades at the time of the Sabena Flight 548 crash.
Carroll's former students include Linda Fratianne, Christopher Bowman, Michelle Kwan, Tiffany Chin, Mark Cockerell, Timothy Goebel, Karen Kwan, Nicole Bobek, Angela Nikodinov, and Jennifer Kirk. Michelle Kwan fired him before the 2002 Winter Olympics. He fired Goebel in November 2004 following the NHK Trophy and split with Chin after having disagreements with her mother. He is one of the few coaches to have coached a World Champion both during the era of compulsory figures (Fratianne) and after it (Kwan).
Carroll, along with Ken Congemi, is currently coaching Evan Lysacek, Beatrisa Liang, Danielle Kahle, and Becky Hughes. He is the head coach for the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California.
Carroll was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996. He is the only figure skating coach to be named the Olympic Coach of the Year, which happened in 1997.
On March 6, 2007, it was announced that he was elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.[2] He was inducted during the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships, right before the men's free skate.
[edit] References
- ^ Nichols, Nikki. Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team. Emmis Books, 2006. ISBN 1-57860-260-2.
- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17490953/
