The Skating Club of Boston's rink in Brighton, Massachusetts. |
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| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| President: | Joseph Blount |
| Established: | 1912 |
| Synchro Team: | Team Excel |
| Website: | http://www.scboston.org/ |
The Skating Club of Boston is a figure skating club based in Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 1912, it is one of the oldest skating clubs in the United States, predating the formation of U.S. Figure Skating. The club owns its own rink in Brighton, Massachusetts, built in 1938.
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An annual competition, the Boston Open, is held each fall. In the spring, the club puts on an ice show known as Ice Chips,[1] which is said to have had the longest continuous run of any club skating carnival in the world. The club is affiliated with Team Excel which is a synchronized skating team and the ice theatre teams Act I of Boston, Team Encore, and Imagica Theatre on Ice, which both won international competitions in that discipline in 2005 and 2006.
The Club has been the host of the United States Figure Skating Championships several times, most recently in 2001.[2]
Like some of the other older skating clubs in North America, The Skating Club of Boston retains elements of a "country club" approach, with an emphasis on social activities, including weekly dinners and awards banquets. Prospective members must be sponsored by two existing members, attend social events, be approved by the club board, and pay an initiation fee.
A partial list of notable skaters who have trained at or represented The Skating Club of Boston include:[3]
Current coaches at the club include Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson, recipients of the 2006 USOC Developmental Coach of the Year award.
The adult Ice theatre team, "Imagica", swept the gold medals (in the National Freeskate, International Choreographic Exercise, and International Freeskate events) at the 2008[4] and 2009[5] International/National Theatre on Ice competitions. Choreographed by Coach Tasney Mazzarino and Amy Vecchio, Imagica's 2009 Old-West-themed Free program featured a tumbling tumbleweed, a bugle-playing horse, cactuses doing Axels, cowgirls twirling lassos, a saloon complete with dancing saloon girls and beer-swilling cowboys, a love scene, and a shootout.