While The Skating Club of Boston has called many Boston-area places home over the years, it is now located at 750 University Ave. in Norwood. The new state-of-the-art facility is complete with three training rinks and a 2,500-seat performance center.
Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342. Their son Maxim Naumov, a competitive figure skater,
Shishkova and Naumov, who are listed as coaches at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, competed twice in the Olympics.
A sizable cohort of figure skaters, coaches, and families were among the passengers involved in a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night.
The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.
He might've planned to land seven quads, but the reigning World champion romped to another national crown by hitting on six of them.
Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.
Two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches whose son recently finished fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were among those feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River Wednesday night.
The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.
Passengers aboard a flight that crashed into the Potomac River included six members of a Boston skating club returning from U.S. competition in Kansas.