Background:

Erin began skating at the age of 6 and immediately loved the sport. She was a competitive synchronized skater at the National level from 1991-2001. She also tested and competed in freestyle, dance, figures, and field moves. She then went to Miami University and was a member of the Varsity Synchronized Skating Team all four years of college as well as team captain and club president during her senior year. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in Engineering Management. As a part of the Miami Team, Erin was a: 1999 US National Champion, 1998/2001 US Silver Medalist, 2000 US Bronze Medalist, 1998/99 Toronto International Bronze Medalist and Spring Cup Silver Medalist, 2001 Prague Cup Champion, 1998/1999/ 2001 World Team Member, Miami University Female Scholar Athlete of the Year Awardee, Thomas J Fisher Outstanding Skater Awardee.

Erin received her Novice Synchronized Skating Judge’s appointment in 2001 and judged Pacific Coast Sectionals in 2002.

Experience:

Erin has coached for the past 14 years, the last 9 years here in Ann Arbor. She specializes in synchronized skating, field moves, ice dancing, and power skating. She has taught at the Miami University Summer Figure Skating School and Summer Synchronized Skating School for 5 years as well as at various camps and summer skating schools in the Baltimore - Washington area. In the summer of 1999, she traveled to Madrid, Spain to introduce Moves in the Field and Synchronized Skating to the skaters and coaches. She conducted Moves in the Field and power skating classes, taught ways to use field moves in choreography, gave private lessons in ice dancing, team taught freestyle to skaters of all levels along with the Spanish coaches, and started the first Spanish Synchronized Skating Team.

This will be her third year with the University of Michigan Synchronized Skating Team. In her first two seasons with the team, we earned Midwestern and U.S. National Championship medals each year and also won the Dr. Porter Classic last season. As a coach for the Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club, she has taken the Hockettes Junior Synchronized Skating Team to two U.S. National Championship Titles and two trips to the World Challenge Cup for Juniors. In 2005 she was nominated for the P.S.A/U.S.F.S Developmental Coach of the Year and Choreographer of the Year. She was named the 2005 Synchronized Team Coach of the Year by the same organizations. She has worked with the P.S.A. and U.S.F.S. in seminars across the country to promote improved edge quality and unique step sequences among our U.S. synchronized teams. Finally, she has attended educational seminars each year to expand her knowledge and improve her coaching technique in the areas of field moves, ice dance, stroking, and synchronized skating.

Goals:

Her goal for the University of Michigan team is to continue to improve our reputation at the collegiate level by consistently putting out strong, innovative, and challenging programs each year. Additionally, she would like to continue recruiting the very best skaters from around the country to expand our program and branch into other divisions in order to provide more opportunities for University of Michigan synchronized skaters. She will continue to learn and grow as a coach in order to help the skaters on the team achieve their own goals as college athletes.