Skating Club of Boston

Infobox skating club
clubname = Skating Club of Boston


location = Boston, Massachusetts
president = Joseph Blount
establish= 1911
synchro = Team Boston
contact =
website = http://www.scboston.org/The Skating Club of Boston is a figure skating club based in Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 1911, it is one of the oldest skating clubs in the United States, predating the formation of the United States Figure Skating Association. The club owns its own rink in Brighton, Massachusetts, built in 1938.

Club activities

An annual competition, the Boston Open, is held each fall. In the spring, the club puts on an ice show known as Ice Chips, [ [http://icechips.org Ice Chips ] ] which is said to have had the longest continuous run of any club skating carnival in the world. The club organizes synchronized skating teams under the name Team Boston and the ice theatre teams Act I of Boston 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. [ [http://www.boston.com/sports/packages/usfigureskating/ 2001 U.S. Figure Skating Championships ] ]

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.

Notable members

A partial list of notable skaters who have trained at or represented the Skating Club of Boston include: [ [http://www.scboston.org/docs/history.pdf A Summary History of the Skating Club of Boston ] ]

* Tenley Albright
* Sherwin Badger
* Theresa Weld Blanchard
* Dick Button
* Juliana Cannarozzo
* Stephen Carriere
* Shepherd Clark
* Louann Donovan
* Katrina Hacker
* Lorraine Hanlon
* Emily Hughes
* Nancy Kerrigan
* Jennifer Kirk
* Bradley Lord
* Gretchen Merrill
* Mark Mitchell
* Suna Murray
* Nathaniel Niles
* Albertina Noyes
* John Misha Petkevich
* Scott Smith
* Joan Tozzer
* Roger F. Turner
* Laurence Owen
* Maribel Owen
* Maribel Vinson
* Paul Wylie

Current coaches at the club include Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson, recipients of the 2006 USOC Developmental Coach of the Year award.

References

* [http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080114&content_id=40481&vkey=ice_news The great competitive legacy of the SC of Boston]

External links

* [http://www.scboston.org Skating Club of Boston web site]
* [http://www.act1boston.org Act I of Boston Theater on Ice team]
* [http://www.scboston.org/theater/imagica06-07/Imagica%20SCBoston.htm Imagica Theatre on Ice]