30-01-2025
What is the Skating Club of Boston?
Shishkova and Naumov won a world title skating as a pair for Russia in 1994 and joined the Skating Club of Boston as coaches in 2017.
Here's what to know about the Skating Club of Boston.
What is the Skating Club of Boston?
The Skating Club of Boston is one of New England's premier figure skating clubs, a founding member of US Figure Skating, and one of the oldest skating clubs in the country. The Skating Club of Boston has organized multiple national and world figure skating championships, including the upcoming 2025 world championships at TD Garden in March.
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In its capacity as a professional training center, the club has been home to dozens of championship skaters, with its biggest recent successes coming in 2013 and 2014 when Marissa Castelli and Simon Schnapir won consecutive US titles in pairs skating and a bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics.
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The club's public activities include learn-to-skate and community skating programs, as well as handling programming and facilities for skating at Boston Common's Frog Pond.
When was it founded?
The Skating Club of Boston was founded in 1912 and is the third oldest skating club in the country. As a founding member of US Figure Skating, the sport's national governing body, the club has been a leader in the sport for over a century with club members serving in national positions with US Figure Skating.
Where is it located?
After more than 80 years in its Brighton rink, built in 1938 and located on Soldiers Field Road, the Skating Club of Boston moved to new state-of-the-art training facility in Norwood in 2020.
The three-rink facility features two NHL surfaces on either side of the 2,500-seat Tenley E. Albright Performance Center, an Olympic-sized arena named after 1956 Olympic gold medalist and club member Tenley Albright.
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Former skaters
The Skating Club of Boston has been home to two world and Olympic champion skaters: Albright, the world champion in ladies' singles in 1953 and 1955 along with her Olympic success in 1956, and Richard Button, a five-time world champion from 1948-1952 and Olympic gold medalist in men's singles in 1948 and 1952 (Button's successes prior to 1950 came with his previous club in Philadelphia).
Castelli and Schnapir are the club's most recent successes on the national and world stage. Other notable former members of the club are 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie and two-time Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan.
Current skaters
A decade after Castelli and Schnapir claimed their pairs national titles, the club produced another title-winning pair in
Another current club skater is Maxim Naumov, the 2020 US junior national champion, whose parents — and club coaches — Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov — were killed in Wednesday's crash.
Other notable skaters Jimmy Ma, who has finished in the top six at the last five consecutive US championships, and a pair of rising stars in the junior ranks: Patrick Blackwell, a US junior bronze medalist this year, and Sophie Joline von Felten, a 2025 US junior national champion.
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