Former University of Delaware Figure Skating Club coach Sasha Kirsanov died in the crash along with two young skaters who trained in Newark.
Kim Navarro, the director of skating at Snoopy’s Home Ice who attended last week’s U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, knew some of the skaters killed in Wednesday’s plane crash in Washington,
Among the 67 lives lost were top skaters from the United States and Russia, including several children, poised to become the future stars of tomorrow.
At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.
“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in 1995, moved to the U.S. in 1998 and now coach figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston.
The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib
Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.
Hearts were heavy Thursday night across the figure skating community. Coaches and skaters with the St. Louis Skating Club held a practice at the Brentwood Ice Rink Thursday night, where we learned multiple coaches and skaters competed and interacted with several victims from Wednesday’s deadly plane collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington,
Two young sisters, ages 14 and 11, were among the victims who died Wednesday night after a commercial American Airlines plane collided with an army Black Hawk helicopter just outside Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington,
Two teenage figure skaters, their coaches and family members among 14 members of U.S. figure skating community in deadly plane crash over D.C. airport.
Some skaters, their families, and coaches were on American Airlines Flight 5342 that crashed with a military helicopter on Wednesday night.