Over his 60-year career, he helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games.
FILE – Figure Skating coach Frank Carroll watches the women’s free skate routines at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Wash., Jan. 23, 2010. Longtime figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over the course of a 60-year career helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games, including Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, died Sunday, June 9, 2024. He was 85.
With a sharp wit and even sharper sense of humor, Carroll was instrumental in the success of not just Kwan and Lysacek but a number of American stars, such as Linda Fratianne, Christopher Bowman, Timothy Goebel and Gracie Gold.“Frank’s sense of humor was a gift, especially on those tough lesson days when things just wouldn’t click,” said Kwan, who won the silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and bronze at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
“She taught me great discipline, about being on time, always showing up, never backing out, not saying, ‘Oh, I don’t feel well today,’” Carroll recalled later in life. “You go to the rink and you never complain about the ice.” “I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have been one of the lucky ones to work with him,” she said.Cowboys, 49ers Hall of Famer Allen passes away at 52
“He made me believe that I could skate perfectly in the Olympics,” Lysacek said after the 2010 Games. “When I first heard the results, he was the first person I thought about. … He owns just as much or more of my Olympic gold medal as I do.”
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