Carroll, who used Lake Arrowhead and El Segundo as training bases, guided the careers of Michelle Kwan, Evan Lysacek, Linda Fratianne, Gracie Gold and more
Figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over 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. 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. He was 85.
With a sharp wit and even sharper sense of humor, Carroll was instrumental in the success of American standouts such as Kwan, Lysacek and Linda Fratianne, using Ice Castle in Lake Arrowhead and Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo as his training rinks. He retired from coaching in August 2018, not long after his 80th birthday, and moved to Palm Springs.
Carroll, the younger of two children, was born on July 11, 1938, to a shop teacher father and city clerk mother. “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.Evan Lysacek puts his hand on the shoulder of his coach, Frank Carroll, as they wait for his scores in the men’s free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Jan. 17, 2010, in Spokane, Wash.
“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.”U.S. women’s water polo blends youth and experience with roster selections for Paris Olympics
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