Mount Washington Valley Skating Club

 

 

Professional Staff

Emily Finn, Skating Director – Trained at SC of Boston and the Hayden Recreation Center in Lexington, MA.  Competed at New England Regional Championships.  Previously coached for Fairbanks FSC for 10 years in Fairbanks, Alaska.  Emily resides in Fryeburg, Maine with her family.

 
Vitaliy Opekan – Trained in Moscow, National Champion and Medalist, Principal Skater with Disney on Ice.   Professional skater with Moscow Ballet on Ice and Moscow Bolshoi State Circus on Ice.  Resides in Kearsarge, NH with his wife, Tina Titzer who operates a dance school in Fryeburg.   Web Site

 
Carol Rosenblith - Began skating as an adult. Trained and competed (ISI) for the Skating Club of Natick. Further training in moves-in-the-field, freestyle and ice dancing at Iorio Ice Club, Walpole, MA and at Babson Skating Center, Wellesley, MA with Robert Rafuse. USFSA Basic Skills instructor since Spring, 2003. Group instructor since November 2003 in greater metropolitan Boston with the Bay State Skating School and since January 2005 with the Weston Skating Club Basic Skills Program directed by Tom McGinnis. Carol resides with her husband in Newton, MA and at their second home in Madison, NH.

 
Stacy McAllister -  Stacy Began her skating career at the Ham Arena when it opened in 1999 and has been an MWV Skating Club Member since the club's inception in 2001.  She also maintains membership with the North Atlantic Figure Skating Club in Falmouth, Maine.   To date she has passed her USFSA Junior Moves-in-the-Field, Intermediate Freeskate, and Bronze Dance test, and is a member of the Professional Skater's Association.

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Coaches are available for private lessons during club practice Ice. 

Please make arrangements with Coaches.

Practice Ice Fees apply to Members, Students and Visitors for Private Lessons.

Visiting Coaches

Danielle Laroche -  Trained at the Kennebacasis Valley FSC in New Brunswick, SC of Boston, SC of Maine and Colonial FSC.  Competed at New England Regional's (Novice Freestyle) and Eastern Sectionals (Novice Dance).  She has passed her Senior Level MIF and Ice Dance as well as her Junior level Freestyle tests. Coached at the SC of Maine.  Danielle currently divides her time between her home in North Conway and Montreal.    
 
Emily Bisson– From the SC of Amherst.  Trained at Amherst College, University of MA - Amherst and International Skating Center of CT.  Competed with, and Senior member of Nationally ranked Figuretts Senior Precision Synchronized Team.  Former coach and Co-Director of Bates College Skate School.