Samuelson and Bates End Partnership

Golden Skate Salutes Gay Pride Month

On June 28, 1969, the gay rights movement was born in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Brave men and women at the Stonewall Inn caught up in a police raid early that morning inspired a community to resist the anti-homosexual establishment and fight for change.

More than 50 years later, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed State Bill A08354 into law late Friday evening, making the Empire State the sixth and largest, to allow same sex couples the right to marry. With so much to celebrate this year, Golden Skate proudly honors the LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender) community with uplifting stories of gay pride from some of our favorite skaters.

Doug Mattis In the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, Doug Mattis was a staple at…

Grand Prix schedules Evan Lysacek after season off

Skate Canada reveals ISU World Figure Skating Championships® 2013 Logo

Kriengkrairut and Giulietti-Schmitt are ready for the spotlight

With many high profile skating partnerships coming to an end for one reason or another this year, ice dancers Lynn Kriengkrairut and Logan Giulietti-Schmitt are quietly going about their business preparing for the new season. In their sixth year as a team, Kriengkrairut, 22, and Giulietti-Schmitt, 25, are coming off their most successful U.S. Championships to date, and are beginning to realize the potential that they felt back when they first teamed up.

“When we split up with our previous partners, Logan found me on icepartnersearch.com and gave me a call,” Kriengkrairut remembered. “I was going to hang up my dance skates to attend college and was also considering the possibility of going back to freestyle to compete in the…

U.S. skater Rachael Flatt disciplined for hiding stress fracture

U.S. skater Adam Rippon to train with coach Jason Dungjen

Adam Rippon, a two-time world juniors champion and the gold medalist at the 2010 Four Continents, will move to Detroit Skating Club and train with Jason Dungjen.

Sawyer, Russell, Johnson, Szmiett retire from amateur skating