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Carol Heiss won five World titles and the 1960 Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating, and for the past twenty-five years or so, she's been very actively involved in the sport as an elite coach in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She has coached some very promising skaters - Lisa Ervin (1993 US silver medalist), Timothy Goebel (who left Heiss to train with Frank Carroll), and Tonia Kwiatkowski, a perpetual "bridesmaid" at US Nationals. I guess my question is, why has she had so few top skaters? She doesn't seem to train the skaters who win major titles. Why is that? Heiss appears to be a very intelligent, motivated, and positive person who would make a fantastic skating coach. Is her lack of top students due to her Ohio location? It's just puzzling to me, that's all. Frankly, I would have expected to see Heiss at the Olympics by now, as the coach of a medal-winning skater.