Good news! Zawadzki dumps Zakrajsek. She has a bright future ahead of her.
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Great news for Zawadski. damn good tech skater, but she needs a master coach to show her the nuances of a master skater. I don't know David as a coach but I do know him as a competitor who had a lot going for him. He would have won the Olys back then.
Zawadski needs not only to put time in with dancing classes, but also look at established dancers and how they convey their art.
Hernando, I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the situation with Ferris at Nationals (he's also left Tom Z)
Yet, she conceded that she had lost her drive.
“I wasn’t loving (skating) and I felt I had to make a change,” she said. “David is the person I can talk to. He is the one who has coached me the longest and I think he can bring back my love of the sport.”
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For the last three years, Zawadzki has trained in Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center, while attending Cheyenne High School. She will continue to train there, Santee says, coming back to Park Ridge for approximately one week per month.
Santee will travel to Colorado Springs regularly to monitor her coaching, but assisting him with her day-to-day coaching will be Christy Krall, who coaches the 2011 world champion Patrick Chan of Canada.
“No one knows her better than I do,” Santee said. “She’s very comfortable with me. She knows how I am at competitions and just how I can help her as she goes forward.
“Sometimes,” he adds, “you just feel the right chemistry and that makes a big difference.”