2024-25 Coaching, Country and Discipline Changes

[surimi]

Follow all the latest figure skating coaching, country and discipline changes for the 2024-25 season in one place. This thread tracks confirmed announcements across singles, pairs, and ice dance.

Feel free to post additions/changes, along with the source, using full names of skaters or their coaches, which country they represent, or which federation the skater is switching from.

Coaching Changes
Women
- Ema Doboszova (Slovakia) - from Dmytro Ignatenko to Thomas Kennes
- Mia Risa Gomez (Norway) - from Agnes Zawadzki to Hilde Aaby, Berit Steigedal
- Phrattaratida Kaneshige (Thailand) - left Tammy Gambill
- Mana Kawabe (Japan) - from Mihoko Higuchi to Masakazu Kagiyama
- Marilena Kitromilis (Cyprus) - from Sergei Komolov to Andrei Lutai, Ina Demireva
- Milana Lebedeva (Russia) - from Ekaterina Moiseeva to Evgeni Plushenko
- Sofia Muravieva (Russia) - from Evgeni Plushenko to Alexei Mishin
- Viktoria Nesterova (Russia) - from Yulia Kulibanova to Evgeni Rukavitsin
- Alexia Paganini (Switzerland) - left Michael Huth
- Stefanie Pesendorfer (Austria) - from Denise Jaschek, Markus Haider to Niko Ulanovsky
- Kimmy Repond (Switzerland) - added Michael Huth to her coaching team
- Kaiya Ruiter (Canada) - from Scott Davis, Jeff Langdon to Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson
- Sofia Samodelkina (Kazakhstan) - from Evgeni Plushenko to Elmira Turganova (and Rafael Arutyunyan - unconfirmed)
- Hetty Shi (Canada) - from Paul Parkinson, Andrew Evans to Brian Orser, Rafael Arutunian
- Jia Shin (South Korea) - from Hyunjung Chi, Jinseo Kim to Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson
- Rena Uezono (Japan) - from Mihoko Higuchi to Sonoko Nakano
- Veronika Yametova (Russia) - from Elena Levkovets, Vladimir Gnilozubov to Sergei Davydov
- Kara Yun (Canada) - from Joanne McLeod to Lee Barkell

Men
- Edward Appleby - from John Wicker to Christopher Boyadji, Lloyd Jones
- David Bondar - added Rafael Arutyunyan to his coaching team
- Lucas Broussard - from Darren Hosier, Corrie Martin to Toronto Cricket Club
- Arseni Dimitriev (Russia) - from Kirill Davydenko to Eteri Tutberidze
- Stephen Gogolev (Canada) - from Rafael Arutyunyan to Benoit Richaud (+ keeps Lee Barkell)
- Makar Ignatov (Russia) - from Evgeni Rukavitsin to Evgeni Plushenko
- Daniil Samsonov (Russia) - from Eteri Tutberidze to Svetlana Sokolovksaia
- Taira Shinohara (USA) - from Denise Myers, Tommy Steenberg, Jeremy Allen and Kseniya Ponomaryova, to Rafael Arutyunyan, Hov Mkrtchian
- Lukas Vaclavik (Slovakia) - from Gabriele Minchio to Sergei Rozanov, Polina Shuboderova

Pairs
- Iuliia Artemeva / Aleksei Briukhanov (Russia) - from Pavel Sliusarenko to Tamara Moskvina
- Fiona Bombardier / Benjamin Mimar (Canada) - stay with Andrew Evans, dropped Bruno Marcotte, added Julie Marcotte and Josee Picard
- Nica Digerness / Mark Sadusky (USA) - from Dalilah Sappenfield to Natalia(?) Mishkutenok, Drew Meekins, Daniel O'Shea
- Viktoria Vasilieva / Roman Zaporozhets (Russia) - from Artur Dmitriev Sr to Arina Ushakova, Sergei Karev

Ice dance
- Ekaterina Andreeva / Dmitri Blinov (Belarus) - from Alexei Sitnikov, Julia Zlobina to Denis Samokhin
- Irina Khavronina / Devid Narizhny (Russia) - from Denis Samokhin to Alexander Zhulin
- Aleksandra Prokopets / Aleksandr Vaskovich (Russia) - from Elena Maslennikova, Ilya Averbukh to Denis Samokhin
- Natalie Taschlerova / Filip Taschler (Czech Republic) - from Matteo Zanni to Maurizio Margaglio

Country Changes
Women
- Vasilisa Bogomolova - from Russia to Cyprus
- Lucrezia Gennaro - from Italy to Greece
- Alessia Tornaghi - from Italy to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Men
- Tommaso Barison - from Italy to Cyprus
- Edrian Paul Celestino - from the Philippines to Canada
- Louie Fukuda-Wu - from Canada to Taiwan

Ice Dance
- Claudia Amaro-Letestu / Marco Amaro-Letestu - from France to Portugal
- Charlotte Chung / Axel Mackenzie - from Canada to Sweden
- Denisa Cimlova - from Czech Republic to Italy
- Lucy Hancock - from Hungary to Canada
- Lara Luft - from Germany to Hungary
- Anna Mackenzie/Wesley Lockwood - from Canada to Sweden
- Maria Nekhaeva - from Russia to Israel
- Anna Rumak - from Russia to France

Pairs
- Karina Akopova / Nikita Rakhmanin - from Russia to Armenia
- Megan Wessenberg - from USA to France

Discipline Changes
- Hannah Herrera (USA > Ukraine) - from singles to pairs
- Ayumi Kagotani (Japan) - from singles to pairs
- Ikura Kushida (Japan) - from singles to both singles and ice dance
- Ayumi Shibayama (Japan) - from singles to ice dance (officially also listed in singles)
- Koshiro Shimada (Japan) - from singles to ice dance
- Polina Tikhonova (Russia) - from singles to ice dance

See also:

• 2023-24 season
• 2022-23 season

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Kimmy Repond (SUI) adds Michael Huth to her coaching team (previously she was coached by her sister Jeromie Repond).

 

[elektra blue]

Kimmy Repond (SUI) adds Michael Huth to her coaching team (previously she was coached by her sister Jeromie Repond).

and he's smiling

 

[Marirue]

Kimmy Repond (SUI) adds Michael Huth to her coaching team (previously she was coached by her sister Jeromie Repond).

He seems that he's happy to work with her and he used to coach Carolina Kostner in the past.

 

[saine]

Edrian Paul Celestino (men) is switching from the Philippines to Canada based on the Patinage Quebec funding list for Equipe B.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

U.S. pairs skaters, Nica Digerness and Mark Sadusky have returned to the WASA rink in Colorado, to be coached by the Mishketunok, Meekins, O'Shea coaching team. Nica & Mark were formerly trained by Dalilah Sappenfield and Larry Ibarra at the nearby Monument, CO rink.

I am happy for Nica & Mark! I wish them luck and success!

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Hmm, I also notice that Gabby Izzo is there, too. And maybe her partner, Luc Maierhofer. Maybe they will train in the U.S. and rep Austria? Or, maybe they are just at WASA for the summer? I wonder.

 

[saine]

@cohkaix mentioned this in the BC/YK Section Super Series thread. The Chinese Taipei Skating Union posted stories promoting Tasha Lai/Mickey Becker-Pos (Canada, reigning Novice Ice Dance bronze medalists) skating at the competition. It looks like they may be switching there. I've attached screenshots of the stories.

 

[saine]

Hetty Shi (CAN) is now coached by Rafael Arutyunyan and Brian Orser as listed on her National Team page - https://skatecanada.ca/high-performance/hetty-shi/

 

[surimi]

Hetty Shi (CAN) is now coached by Rafael Arutyunyan and Brian Orser as listed on her National Team page - https://skatecanada.ca/high-performance/hetty-shi/

Which of them was she with previously? I can't find her fanfest.

 

[saine]

Which of them was she with previously? I can't find her fanfest.

From her ISU bio, Paul Parkinson and Andrew Evans are listed as her previous coaches.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Viktoria Nesterova (RUS, singles) from Yulia Kulibanova to Evgeni Rukavitsin.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Viktoria Vasilieva & Roman Zaporozhets (RUS, pairs) from Artur Dmitriev Sr to Arina Ushakova and Sergei Karev

Artur Dmitriev Sr has moved to Saint Petersburg and started coaching in Star Ice. Viktoria and Roman decided to stay in Moscow.

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

From the latest Pirouette magazine (Nr. 6, 2024):

Stefanie Pesendorfer (AUT) changes coaches from Denise Jaschek, Markus Haider in Linz to Niko Ulanovsky in Oberstdorf

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Some more gossip from Oberstdorf: Alexia Paganini (SUI) left coach Michael Huth. He told her she needed to decide between preparing for the season or focusing on shows.
Make of that what you will.

 

[MaHa75]

From the latest Pirouette magazine (Nr. 6, 2024):

Stefanie Pesendorfer (AUT) changes coaches from Denise Jaschek, Markus Haider in Linz to Niko Ulanovsky in Oberstdorf

Niko is good and all the best to Stefanie

 

[Sabine]

Niko is good and all the best to Stefanie

Which senior skater has he coached or is he actually coaching?

 

[elektra blue]

Some more gossip from Oberstdorf: Alexia Paganini (SUI) left coach Michael Huth. He told her she needed to decide between preparing for the season or focusing on shows.
Make of that what you will.

i guess it's shows then

 

[MaHa75]

Which senior skater has he coached or is he actually coaching?

Ofc he is young coach and I cant name any senior skater but i have seen how he works in PeakIce camps.

 

[MaHa75]

Ema Doboszova SLO from Dmytro Ignatenkov to Thomas Kennes Netherland.

 

[Ivana]

Ema Doboszova SLO from Dmytro Ignatenkov to Thomas Kennes Netherland.

SVK not SLO...

Good luck to Ema, hopefully this is the change she needs.