Frank Carroll (figure skater)

Francis "Frank" Carroll ( born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American figure skating coach.

As in his neighborhood opened a skating rink, he started as a teenager with ice skating. After he graduated in Sociology in 1960 from the College of the Holy Cross with a bachelor, he moved to Winchester, where he lived on the weekends with his coach Maribel Vinson and her daughters.

At the national junior championships Carroll won the 1959 victory of Gregory Kelley bronze medal and 1960 silver medal behind Douglas Ramsay. He then moved to the pros and ran during the time of the plane crash of the U.S. team at the 1961 Ice Revue Ice Follies. He remained there until 1964. He was already accepted by the University of San Francisco to study law when he decided to pursue an acting career. To finance this, he began to give figure skating hours. Later he gave up acting and became a full time trainer.

His most successful students were Linda Fratianne, which he led to two World Cup titles and an Olympic silver medal, Michelle Kwan, which he led to four world titles and an Olympic silver medal and Evan Lysacek, whom he led to a world title and an Olympic victory. International medals were won under him also Tiffany Chin, Christopher Bowman and Timothy Goebel. Carroll made ​​it ( with Lysacek ) win the world title in both the period of compulsory figures ( with Fratianne ), as well as in its aftermath ( with Kwan ) and under the new rating system.

Carroll is the head coach at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California.

He was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007.

• Figure skating coach
• Americans
• Born in 1939
• Man