Frank Carroll

This article is about figure skating coach Frank Carroll. For the director with the pseudonym Frank G. Carroll see Gianfranco Baldanello .

Frank Carroll with his student Evan Lysacek

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

When an ice rink opened in his neighborhood, he started ice skating as a teenager. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1960, he moved to Winchester , where he lived on the weekends with his trainer, Maribel Vinson, and her daughters.

At the national junior championships, Carroll won the bronze medal when Gregory Kelley won in 1959 and the silver medal behind Douglas Ramsay in 1960 . Then he switched to the professionals and ran during the time of the plane crash of the US team in 1961 at the ice revue Ice Follies. He stayed there until 1964. He was already accepted to law school by the University of San Francisco when he decided to pursue an acting career. To finance this, he began to give figure skating lessons. He later gave up acting and became a full-time coach.

His most successful students were Linda Fratianne , whom he led to two world championship titles and an Olympic silver medal, Michelle Kwan , whom he led to four world championship titles and an Olympic silver medal, and Evan Lysacek , whom he led to a world title and an Olympic victory. Tiffany Chin , Christopher Bowman and Timothy Goebel also won international medals under him . Carroll managed to win the world title both in the period of the compulsory figures (with Fratianne), as well as in the time after (with Kwan) and under the new scoring system (with Lysacek).

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

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