Mary Scotvold

Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American figure skating coach .

She won the national title among the newcomers in 1959. She later toured with the ice revue Ice Follies and married pair skating champion Ronald Ludington . She has a son with him. After her divorce from Ludington, she began working as a coach in Rockton , Illinois in the mid-1970s . Young Scott Hamilton was one of her students . She worked with Evy Scotvold , whom she later married. Both trained in Janesville , Wisconsin before moving to the Boston area in 1986 . Scotvold was best known for her collaboration with Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan , which she and her husband won Olympic medals. Mary Scotvold was especially responsible for the choreography while her husband was more in charge of the technical area.

Mary Scotvold's twin sister Anne Batdorf Militano is also a trainer and a former figure skater.