There is No "I" in Team
PS Magazine May/June 2009 Why do some coaches and elite skaters feel they have a sense of entitlement? In the April 2009 International Figure Skating Magazine, a reader wrote a letter to the editor saying, “Shame on U.S. Figure Skating for not naming Johnny Weir to the world team….It is just good old skating politics again.” Is that not what we are trying to get a way from? Is it not the point to let the best skater on that day win? Why do so many of us believe that we are owed something for past production? Current coach and former US Pairs Champion, World and Olympic team member Melissa Militano was quoted in the same IFS Magazine in an article penned by Tai Babilonia as saying, I’d like to see a system implemented in which skating associations honor coaches who have reached a certain level of achievement, whether medaling at nationals, Worlds, Olympics or coaching skaters at these levels. We must stay informed of current changes and methods of training, but I find it disrespectful a