Legendary figure skating coach John Nicks coaches local skaters Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. Nicks has coached U.S. and Olympic medalists in 41 World Championships and nine winter Olympic Games. He is a member of the U.S. Figure Skating and World Figure Skating halls of fame
Photo by Jenise Jensen / town of Breckenridge
The town of Breckenridge was blessed with an unexpected and atypical sporting opportunity this week at Stephen C. West Ice Arena. World and U.S. hall of fame figure skating coach John Nicks was in town for a ski trip with his daughter, their first time to Breckenridge, and he was connected with the town recreation department. They asked if Nicks, 91, would be interested in a figure skating clinic, and the recently retired longtime coach for U.S. Figure Skating couldn’t say “no.”
mission look at him. before anybody else, the one guy in mission control who did not wait for the head of the descent team to declare, touchdown confirmed, mission accomplished. something that guy heard or saw on his screen made him get all excited just a few seconds earlier than everybody else in the room. dan amira of new york magazine first pointed this guy out to us today. but man pointing it out was not enough for us here at the show. we had to figure out who this guy was and what he knows and why he popped off earlier than everybody else did. so we figured out that he probably works in af john nicks and we called around and were able to get the guy s name. it s true, he s an avionic system engineer named jonathan grimblat. the other nis industry is, why did he react first before everybody else reacted?