Aspen Skating Club Coaching Staff

2007-2008 Season

Teri Klindworth Hooper – Originally from Minnesota, Teri comes from a “skating family” where her parents have both been judges and her two sisters were also gold medalists and senior competitive skaters at national levels.  Teri’s sister, Tamie Campbell, is now a world judge.  Teri began skating at the age of 5, competing at 6, and was a senior competitor by the age of 15!  After training under Carlo Fassi and John Nicks in her competitive career, she went on to earn a degree from the University of Denver in the area of Sport Science.  As a coach, she has team coached with both Carlo Fassi and Donald Laws in Denver, has been very active in the Professional Skaters Association, and has participated in many Olympic training camps.  In addition to choreographing multiple club shows, she was also a choreographer for Scott Hamilton’s Olympic Tribute.  In 1991 Teri moved with her family to Aspen.  She is the busy mother of two children, Kaitlyn and Keegan.

Alex Kendrick – Alex has been teaching skating for 7 years.  She is a member of the Professional Skaters Association.  After skating with the Aspen Skating Club in her early years, she became very active with the skating club of the University of Colorado which she attended.  Alex has been a kids’ ski instructor for the last 8 years.  She and her husband Scott are proud parents of Cooper and Parker.

Jenny Nelson – Jenny began skating at the age of 4 but didn’t start competitive training until 25.  At a very young age, she told her parents that when she grew up she wanted to be an ice skating teacher.  True to her word, she began teaching in 1992 at the Winter Lodge Ice Rink in Palo Alto, CA.  She moved to Aspen in 1998 and accepted the job of Skating Director for the City of Aspen Ice Facilities.  Jenny’s proudest moment in her skating career was competing at the US Adult National Figure Skating Championships in 2005 where she placed third in the artistic event and fifth in the freeskate event.  Jenny is a member of the Professional Skaters Association where she holds a Basic Accreditation rating and a Hockey Level I Accreditation.

Kaitlyn Hooper – Kaitlyn began skating at the age of 3.  In 1994 when the Aspen Skating Club previously performed “Grease”, Kaitlyn was cast as a “mini Sandy” at the age of 4 and has been performing in the club shows and exhibitions ever since.  She has been a competitive skater since 1995 and has placed in Regional and Invitational events throughout the years.  Kaitlyn has been helping with the Aspen Skating Club program since she was 12.  Following in her mother’s footsteps, she began her own coaching career at the age of 16.  Kaitlyn is a senior at the Aspen High School and is part of the lettering program for figure skating there.  She is a member of the Professional Skaters Association and is looking forward to furthering her knowledge in coaching.

Shannon Dick – Shannon has been an active member of the Aspen Skating Club for about twelve years.  She has passed her novice moves in the field and juvenile freeskate tests as well as several of the bronze ice dance tests.  She has lettered in the sport of figure skating for the past three years as part of the Aspen High School lettering program.  Since the start of high school, Shannon has been volunteering with the Aspen Skating Club by assisting with the group classes.  Shannon has decided to pursue coaching as an opportunity to return some of the kindness and knowledge that the club has given to her.