Aspen Skating Club - Coaches

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 age 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 Sports 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.

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Teri Klindworth Hooper Head Coach

Jenny began skating at the age of 4 and knew right from the start that she wanted to teach skating when she grew up.  She began teaching in 1992 at the Winter Lodge Ice Rink in Palo Alto, CA.  She moved to Aspen in 1998 and was the Skating Director for the City of Aspen Ice Facilities until 2010.  Jenny competed at the US Adult National Figure Skating Championships in 2005 where she placed third in the artistic event and fifth in the freestyle event.  She is a USFSA gold medalist in standard moves in the field and adult freestyle.  Jenny is also a member of the Professional Skaters Association (PSA) where she holds a Basic Accreditation rating and a Hockey Level I Accreditation.

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Stephanie started skating competitively  as an amateur figure skater and short track speedskater in 1983 and continued through 1996.  She has been a member of the St Claire Shores Figure Skating Club, the Fraser Figure Skating Club, the Wolverine Short Track Speed Skating Club, and the Michigan Speed Skating Association.  She has tested at Junior Freeskate level and was working on her Gold Figures, and has passed Freestyle 7.  She is a member of the USFSA and ISIA.  Stephanie previously taught for the ASC during the 1999/2000 season and the Club welcomes her back!

Jenny Nelson

Stephanie Torres

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Elaine has been teaching figure skating since 1999, she was a USFSA Silver medalist in Adult Freestyle, is a Member of the PSA and USFSA, a previous Board Member for the Aspen Skating Club, a Bronze rated ISI Judge, she Rated in Group with PSA, is certified in The Standing Firm Off-Ice Training System, previous Test Chair for Ice Dancing with the Aspen Skating Club, previous Skating Director for Polar Ice and Tucson Ice in Tucson, AZ.  Elaine attended college in AZ where she studied Choreography, Music, Theater and Production.

Elaine Kozel

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