Coaching Change Thread

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Kurakovas ISU profile is still without information about coaches...
Angelina Turenko and Brian Orser were listed as Ekaterina Kurakova's coachers in the screen graphic during last week's Lombardia Trophy livestream and Turenko was with her in Bergamo.

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I could not find a ISU profile on Marietta Atkins, but I have seen been training a lot with Lorenzo this summer, so I guess she might be one of his students as well.
I recognize Atkins' name from when she competed (representing SC of Boston) in the USFS' qualifying system years ago.
 
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Tomoki Hiwatashi's updated ISU bio lists Mie Hamada as his coach: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014495.htm
Jack Gallagher (who has interviewed Tomoki regularly over the years) posted on Twitter/X ~4 hours ago that Hiwatashi has moved to Japan to train with Hamada in Kyoto (Kinoshita Academy is based there).

ETA on Thursday - link to Gallagher's article (Tomoki has not commented publicly to date): https://featured.japan-forward.com/...ves-to-japan-now-being-coached-by-mie-hamada/
 
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Re-posting from the Italian news thread re. Gabriele Frangipani:
Before his season debut at CS Nepela Memorial, Gabriele Frangipani announced his new team (Fabio Mascarello, Giulia Cotugno, Marilu Guarnieri) at Accademia Del Ghiaccio based in San Donato Milanese: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxnLSYhoP5s/
He previously was coached by Angelina Turenko and Alisa Mikonsaari in Egna.
Lorenzo Magri will be the data/replay operator on the technical panel for the JGP in Gdansk this week. ETA to add that he mostly recently coached Swedish, Finnish & Norwegian skaters at a "Nordic Boys Camp" in Stockholm: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxslS12o7ek/
 
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Nice! I guess Agnes is living in Norway now. She had a fabulous junior career and some lovely senior moments, including a pretty memorable senior SP at Nationals.
I think she does, I read an article about Mias family in a Norwegian newspaper a few days ago, and it seemed Agnes is coaching both her and her 13 year old little sister Ella Celine in Stavanger. The family is really going all in now since the sisters now are in the most important years of the career according to the article. After doing some research it seems Agnes was in Luxembourg last season training some young skaters, but I believe this will be her first student going to major championships. She is going with Mia to Euros, so we will soon see her at the bords next week.

From my understanding Agnes trained and has been coaching in Colorado Springs as well. Mia was on a training camp there last spring, training with Team US and Magri. I´m wondering if she made connections to Agnes there, or if Agnes was in Luxembourg at that time.

To be honest, I did not know much about Agnes since I started watching figure skating pretty late, but I had to go watch some of her earlier programs, and yes - she was lovely to watch and had some really good moments in her career, all though a little inconsistent. Not only had she good jumps, but nice spins and skating skills. I´m really excited about this coaching change - I think it will be good for Mia working on those components marks as well.
 

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