Casey really made her reputation with Jill Lynn Sawyer, a tall, blonde jumping wiz from the Tacoma area who claimed the 1977 U.S. novice title with all of the triple jumps through the Lutz. Invariably, Sawyer created quite at that Nationals in Hartford, Connecticut, since she and one other skater, Theresa Foy of California, the U.S. National novice ladies silver medalist, were doing more difficult jumps than most of the ladies singles in the junior and senior levels.
In 1978, Sawyer clinched the national junior ladies and World Junior Championship titles with this arsenal of triples, which helped initiate a whole new trend of ladies skaters who did this level of jumping. (Linda Fratianne, the 1980 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and Elaine Zayak, the 1982 U.S. World titlist were the famed American international pioneers of this new genre of triple-rotation female jumpers.)
... Over the next few decades, she coached Nicole Bobek, the 1995 U.S. champion; Scott Davis, the 1994 U.S. champion; Rosalynn Sumners, the 1984 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, Scott Hamilton, the 1984 U.S. Olympic titlist, Sydne Vogel, the 1995 national junior ladies winner and Damon Allen, a top-seeded national men’s contender in the late 1990s.
