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Meet Our Coaches

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 Lori Benton​

Born and raised in San Diego, Lori completed at the amateur level through college and medaled at the United States Figure Skating Championships and World University Games while attending San Diego State University.  After college, she went on to earn the title of World Professional Figure Skating Champion in 1989.

 

Lori performed as a principal soloist in Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice and numerous shows worldwide from 1981 through 2002 and has shared her technical and creative love of the sport of figure skating with her students, National Competitors and Olympic Medalists since 1985!

A professional choreographer, Lori has contributed her creativity and signature style to professional ice shows over the past twenty five years including Tacoma’s Lakewood Winter Club annual ice shows, summer productions of the Sun Valley Ice Show now known as Sun Valley on Ice, and since 2011, the Manchester Ice & Event Centre’s McCall Starz on Ice!

Email Lori    (208) 559-0211

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Marie Furnary

As a PSA Double Master-rated coach in Moves in the Field and Group, Marie has more than 20 years of coaching experience, and is a US Figure Skating Gold Medalist in Ice Dance. Marie’s primary coach was Olympic Team pairs/dance coach Ron Ludington, who ingrained techniques of his coach, Maribel Vinson-Owen, in all of his skaters. She also holds a PSA Level II ranking, a Certified Rating in Ice Dance, a Registered Rating in Freestyle, and is a Level 1 & 2 hockey accredited & power skate coach with the PSA.

Marie's MFSC skaters include 16 Gold/Senior USFS Test Medalists since the club’s inception in 2003. Her skaters’ other achievements include competing as co-captain of the 2012 National Collegiate Champion Team: receiving the highest IJS score out of 44 Preliminary girls at the 2013 US Figure Skating NW Pacific Regionals; performing as a cast member of the 2015 Holiday on Ice European Tour of Passion as well as in the 2015-2016 US tour of Disney On Ice: 100 Years of Magic. She has also taught at the Dartmouth FSC in New Hampshire, and at the Johnstown FSC in Pennsylvania.

   

Email Marie     (208) 630-4028

Paige Robnett

Paige began her skating career at the age of nine-years-old in McCall, Idaho. She trained primarily with her coach Marie Furnary: a PSA Double Master-rated coach. She frequently travelled to Salt Lake City, Utah to train with Jozef Sabovčík: a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time European champion and a six-time Czechoslovak national champion.  

 

During her career she earned four U.S. Figure Skating Gold medals in: Ice Dance, Free-Dance, Moves in the Field, and Solo Free-Dance. She competed all throughout her career and placed 1st out of 44 girls at the 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Northwest Pacific Regionals. Upon graduating from McCall-Donnelly High School she joined the cast of Disney on Ice during the 2019-2020 U.S. and Canadian tour for their newest show: Road Trip Adventures. 

 

During high school she taught as a Learn to Skate group instructor. She is now a PSA Accredited coach.  Paige is currently coaching in Germany.  We wish her the best and hope to see her on McCall ice again soon!   

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