NA Resident Earns Professional Skaters Association Award

Former US National Ice Dance Champion, and current Boston-based skating coach, Ron Kravette, was awarded the 2020 President’s Award of Excellence by the Professional Skaters Association (PSA). “It is such a great honor to be recognized in this way,” commented Kravette.

Kravette’s coaching career has been centered out of Skating Club of Boston, where he has coached since 1992. Kravette’s students range from local skating enthusiasts to Olympic medalists at the 2018 games. Kravette coaches with a philosophy promoting personal growth and responsibility using sports as a metaphor for life. “Skating provides an environment to experience wonderful achievements and great challenges within the confines of a singular skating session, a competition or a career. Navigating those highs and lows helps to put one on a path toward further success in life,” he explained.

The PSA’s annual awards seek to recognize excellence in coaching, focusing on the personal development and skating achievement of young competitors and social skaters. Coaching award recipients are considered role models in the sport. Founded in 1938, the Professional Skaters Association is the largest and most-recognized figure skating coaches’ organization in the world. The organization provides education, training and accreditation to coaches for U.S. Figure Skating and the Ice Sports Industry.

Kravette and former ice dance partner, Amy Webster were known as the first ice dance pair to both earn college degrees while skating competitively—In fact, Kravette went on to earn a Masters in Government from Harvard, and is currently in a doctoral program in Global Studies at UMass Lowell.