Legendary figure skating coach Frank Carroll Dead at 85.

Legendary figure skating coach Frank Carroll has died at the age of 85.

The U.S. Figure Skating Association confirmed Carroll’s death to PEOPLE and posted a statement on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, June 9, 2024.

“U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of coaching legend Frank Carroll,” the statement began. “A member of the World and U.S. Figure Skating Halls of Fame, Frank was instrumental in the careers of numerous Olympic and World champions and many future Hall of Famers.”

Born in 1938 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Carroll was introduced to figure skating by his father. He won three national medals before transitioning to coaching in the 1960s, according to NBC Sports.

Carroll coached several world champions in women’s and men’s singles, including Linda Fratianne, Michelle Kwan, and Evan Lysacek.

All three skaters went on to win Olympic medals, with Lysacek winning a gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

“This is just frosting on the cake for me,” Carroll said after Lysacek’s victory, according to NBC Sports. “It’s not something I coveted after a while. It was something I thought maybe would never happen.”

Carroll’s most well-known pupil, Kwan, won an Olympic silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Under Carroll’s coaching in the 1990s, Kwan also won four senior world titles and five of her nine national titles.

He also coached other Olympians, including Gracie Gold, Denis Ten, and Timothy Goebel. Gold and Ten won bronze medals in their respective divisions in 2014, and Goebel won a bronze medal in 2002.

Carroll retired from coaching in 2018, having had a pupil compete in each of the previous six consecutive Olympics ending with PyeongChang.

Before his death, Carroll was inducted into the halls of fame of U.S. Figure Skating, World Figure Skating, the Professional Skaters Association, and the International Skating Institute.