Frank Carroll
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Frank Carroll is an American figure skating coach and former competitive skater. He was coached by Maribel Vinson-Owen and was thrust into coaching following her death. Carroll's former students include Linda Fratianne, Christopher Bowman, Michelle Kwan, Tiffany Chin, Timothy Goebel, Karen Kwan, Nicole Bobek, Angela Nikodinov, and Jennifer Kirk. Michelle Kwan fired him before the 2002 Winter Olympics. He fired Goebel in November 2004 following the NHK Trophy and split with Chin after having disagreements with her mother. He is one of the few coaches to have coached a World Champion both with figures (Fratianne) and without (Kwan).
Carroll, along with Ken Congemi, is currently coaching Evan Lysacek, Beatrisa Liang and Danielle Kahle. He is the head coach for the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California.
Carroll was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame (1996).
