Kraken Skating Academy

June 20 - 22, 2025

Kraken Community Iceplex

Kraken Skating Academy is excited to host the third annual Emerald City Figure Skating Summit. The mission of the Summit is to grow connections, share knowledge, and to support the love of figure skating in the Pacific Northwest. This year the Summit is featuring Olympian Scott Davis, International coach Darin Hosier, KSA coaching professionals and special guest coaches to be announced.

Skaters and coaches have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of on- and off-ice classes and workshops including sports psychology, physical therapy and injury prevention for skaters, nutrition, dance and music interpretation, and technical spins and jumps classes.

Registration opens April 1st at 12pm PST.

Payment plan available upon registration (Figure Skaters | Senior, Junior, Aspire, Excel, and Adult):

$100 deposit at time of registration
$137.50 May 1
$137.50 June 1

Skater Packages

Figure Skaters | Senior, Junior, Aspire, Excel, and Adult

All-Inclusive Cost: $375
Level groups (competition level):
- Senior Group: Intermediate - Senior (Well Balanced), Excel Novice - Excel Senior
- Junior Group: Pre-Preliminary - Juvenile (Well Balanced), Excel Pre-Juvenile - Excel Intermediate
- Excel Group: Aspire #4, Freeskate #5-6, Excel Pre-Preliminary, Excel Preliminary
- Aspire Group: Aspire #1, #2, #3, Pre-Freeskate - Freeskate #4
- Adult Groups: Adult #3-6, Pre-Bronze +
Package Includes:
- On-Ice classes
- Off-Ice classes
- Off-Ice workshops
- Freestyle time

Learn to Skate | Figure Skaters

All-Inclusive Cost: $100
Level Groups:
- LTS/EE: Snowplow #3 - #4, Basic Skills #2 - #6
Package Includes:
- On-Ice class
- Off-Ice class

Coaches

Cost: $100*
Package Includes:
- Access to all classes and workshops

*If you have 3 or more primary students registered for the summit, your attendance fee is $0 - please reach out to skating director for manual registration

Venue

All events included in the Emerald City Figure Skating Summit will occur at Kraken Community Iceplex. See link below for further information about the venue and parking.

Getting Here

accommodations

Accomodation link coming soon. Marriot is the official partner of the Seattle Kraken.

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Darin Hosier

Junior World International Coach

Coach of 2023 US National Junior Champion Lucas Broussard, 2007 2x Jr. Grand Prix Champion Chrissy Hughes, and 2011 Novice Ladies National Medalist Amanda Hoffman

Team USA Coach 2007, 2008, 2020 - present

PSA Master Rated

2023 Pieter Kolleen Sports Science Coach of the Year Award Nominee

2023 Developmental Coaching Team of the Year Award Recipient

Dr. Rick Sessinghaus

Rick

As a former professional golfer, Rick has now found more satisfaction helping others achieve their dreams than he did in his own competitive career. Long intrigued by the fact that physical skills were rarely the determining factor in athletic success, he studied the mental and emotional skills that make or break a performance. Adding to his Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communications, Rick received his Masters and Doctorate Degree in Applied Sports Psychology.

Rick co-founded FlowCode with the purpose of helping others realize their full potential and live their dreams. Long intrigued by the fact that physical skills were rarely the determining factor in athletic success, Rick & the FlowCode team studied the mental and emotional skills that make or break a performance. FlowCode offers a state of the art approach to the mental game preparation based on years of experience & successes with top athletes of the world.