Don Laws

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Don Laws is an American figure skater and coach.

As a competitive skater, he was a U.S. junior champion in single skating and ice dancing, as well as a World Team member. He was coached by Osborne Colson.[1]

After retiring from competitive skating, Laws became a coach. He has coached various notable figure skaters and ice dancers, including Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, and U.S. champion Michael Weiss; he is currently coaching 2008 Canadian champion Patrick Chan.

Laws was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2005 he received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Michael Weiss Foundation.

Laws was one of the Americans who help create the ISU Judging System, which replaced the old 6.0 scoring system in 2004.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Campbell, Barre. "The wizard of Os is forever young", Ottawa Sun, 2006-01-10. Retrieved on 2008-03-25. 
  2. ^ Weiss Takes Inside Track to Top (washingtonpost.com)
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