Episode Notes

Today’s guest is the first Olympic champion I’ve had on the podcast - Charlie White!  Charlie and his ice dance partner Meryl Davis are the 2014 Olympic Gold Medalists as well as 2010 Olympic silver medalists. They are also two-time World champions and six-time national champions. In 2022, Charlie launched the Michigan Ice Dance Academy with his wife Tanith (herself an Olympic medalist in ice dance), and their friend, junior world champion Greg Zeurlin.  They are already off to a strong start with elite dance teams such as Caroline Green/Michael Parsons, and Katarina Wolfkostin/Jeffrey Chen working with them. When announcing MIDA, Charlie talked about the importance of supporting athletes as whole people, and I am eager to learn more about their coaching approach!

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cpn9eDvW9KHQpOlDB115l7l7Vdwzd1lCDG0zbxnsLKc/edit

You can follow Charlie at @CharlieAWhite on Instagram and Twitter, and MIDA @michiganicedanceacademy on Instagram and https://www.michiganicedanceacademy.com/

“Michigan Ice Dance Academy to Open in 2022” https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/article/michigan-ice-dance-academy-open-2022

Charlie’s tweets about having his students write essays on ice dance https://twitter.com/charlieawhite/status/1493058958617108483?s=46&t=_IVdmlHKhXmCA8l-mxBecw

The Roeper School philosophy https://www.roeper.org/about/mission--philosophy

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