Caryn's Skating

Background

Throughout both her amateur and professional careers, Caryn Kadavy has been known for her graceful, balletic style and masterful skating technique.

Kadavy began skating at age 4 and was competing by 6. She qualified for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships for the first time at age 17 in 1985, training under Carlo Fassi at the Broadmoor World Arena. Shocking the skating world with her bronze medal placement, she went on to win the silver medal at the 1986 U.S. Championships and the bronze medal in 1987 and 1988. She earned gold medals in Canada, England, Yugoslavia and Russia. In 1987, she was the bronze medalist at the World Championships. She represented the U.S. at three World Championships and numerous International competitions, including the 1988 Winter Olympics.

In 1989, she turned professional to great acclaim. As a professional, Kadavy won six major titles, including the U.S. Pro- AM, U.S. Ladies Professional Championships and the Canadian Professional Championships. She has toured extensively, including Brian Boitano and Katarina Witt’s Skating tours, Stars on Ice- Skate the Nation Tours and Tour of Olympic and World Figure Skating Champions. She still appears as a guest artist in televised productions worldwide..

Kadavy is also an avid sportswoman who enjoys tennis, golf, bicycling, motorcycling, downhill skiing and water skiing. She has used those talents to contribute to charitable causes, including participating in the Chris Evert Celebrity Tennis Event, where one of her doubles partners was former President George H.W. Bush as well as “One More Victory” Ara Parseghian Golf Tournament supporting Neiman Pick Type-C disease.  She has served on the board at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Center in Cleveland, Ohio and is currently on the selection committee for the Scott Hamilton Figure Skaters College Scholarship Program that provides financial aid to skaters with their college education through the United States Figure Skating Association.

Over the years, Kadavy has done considerable work as a coach and choreographer. She conducts skating seminars and choreographs throughout the country annually. For the past 27 years she has taught figure skating full time in her hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania and now in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. She also created and taught the Figure Skating Course for Penn State Behrend College as one of the physical education courses. Caryn continues her education through the Professional Skating Association and won the Sonja Henie Award through the PSA in 2007.  In 2009 she was appointed to serve on the board for the Governor’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Sports for all of Pennsylvania by Governor Rendell.  In 2019, Caryn was also inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

Caryn currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota continuing her professional skating and teaching career.