Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American

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coach, best known for her work with

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medalists

Paul Wylie Paul Stanton Wylie (born October 28, 1964) is an American figure skater, and the 1992 Olympic silver medalist in men's singles skating. Personal life Wylie was born on October 24, 1964, in Dallas, Texas, to Bob Wylie (a geophysicist) and B.L. ...

and

Nancy Kerrigan Nancy Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) is an American former figure skating, figure skater. She won bronze medals at the 1991 World Figure Skating Championships, 1991 World Championships and the Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, 19 ...

, whom she co-coached with her husband, Evy Scotvold. She won the novice ladies title at the 1959 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She later skated with

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and was married to former U.S. pair champion

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, for a time. In the mid-1970s, after separating from Ludington, she began coaching at the Wagon Wheel rink in

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, where her pupils included a young Scott Hamilton. It was there that she teamed up with Evy Scotvold. They coached in

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for a time before relocating to the

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area in 1986. They semi-retired and coached part-time in

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. Evy died in 2021. In addition to Wylie and Kerrigan, the Scotvolds also coached 2000 World Junior champion Jennifer Kirk. Mary was known primarily as the choreographer on the team rather than as a technical coach. Mary's twin sister Anne Batdorf Militano is also a skating coach and former competitive skater.

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* Scott Hamilton, ''Landing It''. . * "Slowing down in southland", ''The Augusta Chronicle'', December 1, 2005. American figure skating coaches Living people American female sports coaches Year of birth missing (living people) American twins {{US-figure-skating-bio-stub