#davis smolkin train at WISA in virginia

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Isabella Flores/Ivan Desyatov and Leah Neset/Artem Markelov, the top US jrs train together in Colorado Springs at the World Arena Skating Academy (WASA)

They're coached by Elena Dostatni, who was a junior ice dancer for Russia for 3 seasons with Maxim Shabalin (bronze medalist at the 2010 Olympics with Oksana Domnina who did the aboriginal dance😬) and won silver at Junior Worlds in 2002. She's married to an ISU tech specialist and has been coaching at the World Arena Ice Hall in Colorado Springs since 2011

She does some of their choreo. They also often work with Massimo Scali, Nikolai Morozov (😑) and this year, Kaitlyn Weaver.

Neset/Markelov have been skating together since 2020 and have been US jr champs for 2022 and 2023 and 5th at jr worlds in 2023

#i didn't even realize there was a WASA and a WISA #davis smolkin train at WISA in virginia #where there's a different coach elena- elena novak #leah neset used to skate with dmitriy tsarevski too #small small world