Sarah France, Director of Skating

Sarah France has been an ice dance coach and choreographer since 1998, and works with developing, regional, sectional, national and international competitors across all skating disciplines. An active professional skater, she is a professional ensemble member, master edge class instructor, and choreographer with the prestigious Ice Theatre of New York, as well as a frequent performer for shows, professional competitions, and events nationwide. Sarah additionally has more than 20 years of off-ice dance experience and performs professionally outside of the rink as an aerialist, modern dancer and inline artistic figure skater. She is a welcome guest instructor on and off the ice at many facilities around the world.

Sarah looks at skaters as both athletes and artists, and seeks to draw out their performance skills with a keen eye towards technical accuracy and precise movement on and off the ice. If it is teaching basic skills to create a foundation of proper skating technique, working with developing athletes to build towards success, or refining the technique of the highest caliber competitors in the world, Sarah loves to facilitate each skater’s version of success in their skating careers.

Milly Wasserman, Figure Skating Coach

Milly started skating at age 8 and has been competing for 9 years. She is a high level national ice dance competitor and show skater. She is a current traveling competitor for US Figure Skating’s Solo Dance Series, and a top two finisher at all 8 Solo dance competitions in 2019. She is also an active member and leading apprentice of the Ice Theatre of New York’s Junior Ensemble since 2017, and active performing apprentice soloist with the Ice Theatre of New York’s Home Season since 2015.

Milly competes in Olympic rinks all over the country and has preformed in countless shows including the iconic Rockefeller Center ice rink in New York City.

She enjoys teaching and inspiring new skaters at Buckskill with her passion for figure skating. Her favorite things to teach in skating are skating skills, choreography, and spins. When Milly isn’t choreographing or teaching, she is painting, ballroom dancing, biking, or playing with her dog. Milly can’t wait to skate with you!

Brittni Svanberg, Figure Skating Coach

Brittni learned to how skate at Buckskill Winter Club at age 8 and has been on the ice ever since. She competed regionally as part of the Skating Club of New York throughout high school and at the intercollegiate level for the Boston University Club Figure Skating Team until graduating in 2018.

Brittni has a background in ballet and classical piano studies and loves teaching spins, jumps and choreography on a strong base of skating skills. She began teaching in the Learn to Skate program at the Rinx in Happaugue, one of the largest in the country, in 2012. She enjoys passing on her love for skating at her home rink at Buckskill!

Born and raised in East Hampton, Brittni loves doing yoga and walking her dog on the beach in her free time.

Emma Dahl, Figure Skating Coach

Emma began skating at the age of four, and she has never stopped. She was lucky enough to train professionally at the University of Delaware for six years. During her time there she was trained by some of the best coaches in the business, Ron Ludington and Barbara Rolls, and skated alongside Olympians like Johnny Weir.

Due to an injury, she and her family moved back to their hometown of East Hampton. She soon began teaching figure skating at Buckskill Winter Club as an after school job.

Emma fell in love with the idea of sharing the sport of figure skating with people of all ages. She has been coaching at Buckskill Winter Club for over 5 years, and she enjoys every moment of it.

Riley Goldstein, Figure Skating Coach

Riley has been skating since 2009 and has worked at Buckskill Winter Club since 2012. She trains at The Rinx in Hauppauge and she has also trained in Lake Placid in the summer with World and Olympic figure skaters and coaches. Riley continues to actively participate in figure skating.

In addition to figure skating, Riley has performed in numerous theatre and musical theatre productions and has ten years of dance experience under her belt, all of which contribute to the abilities she brings to the ice.

Riley loves to share her joy of figure skating with her students. She will be teaching both Basic Skills Clinics and private lessons this season.