A sold-out crowd packed Agganis Arena to see the Stars on Ice Tour last Saturday. The show featured both U.S. Olympians and national team members performing in solos and pairs. During the 2026 Winter Olympics...
By the time the final scores settled for the 2026 Figure Skating National Championships, Boston University Figure Skating Club made the extraordinary look routine: it absorbed a major roster change, survived the pressure of being the top team and still left with another national title.
A new era of winter sports begins next week. Feb. 6 marks the start of the 25th Olympic Winter Games, hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. For the U.S. figure skating team, it’s a chance to showcase the program’s resurgence since the last Olympics.
The Figure Skating Club team at Boston University won their first competition of the season at New York University on November 6. Head coach Andrea Mohns-Brillaud emphasizes preparation, but the team aspires to win their sixth Intercollegiate National Championship.
In its contemporary state, figure skating can not be viewed as a sport because it is not fairly judged. Figure skating involves pseudo competition, where the actors competing are not athletes, but political federations with biased judges. Critics may argue that Olympic sports like freestyle skiing and trampoline will always be subjective and still should be considered a sport. The difference between figure skating and other subjective sports is that figure skating is systematically unfair.
The Boston University Figure Skating Club (BUFSC) defended its national title Sunday, placing first at the U.S. Intercollegiate Figure Skating Championship for the second year in a row.
On this week’s episode of East to West, “Out With the Old, In With the New,” we’re discussing changes at BU and in Boston — like new reusable straws at Eastern Standard, the elimination of the COM computer labs, and skating teams' request for locker room renovations.
