Swans Weekend Academy and In Person SCIS TEST SESSION
(April 6) Swans Academy CLINIC with
Collin Brubaker (lessons and dance partner) and coaches
Marcie Kierpec and Brittyni Carlson
April 4-6, 2025
Purchase Ice Sessions and clinic below, Register for testing on the Test Session page
Purchase Ice Sessions and clinic below, Register for testing on the Test Session page
Tentative Schedule
Friday: 12:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Ice time and private lessons with coaches
Saturday: 8:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Ice time and private lessons with coaches
10:30 AM to 1:30 PM Clinic classes with coaches (Package)
1:30 PM to 7:00 PM Ice time and private Lessons with coaches
Sunday: 8:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Practice ice and partner practice
Test session begins at approximately 10:30 AM
Clinic Info:
Welcome to our first weekend Swans Academy and test session! We are excited to welcome Collin Brubaker, Brittyni Carlson, and Marcie Kierpiec back to Beaver Dam for a weekend of lessons, classes, and testing!
We are offering a rotation of small group classes on Saturday from 10:30am-1:30pm! All skaters (Basic 4 and up) are welcome and will be grouped based on level to move through a rotation of three classes: On-ice with Collin, Off-ice with Brittyni, and off-ice with Marcie. The ice will not be available for practice or other lessons during this timeframe.
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Our Coaches..
BRITTYNI CARLSON
Brittyni has 5 years experience performing as a professional ice skater, in which 4 of those years included touring and skating in Europe with Holiday on Ice. During her travels and in between contracts she trained at the International Skating Academy in Utretcht, Netherlands, trained adagio/pairs skating in Australia with Olympic coaches, and also worked with a principle pair team from Disney on Ice. In addition to skating with Holiday on Ice, Brittyni performed in various other shows around the United States under multiple short term contracts. Her testing credentials include achieving her USFS Senior Freeskate test, USFS Senior Moves test, USFS Gold Dance test, USFS Senior Solo Freedance test, and USFS Preliminary Pairs Test. Professionally, Brittyni has 18 years coaching experience which include 3 years with the Medford Figure Skating Club, 6 years with the Timberline Figure Skating Club and 9 years with both the Valley and Greater Green Bay Figure Skating Club where she currently teaches on a full-time basis. In addition to her coaching credential, Brittyni had 4 years experience in aerial arts specializing in lyra, silks, hammock, and pole. She has been an instructor for Aerial dance since 2020, as well as, a Certified Cirqfit Lyra instructor and a professional lyra skating specialty act performer.
COLLIN BRUBAKER
Collin is from Chicago, Illinois. He started skating at the age of six following in the footsteps of his older siblings. Collin is a former team USA member. He is a US National Junior Silver Medalist and represented the USA in ISU Junior World Championships, ISU Grand Prix Skate Canada, and other international competitions. After finishing his competitive career, he completed his degree in Finance & Communications at Eastern Michigan University.
MARCIE KIERPIEC
Marcie has 38 years of coaching experience. She is a Junior National Coach who spent 19 years in Delaware as a staff professional at both the University of Delaware Training Center and the Skating Club of Wilmington and now currently resides in Michigan. She has to her credit US and Canadian Gold Dances, Senior and Junior International Dances, Novice Freestyle, Silver Free Dance, 6th Figure and is a certified Level 4 hockey coach with USA Hockey. Marcie coaches all levels of dance, Skating Skills and P.O.W.E.R. Hockey, and specializes in the latter two disciplines. In addition to her skating and coaching credentials, Marcie holds both a BA (Michigan State University, ’91) and MA (West Chester University, ’11) in French. She recently completed her BS degree in Exercise Science (December ’16) with an emphasis in strength and conditioning at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Her final semester consisted of an internship with USA Hockey’s NTDP in Plymouth, MI. In addition to coaching figure skating at camps in Michigan and Wisconsin, she is a full time P.O.W.E.R. Skating instructor for AA and AAA teams in lower Wisconsin, she is a full time P.O.W.E.R. Skating instructor for AA and AAA teams in lower Michigan and off-ice strength coach for individual hockey players.