2020 EDI Award Recipients

Professional Skaters Association Announces Winners of the 2020 EDI Awards

MAY 26, 2020 ROCHESTER, MN - The Professional Skaters Association (PSA) announced the winners of the annual EDI Awards at the Professional Skaters Association headquarters in Rochester, MN on Thursday May 21, 2020.

The Education and Dedication International (EDI) Awards are named after the late World and Olympic coach, Edi Scholdan, who died in the 1961 world team plane crash. Scholdan was the first president of the PSA and inspiration for the awards, which recognize exceptional achievement in the sport of figure skating.

2020 Joint PSA and U.S. Figure Skating EDI Awards

Coach Of The Year Award – Todd Sand, Jenni Meno-Sand, Christine Fowler-Binder

Paul Mcgrath Choreographer Of The Year Award – Marie-France Dubreuil

Developmental Coach Of The Year – Laura Lipetsky

Pieter Kollen Sport Science Award – Garrett Lucash

2020 PSA EDI Awards

F. Ritter Shumway Award – Christy Krall

Betty Berens Award – Gloria Masterson Leous

Joe Serafine National Volunteer Of The Year Award – Cheryl Faust

Gustave Lussi Award – Jason Brown

Sonja Henie Award – Gracie Gold

Photo Of The Year – Marisa Jarae

Fritz Dietl Award – Stamford Twin Rinks, Stamford, CT

Shulman Award For Lifetime Achievement – Barb Yackel

Distinguished Official Of The Year Award – Roger Glenn

President’s Award Of Excellence – Julie Morris-McKenny, SW; Kathy Ortolani, NA; Nicole Gaboury, SA; Ron Kravette, NE; Ann Eidson and Darlene Lewis, UGL; Mary Anne Williamson and Valerie Marcoux-Pavlas, EGL; Arlene McSorley, NWP; Erika Roberts, CP; Barbara Brown, SWP