The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating – in good times and in bad. For more than a century, the club has launched the careers of Olympic medalists and world and national champions while also serving as a training ground for young skaters just learning the sport.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Kerrigan was one of several U.S. Olympic skating legends who gathered at the Skating Club of Boston Thursday to grieve its six members who died in the Washington, D.C., air disaster.