Oaks Park Roller Skating Club is proud to have the nation’s greatest depth of coaching staff with twelve USA Roller Sports certified coaches and over 200 years of combined teaching experience. Our coaches specialize in figures, loops, team and solo dance in both the American and International styles, freestyle, pairs, free dance and creative dance, precision team, and short track speed skating. Each of our coaches have created champions at the regional and/or national levels. Working as a team lead by head coach George Kolibaba, our coaches are the best value in the US with very affordable lesson rates and high quality instruction.
OUR COACHES
George Kolibaba
Specialties: Figures, loops, Dance, Free Dance, Pairs, Speed
George is one of the “natives” at the Oaks. He began skating in 1960 when he belonged to a roller skating club at his high school here in Portland. His involvement in the sport has continuously grown. He competed for about 10 years, then began coaching. As mentioned before, George has always skated for the Oaks Skating Club. He has been coached by Dale & Jeanne Pritchard, Ray Lenty & John Clark. George has won or placed at the Northwest Regional Championships in dance, figures & freestyle, and competed in the same events at the United States Championships. He has attained the proficiency “Gold Bar” in dance & figures, and silver in freestyle. His involvement has included speed skating & judging as well. He is both an artistic and speed judge, qualified to judge at any contest, as well as all levels of proficiency tests. George has been a recipient of the Oaks Skating Club “Skater of the Year” achievement award. George has had much success as a coach. He has coached numerous skaters to placement at the Northwest Regional Championships in all artistic disciplines, as well as indoor speed. Many of those skaters have gone on to be finalists or placements at the United States Championships. In 1978, he experienced the thrill, both as a coach and a parent, of seeing his son, Ric, and partner Tiffany Richardson, become the US Elementary Pairs Champions.
Susan Richardson
Specialties: Figures and Dance
Susan is one of The Oaks most well known and respected coaches. She has been involved in the sport for sixty five years. As a child Susan’s family drove in from Tillamook, OR to skate at The Imperial in Portland and later she became a very successful and celebrated skater at The Oaks. Susan and her partner were crowned the national Juvenile Pairs champions in 1953, and she had many local successes in all of the artistic skating disciplines and as a speed skater as well. She has been a coach at the Oaks since 1978 and has coached her students to many national placements and titles, and to their Gold Medal proficiency test awards in American dance, international dance and figures. Susan is also the current Northwest USARS President, has been a judge at the National Championships on multiple occasions, and holds a world level judging commission. Susan’s daughter Tiffany is also a coach at the Oaks and her two granddaughters, two step grandsons, and son in law are all competitive skaters. If Susan has one love that rivals her love for skating it would be Disney. She and her husband Gary travel extensively and frequently visit Disney parks on their trips.
Bill Moore
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Specialties:
Bio here.
Cindy White
Specialties: Figures, Freestyle, American Dance, International Dance, Free Dance, Precision
Accomplishments and Awards
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RSA American Team Dance Gold Medal Proficiency Test
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RSA International Team Dance Gold Medal Proficiency Test
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RSA Circle Figure Gold Medal Proficiency Test
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RSA Loop Gold Medal Proficiency Test
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RSA Speed Gold Medal Proficiency Test
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2009 Northwest Coach of the Year
Roller skating is in Cindy’s DNA as the daughter of two skaters. She has been involved in roller skating for thirty eight years, and The Oaks has been lucky to be her rink that entire time. Cindy was a well rounded competitive skater having earned Gold Medal proficiency test awards in speed, figures, American dance, international dance, and loops. Cindy competed in Junior World Class dance in 1991 and 1992, and in 1991 she was a national finalist in World Class Women’s Figures, placing 8th. That same year she was named the Pacific Northwest Region Skater of the Year. Cindy is currently the director of the Pacific Northwest Skate Camp, chairperson of the Northwest Teachers Association, and in 2009 was named the Northwest Region Coach of the Year. Cindy is also the USA Roller Sports regional representative for the Northwest Region’s coaches. Outside of skating, Cindy is working toward her BS in finance and is the Treasury and is the Treasury Analyst for Blount Inc. When she not studying, working, or at the rink Cindy enjoys spending time at her mountain cabin and working in her yard with her husband Jeff.
Tiffany McKinnon
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Tiffany began skating as soon as she could walk and has been involved in skating at The Oaks ever since. She has competed in almost every artistic discipline of skating including pairs, freestyle, figures, dance, free dance and precision and also speed skating. In 1978, Tiffany and her partner Ric Kolibaba were National Elementary Pairs Champions, and in 2010 she placed 3rd at the USARS National Championships with the Northern Dynamics precision team, qualifying for a spot at the 2011 World Championships. In 2011 she placed 2nd competed at the World Championships in Brazil. Tiffany has a Gold Medal proficiency test award in freestyle, and Gold Bar awards in figures (with loops), team dance, and speed. Tiffany has coached figures, freestyle, dance, creative solo, pairs and precision team for all ages. She has coached many regional placements and several national placements. Tiffany also has a demanding career as a senior computer systems business analyst, but still finds time to volunteer her experience and expertise as the treasurer for the Northwest Teachers Association and as the Director of the Pacific
Northwest Skate Camp.
Amy Hamblin
Specialties: Figures, Loops, Dance and Freestyle with an emphasis on RSA Proficiency Tests and USA Roller Sports Competition
Accomplishments and Awards
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2013 USA Roller Sports National Championship Gold Medalist, competing in Esquire A Women Solo Dance
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2010 USA Roller Sports National Championship Bronze Medalist, competing in Esquire A Women Solo Dance
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2010 Lloyd M. Siebert Sportsmanship Award, Oaks Skate Club 1989 to Present.
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Multiple time NW Region Champion, USA Roller Sports USA Roller Sports Certified Coach
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USA Roller Sports Commissioned Referee
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Oaks Skate Club Test Center Coordinator
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NW Region Tiny Tot Showcase Coordinator
Amy began skating in Delanco, New Jersey when she was ten years old. She attended a Saturday morning session and class where the coach of the men’s free skating World Champion spotted her singular focus and talent. The coach asked if Amy might be interested in taking lessons. She joined the skating club, took Proficiency tests and prepared for competition. At fourteen Amy moved to Portland where she began skating for The Oaks. When Amy was a teenager she twice attended the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Amy teaches both recreational and competitive skaters. She enjoys watching her students grow and learn! A recent first for Amy, she coached a student to Silver and Bronze medals at the 2014 USA Roller Sports National Championship. She continues to further her skating education by attending seminars for roller figure skating and traveling to meets both inside and outside of the United States.
Amy’s family is filled with successful skaters. Her oldest son Charlie represented the United States at the 2013 FIRS World Championship where he placed 5th in Junior World Class Men’s Solo Dance. Her middle son David is a multiple time National champion, placing in figures, dance and pairs skating. Her youngest son, Bobby, recently competed at his second National competition, earning a Bronze medal.
Amy enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, traveling and participating with her children in Scout Activities. Amy volunteers with the children’s organization at her church, helping to oversee activities for five area congregations. She also enjoys volunteering at her children’s school.