Stephanie Culver — Twin Cities Hockey Power Skating Coach

Stephanie Culver spent 15 years competing as an elite figure skater — reaching the top of the sport as a three-time U.S. Synchronized Skating National Champion and representing the United States at the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships as a member of the Haydenettes, the most decorated synchronized skating team in U.S. history.

The Haydenettes are the benchmark for elite synchronized skating in this country. Competing for them at the world level is not a credential that can be manufactured or approximated. It means that for 15 years, Stephanie trained, competed, and performed at a standard that almost no one in coaching reaches.

That background is not incidental to The Edge Protocol. It is the program.

• 3× U.S. Synchronized Skating National Champion
• ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships — Haydenettes
• 15 years elite competitive career

The Evaluation Credential

She evaluates edge mechanics professionally — the same way scouts do.

Since 2018, Stephanie has served as a United States Figure Skating Competition Judge, officiating at regional and national-level testing events. As a credentialed USFS judge, she evaluates skating mechanics — edge quality, blade angle, weight transfer, transition precision — against the same standards applied at the highest levels of the sport.

This is not a coaching credential. It is an evaluation credential. The distinction matters.

When Stephanie watches a hockey player skate, she is not running through a coaching checklist. She is seeing what judges and scouts see — the specific mechanical signals that indicate whether a skater has the edge control to compete at the next level, and exactly where the deficiencies are.

The Edge Protocol is built on that evaluation framework. Every player who enters the program starts with a full edge assessment — systematic, not general — the same lens applied in scout reports and evaluation feedback.

Stephanie has coached figure skating for over 20 years across New England and now in the Twin Cities, working with skaters from beginner through elite levels. She holds an active coaching contract with the St. Paul Figure Skating Club — one of the longest-running and most respected skating programs in Minnesota — and has developed skaters across singles, ice dance, and synchronized skating disciplines.

The Twin Cities is her market. She knows the rinks, the programs, and the competitive landscape. She has coached at the facilities where her players train, understands the scheduling constraints of AAA and junior hockey families, and builds every Edge Protocol program around the reality of what players are already carrying.

There is no travel requirement. No video-only coaching. No generic curriculum.

The program is delivered in person, on ice, at rinks across Minneapolis-St. Paul — built specifically around what she sees when she watches your player skate.

• 20+ years coaching experience
• St. Paul Figure Skating Club — active coaching contract
• Singles, ice dance, and synchronized skating disciplines