2025 Tryouts Info
Tryouts will be Friday, September 12th from 8PM-11:30PM! Tryouts will be held at Princeton Day School, with transportation provided from Wawa at 8PM. If interested, please fill out this form. Contact Anne (ax0875@princeton.edu) or Audrey (audrey.zeng@princeton.edu) with any questions.
What is Synchro?
Synchronized skating is a specialized branch of skating, distinct from figures, free skating, ice dancing, and pair skating. Synchro involves teams of skaters performing a variety of types of footwork, group formations, and skating maneuvers. Heads, legs, arms, and bodies must move in unison. Formations must be accurate and lines must be straight. Synchronized skating programs are judged for technical difficulty and presentation.
About Princeton Synchro
Our synchronized skating team competes in the open collegiate division against other club teams. We practice twice a week on ice with our coach Nikie Owens, and once a week on ice under our captains instruction. We also compete in Eastern Sectionals annually. The Princeton University Synchronized Skating Team has ranged in size from nine to seventeen skaters.
Coaching Staff
Nikie Owens (Head Coach)
Nicole (Nikie) Owens has been a synchronized figure skater since age eleven, beginning her career with five years on Precisely Right SST, including two years competing at the Junior level. She then skated with Skyliners SST Junior and Senior teams for a total of four years. She was a member of the Junior World Team in the 2010-11 season, placing 5th, with gold medals at U.S. National Championships, and the Spring Cup in Milan, Italy as a member of Team USA. For the following 3 years, Nikie was a member of the Skyliners Senior team (Co-Captain for two years), beginning in its inaugural season and earning Team USA designation that first year. She was a student athlete throughout her career, continuing on Skyliners Senior through junior year of college. While at Rutgers University, she was an Executive Board member and Team Coach for the Rutgers University Figure Skating Club. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rutgers, and continued on to pursue her Master’s degree in Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College Columbia University in NYC. Simultaneously, she began working with Figure Skating in Harlem, a non-profit afterschool program that integrates figure skating with education. She worked as Assistant Director for the figure skating school, coordinating and running the Learn to Skate USA program curriculum in the group class setting while managing the coaching staff and directing the annual Ice Show alongside the sensational management team. Nikie was Team Manager to three synchronized skating teams over three seasons, and ran summer synchro skills camps annually. She now works at Allergan as a Clinical Scientist on antidepressant drug research trials, and is delighted to be coaching the Princeton University Synchronized Skating Team.