Coaches

Lana Ullemeyer grew up skating for the Forestwood Figure Skating Club in Parma and competed at the Juvenile, Intermediate and Junior levels. During this time, she was a Sectional Champion at the Junior level and a three-time national competitor.

She also skated at the Collegiate level, representing Bowling Green State University at four national championships. During her time in Bowling Green, she was a three-year captain, an athlete member of the U.S. Figure Skating Collegiate Committee and organized several Midwest Collegiate Conference Competitions. While in Bowling Green, Lana coached teams at the Beginner, Pre-Juvenile, Open Juvenile, Open Adult and Collegiate levels. She also taught group lessons and private lessons in Freestyle, Dance and Moves in the Field.

After moving back to the Cleveland area, Lana coached the Beginner, Pre-Juvenile and Intermediate teams at the Cleveland Skating Club for one season.

She is currently a teacher and has two sons, Patrick and Aidan.

Bio coming soon.

Mia Bella Frisco is a three-time U.S. National Synchronized Skating medalist and National Gold Medalist at the Intermediate division with Teams Elite.

In addition to synchro, she has coached LTS for the last three years, has coached private lessons teaching skaters through their axel in Florida as well as coaching LTS in Wisconsin, and has been skating for 16 years.

Coach Mia has also led off-ice classes with the Greater Pensacola Figure Skating Club.

Miranda Hoy has coached for the Cleveland Ice Storm (formerly Cleveland Edges) since 2016. She has coached the aspire, preliminary, pre-juvenile, and novice levels with the club. In 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 her preliminary teams placed third at the Midwestern Sectional Championship.

Looking back, Miranda skated for the Cleveland Edges on a variety of their youth teams from 2005-2012. She is grateful to have returned to her home club as a coach and skater for the United Ice Adult team.

From 2012-2016, she skated for The University of Norte Dame’s Open Collegiate and Collegiate teams while attending Saint Mary’s College. In 2017 and 2018, her Open Collegiate teams placed first at the Midwestern Sectional Championships. During her time with The Fighting Irish, she was club president and competition chair. Notably, she helped organize the 2015 Tri-State Synchronized Skating Championship hosted at the Compton Family Ice Arena. Miranda also assisted in forming and coaching the Junior Irish beginner synchronized skating team.

In 2016 Miranda earned her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and special education from Saint Mary’s College. In 2021 she earned her Master’s degree in Curriculum and Development from The University of Cincinnati.

Outside of her experience with synchronized skating, Miranda was the Learn to Skate coordinator for the North Olmsted Recreation Center from 2017-2024. Miranda has taught learn to skate in a variety of locations since 2008. During her time as coordinator, North Olmsted’s program was named the largest in the state of Ohio, with over 500 members registered. Miranda currently organizes and directs the annual North Olmsted City Ice Show, which traditionally rosters over 150 figure skaters from the Northeast Ohio area.

Presently, Miranda is an elementary school teacher full time. She lives in the Cleveland area with her husband and two sons.

Bio coming soon.

Alissa Mariage is a Double Gold Medalist in Freestyle and Moves in the Field. Growing up, Alissa and all three of her sisters skated for the former club, known then as “The Riverettes”, “The River Golden Blades” and “The Cleveland Edges” until leaving for college.

Alissa is a Miami University graduate with a degree in Health and Sports Studies and a minor in Coaching; class of 2008. During her time at Miami, Alissa skated on the Collegiate Synchronized Skating team where she helped lead the team to four straight U.S. National Championships. Cumulatively, Alissa and her sisters earned 9 National Titles during their time at Western Michigan and Miami University.

After graduating, Alissa moved back home to Cleveland to pursue her dream of coaching full-time and has been working with skaters in synchro and private lessons since. To date, she has coached 27 students to achieve Gold Medals in Skating Skills (formally called Moves in the Field) and 10 students to achieve Gold Medals in Solo Free Dance! She has helped coach two National Qualifying Juvenile teams (2011 and 2023) and coached and competed with the United Ice Adult team at Nationals in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022!

Alissa resides in Parma with her partner John, their son, Graham (born in 2023), and their Labradoodle, Alf.