Mary Scotvold
Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American figure skating coach, best known for her work with Olympic Games|Olympic] medalists Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan, whom she co-coached with her husband, Evy Scotvold.
She won the novice ladies title at the 1959 U.S. [Figure Skating Championships]. She later skated with Ice Follies and was married to former U.S. pair champion Ronald Ludington, for a time. In the mid-1970s, after separating from Ludington, she began coaching at the Wagon Wheel rink in Rockton, Illinois, where her pupils included a young Scott Hamilton. It was there that she teamed up with Evy Scotvold. They coached in Janesville, Wisconsin for a time before relocating to the Boston area in 1986. They semi-retired and coached part-time in Jacksonville, Florida. Evy died in 2021.
In addition to Wylie and Kerrigan, the Scotvolds also coached 2000 World Junior Figure [Skating Championships|World Junior] champion Jennifer Kirk. Mary was known primarily as the choreographer on the team rather than as a technical coach.
Mary's twin sister Anne Batdorf Militano is also a skating coach and former competitive skater.