UNITY Director and Lead CoachJenny Lee
Originally from the Chicago area, Jenny skated competitively in both singles and synchronized skating. She received her USFSA gold medals in Ice Dancing and Moves-in-the-Field and a silver medal in Free Skating. As a member of the Wagon Wheel Starlets Synchronized Skating Teams, she competed at the national and international level in both the Junior and Senior divisions. She has won three national championships in the Junior division and as part of the same team she won a bronze medal at the Sweden Precision International Championships in Göteborg, Sweden. She also competed at the Spring Cup International in Milan, Italy and additional international championships in Canada and the United States. She was Team Captain for both the Junior and Senior level teams.
Jenny served as a member of the Board of Directors of the US Figure Skating Association and was a member of the USFSA International Committee and the Synchronized Management Subcommittee as an athlete representative. She was elected National Vice-Chair for Synchronized Skating for the USFSA Athletes’ Advisory Committee. She was also selected as a member of the USFSA Scholastic Honor’s team two years in a row. Prior to moving to Houston, Jenny spent eight years coaching synchronized skating, free skating, moves-in-the-field, and basic skills in Rochester, NY. She developed a Synchronized Skating program in Rochester for which she was the head coach and choreographer. Jenny moved to Houston six years ago after graduating with her MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is currently a physician at Texas Children’s Hospital completing her training in pediatric neurocritical care.
Unity Lead Coach
Basic Skills Head Coach
Jacqueline Nguyen
Jackie is a native Texan and has been a competitive figure skater for 11 years. She has competed in numerous Regional competitions qualifying for the Midwestern Sectional Championships and the Junior National Championships.
As a coach, she has helped develop skaters at many levels through the Learn to Skate Academy at Sugar Land Ice & Sports. Jackie has helped build the Learn-to-Skate synchronized skating badge program with coach Lisa Dahl, and she has worked with all the Unity teams throughout the past season.
She is currently a junior in college and plans to major in Business Administration.
Unity Lead CoachAmy Stabile
A native of Framingham MA, Amy began skating at the age of 5 in the Bay Path Figure Skating Club learn to skate program. She joined the Bay Path Synchronized Skating team at the age of 10 and competed with different level teams in both the qualifying and non-qualifying divisions. She competed at the local, sectional and national level with various synchronized skating teams, most recently the Boston College Eagles. While at BC, she was the director of public relations for their club as well as a co-captain of the team in 2009. She helped structure on and off ice practices as well as the logistics for the travel and competition schedule. Beyond synchronized skating, she has coached many beginning skaters throughout the past 15 years. A 2009 graduate, she majored in History and Human Development. She is now a member of the Teach for America 2009 Houston Corp. She is in her second year of teaching Kindergarten at Garcia Elementary in HISD. She is excited to have the opportunity to return to her love of skating and coaching with Unity!
UNITY Off ice Conditioning
& Assistant Coach
Jennifer Wong
UNITY Basic Skills Coach
Taylor Wismeg
Taylor was born in Houston,TX and raised in the Sugar Land area. She started skating at Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center at the age of three in 1997 in the Learn to Skate program. She started taking private lessons in 1999, along with her first competition. By the end of the year she was participating in the annual Nutcracker on Ice held at Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center. This year she received her ten year participation award. In January of 2000, she joined the Sugar Icings Synchronized Skating Team. By March of that year the team traveled to Holland, MI to compete for the first time, where they placed third.
The year 2000 was a big year for Taylor because she started kindergarten, and Girl Scouts. At the age of fifteen she still volunteers with the girl scouts at horse camp on the weekends. She also started swimming in the neighborhood swim team that summer, for which she swam for eight years. She has taken dance and gymnastics on and off since the age of three. She took ballet classes at Ballet Forte when she was eleven and twelve.
She has also been able to maintain her P.E. exemption since she was in sixth grade, where she must skate fifteen to twenty hours a week. This has allowed her to be competitive and travel for competitions. Taylor has traveled to multiple areas of Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania. She has been doing ice dance for over four years and plans to test her Gold dances before she graduates high school. After that she would like to test her International dances. She also plans to test her Senior freeskate and moves in the field before she graduates high school. Taylor has been helping coach Learn to Skate classes for two years.
Recently, Taylor has passed her Novice moves in the field and her Silver dances. She has also joined the synchronized skating team UNITY. Taylor has started to help coach the Basic Skills team. She is excited to be a part of UNITY because it gives her the opportunity to skate on a team. She’s excited because this gives her the chance to continue skating through college.
