Synchronized Skating

Coach Maddi began her synchronized career at 8 years old, as a member of the Downers Grove Dazzlers ISI youth formation team. Maddi skated for the Dazzlers for 10 years, advancing through the levels, where she earned sectional and national medals at the Intermediate and Novice levels. In college, Maddi skated 4 years on the Adrian College Collegiate Synchronized Skating Team, and earned three National Championship podium placements: two Silver and a Pewter. Coach Maddi earned her Masters in Exercise Science from Adrian College and is excited to apply her education to coaching.

As her first year being a coach for Chicago Red Line, Maddi is looking forward to sharing her love for synchronized skating with the team.

Coach Julia has been involved in the synchronized skating world since 2011. She was a member of the Madison Ice Diamonds from 2012 to 2019, and watched the organization grow from having two beginner teams, to having several IJS teams within that time. During her time competitively skating, she served as a team leader for 3 years, and competed at sectionals, most notably at the intermediate level. She has been coaching learn to skate and private lessons since 2015, and loves to share her joy of skating. Recently, she has enjoyed choreographing ice show numbers, assistant coaching beginner level synchronized skating teams, and helping with upper level IJS team practices in Wisconsin. She is thrilled to be a part of Red Line and share the love and lessons that come with synchronized skating with these awesome skaters.

Coach Julia lives on the North side of Chicago and is pursuing degrees in Health Sciences, Spanish, and Philosophy at DePaul University.

Coach Jen has been involved in synchronized skating since 1988 and has seen the sport progress from long kicklines in "precision" skating through to today's teams who perform lifts and synchronized death spirals.  After competing regionally and nationally on various teams in the Chicagoland area, she continued onto college at Western Michigan University in Kalmazoo, MI.  There she was involved in the early days of WMU's Synchronized skating teams where she competing on both Senior and Collegiate teams.  After college Krejci competed with the Wagon Wheel Starlets as a member of Team USA representing her country in Canada and Italy, and Revolution Senior where she was also an assistant coach.  She earned National Bronze and Pewter medals competing with the WMU Alumni Adult teams in 2007 and 2008. 

Most recently Krejci has continued her passion for synchronized skating by competing with the Skokie Valley Starlights Adult team earning multiple Midwestern Sectional Medals.  Jennifer has coached various level teams and has a working understanding of the International Judging System as both a coach and competitor.  Coach Jen lives in Beverly with her husband John and their dog Lilly.

Coach Bethany started her synchronized skating career when she was 9 years old and never looked back. Since then, she has skated for both the Wagon Wheel Starlets and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned 8 medals nationally (4 of them gold) at the Junior, Senior and Collegiate levels. She also competed in many international competitions, including the 2002 Senior World Championships in Rouen, France, which is only attended by the top two teams in the country. Bethany has 12 years of synchronized skating coaching experience ranging from synchro skills to the collegiate level. She was an elementary school teacher for 8 years and has a master’s degree in teacher leadership with an endorsement in special education, but is now enjoying spending time at home with her own children, Addelyn and Logan.  She lives in Valparaiso, IN with her husband, TJ, and their kids.