TEAMS ELITE - Key Persons

Angus Shields

Job Titles:

President of the Executive Board

April is a classically trained ballet dancer and competitive dancer competing in jazz, contemporary, and lyrical. She graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and Exercise Science from Ball State University. April has been able to dance and choreograph for many performing arts festivals and received multiple scholarships in Chicago and New York to continue her dance training. She performed professionally for 3 years and decided to focus on teaching dance and personal training. She is grateful for a healthy career so she can continue to create, choreograph, and coach. April is also a personal trainer in the Chicagoland area specializing in strength and conditioning for athletes ranging from ice skaters, hockey players, to competitive dance teams. April enjoys working with athletes of all ages and levels and continues to expand her education by attending fitness seminars, workshops, and master classes.

Bailey Styzinski

Job Titles:

Head Coach: Aspire 1, Aspire 2 / Assistant Coach: Intermediate, Preliminary

As a skater, Bailey represented Chicago Jazz for 13 years, where she won three National gold medals at the Juvenile and Junior levels, skated on Team USA for 5 years and earned 3 International gold medals, and represented Team USA at the Junior World Cup. She continued on to Miami University where she skated on the Senior Team for four years, was a member of USFSA's DREAM Program for three seasons, and earned the Karin Sherr Outstanding Student Athlete Award.

Christina Albreski

Job Titles:

Coach
Head

Danielle Ostrower

Job Titles:

Member of the Executive Board
Program Director
Director of Synchronized Skating

Ellie Lim

Job Titles:

Assistant
Coach

As a skater of Teams Elite, Ellie has earned national, international and world medals at the Juvenile, Intermediate, Novice and Junior levels. She was also part of the 2020 and 2022 Team USA World Team, winning the Bronze Medal at the 2022 World Junior Synchronzied Skating Championships.

Emily Shepley

Job Titles:

Member of the Advisory Board

Evette Factor

Job Titles:

Treasurer of the Executive Board

Fury Gold

Fury Gold has forty plus years of experience as a featured dance soloist, principal dancer, and teacher in both New York and Chicago. Her students have gone on to dance in companies in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Stuttgart. Broadway shows including Jerome Robbins Broadway and the revival of West Side Story, Celine Dion's Las Vegas show and at The Juilliard School, New York University, Harrid Conservatory and North Carolina School of Performing Arts. She has been on the faculty of Columbia College, many private studios and has taught master classes all over the United States. She is currently on the faculty of the Gus Giordano Dance School. For the past twenty years she has also worked with elite figure skaters who include National Champions and members of the US National and Olympic Teams. Listed in Aug. 2001 Dance Magazine listed as "one of the best in their (sic) field", Fury is a member of USFS, PSA and certified/licensed in Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT).