Coaching

Tony Goskowicz has had an exciting and highly succesful career both as an athlete and as a coach. He is an Olympian competed for the U.S. in 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and a member of U.S. national short track team from 1992 through 1998.  He had many achievements as a competitive athlete, he was US Senior National Short Track Champion in 1996, 500m gold medalist Junior World Short Track Championships 1995, North America age class division champion both in short track and long track 1992-1993.

Tony started his coaching career in 2000 as the Head Short Track Co-Coach at the US Olympic Education Center and moved on to join the US National Short Track coach team from 2001-2005 where he coached Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno.  From 2005-2013, Tony coached a number of high performance US Speedskating development teams both at Pettit National Ice Center (2005-2009, 2012-2013) and at the US Olympic Education Center (2007-2009). He coached numerous athletes onto the US Olympic teams as well as World Championship, World Cup, Junior World Championship teams. Tony was named USS Development Coach of the year in 2007.

Coach Tony Goskowicz joined Garden State in 2021, following a team of highly decorated coaches and guest coaches, including Linlin Sun (2010 Olympic gold medalist), Hui Zhang (2010 Olympic gold medalist), Tianyu Fu (Olympian and world champion), Meng Wang (4-times Olympic gold medalist), Yang Yang (5-times Olympic medalist), Kai Feng (2-times Olympic medalist, world champion and China national team coach), Stephen Gough (Olympian, US & Canada national team coach), Hongyang Wang (Head coach of ASE and US world cup team coach), to continue developing speed skating at Garden State.