Professional Skaters Association

On August 10, 1938, a meeting took place of thirteen prominent figure skating coaches from the U.S. and Canada.

The meeting took place in Lake Placid, N.Y. for the purpose of forming an association of professional figure skaters.

The first of these tests was planned to be held at an early date at Iceland Rink in New York City.

Howard Nicholson was voted in as Chairman (President) and in 1949 a working committee was elected to reorganize the guild.

Also presented were reports of the sectional meetings; Freddy Mesot - Easterns, Edi Scholdan - Midwesterns, Maribel Vinson - Pacific Coast.

Though many topics were discussed, the most prominent resolution was to send the secretary to New York to attend a meeting of the PSGA and USFSA.

This program resembles the Job Placement Directory which is still in use today by the Professional Skaters Association (PSA).

According to the complaint, the PSA instructed its members that this code provision prohibited coaches from many types of direct and indirect communications with skaters and parents, and actively enforced the ban through a variety of penalties, including suspension, even over the objections of skating students and their parents who wanted to switch coaches.

[8] Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission approved a final order in March 2015 requiring the association to cease restraining member competition, change its Code of Ethics, publicize its settlement with the FTC, and implement an antitrust compliance program.