In March 2023, while attending the 2023 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with his students, Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev in Calgary, Alberta, Sand suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized for an extended period.

In 1985, Sand began competing as a pair skater with Lori Blasko, representing the United States.

[4] They became U.S Champions in 1994, then placed 5th in arguably the strongest pairs field assembled in history in Lillehammer with two clean skates.

They missed much of the 1997–1998 competitive season with injury, and had to withdraw from the U.S Championships after the short program, but on their past record were named to the team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Sand appeared in the ITV series Dancing on Ice with double Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes.

They were eliminated in quarterfinal (Week 6) after the judges' votes to save Bonnie Langford and her partner Matt Evers.

They previously coached John Baldwin / Rena Inoue, Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker,[7] and Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu.