The Figure Skating Club of Memphis, is a member club of the a United States Figure Skating Association, which has been the governing body of figure skating in the United States since 1921. FSCM is a nonprofit organization and is dedicated to promoting the sport of figure skating in the Greater Mid-South Area.
Our Club was founded at the Ice Capades Chalet at the Mall of Memphis in 1982, in Memphis, TN. The Mall was initially in a prime location, but as time passed, the area had seen better days. Reoccurring crime and a newer shopping plazas in safer parts of town lead the anchor stores away from the Mall. Finally, in December 2003, the Mall closed it’s doors, inadvertently ending the dreams of many skaters.
Afterwards, FSCM Skaters had no ice to call home, and skated seasonally when the local professional hockey team, the Mississippi RiverKings, had ice at the DeSoto Civic Center. Even then, they were only able to acquire around an hour of ice weekly. Serious skaters sometimes sojourned to the closest permanent rinks, such as the Arkansas Skatium in Little Rock, AR and the Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville, TN, which are at minimum a two-hour drive. There didn’t seem to be to much hope for any ice sports in area.
In 2010, talk began to circulate about a permanent rink opening in Olive Branch, MS. Of course, there had always been talk of a rink opening somewhere, sometime soon, but something always happened to negate the plans before anything could take off. However, this time it was different. Two hockey dads gathered a group of investors and put everything on the line to open up the Mid-South Ice House in August, 2011.
Prayers had been answered, and many disbelievers were awestruck when they walked through the doors to the new state-of-the-art facility. The FSCM is proud to start a grassroots attempt to rebuild the Memphis area figure skating program to what it used to be, and more.
