Sandra Pearson

Sandra Pearson was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and started figure skating at a young age. She competed in the 1954 and 1957 Western Canadian Divisional Championships and the 1957 Senior Mixed Pairs at the Canadian National Championships. From 1960 to 1962, she taught figure skating professionally in Helsinki, Finland and trained many Finnish national competitors.¹⁾

Sandra Pearson moved to the Yukon in 1963. She consolidated the various skating groups into the Whitehorse Figure Skating Club and by 1964 the club had fifty athletes. When the club reached 100 members in 1965, she recruited volunteers and an assistant coach and in 1967 she arranged for a C.F.S.A. judge to come and test the athletes. Pearson was the coach for the Arctic Winter Games and Canada Games teams. She retired in 1982 but remained a liaison and resource person. She was a founding member of the Yukon Sports Federation (now Sport Yukon) and served on the board of directors several times. Sandra Pearson was inducted into the Sports Yukon Hall of Fame in 1984.²⁾