The 23-year-old’s parents, 1994 World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were aboard the doomed aircraft.

Shishkova and Naumov had traveled to Wichita with a group of skaters from the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood to take part ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the fatalities of the American Airlines jet crash into the Potomac River in ...

PIERRE VERDY/AFP via Getty Images Russian figure skating duo Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were partners on and off the ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the Russian figure skaters were on board the crashed American Airlines plane.

Vadim Naumov, a coach at the Skating Club of Boston, was among the victims of a plane crash near Ronald Reagan National ...

In an interview with PEOPLE, Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina "Katia" Gordeeva mourned her late teammates Evgenia and Vadim ...

The figure skating coaches from the Skating Club of Boston were on the plane traveling from Wichita to Washington when it ...

About 150 people gathered for a moment of silence at the International Skating Center of Connecticut to honor those who died ...

Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, the veteran Russian ice skating pair who triumphed at the 1994 World Figure Championships ...