Alla Shekhovtsova

Alla Viktorovna Shekhovtsova (Russian: Алла Викторовна Шеховцова; born 2 November 1964 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian figure skating judge and ISU Technical Specialist and ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee member; a former ice dancer, the wife of Valentin Piseev who used to be the general director of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia. They have a son Stanislav (born 1989).

Shekhovtsova started skating at the age of 5. Her father was a hockey player.

Shekhovtsova first competed as an ice dancer. When she realized that she could never compete at the highest level, she left skating. She graduated from the Ural State University of Economics and later from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (ice choreography faculty), where she studied in the same class with Zhanna Gromova. At the same time she started coaching at the Sverdlovsk figure skating school, where she trained under Igor Ksenofontov. After a year she became a senior coach of the Sverdlovsk ice dancing school.

Shekhovtsova moved to Moscow and worked as a coach in the class of Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov, and took over the class after they decided to leave for the USA. She later became a judge, judging at the Russian Championships, European Figure Skating Championships and World Figure Skating Championships. She judged figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2006 Winter Olympics, 2010 Winter Olympics, and 2014 Winter Olympics.

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