country birth_date formercoach article_title name retired
united states 1951 or 1952 peter betts , mabel fairbanks atoy wilson
 atoy wilson 1971
atoy wilson

atoy wilson -lrb- born around 1951 or 1952 -rrb- is a retired american figure skater .
coached by mabel fairbanks and then peter betts , he represented the los angeles skating club .
in 1965 , he was the first african-american skater to compete at the u.s. figure skating championships , placing second in the novice division .
at the 1966 championships , he won the novice title , becoming the first black to win a national title in figure skating .
he left amateur competition in 1971 and toured professionally with ice follies and holiday on ice until 1988 .
following his retirement as a performer , wilson was a coach and assistant director of ice skating schools for hyatt regency hotels in dubai .
a stint on the business side of warner brothers followed , and he is currently involved in production accounting for the television industry .
