Robb literally grew up in a skating rink. His grandfather and father owned the Mt. Clemens Skating Arena in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Both were speedskating champions as Robb would be. He started skating competitively at the age of nine and skated for 16 years, the last seven under Coach Virgil Dooley. Some of his accomplishments as a skater were three Sr. Men national titles from 1980 thru 1982. He was a World Team member three times in 1979, 1980, and 1982. He medalled three times in world championship competition and was third in overall individual points for the 1982 World Bank Track Championships. In 1989 he was elected to the Athletes Hall of Fame.
Robb began his coaching career coaching the Striders of Livonia, Michigan in the 1984/5 season with Dennis McLeod when Coach Dooley left. In 1988 he formed the Great Skate Wolverines out of The Great Skate in Roseville, Michigan. Some of his coaching accomplishments are being named Coach of the Year in 1988 and being elected to the Coaches Hall of Fame in 1998.
Robb retired in 2005 after over 20 years of coaching. He remains a part of the Wolverine's by ocasionally coaching practice and participation in team activities.
Jay began skating in 1970 and started skating competitively in1977. In 1982 he joined the Striders of Livonia, Michigan where he was coached by Virgil Dooley and skated with Robb Dunn. He has been with Robb ever since as a teammate, skater, and coach. Jay is still competing today and is the last active skater from the original Wolverine team. He is a four time Classic Men's National Champion and won the Master Men's Championship in 2002.
Jay started coaching with Robb in the 1990/1 season. He was named the Developmental Coach of the Year in 1999. Looking back, Jay says that he would never have guessed back then that 20 years after he first started skating with Robb he would be working side by side with him as a coach and a friend.
Jay became the Wolverine's Head Coach in 2005 after Robb's retirement.
Jenny began skating in 1983 at 3 years old but didn't skate competitively until 1994. In 1991 she began taking private speed skating lessons from the rink owner of the Byron Rollercade, now owned by Scott Fannon and renamed Byron Center Fun Spot. In 1992 she joined the Tri-Star Speed team where she was coached by Doug Kraai, Rick Wiers and Dean James. In 1996 she began traveling to Roseville, MI to practice with the Michigan Wolverines where she was coached by Robb Dunn and Jay Ingram. Jenny is still competing today, in between years of pregnancy with her three daughters Megan, Abigail and Grace.
Jenny began coaching in September of 2000 alongside Doug Kraai, and under the direction of Robb and Jay, after Tri-Star went back to the Tarry Hall Roadrunners and then merged with the Wolverines. In 2002 Jenny and her husband BJ started up another branch of the Wolverines in Milan, IL and that team competed for a few years. In 2004 Jenny moved back to Michigan and started a beginner's team out of The Byron Fun Spot and coached all of the Grand Rapids skaters who would compete on a regional and national level for the Wolverines for coaches Robb and Jay. Jenny has coached competitive cheerleading and gymnastics as well
as speedskating. She has said that she is honored to be a part of such an awesome organization and to have been taught by the Master Yoda himself, Mr. Robb Dunn. In 2006 she received her first of three National Coaches awards as a Wolverine coach. She looks forward to many more successful years working side-by-side with Jay. Jenny loves this sport and has many goals to see fulfilled as a coach of a team that has become a living legacy, The Michigan Wolverines.
