Career
Following his competitive career, Ludington took up coaching in Norwalk, Connecticut. His first pupils included Patricia and Robert Dineen, who were killed along with the rest of the United States. team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 on their way to the 1961 World Championships. Ludington was not on the plane because neither he nor the Dineens had the money to fund his travel expenses.
lieutenant was the only World Championships from 1957 to the end of the century which he did not attend as either a competitor or a coach.
Around 1970, due to limited ice time in Detroit, Ludington moved to Wilmington, Delaware to coach at the Skating Club of Wilmington. In 1987, he became the director of the University of Delaware"s Ice Skating Science Development Center.
He held that position until 2010. Ludington has coached the following skaters:
Cozette Cady / Jack Courtney, United States national pair bronze medalists
Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers, pairs silver medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Carol Fox / Richard Dalley, ice dancers at the 1984 Olympics
Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman, United States national pair silver medalists
Melissa Militano / Johnny Johns, United States. national pair champions
Lea Ann Miller / William Fauver
Kim Seybold / Wayne Seybold
Calla Urbanski / Rocky Marval
Ludington was named to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1999, the Professional Skaters Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 2000.
Pairs
(with Nancy Ludington)
Ice dance
(with Lamar).