Nicholas Buckland
Nicholas "Nick" Buckland (born 9 June 1989) is a former English competitive ice dancer who represented Great Britain.[12] In the 2009–10 season, they placed 9th at the Ice Challenge in Graz, Austria, and fourth at the 2009 Ondrej Nepela Memorial.In the 2010–11 season, they withdrew from their national championships after a fall in training resulted in a sprained ligament in Coomes' left knee.[24] In October, they won silver at Ondrej Nepela Trophy, their first medal at an ISU Challenger Series competition.Coomes fractured her patella on 24 June 2016, having fallen while trying a new lift entry with Buckland in Novi, Michigan; she underwent surgery four days later, wore a brace for ten weeks, and returned to the ice on 11 November.[26] During her recovery, Buckland worked in coaching and choreography, and healed a minor shoulder injury from the previous season.[28] Coomes underwent an operation on 10 January 2017 to remove the wires in her knee, which were digging into the patellar tendon, and was expected to be off the ice for three months.[26] Buckland and Coomes started their 2017–18 season at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where they won the gold medal, set new personal bests in all segments and qualified an Olympic spot for Great Britain in ice dance at the 2018 games.