The Skating Club of Boston is “taking it one day at a time” in grieving the deaths of six of its members in the tragic plane crash in Washington as its CEO says plans are in the works to memorialize their legacies in its Norwood facility permanently.

CEO and Executive Director Doug Zeghibe says his club is discussing how to “properly acknowledge” its two teenage skaters, their mothers and coaches who lost their lives when their American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River Wednesday night.

They were en route home from the US Championships and National Development Camp in Wichita, Kansas.

Speaking to reporters Friday afternoon, Zeghibe hinted that his organization, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious figure skating clubs in the world, will “most likely” hold a celebration-of-life and a naming ceremony for one of the facility’s rooms, rinks or spaces in their honor.

The Skating Club of Boston is also looking to share the stories of skaters Jinna Han, 13, of Mansfield, and Spencer Lane, 16, of Barrington, R.I., their mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane, and coaches, married couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, on one of its walls.

“When you walk around our facility, there’s a lot of folks here who are remembered through the years,” Zeghibe said, “either in photos on our history wall or specific spaces that they chose to donate and name.”

“I am certainly in favor of that,” he added. “I think our board of directors is in favor of that, to make sure that this family joins the pantheon of greats in this club and their legacy.”

Shishkova and Naumov are already recognized on a commemorative wall in a facility hallway. The club also pays special homage to local skaters killed on Feb. 15, 1961, when the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium on its way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

A day after quietness and tearful hugs filled the facility, more skaters returned to the ice on Friday. Music and practices also came back, while a memorial full of bouquets remembering the victims grew.

But it’s still early in the grieving process, Zeghibe pointed out.

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“It’s sinking into everybody that this is reality, and we’re not going to see these folks again,” he said. “It’s hard. It’s hard on a personal level, it’s hard to see it for the kids who don’t have the same coping mechanisms as adults.”

“I don’t know when it will get easier,” he added. “I am old enough to know that things get easier over time but when that will be I don’t know.”