Dance skaters - together or split

[Linny]

Just out of curiosity, I compiled the names of the USA National Dance skaters from 2006 and 2007 and searched the USFSA athlete database to see how many came up.

For the couples who yielded a result in the database, I placed "together" next to their names (assuming that if they are still listed with USFSA, they are still dancing together). The ones I knew (from reading GS) that split, I placed "split" next to their names. The rest, I placed "0 matches" next to their names.

If I place the "0 matches" in with the splits, our percentages are
6 out of 20 or 30% together
14 out of 20 or 60% split

The percentage of "together" is actually surprisingly high to me. Anyone know how the USA compares with other countries who have more than just a few dance skaters competing at their nationals?

Linny


Caitlin Mallory / Brent Holdburg 0 matches
Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler together
Elizabeth Miosi / Dmitry Ponomarev 0 matches
Elizabeth Palmer / Jonathan Toman 0 matches
Isabel Elliman / Dmitriy Serebrenik 0 matches
Jamie Silverstein / Ryan O'Meara - split
Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev - together
Kate Slattery / Chuen-Gun (C.G.) Lee 0 matches
Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre together
Lindsay Evans / Kevin O'Keefe 0 matches
Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell 0 matches
Meghan McCullough / Joel Dear 0 matches
Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov together
Meryl Davis / Charlie White together
Mimi Whetstone / Chris Obzansky 0 matches
Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin 0 matches
Stephanie Ellis / Ian RossFrye 0 matches
Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto together
Tiffany Stiegler / Sergey Magerovskiy split
Trina Pratt / Todd Gilles 0 matches

 

[chuckm]

Caitlin Mallory / Brent Holdburg 0 matches
Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler together
Elizabeth Miosi / Dmitry Ponomarev 0 matches
Elizabeth Palmer / Jonathan Toman 0 matches
Isabel Elliman / Dmitriy Serebrenik 0 matches
Jamie Silverstein / Ryan O'Meara - split
Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev - together
Kate Slattery / Chuen-Gun (C.G.) Lee 0 matches
Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre together
Lindsay Evans / Kevin O'Keefe 0 matches
Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell 0 matches
Meghan McCullough / Joel Dear 0 matches
Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov together
Meryl Davis / Charlie White together
Mimi Whetstone / Chris Obzansky 0 matches
Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin 0 matches
Stephanie Ellis / Ian RossFrye 0 matches
Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto together
Tiffany Stiegler / Sergey Magerovskiy split
Trina Pratt / Todd Gilles 0 matches

Kevin O'Keefe is now skating for Canada with Siobhan Karam.

Morgan Matthews teamed up with Leif Gislason and they had planned to skate for Canada, but the US was unwilling to release Morgan. They are now planning to skate for Azerbaijan (where they can be given citizenship by decree), but nothing official has been announced as yet.

Caitlin Mallory skated briefly with Maxim Zavozin, but they split and Max is now skating with Nora Hoffmann and they plan to skate for Hungary.

Joel Dear is now skating with Maury Gustafson (who used to skate with Logan Giulietti-Smith [now skating with Lynn Kriengkrairuit])

Loren Galler-Rabinowitz had intended to skate for Israel with Attila Elek (former partner of Nora Hoffmann) but his injury and the refusal of Israel to allow her to continue with her Harvard education put an end to that potential pairing.

Mimi Whetstone and Chris Obzansky are still together and will skate as Seniors at US Nationals 2008.

Todd Gilles is now skating with Jane Summersett and they will skate as Seniors at US Nationals 2008.

 

[Sylvia]

Splits officially confirmed:
Caitlin Mallory / Brent Holdburg
Elizabeth Miosi / Dmitry Ponomarev
Kate Slattery / Chuen-Gun (C.G.) Lee
Lindsay Evans / Kevin O'Keefe
Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell
Meghan McCullough / Joel Dear
Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin
Trina Pratt / Todd Gilles

Not known to have competed recently (assumed split?):
Elizabeth Palmer / Jonathan Toman
Isabel Elliman / Dmitriy Serebrenik
Stephanie Ellis / Ian Ross-Frye - *see Cocomo's update below

Competing at 2008 U.S. Nationals as a new team:
Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles
Mauri Gustafson / Joel Dear

Competing at 2008 Canadians as a new team:
Siobham Karam / Kevin O'Keefe

The discussion board at http://www.ice-dance.com/ has a useful "Team Tracker" section (primary focus is on U.S. dance teams but there is some info on Canadian and other countries' teams as well).

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

I don't know why Loren G-R didn't try to convince O'Mearer to return to competitive skating. Both of them know the downbeat from the upbeat which most European dancers do not.

Shaking the booty is not real Latin Dancing which is downbeat and knees should show it. It's not the upbeat Polka with a hollywood shake.

Joe

 

[Tonichelle]

Shaking the booty is not real Latin Dancing which is downbeat and knees should show it. It's not the upbeat Polka with a hollywood shake.

I have no idea why I found this absolutely hysterical but I did....

 

[cocomo]

Assumed split (have not competed recently):

Stephanie Ellis / Ian RossFrye

Ellis/Ross-Frye still together and skated in a show over the summer.

Dmitry Ponomarev is rumored to be skating with a girl from France.

 

[Ivana]

Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin 0 matches

Maxim Zavozin is skating with Nora Hoffman. They hope that he´ll get Hugarian passport soon.

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks for the Ellis/Ross-Frye update, Cocomo.

Only 5 out of the 16 Senior teams from 2007 Canadians are competing at 2008 Canadians:
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (2nd)
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje (3rd)
Allie Hann-McCurdy / Michael Coreno (8th)
Mylene Lamoureux / Michael Mee (9th)
Megan Wilson / Garett Goodman (15th)

Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon (1st) are not competing this year;
Chantal Lefebvre / Arseniy Markov (5th) have retired.

7 senior teams split after 2007 Canadians and formed 6 new teams as follows (qualified for 2008 Canadians):
Lauren Senft (4th) / Augie Hill (USA)
Siobhan Karam (6th) / Kevin O'Keefe (USA)
Mylene Girard / Liam Dougherty (7th)
Andrea Chong (10th) / Guillaume Gfeller
Bethany Puttkemery (14th) / Kevin Gallagher (11th)
Christina Bourgeois / Jonathan Pelletier (13th)

 

[Tinymavy15]

yes there is a lot of chaging partners going on in pairs and dance. I think that it is difficult for two adult (or almost adult) people of opposite sexes to work cloesely all the time year in and year out and not let relationships and stuff get in the way. i think that is the reason why china has been the big force in pairs lately and russia for dance. China with it's communist lifestyle pairs up a girl and boy at a yong age. The coaches argange it, the way the soviet coaches did. The skaters are expected to worl together all the time. They are not allowed to date, stay up late, or have really any life outside of the skating rink. The same thing went on in russia up until the fall of the soviet union. and the result? thier pair teams were pretty much unbeatable. maybe that with a few exceptions, this is the rule for a succesful pair or dance team?

 

[pista04]

Jamie Silverstein / Ryan O'Meara - split

Have they officially split though? According to their website, they are just "taking a break."

Yeah, I know that in essance, they are the same, but still....

 

[Tonichelle]

isn't Jamie going to school and Ryan doing something in real estate... and they're in different states???

Welcome to the boards, Ivana!!!

 

[discoduck]

Jamie is at Cornell. Ryan is coaching and doing interior decorating in Arizona. Their website does say a break but I'm pretty sure it's a split. The last interviews that I read from either them didn't indicate that they were considering a return.

I would love to see Ryan back on the ice again!! I saw a program that he did in a club show with Emile Nussear and they made a great team.

 

[Tonichelle]

interior design! that's it!

leave it to Ryan's biggest fan to know everything

 

[sillylionlove]

Wow I haven't heard of half these teams!!

 

[discoduck]

interior design! that's it!

leave it to Ryan's biggest fan to know everything

Biggest fan? Probably only fan besides his mother. Oh and Kat!

 

[Tonichelle]

I like Ryan too... did you not see how many pics I took of him and that girl he skated with in 06????

 

[cocomo]

Dmitry Ponomarev is rumored to be skating with a girl from France.

Glad I said "rumored" the latest is, he is skating with Caitlin Mallory.

 

[conga]

Where are they training?