Skaters
Synchronized Team
Miami University
Hometown:
Oxford, OH
Coach:
Carla DeGirolamo, Lee Ann Shoker, Katie Bowling
Choreographer:
Sarah Kawahara, Carla DeGirolamo, Scott Brown
2013 Season Notes
SP Music: "Danse Macabre" by Gil Shaham and Jonathan Feldman
FS Music: Music from the 1920s by various artists
2012 Season Notes
SP Music: "Blue Suede Shoes" from Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis
FS Music: "Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C Sharp Minor" performed by Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra
2011 Season Notes
SP Music: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli
FS Music: "Once Upon a Nightmare" by Nox Arcana, "Midnight" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and "The Poet and the Pendulum" by Nightwish
2010 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from Romeo and Juliet
FS Music: "Heat Wave" by Margaret Whiting, "Summertime" by Kenny G and "Too Darn Hot" by the Broadway cast of Kiss Me Kate
2009 Season Notes
SP Music: Beatles medley
FS Music: "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky
Skating Notes
First U.S. team to medal at the World Synchronized Skating Championships, earning silver in 2007 ... Team won the 2007 Readers' Choice Award for Skater(s) of the Year - the Michelle Kwan Trophy from SKATING magazine ... Practice nine hours per week on ice, an hour and a half individually and four to five hours off-ice.
Team Notes
Formed its first skating team in August 1977 when Goggin Ice Arena started the first club "precision skating" team ... Added a collegiate precision skating team in 1995 to handle the demand for skating on campus ... Team supports Susan G. Komen's Race for the Cure and hosts a Thanksgiving food drive in conjunction with their parents' weekend exhibition ... Participates as a team and individually in several University and community events.
Roster
Tori Alexander (Lisle, Ill.), Ingrid Benson (Boxborough, Mass.), Chandler Carroll (Farmington, Mich.), Alana Christie (Minneapolis), Colleen Clancy (Galesburg, Mich.), Ashleigh Faucette (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kyleigh Gaff (Lynnfield, Mass.), Katelyn Hilgers (Hershey, Pa.), Shaheen Kazmi (Chicago), Matgaret Maier (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Allison Markowitz (Long Grove, Ill.), Jennifer Marshall (Sudbury, Mass.), Aziza Mdarhri-Alaoui (Perry Hall, Md.), Ashley Mulhern (New Canaan, Conn.), Ashleigh Ostin (Farmington, Mich.), Julianne Parece (North Reading, Mass.), Cristy Plahy (Fullerton, Calif.), Roxanna Schmidt (Breckenridge, Colo.), Vanessa Thornton (Mendon, Mass.), Taylor Walker (Placentia, Calif.)
SP Music: "Danse Macabre" by Gil Shaham and Jonathan Feldman
FS Music: Music from the 1920s by various artists
2012 Season Notes
SP Music: "Blue Suede Shoes" from Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis
FS Music: "Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C Sharp Minor" performed by Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra
2011 Season Notes
SP Music: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli
FS Music: "Once Upon a Nightmare" by Nox Arcana, "Midnight" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and "The Poet and the Pendulum" by Nightwish
2010 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from Romeo and Juliet
FS Music: "Heat Wave" by Margaret Whiting, "Summertime" by Kenny G and "Too Darn Hot" by the Broadway cast of Kiss Me Kate
2009 Season Notes
SP Music: Beatles medley
FS Music: "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky
Skating Notes
First U.S. team to medal at the World Synchronized Skating Championships, earning silver in 2007 ... Team won the 2007 Readers' Choice Award for Skater(s) of the Year - the Michelle Kwan Trophy from SKATING magazine ... Practice nine hours per week on ice, an hour and a half individually and four to five hours off-ice.
Team Notes
Formed its first skating team in August 1977 when Goggin Ice Arena started the first club "precision skating" team ... Added a collegiate precision skating team in 1995 to handle the demand for skating on campus ... Team supports Susan G. Komen's Race for the Cure and hosts a Thanksgiving food drive in conjunction with their parents' weekend exhibition ... Participates as a team and individually in several University and community events.
Roster
Tori Alexander (Lisle, Ill.), Ingrid Benson (Boxborough, Mass.), Chandler Carroll (Farmington, Mich.), Alana Christie (Minneapolis), Colleen Clancy (Galesburg, Mich.), Ashleigh Faucette (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kyleigh Gaff (Lynnfield, Mass.), Katelyn Hilgers (Hershey, Pa.), Shaheen Kazmi (Chicago), Matgaret Maier (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Allison Markowitz (Long Grove, Ill.), Jennifer Marshall (Sudbury, Mass.), Aziza Mdarhri-Alaoui (Perry Hall, Md.), Ashley Mulhern (New Canaan, Conn.), Ashleigh Ostin (Farmington, Mich.), Julianne Parece (North Reading, Mass.), Cristy Plahy (Fullerton, Calif.), Roxanna Schmidt (Breckenridge, Colo.), Vanessa Thornton (Mendon, Mass.), Taylor Walker (Placentia, Calif.)
- 2013 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 8th
2013 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2013 - Leon Lurje Trophy - 3rd
2012 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 3rd
2012 - French Cup - 5th
2011 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 10th
2011 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2011 - Spring Cup - 3rd
2010 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 3rd
2010 - Neuchatel Trophy - 2nd
2010 - Midwestern Synchronized Sectional - 1st
2009 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 7th
2009 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 1st
2009 - Prague Cup - 5th
2008 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 9th
2008 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2008 - French Cup - 3rd
2007 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2007 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2007 - Spring Cup - 2nd
2006 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 4th
2006 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 1st
2006 - Spring Cup - 2nd
2005 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 7th
2005 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 2nd
2005 - Spring Cup - 3rd
2005 - Midwestern Synchronized Sectional - 1st
2004 - U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships - 4th
2004 - Spring Cup - 2nd
2004 - Midwestern Synchronized Sectional - 1st
2003 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 9th
2003 - U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships - 2nd
2003 - Midwestern Synchronized Team Skating Championships - 1st
2002 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 9th
2002 - U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships - 2nd
2002 - French Cup International - 9th
2001 - World Synchronized Skating Championships - 9th
2001 U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships - 2nd
2001 - Prague Cup International - 1st
2000 - U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championships - 3rd
2000 - Finlandia Cup International - 3rd
2000 - Spring Cup International
IJS Personal Bests
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
SP - 71.62 (2009 World Synchronized Skating Championships)
FS - 128.96 (2007 World Synchronized Skating Championships)
Final Score - 198.71 (2007 World Synchronized Skating Championships)
U.S. QUALIFYING COMPETITION
SP - 77.00 (2009 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships)
FS - 130.92 (2008 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships)
Final Score - 204.72 (2007 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships)
