Starr Andrews
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Born | Los Angeles, California | June 23, 2001
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) |
Figure skating career | |
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Coach | Derrick Delmore, Peter Kongkasem |
Skating club | Los Angeles FSC |
Began skating | 2005 |
Starr Andrews (born June 23, 2001) is an American figure skater. She is the 2017 U.S. national junior silver medalist and placed 12th at the 2017 World Junior Championships.
Personal life
Starr Andrews was born on June 23, 2001, in Los Angeles, California.[1] She is home-schooled.[2] She has a brother and two sisters — Skylar, a gymnast, and Ashton, a baseball player.[3][4] Their mother, Toshawa Andrews, has cardiac microvascular disease, which has led to a dozen heart attacks.[4][5]
Career
Early years
Andrews began learning to skate in 2005.[1] A video of nine-year-old Andrews skating to Whip My Hair went viral after appearing on Youtube in December 2010.[6] By March 2018, it had reached 53 million views.[4]
Andrews placed 6th on the novice level at the 2016 U.S. Championships.
2016–2017 season
Andrews decided to move up to the junior level, coached by Derrick Delmore and Peter Kongkasem in Lakewood, California and Riverside, California.[1] Making her international debut, she won the junior ladies' title at the Golden Bear of Zagreb in October 2016. In January, she received the junior silver medal at the 2017 U.S. Championships.[7] After Amber Glenn withdrew, Andrews was added to the U.S. team to the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.[8] At the event, held in March, she qualified to the final segment by placing 9th in the short program and went on to finish 12th overall.
2017–2018 season
Andrews began her season on the junior level, placing fifth at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria. In December, making her senior international debut, she placed 6th at the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she also obtained the minimum technical scores for both senior-level ISU Championships.
In January, Andrews finished 6th in the senior ladies' category at the 2018 U.S. Championships, having placed 8th in the short program and 5th in the free skate. She was assigned to the 2018 Four Continents, where she placed 7th, and the 2018 World Junior Championships, from which she withdrew. She was replaced by Emmy Ma.
2018–2019 season
In early August, Andrews competed at the 2018 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy; she placed second in the short program with a personal best score but dropped to fifth after the free skate.In September she participated in the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, got the 5th place in the short, but dropped to the 7th place in the free program. In the free program she attempted the triple axel but two footed the landing and had the jump downgraded due to lack of rotation. She will make her Grand Prix debut in October, at the 2018 Skate America.
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2018–2019 |
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2017–2018 [9][10] |
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2016–2017 [1] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[11] | ||||||
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Event | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 |
Four Continents | 7th | |||||
GP Skate America | TBD | |||||
CS Autumn Classic | 7th | |||||
CS Asian Open | 5th | |||||
CS Golden Spin | 6th | |||||
International: Junior[11] | ||||||
Junior Worlds | 12th | WD | ||||
JGP Austria | 5th | |||||
Golden Bear | 1st J | |||||
National[12][13] | ||||||
U.S. Champ. | 4th V | 6th N | 2nd J | 6th | ||
Pacific Coast | 1st V | 5th I | 2nd N | 2nd J | ||
Southwest Pacific | 3rd V | 2nd I | 1st N | |||
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew |
Detailed results
Senior level
ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.
2018–19 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
October 19–21, 2018 | 2018 Skate America | TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
September 20–22, 2018 | 2018 CS Autumn Classic | 5 56.70 |
7 102.93 |
7 159.63 |
August 1–5, 2018 | 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy | 2 62.60 |
5 97.16 |
5 159.76 |
2017–18 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 22–27, 2018 | 2018 Four Continents Championships | 7 60.61 |
7 112.04 |
7 172.65 |
December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Championships | 8 62.55 |
5 127.36 |
6 189.91 |
December 6–9, 2017 | 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 4 60.80 |
7 102.69 |
6 163.49 |
Junior level
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2017–18 season | |||||
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Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
August 31 – September 2, 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | Junior | 4 59.93 |
5 99.35 |
5 159.28 |
2016–17 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
March 15–19, 2017 | 2017 World Junior Championships | Junior | 9 55.83 |
12 93.22 |
12 149.05 |
January 14–22, 2017 | 2017 U.S. Championships | Junior | 2 57.83 |
2 97.31 |
2 155.14 |
October 27–30, 2016 | 2016 Golden Bear of Zagreb | Junior | 1 63.27 |
1 108.75 |
1 172.02 |
2015–16 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 15–24, 2016 | 2016 U.S. Championships | Novice | 4 42.77 |
6 80.00 |
6 122.77 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Starr ANDREWS: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 21, 2017.
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- ^ a b c Elfman, Lois (January 12, 2017). "Starr Andrews aims to shine on the ice". New York Amsterdam News. Archived from the original on January 13, 2017.
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- ^ "Andrews to Represent Team USA at World Junior Championships". U.S. Figure Skating. March 3, 2017. Archived from the original on March 4, 2017.
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- ^ a b "Competition Results: Starr ANDREWS". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Starr Andrews". U.S. Figure Skating.
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