Brandon Frazier

Brandon Frazier

Denney/Frazier in 2012
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1992-11-19) November 19, 1992
Phoenix, Arizona
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Partner Haven Denney
Former partner Mandy Garza
Coach Rockne Brubaker, Stefania Berton
Former coach Ingo Steuer, Silvia Fontana, John Zimmerman, Dalilah Sappenfield, Jim Peterson, Lyndon Johnston
Choreographer John Zimmerman, Silvia Fontana, Renee Roca
Former choreographer Julie Marcotte, Dalilah Sappenfield
Skating club All Year FSC Culver City
Training locations Chicago
Former training locations West Palm Beach, Florida
Coral Springs, Florida
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Began skating 2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 183.84
2014 Skate America
Short program 61.08
2014 Skate America
Free skate 122.76
2014 Skate America
Medal record
Representing  United States
Figure skating: Pairs
World Junior Championships
2013 Milan Pairs

Brandon Frazier (born November 19, 1992) is an American pair skater. With partner Haven Denney, he is the 2014 Skate America silver medalist, 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, 2013 World Junior champion, and 2015 U.S. senior national silver medalist.

Personal life

Brandon Frazier was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He competed as a roller skater from 1998 until 2004.[1]

Career

Early career

Brandon Frazier and Haven Denney first teamed up in 2002 as roller skaters before switching to the ice.[2][3] As figure skaters, they competed together from 2005–2008, coached by Jim Peterson and Lyndon Johnston.[4] They won the 2008 U.S. intermediate bronze medal but then split.[3]

Skating with Mandy Garza, Frazier was 8th at a 2010–11 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Austria and 5th on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships.[5] Garza and Frazier announced the end of their partnership in February 2011.[6]

2011–12 season: Junior Grand Prix debut

Denney/Frazier teamed up again in spring 2011.[2][3] They competed on the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 8th and 7th in Latvia and Austria. They won the junior title at the 2012 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2012 World Junior Championships where they placed 4th. The pair was coached by Dalilah Sappenfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado until the fall of 2012 when they moved to Coral Springs, Florida to train with John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana at Coral Gables.[7]

2012–13 season: World Junior title

In the 2012–13 season, Denney/Frazier finished 4th at the 2012–13 ISU Junior Grand Prix event held in Lake Placid, New York. They won gold at the 2013 World Junior Championships, the first American pair to win the title since 2007.

2013–14 season: Grand Prix debut

For the 2013–14 season, the team placed fifth at both their Grand Prix events, the 2013 Skate Canada International and 2013 NHK Trophy. They were also fifth at the 2014 U.S. Championships and then fourth at the 2014 U.S. Championships.

2014–15 season: First senior medals

In 2014–15, Denney/Frazier won medals at two Challenger Series events – gold at the 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy and silver at the 2014 CS Skate Canada Autumn Classic. Turning to the Grand Prix series, they won their first GP medal, silver, at the 2014 Skate America and then finished fourth at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup. In the second half of the season, Denney/Frazier won the silver medal at the 2015 U.S. Championships. After nationals, they began training full-time under Ingo Steuer. They finished 7th at the 2015 Four Continents and 12th at the 2015 World Championships.

In April 2015, Denney/Frazier changed their training location from Coral Springs, Florida, to West Palm Beach, Florida.[8] Soon after, on April 22, Denney injured her right knee while the pair was practicing a throw jump off the ice. She said, "When I landed, my foot stayed and my body kept rotating" and she then heard "a couple of loud pops". She tore her anterior cruciate ligament, lateral collateral ligament, and bilateral and lateral meniscus.[9]

2015–16 season

Denney put no weight on her right leg for six weeks and then began physical therapy before returning to the ice in October 2015.[9] During this time, Frazier worked on his skating skills under Marina Zueva and Johnny Johns in Detroit. In October, the pair started training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Initially limited to basic stroking and crossovers, Denney began cautiously practicing jumps in late November.[9]

Denney/Frazier did not compete in the 2015–16 season. In April 2016, they announced that they had moved to Chicago to work with Rockne Brubaker and Stefania Berton.[9]

Programs

With Denney

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–16
    2014–15
    [10][11]
    2013–14
    [7][12]
    2012–13
    [13]
    • Malagueña
      by Ernesto Lecuona
    2011–12
    [1]

    With Garza

    Season Short program Free skating
    2010–11
    [6]
    2009–10
    [6]

    Competitive highlights

    GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

    With Denney

    International[14]
    Event 05–06 07–08 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15
    Worlds 12th
    Four Continents 4th 7th
    GP NHK Trophy 5th
    GP Rostelecom Cup 4th
    GP Skate America 2nd
    GP Skate Canada 5th
    CS Lombardia 1st
    CS Autumn Classic 2nd
    Nepela Trophy 4th
    International: Junior[14]
    Junior Worlds 4th 1st
    JGP Austria 7th
    JGP Latvia 8th
    JGP USA 4th
    National[4]
    U.S. Champ. 10th Jv. 3rd I. 1st J. 5th 5th 2nd
    Levels: Jv. = Juvenile; I. = Intermediate; J. = Junior

    With Garza

    International[15]
    Event 2009–10 2010–11
    JGP Austria 8th
    National[6]
    U.S. Championships 3rd N. 5th J.
    Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

    References

    1. 1 2 "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.
    2. 1 2 Walker, Elvin (May 27, 2012). "Second time a charm for Denney and Frazier". Golden Skate.
    3. 1 2 3 Rutherford, Lynn (January 24, 2012). "Colorado junior pairs face California challenge". IceNetwork. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
    4. 1 2 "Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier". IceNetwork.com.
    5. ↑ "Mandy GARZA / Brandon FRAZIER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014.
    6. 1 2 3 4 "Mandy Garza / Brandon Frazier". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
    7. 1 2 Rutherford, Lynn (May 17, 2013). "Change of scenery serves Denney, Frazier well". IceNetwork.
    8. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 22, 2015). "Denney and Frazier regroup with Steuer". Golden Skate.
    9. 1 2 3 4 5 Brannen, Sarah S. (April 25, 2016). "Denney, Frazier seek fresh start in Chicago". IceNetwork.com.
    10. ↑ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015.
    11. ↑ Rutherford, Lynn (July 26, 2014). "Detroit postcards: More pair action off ice than on". IceNetwork.
    12. ↑ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014.
    13. ↑ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 26, 2013.
    14. 1 2 "Competition Results: Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER". International Skating Union.
    15. ↑ "Competition Results: Mandy GARZA / Brandon FRAZIER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.

    External links

    Media related to Brandon Frazier at Wikimedia Commons

    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.