Derek Trent

Derek Trent
Vise & Trent in 2006.
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	March 21, 1980 Knoxville, Tennessee
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Former partner	Tiffany Vise Brandi Sandoval Stacey Pensgen Katie Gadkowski
Former coach	Doug Ladret Irina Vorobieva
Former choreographer	Doug Ladret Catarina Lindgreen Julie Patterson
Skating club	Broadmoor SC
Retired	April 30, 2009
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	165.76 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard
Short program	56.06 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard
Free skate	109.70 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard

Derek Trent (born March 21, 1980) is an American retired competitive pair skater. He competed for most of his career with Tiffany Vise. On November 17, 2007, Vise and Trent landed the first clean throw quadruple salchow jump in international competition.^[1] They officially became the first team to perform that element in international competition.^[2][3]

Because Vise spun and jumped in the clockwise direction and Trent in the counter-clockwise direction, they were a mirror pair.

On April 30, 2009, Trent announced his retirement from competitive figure skating.^[4]

Personal life

Derek Trent was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began skating at age eight and moved to Colorado Springs at age ten in order to train.

Trent graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2002 with a degree in business with a minor in Spanish. He currently attends the MBA program at that university. Trent works as a coach. He is certified as a judge on the national level.

Trent speaks fluent Spanish.

Career

He originally competed in ice dancing with Eve Chalom, with whom he competed on the Intermediate level and won the bronze medal at Junior Nationals in 1993. He also competed at Junior Nationals with his sister Kelli Trent, also in ice dancing. Derek Trent also briefly competed as a single skater.

Trent began pair skating as a teenager and was coached by Irina Vorobieva. He competed on the novice and junior levels with Katie Gadkowski, winning the Novice pewter in 1998 and the Junior pewter in 1999. He then competed with Brandilyn Sandoval, with whom he won the bronze medal on the junior level at the 2001 Nationals. When that partnership broke up, he skated with former-singles skater Stacey Pensgen. They placed 14th at the 2003 U.S. Championships and split shortly thereafter.

Trent teamed up with Tiffany Vise in the summer of 2003.^[5] They had skated for years at the same rink and her partnership had ended at the same time. Because they were both partnerless, they tried out together, despite the fact that they rotate in opposite directions, which is usually a partnership-killer. Very few teams at the highest level rotate in opposite directions because it makes elements like pair spins and twists much more difficult, due to the fact that one partner will have to "force" him- or herself to rotate in the "wrong" direction in order to complete the element (Vise spun his way on twist lifts). They represented the Broadmoor Skating Club.

Vise and Trent won the bronze medal at their first major event together, the Golden Spin of Zagreb. Beginning in the 2006/2007 season, Vise and Trent began attempting the throw quadruple salchow in competition. They were credited for the element at the 2006 Skate Canada International, but not with landing it, because it was fully rotated but not landed successfully.^[6]

They began the 2007–2008 season at Skate Canada, where they placed 5th. They went on to the 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard, where they successfully landed a throw quadruple salchow in their free skate, becoming the first pair team to ever perform that element in international competition.

Programs

(with Vise)

Season	Short program	Free skating
2008–2009 [7]	Sweet Remembrance of You by William Joseph	Heroes by William Joseph Return with Honor by William Joseph
2007–2008 [8]	Harem by Sarah Brightman Harem (Near Eastern Lounge) by Claude Challe	Les Misérables by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg
2006–2007 [9]	Shall We Dance? Dance with Me	Les Misérables
2005–2006	Shall We Dance? Dance with Me	Quidam (from Cirque du Soleil)
2004–2005	The Italian Job	Quidam (from Cirque du Soleil)
2003–2004	The Italian Job	Nights in White Satin by Moody Blues

Competitive highlights

With Vise

Results[10]
International
Event	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09
Four Continents					8th
GP Bompard					4th	5th
GP Skate America				6th
GP Skate Canada				5th	5th	5th
Nebelhorn Trophy					5th
Karl Schafer			3rd
Golden Spin	3rd
National
U.S. Champ.	13th	9th	6th	5th	4th	8th
Midwestern Sect.		2nd	1st	1st
GP = Grand Prix

With Pensgen

Event	2002–2003
U.S. Championships	14th

With Sandoval

International
Event	2000–2001
JGP China	5th
National
U.S. Championships	3rd J.
JGP = Junior Grand Prix J. = Junior level

With Gadkowski

International
Event	1997–1998	1998–1999
JGP Hungary		10th
National
U.S. Championships	4th N.	4th J.
JGP = Junior Grand Prix Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

Singles career

Event	1995–1996
U.S. Championships	11th N.
N. = Novice level

References

1. 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard Pairs Free Skating Protocol PDF (72.4 KB)
2. ISU : Full Story
3. International Skating Union Media Advisory PDF
4. "Vise, Trent End Competitive Partnership". Icenetwork. April 30, 2009.
5. Mittan, Barry (December 12, 2005). "Vise and Trent Start Strong in 2006". SkateToday.
6. 2006 Skate Canada Protocol PDF (77.0 KB)
7. "Tiffany VISE / Derek TRENT: 2008/2009". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 9, 2011.
8. "Tiffany VISE / Derek TRENT: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 4, 2008.
9. "Tiffany VISE / Derek TRENT: 2006/2007". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 29, 2007.
10. "Competition Results: Tiffany VISE / Derek TRENT". International Skating Union.

External links

• Official site
• Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent at the U.S. Figure Skating
• Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent at the International Skating Union