Elliana Pogrebinsky

Elliana Pogrebinsky
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1998-04-22) April 22, 1998
Los Gatos, California
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Partner Alex Benoit
Former partner Ross Gudis
Coach Igor Shpilband
Former coach Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, Dmytri Ilin, Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko
Choreographer Igor Shpilband
Skating club Penisula FSC San Jose
Training locations Novi, Michigan
Former training locations Wheaton and Rockville, Maryland
California
Began skating 2000
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 146.83
2016 Junior Worlds
Short dance 59.13
2015 JGP Logrono
Free dance 87.78
2016 Junior Worlds

Elliana Pogrebinsky (born April 22, 1998) is an American competitive ice dancer. With partner Alex Benoit, she is a two-time (2015–16) U.S. junior national bronze medalist and placed fourth at the 2016 World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Elliana Pogrebinsky was born April 22, 1998 in Los Gatos, California.[1] She is the daughter of Natalia and Vladimir Pogrebinsky, and has an elder brother, Daniel.[2] Her parents moved to the United States in the late 1980s from Odessa, Ukraine.[3] She is Jewish and celebrated her bat mitzvah in 2011.[2]

As a child, Pogrebinsky studied at a ballet school in San Jose, California and competed in ballroom dancing and in rhythmic gymnastics, winning a Pacific Region title and qualifying for three national championships at three levels.[4] After moving from California to Maryland in 2009, she attended Westland Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.[2][5] She is now a student at FlexTech Academy in Novi, Michigan.[4]

Early skating career

Pogrebinsky began skating in 2000.[1] From 2005 to 2009,[6] she was coached by Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko in California.[5]

Pogrebinsky teamed up with Ross Gudis in March 2009.[6] They were coached by Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, and Dmytri Ilin in Wheaton and Rockville, Maryland.[7] Making their ISU Junior Grand Prix debut, they placed 6th in Lake Placid, New York and 11th in Bled, Slovenia in 2012, before placing 5th in junior dance at the 2013 U.S. Championships. In the 2013–14 season, they competed at two more JGP events – finishing 4th in Riga, Latvia, and 6th in Gdańsk, Poland – and placed 5th for the second year in a row at the U.S. Championships.

Partnership with Benoit

Pogrebinsky teamed up with Alex Benoit in March 2014.[4] Their international debut came at the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) in Aichi; after placing fifth in Japan, Pogrebinsky/Benoit were sent to the JGP in Zagreb, Croatia, where they finished 8th. In January 2015, they won the junior bronze medal at the 2015 U.S. Championships and were selected to compete at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn. Ranked 12th in the short dance, they qualified for the free dance (14th) and finished 13th overall in Estonia.

During the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Pogrebinsky/Benoit placed fourth in Linz, Austria, and won the bronze medal in Logroño, Spain. They repeated as junior national bronze medalists and were assigned to the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

Programs

With Benoit

Season Short dance Free dance
2015–16
[1]
2014–15
[8][9]
  • Straight to Memphis
    by Club des Belugas
  • Beijos
    by DJ Vadim
  • Banto
    by Kaoma

With Gudis

Season Short dance Free dance
2013–14
[7][6]
  • Foxtrot: Pink Panther
    by Henry Mancini
  • Quickstep: Jumping at the Woodside
    by Chacra Music
  • El Conquistador
    by Maxime Rodriguez
  • Para Mi Nicole
    by Esperanza
  • El Conquistador
    by Maxime Rodriguez
2012–13
[6][10]
  • Hip Hop: Overpowered
    by Roisin Murphy
  • Blues: The Blues
    by Mr. De
  • Hip Hop: Cry Baby
    by Roisin Murphy
2011–12
[6]
  • Relax Max
    by Dina Washington
  • Party is Over
    by Peggy Lee
2010–11
[6]
2009–10
[11]

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Benoit

International[12]
Event 2014–15 2015–16
Junior Worlds 13th 4th
JGP Austria 4th
JGP Croatia 8th
JGP Japan 5th
JGP Spain 3rd
National[4]
U.S. Championships 3rd J. 3rd J.
Midwestern Sectionals 1st J. 1st J.
J. = Junior level

With Gudis

International[13]
Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
JGP Latvia 4th
JGP Poland 6th
JGP Slovenia 11th
JGP United States 6th
National[6]
U.S. Championships 4th N. 8th J. 5th J. 5th J.
U.S. Junior Champ. 3rd I.
Eastern Sectionals 2nd I. 2nd N. 3rd J. 2nd J.
Pacific Coast Sectionals 1st J.
Levels: I. = Intermediate; N. = Novice; J. = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Cohen Greyber, Andrea (July 2011). "Called to the Torah". Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley (Jewish Community News). p. 20.
  3. ↑ Pogrebinsky, Elliana; Benoit, Alex (September 9, 2015). "Waltzing on the Danube: Ice dancers blog from Linz". IceNetwork.com.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Elliana Pogrebinsky and Alex Benoit". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Lewis, Amber (January 21, 2013). "Pogrebinsky and Gudis have Junior Worlds in their sights". Ice Musings. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Elliana Pogrebinsky and Ross Gudis". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Elliana POGREBINSKY / Ross GUDIS: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Programs". Official website of Pogrebinsky & Benoit. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Elliana POGREBINSKY / Ross GUDIS: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ "History". Official website of Pogrebinsky and Gudis. Archived from the original on September 5, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Competition Results: Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT". International Skating Union.
  13. ↑ "Competition Results: Elliana POGREBINSKY / Ross GUDIS". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016.

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