Jean-Luc Baker

Jean-Luc Baker
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1993-10-07) October 7, 1993
Burnley, England
Home town Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Partner Kaitlin Hawayek
Former partner Joylyn Yang, Nicole McClellan
Coach Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova, Natalia Annenko-Deller
Former coach Sharon Jones Baker, Stephen Baker
Choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova
Former choreographer Sharon Jones Baker
Skating club Seattle SC
Training locations Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Former training locations Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Began skating 1995
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 157.12
2014 Junior Worlds
Short dance 66.73
2014 Junior Worlds
Free dance 94.15
2015 Skate America
Medal record
Competitor for  United States
Figure skating: Ice dancing
World Junior Championships
2014 Sofia Ice dancing
Junior Grand Prix Final
2013–14 Fukuoka Ice dancing

Jean-Luc Baker (born October 7, 1993) is an American ice dancer. With partner Kaitlin Hawayek, he is the 2014 World Junior champion, 2013 JGP Final silver medalist, and 2014 U.S. national junior champion.[1]

Personal life

Jean-Luc Baker was born in Burnley, England.[2] He is the son of Sharon Jones Baker, who represented the United Kingdom in ice dancing at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Stephen Baker, who competed for the U.K. in pair skating at the 1976 World Junior Championships.[3] The family moved to the United States when he was four. Baker attended Harbour Pointe Middle School and Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington. After graduation, he moved to Detroit, Michigan to pursue his career.[4] He has a black belt in taekwondo.[5]

Career

Early career

Jean-Luc Baker was inspired to switch from singles to ice dancing by his mother.[6] He teamed up with Joylyn Yang in the summer of 2006, with his parents coaching the duo.[5][7] They won U.S. national titles on the juvenile and intermediate levels and took the novice bronze medal at the 2010 U.S. Championships. The following season, Yang/Baker were assigned to two ISU Junior Grand Prix events, finishing 7th in Japan and 10th in the Czech Republic. They were 6th on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships.

Partnership with Hawayek

Baker teamed up with Kaitlin Hawayek in June 2012.[8] They were sent to two JGP events and won the silver medal in Germany. Hawayek/Baker took the junior silver medal at the 2013 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan where they finished 7th.

During the 2013–14 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Hawayek/Baker won the gold medal in their JGP events, at the JGP Mexico and the JGP Poland. Their results qualified them to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they won the silver medal. They then won the gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships setting a new Junior World record for the overall score with a total of 157.12 points.

Hawayek/Baker began the 2014–15 season at an ISU Challenger Series event, the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy. They finished fourth after placing fourth in the short and third in the free dance. Their Grand Prix assignments were the 2014 Rostelecom Cup and 2014 NHK Trophy.[9]

Baker sustained a concussion when Hawayek accidentally struck him with her arm in September 2015, just prior to the Labor Day weekend.[10][11] After two weeks, he returned to training, although limited for one more week.[10] Hawayek/Baker finished fourth at the 2015 Skate America. Due to food poisoning, Hawayek vomited eight times in four hours during the night before the short dance at the 2015 Cup of China.[11] After competing in the first segment, the duo decided to withdraw. They placed fifth at the 2016 U.S. Championships.

Programs

With Hawayek

Season Short dance Free dance Exhibition
2015–2016
[12][13][14]		 The Nutcracker
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
  • Waltz: Waltz of the Flowers
  • Polka: (The Nutcracker) March
  • Waltz: Waltz of the Flowers
    choreo. by Anjelika Krylova, Kaitlin Hawayek, and Jean-Luc Baker
2014–2015
[2]		 Romeo and Juliet
by Abel Korzeniowski:
  • Wedding Vows
  • The Cheek of Night
  • Come, Gentle Night
  • Forbidden Love
2013–2014
[6][15]
  • Happy Feet
  • It Had To Be You
    by Harry Connick
  • Sing, Sing, Sing
 Amelie
by Yann Tiersen:
  • J'y suis jamais alle
  • Comptine d'un autre ete - L'Apres
  • La Noyee
  • Sur le fil
2012–2013
[8]

With Yang

Season Short dance Free dance
2010–2011
[16]
2009–2010
[3]
2008–2009
[3][7]
2007–2008
[3]

Competitive highlights

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

With Hawayek

International[1]
Event 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Four Continents 5th
GP NHK Trophy 3rd
GP Rostelecom Cup 6th
GP Skate America 4th
GP Cup of China WD
CS Nebelhorn 4th
CS Finlandia 4th
CS Golden Spin 2nd
International: Junior[1]
Junior Worlds 7th 1st
JGP Final 2nd
JGP Germany 2nd
JGP Mexico 1st
JGP Poland 1st
JGP Turkey 5th
National[17]
U.S. Championships 2nd J. 1st J. 4th 5th
J. = Junior level
WD = Withdrew

With Yang

International[18]
Event 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
JGP Czech Republic 10th
JGP Japan 7th
National[3]
U.S. Championships 7th N. 3rd N. 6th J.
U.S. Junior Champ. 1st Jv. 1st I.
Levels: Jv. = Juvenile; I. = Intermediate; N. = Novice; J. = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER". International Skating Union.
  2. 1 2 "Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Joylyn Yang / Jean-Luc Baker". IceNetwork. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Managan, Megan (March 27, 2014). "Kamiak graduate wins gold at Junior Worlds Ice dancing competition". South Everett Beacon.
  5. 1 2 Myhre, Rich (January 5, 2010). "Local ice dancers' Olympic dreams". The Herald. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012.
  6. 1 2 Thayer, Jacquelyn (December 5, 2013). "For Hawayek and Baker, a Quick Step to Success". ice-dance.com.
  7. 1 2 "JOYLYN YANG & JEAN‐LUC BAKER" (PDF). ice-dance.com. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013.
  9. ↑ "2014-15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Ice Dance" (PDF). July 10, 2014.
  10. 1 2 Rutherford, Lynn (February 2, 2016). "Concussions in figure skating: How they happen". IceNetwork.com.
  11. 1 2 Blanchette, John (January 7, 2016). "It’s Been A Season Of Ups And Downs, Risks And Rewards For Ice Dancers Hawayek And Baker". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2016.
  12. ↑ Slater, Paula (August 26, 2015). "Hawayek and Baker ready to push boundaries". Golden Skate.
  13. ↑ Rutherford, Lynn (October 5, 2015). "Hawayek, Baker reach for the stars with new free". IceNetwork.
  14. ↑ "Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 8, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Joylyn YANG / Jean-Luc BAKER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011.
  17. ↑ Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, IceNetwork
  18. ↑ "Competition Results: Joylyn YANG / Jean-Luc BAKER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 3, 2012.

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