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Name
  
Lorraine McNamara

Home town
  
Germantown

Began skating
  
2001

Partner
  

Height
  
1.62 m

Role
  
Ice dancer

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Born
  
February 18, 1999 (age 25) (
1999-02-18
)
Washington, D.C.

Coach
  
Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, Dmitri Ilin

Choreographer
  
Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak

Skating club
  
Peninsula SC, San Jose

Former training locations
  
Wheaton, Maryland

Training locations
  
Rockville, Maryland

Country represented
  
United States of America

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Lorraine McNamara (born February 18, 1999) is an American ice dancer. With partner Quinn Carpenter, she is the 2016 World Junior champion, 2015 World Junior silver medalist, the 2015 JGP Final Champion, and a two-time U.S. national junior champion.

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Personal life

Lorraine McNamara Gallery 2011 Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships

Lorraine McNamara was born February 18, 1999 in Washington, D.C.. She has four brothers and one sister. She attends Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac, Maryland.

Career

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On the ice from age two and a half, McNamara began training under Elena Novak and Alexei Kiliakov at the Wheaton Ice Dance Academy as a young child. She teamed up with her first ice dancing partner when she was six and skated with him for five months.

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McNamara began skating with Quinn Carpenter in 2005. They won the junior bronze medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships but McNamara was too young to be sent to the 2012 World Junior Championships.

2012–2013 season

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McNamara/Carpenter became age-eligible for junior internationals. In August 2012, they finished sixth in their Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut, in Courchevel, France. They placed fourth the following month at their second JGP assignment, in Istanbul, Turkey. After winning the junior bronze medal at the U.S. Championships, McNamara/Carpenter were assigned to the World Junior Championships in Milan. They placed 8th in the short dance, 11th in the free dance, and 9th overall in Italy.

2013–2014 season

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McNamara/Carpenter won their first international medals during the 2013–14 JGP series, taking silver in Riga, Latvia and then gold in Minsk, Belarus. Their results qualified them to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they won the bronze medal. The duo won the junior silver medal at the 2014 U.S. Championships and finished fourth at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, after placing third in the short and fifth in the free.

2014–2015 season

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In the 2014–15 JGP series, McNamara/Carpenter won bronze in Ostrava, Czech Republic and silver in Dresden, Germany, finishing as second alternates for the JGP Final. In January 2015, they won the junior titles at the Mentor Nestle Nesquik Torun Cup and then at the U.S. Championships. In March, they were awarded the silver medal at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. Third in both segments, they finished second overall to Russia's Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov by a margin of 9.09 points and ahead of Ukraine's Oleksandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin by 0.82.

2015–2016 season

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McNamara/Carpenter won gold at both of their 2015–16 JGP assignments, in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Toruń, Poland. In December 2015, they were awarded gold at the 2015–16 JGP Final, outscoring silver medalists Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd by over eight points. In January 2016, they won their second national junior title, finishing ahead of Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons by 4.58 points. In March, they competed at the World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Ranked second in the short dance and first in the free dance, McNamara/Carpenter won the gold medal by a margin of 0.91 over the Parsons.

Programs

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(with Carpenter)

Competitive highlights

With Carpenter

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

References

Lorraine McNamara Wikipedia


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