Pairs Skater Directory
Louis Epstein
unfortunately expired at my site,so I hope I have left nothing from
there out while incorporating recent additions and corrections from
either.
This is the current version:
(again...Americans presently skating as Seniors or pros in pairs,
and their former partners,only).
Richard Alexander: Natasha Kuchiki,then Tristen Vega,then Romina Baron
Elaine Asanakis: Joel McKeever,then Mark Naylor
Nicole Bateson-Rock: Keith Tindall,then Jeff Tilley
Sharon Carz: Doug Williams,then John Denton,then Troy Goldstein
Tristan Colell: John Baldwin,then Brian Helgenberger
Brad Cox: Kara Paxton,then Aimee Offner
Karen Courtland: Jason Dungjen,then David Goodman,then Todd Reynolds
Jason Dungjen: Susan Dungjen,then Karen Courtland,then Kyoko Ina
Troy Goldstein: Dawn Goldstein,then Sharon Carz
Brian Helgenberger: Aimee Offner,then Tristan Colell,then Lauren
Weldon
Natasha Kuchiki: Richard Alexander,then Todd Sand,then Rocky Marval,
then Todd Reynolds
Rocky Marval: Maria Laco,then Calla Urbanski,then Natasha Kuchiki,
then back to Urbanski
Joel McKeever: Elaine Asanakis,then Katie Wood,then Tristen Vega
Jenni Meno: Scott Wendland,then Todd Sand
Joe Mero: Tammy Crowson,then Katy Keeley,then Calla Urbanski,
then back to Crowson
Erin Moorad: Ken Benson,then Richard Gillam
Mark Naylor: Calla Urbanski,then Elaine Asanakis
Aimee Offner: Brian Helgenberger,then Brad Cox
Todd Reynolds: Katie Wood,then Karen Courtland,then Natasha Kuchiki
Todd Sand: Natasha Kuchiki,then Jenni Meno
Stephanie Stiegler: Robert Braithwaite,then Lance Travis,then John
Zimmerman
Jeff Tilley: Robin Heckler,then Nicole Bateson-Rock
Lance Travis: Dana Mednick,then Stephanie Stiegler,then Sara Ward
Calla Urbanski: four partners before Mark Naylor,then Rocky Marval,
then Joe Mero,then back to Marval
Tristen Vega: Richard Alexander,then Joel McKeever
Sara Ward: J. Paul Binnebose,then Lance Travis
Lauren Weldon: Jim Peterson,then Brian Helgenberger
Brian Wells: Anne-Marie Wells,then Laura Murphy,then Shelby Lyons
Doug Williams: Sharon Carz,then Tracy Damigella
Katie Wood: Todd Reynolds,then Joel McKeever
John Zimmerman: Brie Teaboldt,then Stephanie Stiegler
Keep any additions and corrections that qualify coming...
xander
Asanakis skated with Gregg Moon then Chris Hefner then Joel ...
Bateson-Rock skated with Jeff Tilley before Tindall
Brad Cox skated with Jocelyn Cox before Kara
Karen Courtland skated with Joshua Roberts btwn Daw and Goodman
Rocky Marvel skated with April Malakoff before Maria Lako
Joel Mckeever skated with Jill Kombeitz then Maria Lako then
Elaine asanakis
Mark Naylor skated with Michelle Laughlin before Calla
Todd Sand skated with Lori Blasko before Natasha bur never Lako
Jeff Tilley skated with Michelle Tilley before Heckler
Calla skated with David Aboyoun (86) then Michael
Blicharski(87-88) then Naylor
Doug Williams skated with Kristen Kriwanik before Sharon
Brian Helgenberg doesn't have an er on the end
xander
you might want to add Jeff Myers. He skated with Paula
Visingardi then Hilary Olney then Shannon Amann and then I
forget. He was at Easterns this year in Sr Pairs. I beleive they
were 3rd out of 3.
Nick Casteneda: skated with Sonja Casteneda then Alison Takamoto
then Cathy Mckee then and currently with Dawn Piepenbrink.
Dawn Piepenbrink Skated with Tim Dever then Nick Casteneda
Maria Lako Quit skating after she and Rocky split up. they also
broke off their Romantic relationship just before they stopped
skating together. But shae skated with Michael Blicharski before
Rocky and I'm not sure when she skated with Joel Mckeever
(meaning which order). I know her best friend passed away around
the same time she stopped skating.
Also you might want to add Kristi Yamagucci who won a medal at
Worlds with Rudy Galindo since I heard she is skating Pairs again
but her new partner has sliiped my mind.
Pat Delin
>Hi again
>
>you might want to add Jeff Myers. He skated with Paula
>Visingardi then Hilary Olney then Shannon Amann and then I
>forget. He was at Easterns this year in Sr Pairs. I beleive they
>were 3rd out of 3.
Jeff Myers? The guy that won bronze at the Easterns this year in
Senior Pairs? If we are talking about the same guy :) He skates
down on my rink and the partner after Shannon Amann was Stephanie
Woodman.. They recently dissolved their partnership over an argument
on dedication and Jeff is looking for a new partner.. They were
supposed to compete in Nationals this year :(
-Pat Delin
jsc...@iastate.edu
My Figure Skating Homepage/Katarina Witt page:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jscott/ice.html
xander
To answer your questions about Jeff Tilley and so on
Jeff skated with his sister first then Heckler then Bateson-Rock.
Nicole Bateson-Rock skated first with Tilley then Tindall then
back to Tilley.
Yes Visigardi and Olney are former partners of Jeff Myers. I
knbow him well thus has competed against him in both Jr and Sr
pairs.
Krisit and Rudy did win a bronze medal at Worlds 89 or 90 I
think. She was 5th in ladies that same year. I'm pretty sure
about that.
Paula Visingardi skated with Jeff Myers in 85-87 then she came
back in 89 with Jason
I think Maria skated first with Blicharski. I'll have to dbl
check. I know Calla and Mike skated in 87 season and I know
Maria and Rocky skated 88-90 So I would have to assume that Maria
was with Mike proir to 88.
Now I havew a question A lot of the skaters listed on the left
side aren't currently active as pair skaters. Do you want
skaters who reached SR that skated with more than one partner?
xander
Ken Benson skated with Paula Losinger Before Erin.
hilary Olney skated with Steve Moore after she skated with Jeff
Myers
I skated with David Goodman before Karen Courtland did then I
skated with Alexander Enzmann, my husband
Alex Enzmann skated with Vanessa Moore before he skated with me.
I thought you might want to know since both of our former
partners are listed.
On Maria Lako's entry let me check when she skated with Joel
becuse it my have been briefly after Rocky instead of before.
Wendy
Pat Delin
>> Senior Pairs? If we are talking about the same guy :) He skates
>> down on my rink and the partner after Shannon Amann was Stephanie
>> Woodman.. They recently dissolved their partnership over an argument
>> on dedication and Jeff is looking for a new partner.. They were
>> supposed to compete in Nationals this year :(
>>
>They missed the lift entry in that and got the marks you might
>expect for missing an element. I believe the same thing happened
>in the long program at Easterns. It seemed like that has not been
>skating together very long, timing was just generally off.
>
>Amy Mossman
>amos...@cfa.harvard.edu
Oops.. My typo.. I meant they wouldn't be competeing in Nationals
in 1996 because of the break-up.. The official word down in Omaha
(where I skate) is that Steph suffered a back injury two weeks
prior to the Nationals. I didnt see their program, but Steph worked
the injury off and they were working for 1996 nationals..
Unfortunately, they broke up..
-Pat Delin
jsc...@iastate.edu
Morag Carnie
Margaret Burwell (aj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> xander (70323...@CompuServe.COM) writes:
>>
>> Krisit and Rudy did win a bronze medal at Worlds 89 or 90 I
>> think. She was 5th in ladies that same year. I'm pretty sure
>> about that.
>>
> Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler won their first World medal, a bronze
> in 1990.
>
> Marg
>
Actually, it's not often I get to contradict you, Marg, but I'm pretty
certain both Canadian medals were silver. Landry & Johnston were "best of
the rest" in an exceedingly weak field in '89. Lloyd Eisler has been
heard more than once to point out that in 1990, he and Isabelle stood
above Mishkutenok and Dmitriev.
As for Yamaguchi and Galindo, I don't have a clear recollection of them
ever coming higher than fourth (1989 bronze was Bechke/Betrov; 1990 was
Mishkutenok/Dmitriev), but I am sure the U.S. fans will set us straight if
they did.
cheers!
Morag Carnie
az...@torfree.net
Amy Mossman
> xander <70323...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
> >Hi again
> >
> >you might want to add Jeff Myers. He skated with Paula
> >Visingardi then Hilary Olney then Shannon Amann and then I
> >forget. He was at Easterns this year in Sr Pairs. I beleive they
> >were 3rd out of 3.
>
Margaret Burwell
Kathleen Stafford
> >> Krisit and Rudy did win a bronze medal at Worlds 89 or 90 I
> >> think. She was 5th in ladies that same year. I'm pretty sure
> >> about that.
> >>
and 4th in 90.
Kathy
kst...@cts.com
Louis Epstein
: xander <70323...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
: >Hi again
: >
: >you might want to add Jeff Myers. He skated with Paula
: >Visingardi then Hilary Olney then Shannon Amann and then I
: >forget. He was at Easterns this year in Sr Pairs. I beleive they
: >were 3rd out of 3.
: Jeff Myers? The guy that won bronze at the Easterns this year in
: Senior Pairs? If we are talking about the same guy :) He skates
: down on my rink and the partner after Shannon Amann was Stephanie
: Woodman.. They recently dissolved their partnership over an argument
: on dedication and Jeff is looking for a new partner.. They were
: supposed to compete in Nationals this year :(
: -Pat Delin
: jsc...@iastate.edu
Yes,I was at Easterns and got Woodman & Myers on video.So that pair is
now history?Another update...
Sonya Lee McCallum
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Morag Carnie wrote:
>
> Margaret Burwell (aj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> > xander (70323...@CompuServe.COM) writes:
> >>
> >> Krisit and Rudy did win a bronze medal at Worlds 89 or 90 I
> >> think. She was 5th in ladies that same year. I'm pretty sure
> >> about that.
> >>
> > Nope, Cindy Landry and Lyndon Johnston were bronze in 1989 and
> > Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler won their first World medal, a bronze
> > in 1990.
> >
> > Marg
> >
>
> Actually, it's not often I get to contradict you, Marg, but I'm pretty
> certain both Canadian medals were silver. Landry & Johnston were "best of
> the rest" in an exceedingly weak field in '89. Lloyd Eisler has been
> heard more than once to point out that in 1990, he and Isabelle stood
> above Mishkutenok and Dmitriev.
>
> As for Yamaguchi and Galindo, I don't have a clear recollection of them
> ever coming higher than fourth (1989 bronze was Bechke/Betrov; 1990 was
> Mishkutenok/Dmitriev), but I am sure the U.S. fans will set us straight if
> they did.
>
> cheers!
> Morag Carnie
> az...@torfree.net
>
>
>
Agreed on the canadians winning the silver medals both years (1989 and
1990). Also agree on the best of the worst comments in regard to Landrey
and johnston win in 1989. funny, I was just watching my tape of that
the other day and thought about posting to ask other people's comments on
the competition, because I was amazed at how poor L and J were in
comparison to what we are seeing today (even among couples who aren't
making it to the Worlds from Canada).
Anyway, I definitely don't think G and Y medalled at the Worlds. I think
Kristi medalled alone in 1990, which made her drop the pairs.
Sonya
KSlack9907
Tonya M. Brooks
McCallum <son...@sfu.ca> writes:
Actually, it's not often I get to contradict you, Marg, but I'm pretty
certain both Canadian medals were silver.>>
think Kristi medalled alone in 1990, which made her drop the pairs.
>Sonya>>
Schwartz and Koenig placed ahead of them at either fifth or fourth,
Lyndon and Johnston were silver, Beche and Petrov bronze. The best Y&G
did was fourth in 90.Yama didn't medal that year in Halifax though, she
was fourth beaten for the bronze by Holly Cook who actaully apologized
to her for beating her.
Louis Epstein
: Anyway, I definitely don't think G and Y medalled at the Worlds. I think
: Kristi medalled alone in 1990, which made her drop the pairs.
No,she was fourth in 1990...and when she dropped pairs,she went straight to
the top.
tripl...@pchbbs.com
> Y&G were tied for sixth in 89 with the Seybolds.I know the German
> team
> Schwartz and Koenig placed ahead of them at either fifth or fourth,
> Lyndon and Johnston were silver, Beche and Petrov bronze. The best
> Y&G
> did was fourth in 90.Yama didn't medal that year in Halifax though,
> she
> was fourth beaten for the bronze by Holly Cook who actaully
> apologized
> to her for beating her.
You were thinking about the Original Program placement that had
Yamaguchi/Galindo tie with the Seybolds. After the Long, the Seybolds fell to
8th overall with Yamaguchi/Galindo finishing 5th. Of course, had they placed
3rd in the Long, ahead of Bechke and Petrov, Yamaguchi/Galindo would've been
Bronze Medalists. Yamaguchi/Galindo had an off year in 90 and place 5th once
again at Worlds.
tripl...@pchbbs.com
> Actually, the bronze medal in the ladies' competition that year went
> to
> Holly Cook (?) of the U.S. I don't know what became of her after the
> 1990
> worlds - injuries? Had Kristi done well enough to win the bronze,
> Midori
> Ito would have taken the gold, and not the silver behind Jill
> Trenary.
Holly went onto the 91 Nationals, but had a bad Long Program. She tried to add
an inconsistent triple loop into her long program, but couldn't land that. A
2nd fall on a triple Salchow sunk her in 4th, as Nancy Kerrigan skated a
cleaner and more difficult program to grab the Bronze medal. I believe Holly
knew then that the competition was just too tough for her to be able to medal
again and retired, moved on with her life and got married. There's a feature
article on her in the latest issue of Blades.
For Kristi, the best she could've done was to place 2nd in the Long Program,
and had she did, she would've only been able to win the Bronze medal. She was
actually 3rd in the Long Program, but the placements in figures hurt her medal
chances.
She later dropped Pairs from a nudge by the USFSA (that's what I heard). Rudi
was upset about what happened, he couldn't get over the coerce break up. It
ended up alienating the USFSA. And it's been widely believed that that
incident has cause riffs and why judges have not rewarded him as he should in
competitions, under scoring him. (but hey, that's what I've heard).