Aimee Buchanan

Aimee Buchanan
Personal information
Country represented Israel
Born (1993-06-11) June 11, 1993
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Coach Peter and Darlene Cain
Former coach Julie Graham-Eavzan and Chad Brennan
Choreographer Evgeni Nemirovski[1]
Former choreographer Sheryl Franks
Skating club Team Cain
Former skating club Colonial Figure Skating Club
Training locations Euless, Texas
Former training locations Boxborough, Massachusetts
Began skating 1997
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 128.55
2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
Short program 46.30
2018 Winter Olympics Team Event
Free skate 85.68
2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb

Aimee Buchanan (born June 11, 1993)[1] is an American-Israeli figure skater who competes in ladies' singles for Israel.[2][3] She is a two-time Israeli national champion and competed in the team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Early life

Buchanan was born and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and subsequently lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, and Euless, Texas.[4][5][1][6] Buchanan's mother Wendy is Jewish and is from Israel, as are both of her maternal grandparents, and Buchanan is and also identifies as Jewish.[7][6] She attended synagogue on the High Holidays and Hebrew school for a few years, before sports became too demanding.[6] She attended Endicott College and the United States Sports Academy, studying for a B.S. in Strength and Conditioning.[8][9] Since 2014, she has had dual American-Israeli citizenship.[2][3]

Skating career

Buchanan began figure skating at age 4, but she did not start seriously training until age 19.[10] While she lived in Boston, she trained at the Colonial Figure Skating Club in Boxborough, Massachusetts, with coaches Julie Graham-Eavzan and Chad Brennan, while her programs were choreographed by former Olympian Sheryl Franks.[11][9] In November 2013, she came in second at the New England Regional Figure Skating Championships Newington, Connecticut.[9]

She relocated to Texas to train with figure skating coaches Peter and Darlene Cain.[7] She skates with Team Cain.[12]

Buchanan has represented Israel three times at the European Figure Skating Championships, and was the Israeli National Ladies Champion in 2016.[13] In August 2017, she had foot surgery.[13] She was not able to enter the Olympics single women’s qualifier competition in Germany in 2017, because the qualifier was scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur.[14]

She competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Team Figure Skating in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[10] Buchanan placed 10th in the woman's short program of the Team Event with a score of 46.30, an improvement of 1.23 points as compared to her personal best before that program.[15][16] Israel finished in 8th place, ahead of South Korea and France, and did not qualify for the finals of the Team Event.[15][16]

Results

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

For Israel

International[17]
Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18
Europeans31st31st38th
CS Finlandia16th
CS Golden Spin13th
CS Ice Challenge11th
CS U.S. Classic13th8th10th
CS Volvo Open19th15th
Bavarian Open18th
Hellmut Seibt 14th
Int. Challenge Cup15th
MNNT Cup13th
Nebelhorn Trophy16th
Philadelphia10th12th
Tallinn Trophy11th
Volvo Open Cup15th
National[17]
Israeli Champ.3rd2nd1st2nd
Team events
Olympics8th T
10th P
N = Novice level; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

For the United States

National
Event 11-12
U.S. Champ.19th
Levels: I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Biography". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Six Olympians that Texans should keep their eyes on in Pyeongchang," Dallas News.
  3. 1 2 "Texas Connects Us to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games," NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.
  4. ↑ "Aimee Buchanan - Player Profile - Figure Skating." Eurosport.
  5. ↑ "Lexington, Mass. Figure Skater to Represent Israeli Olympic Team," NBC10 Boston.
  6. 1 2 3 "Olympian Aimee Buchanan is from Boston via Dallas, but she's skating for Israel". Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Dickerson, Kristin (January 31, 2018). "North Texas Ice Skater Heading To Olympics". NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Competitions," Colonial Figure Skating Club.
  9. 1 2 3 "Buchanan finishes second at New England regional," Lexington Minuteman - Lexington, MA.
  10. 1 2 Virskus, Jenn (January 31, 2018). "Figure skater still pinching herself that Olympic dream coming true". From the Grapevine. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Brooklee Han and Aimee Buchanan settle in Texas with the Cains as coaches." Figure Skaters Online.
  12. ↑ "Figure Skating | Athlete Profile: Aimee BUCHANAN," Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
  13. 1 2 Connolly, Caroline (February 2, 2018). "Lexington Figure Skater to Represent Israeli Olympic Team". NECN. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  14. ↑ "The Frozen Chosen: Israel at the Winter Olympics" - Part 2, The Canadian Jewish News.
  15. 1 2 Associated Press (February 11, 2018). "Sunday's Olympic Figure Skating Results". NBC4 Washington. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  16. 1 2 Bachner, Michael (February 11, 2018). "Israel fails to qualify for Olympic figure skating finals". The Times of Israel. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  17. 1 2 "Competition Results: Aimee BUCHANAN". International Skating Union. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
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