Carly Gold

Carly Gold
Personal information
Full name Carly Christine Gold
Country represented United States
Born (1995-08-17) August 17, 1995
Newton, Massachusetts
Home town Springfield, Illinois
Residence Redondo Beach, California
Coach Frank Carroll
Skating club All Year FSC
Training locations Ontario, California
Former training locations Crystal Lake, Illinois
Springfield, Missouri
Began skating 2004
Retired 2016
World standing 229?

Carly Christine Gold is a former American figure skater. She was the 2016 Pacific Coast Sectional and Southwest Pacific Regional champion.

Personal life

Carly was born on August 17, 1995, in Newton, Massachusetts, to Denise, an emergency room nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist. She has a fraternal twin sister, two-time US national figure skating champion and Olympic bronze medallist Gracie Gold, who is older by 40 minutes.[1] Gold was raised in Springfield, Missouri, before moving to Springfield, Illinois. She graduated from a distance learning program called the University of Missouri High School.

Career

Carly started skating a year after her twin sister in Springfield, Missouri.[1] The family then moved to Springfield, Illinois, and Carly and Gracie trained in the Chicago area. In late 2013, the pair moved to Los Angeles to train with veteran coach Frank Carroll.[1] Carly won silver at the Upper Great Lakes Regional in the 2012–13 season. The 2015–16 season was her strongest yet; Carly qualified for the 2016 U.S. Figure Skating Championships by winning gold at both the Southwest Pacific Regionals and Pacific Coast Sectional Figure Skating Championships.[1] She finished 19th at nationals after coming 15th in the short program and 21st in the free.[2] She and Gracie were the first set of twins skating at the senior ladies championships since Alissa Czisny and her sister Amber in 2003.[3]

Carly announced her retirement from skating in the summer of 2016 saying she had achieved her goal of skating at nationals and wanted to move on from skating to pursue a career in photography. She began attending Marymount California University in the fall of 2016.[4]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–2016

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McCarvel, Nick (December 25, 2015). "Carly Gold reaches U.S. championships with Gracie Gold in her corner". USA Today.
  2. ↑ "2016 U.S. Figure Skating Championships – Championship Ladies". U.S. Figure Skating. January 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dahlgren, Audrey (January 21, 2016). "Gracie & Carly Gold prepare to make history". KSDK.
  4. ↑ "Carly Gold announces her retirement from competitive skating: "I achieved my goal"". Figure Skaters Online. July 2016.
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