Karen Chen

Karen Chen
Personal information
Country represented United States United States
Born (1999-08-16) August 16, 1999
Fremont, California
Home town Fremont, California
Height 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Coach Tammy Gambill
Former coach Gilley Nicholson, Sherri Krahne-Thomas
Choreographer Karen Chen, Massimo Scali, Rohene Ward, Marina Zoueva
Former choreographer Mark Pillay, Jonathan Cassar, Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart
Skating club Peninsula FSC San Jose
Training locations Riverside, California
Began skating 2005
World standing 12 (As of March 23, 2018)
Season's bests 37 (2017-18)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 199.29
2017 Worlds
Short program 69.98
2017 Worlds
Free skate 129.31
2017 Worlds

Karen Chen (born August 16, 1999) is an American figure skater. She is the 2017 U.S. national champion and won bronze medals at two ISU Challenger Series events and at 2015 and 2018 U.S. Nationals. She placed 4th at the 2017 World Championships, helping Team USA secure three berths for the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships.

Personal life

Karen Chen was born in Fremont, California.[1][2] Her parents moved to the United States from Taiwan.[3][4] She has a younger brother, Jeffrey, who is also a figure skater.[4] She is studying at home through Connections Academy.[4] She is mentored by 1992 Olympic Champion Kristi Yamaguchi, who shares a hometown with her.[5] Chen published a memoir titled Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice in November 2017, in which she revealed that she suffers from spondylolisthesis.[6]

Career

Early career

Chen began learning to skate in 2005.[1] She won gold on the national intermediate level in 2011 and then gold competing as a novice in 2012. The following season, she competed on the junior level at the 2013 U.S. Championships, placing fourth. She made her international debut at the 2013 Gardena Spring Trophy where she won gold on the novice level.

2013–14 season: Junior international debut

In the 2013–14 season, Chen received her first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments. She won bronze in Riga, Latvia, followed by gold in Košice, Slovakia, and qualified for the JGP Final.[7] While practicing a triple Lutz,[8] she sustained a type three tibia fracture in her right ankle.[3][9] The injury led her to withdraw from the JGP Final. Chen spent four weeks on crutches and resumed training in mid-December.[8] She withdrew from the junior event at the 2014 U.S. Championships after placing fifth in the short program.[9] At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, she placed sixth in the short program, ninth in the free skate, and ninth overall.

2014–15 season: First senior national medal

In the 2014–15 JGP series, Chen won bronze at Czech Skate and silver at the Croatia Cup, respectively.[10][11] She was awarded the bronze medal in her senior national debut at the 2015 U.S. Championships, behind Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold.

2015–16 season: Senior international debut

Ahead of the season, Chen tried 14 pairs of skate boots.[12] In September 2015, she finished fourth at the 2015 U.S. International Classic, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event and her first senior international. Making her Grand Prix debut, she placed fifth at both the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Cup of China. She won bronze at her second CS assignment, the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb in December, and finished 8th at the 2016 U.S. Championships in January.

2016–17 season: Senior national champion

Chen began her season with the CS's U.S. Classic, placing third behind Japan's Satoko Miyahara and USA's Mariah Bell.

Competing on the Grand Prix series, Chen achieved a seventh place finish at 2016 Cup of China and a sixth place finish at 2016 NHK Trophy.

Chen won the gold medal at the 2017 U.S. Championships after placing first in both the short program and free skate.[13] She set a new U.S. record with her short program score of 72.82.

Continuing her season at the 2017 Four Continents Championships, Chen skated to a disappointing twelfth place finish.

Chen rebounded at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, placing fifth in the short program with a score of 69.98. She then placed sixth in the free program with a score of 129.31. With a combined score of 199.29, Chen skated to a fourth place finish overall in her first appearance at the World Championships. Her placement, combined with a seventh place finish from USA's Ashley Wagner, qualified Team USA three spots for the 2018 Olympics and 2018 World Figure Skating Championships.

2017–18 season

Chen began her season at the CS's U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, placing 3rd overall for the second year in a row. Before beginning competition in her Grand Prix series, Chen also performed a free skate at the Japan Open helping Team North America earn the bronze medal with a 6th place finish.

Two weeks before her first Grand Prix event, Chen abandoned her "Carmen"-themed free skate program and replaced it with a program she choreographed herself including music from the 1978 film “Slow Dancing in the Big City”.[14] With her new program, Chen placed 7th overall at the 2017 Skate Canada International.[15]

Chen competed in her second Grand Prix event at 2017 Skate America and placed ninth after failing to land a triple loop.[16] After USA's Ashley Wagner withdrew herself from the competition due to an ankle infection, Chen's ranking was moved to eighth place.[17]

At the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Chen placed third in the short program and fourth in the free skate to win the overall bronze medal. As a result, Chen was selected to represent the USA at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea and the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy.[18] She placed eleventh in the Olympics and withdrew from Worlds; she was replaced by second alternate Mariah Bell after first alternate Ashley Wagner declined the invitation.

Programs

Chen at the 2014 World Junior Championships
Karen Chen performing a Biellmann spin in 2015
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2018–2019
[2]
2017–2018
[19][20][21][22][23]
2016–2017
[1][27]
2015–2016
[30]
2014–2015
[3][31]
  • Requiem for a Tower
    performed by Escala
  • Requiem for a Dream
    arranged and performed by Jennifer Thomas
  • Requiem for a Dream
    by Clint Mansell
    choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart
  • The Godfather Suite
    by Nino Rota, Drew Tretick
    choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart
2013–2014
[32]
2012–2013
[2]
2011–2012
[2]
  • The Godfather Suite
    by Nino Rota, Drew Tretick
    choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart
  • Butterfly Dance
2010-11

Competitive highlights

2013–14 to present

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

International[33]
Event 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19
Olympics11th
Worlds4thWD
Four Continents12th12th
GP Rostelecom CupTBD
GP FinlandTBD
GP Skate Canada7th
GP NHK Trophy6th
GP Cup of China5th7th
GP Skate America5th8th
CS Golden Spin3rd7th
CS U.S. Classic4th3rd3rdWD
PhiladelphiaWDWD
International: Junior[33]
Junior Worlds9th8th
JGP FinalWD
JGP Croatia2nd
JGP Czech Rep.3rd
JGP Latvia3rd
JGP Slovakia1st
National[2]
U.S. Champ.WD3rd8th1st3rdTBD
Pacific Coast1st
Team events
Japan Open3rd T
6th P
World Team
Trophy		3rd T
9th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Novice level

International
Event 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13
Gardena1st N
National[2]
U.S. Champ.4th V1st I1st N4th J
Pacific Coast1st N2nd J
Central Pacific1st V1st I1st N
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate;
N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

Senior level

2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
November 16–18, 2018 2018 Rostelecom Cup TBD
November 2–4 2018 2018 Grand Prix Finland TBD
2017–18 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 21–23, 2018 2018 Winter Olympics 10
65.90		 11
119.75		 11
185.65
January 3–5, 2018 2018 U.S. Championships 3
69.48		 4
129.11		 3
198.59
November 24–26, 2017 2017 Skate America 9
59.53		 6
123.27		 8
182.80
October 26–28, 2017 2017 Skate Canada International 5
61.77		 7
108.63		 7
170.40
October 7, 2017 2017 Japan Open - 6
116.32		 3T/6P
September 13–17, 2017 2017 U.S. Classic 2
66.18		 3
116.14		 3
182.32
August 4-6, 2017 2017 Philadelphia Summer International 4
62.20		 WD WD
2016–17 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 20–23, 2017 2017 World Team Trophy 8
60.33		 9
108.62		 3T/9P
168.95
March 29 – April 2, 2017 2017 World Championships 5
69.98		 6
129.31		 4
199.29
February 15–19, 2017 2017 Four Continents Championships 12
55.60		 10
111.22		 12
166.82
January 14–22, 2017 2017 U.S. Championships 1
72.82		 1
141.40		 1
214.22
December 8–11, 2016 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 6
54.60		 7
101.03		 7
155.63
November 25–27, 2016 2016 NHK Trophy 7
58.76		 5
119.69		 6
178.45
November 18–20, 2016 2016 Cup of China 9
58.28		 5
121.11		 7
179.39
September 14–18, 2016 2016 CS U.S. Classic 6
51.50		 3
110.58		 3
162.08
2015–16 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 16–21, 2016 2016 Four Continents Championships 12
53.55		 10
107.97		 12
161.52
January 16–24, 2016 2016 U.S. Championships 12
54.86		 8
113.89		 8
168.75
December 3–5, 2015 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb 4
56.82		 3
118.53		 3
175.35
November 5–8, 2015 2015 Cup of China 7
58.30		 5
117.63		 5
175.93
October 23–25, 2015 2015 Skate America 4
62.28		 6
110.26		 5
172.54
September 16–20, 2015 2015 U.S. Classic 3
60.94		 5
98.24		 4
159.18

Junior level

Chen at the 2015 World Junior Championships
Chen at the 2014 World Junior Championships
2014–15 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
March 2–8, 2015 2015 World Junior Championships Junior 12
51.64		 8
105.66		 8
157.30
January 18–25, 2015 2015 U.S. Championships Senior 6
64.66		 3
135.13		 3
199.79
November 18–22, 2014 2015 Pacific Coast Senior 2
54.83		 1
116.75		 1
171.58
October 8–12, 2014 2014 Junior Grand Prix, Croatia Junior 1
62.71		 3
106.70		 2
169.41
September 3–7, 2014 2014 Junior Grand Prix, Czech Republic Junior 1
60.68		 4
100.27		 3
160.95

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  29. ↑ Ge, Misha (June 1, 2017). "Haven't say it yet: Proud of seeing You grow and improve. Was a joy to choreograph something new and mature for You. Congratulation on the great performances on the StarsOnTheIce @karebearsk8 . Music: Rise - Katy Perry" (Instagram).
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