Nicole Rajičová

Nicole Rajičová
Rajičová in 2015
Personal information
Alternative names Nicole Rajic
Country represented Slovakia
Born (1995-08-13) August 13, 1995
Garden City, New York
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Coach Igor Krokavec, Nikolai Morozov, Tom Rajic
Former coach Steve Rice, Peter Johansson, Milada Kubikova-Stastny
Choreographer Nikolai Morozov
Former choreographer Phillip Mills
Skating club SKP Bratislava
Training locations Hackensack, New Jersey
Began skating 1998
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 179.70
2017 Europeans
Short program 61.01
2018 Europeans
Free skate 118.72
2017 Europeans

Nicole Rajičová or Rajic (born August 13, 1995) is a Slovak-American figure skater. She is a three-time Slovak national champion and has won five senior international medals. She competed in the final segments at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and nine ISU Championships.

Personal life

Nicole Rajičová was born August 13, 1995 in Garden City, New York.[1] She is also known as Nicole Rajic; Rajičová is the Slovak feminine form. Her parents, Anna and Tomislav Rajič (Tom Rajic), moved to the United States from Slovakia. She received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business at Lincoln Center. [2][3][4]

Career

Early years

By the age of five, Rajičová began taking figure skating lessons in Long Island from Milada Kubikova-Stastny (Šťastná-Kubíková),[4] a former Olympian for Czechoslovakia. Early in her career, she competed as Nicole Rajic in U.S. regional and domestic events.[5]

2011–12 to 2012–13

Rajičová debuted internationally for Slovakia in December 2011 at the Golden Spin of Zagreb. She began appearing in ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) events in autumn 2012 and became the Slovak national champion at the 2013 Three Nationals Championships.[6]

2013–14 season: Sochi Olympics

Rajičová competed at two JGP events in September 2013, placing 8th in Košice, Slovakia and 15th in Gdańsk, Poland. Her first senior ISU Championship was the European Championships in January 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. Ranked 14th in the short program, she advanced to the free skate and finished 17th. In March, she competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; she qualified for the free skate by placing 21st in the short program and finished 24th overall.[7]

Rajičová just missed qualifying for the free skate at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan after placing 25th in the short program.

2014–15 season

During the 2014–15 JGP season, Rajičová placed 4th in Ljubljana, Slovenia in August and 4th in Zagreb, Croatia in October. In November, she competed for the first time on the ISU Challenger Series (CS), finishing 6th at the 2014 CS Ice Challenge. In December, she won the bronze medal at the 2014 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.

In January, Rajičová finished 11th at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, having ranked 8th in the short program and 12th in the free skate. In early March, she competed at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; she placed 5th in the short, 13th in the free, and 11th overall. Later that month, she finished 15th in Shanghai, China at the 2015 World Championships after placing 14th in the short and 15th in the free.

2015–16 season: Grand Prix debut

Rajičová placed 9th at the 2015 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy. Making her Grand Prix (GP) debut, she placed 7th at the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Cup of China. At the 2016 Europeans in Bratislava she placed 12th, and at the 2016 Worlds in Boston she placed 13th.

2016–17 season

Ranked 7th in the short, 6th in the free, and 6th overall, Rajičová achieved her career-best continental result at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2017-18 season

Rajičová was assigned two grand prix assignments the 2017 NHK Trophy where she placed 10th and 2017 Skate America where she placed 9th. At the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia she placed 5th in the short program and 6th in the free skate finishing in 6th place. At the 2018 Olympics in Pyeong-chang, South Korea Rajičová finishing 13th in the short program and 15th in the free skate finishing 14th overall. At the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships in Millan, Italy she finished in 27th place & for the first time in 4 years she did not qualify for the free skate.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2017–2018
[8]
  • Une page d'amour
    by Nathalia Mansner
2016–2017
[9]
2015–2016
[1][10]
2014–2015
[11]
  • Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme
    by Nino Rota
2013–2014
[12]
2012–2013
[13]

Results

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

For Slovakia

Rajičová at the 2018 European Championships
International[14]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19
Olympics24th14th
Worlds25th15th13th17th27th
Europeans17th11th12th6th6th
GP FinlandWD
GP NHK Trophy11th10th
GP Rostelecom Cup7th
GP Cup of China7th
GP Skate America7th9thWD
CS LombardiaWD
CS Warsaw Cup5th
CS Ondrej Nepela9th5th7thWD
CS Golden Spin3rd
CS Ice Challenge6th
NRW Trophy3rd
Bavarian Open3rd
Ice Challenge7th3rd
New Year's Cup7th
Merano Cup2nd
Ondrej Nepela19th6th
Golden Spin12th
International: Junior[14]
Junior Worlds30th11th
JGP Croatia4th
JGP Poland15th
JGP Slovakia8th
JGP Slovenia15th4th
JGP USA13th
National[14]
Slovak Champ.2nd1st4th1st1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

For the United States

National
Event 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
U.S. Champs.12th N12th J
U.S. Junior Champs.8th I
Levels: I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Krasokorčuliarska nádej Nicole Rajičová: Newyorčanka vo farbách Slovenska" [Figure skating talent Nicole Rajičová: New Yorker represents Slovakia]. Čas.sk (in Slovak). March 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Rajičovej otec: Pri začiatkoch netreba deti do ničoho tlačiť" [Interview with Rajičová's father]. News Agency of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak). teraz.sk. October 3, 2014. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Krasokorčuliarka Rajičová: Olympiáda je môj najväčší úspech" [Figure skater Rajičová: Competing at the Olympics is my greatest achievement] (in Slovak). osporte.sk. February 22, 2014. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ "2011 U.S. Championships: Junior Ladies". U.S. Figure Skating. January 26, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Three National Championships 2013". Polish Figure Skating Association. December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA". Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
  14. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Nicole RAJICOVA". International Skating Union.

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