Audrey Shin

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Audrey Shin
Audrey Shin at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria.jpg
Audrey Shin at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria
Full nameAudrey Sumin Shin
Native name신수민/愼秀慜
Born (2004-03-12) March 12, 2004 (age 20)
Smithtown, New York
Hometown Northport, New York
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Discipline Pair skating (since 2024)
Women's singles (2014–24)
Partner Balázs Nagy (since 2024)
Coach Bruno Marcotte
Meagan Duhamel
Skating clubSkating Club of New York
Began skating2010

Audrey Sumin Shin (born March 12, 2004) is an American figure skater. She is the 2020 Skate America bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy bronze medalist, and finished fourth at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.

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She is also the 2019 U.S. junior silver medalist and competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, placing seventh.

Personal life

Shin was born on March 12, 2004, in Smithtown, New York, to parents Eric and Nicole Shin. She also has a younger sister named Sydney. [1]

Shin is bilingual and able to communicate in both English and Korean fluently. [1]

Career

Early career

Shin started skating in 2010 at the age of five after a new ice rink was built next to her family's church. Her dad, Eric, was a former speed skater and thus encouraged Shin and her sister to try skating recreationally. Shin ultimately fell in love with the sport and decided to pursue it competitively. [1] [2]

She first made her appearance at the U.S. Championships in 2014 at the juvenile level, placing ninth. The following season, Shin did not qualify for the 2015 U.S. Championships for the intermediate competition due to a tenth-place finish at Eastern Sectionals. Similarly, after placing fifth at the 2016 Eastern Sectionals at the novice level, Shin did not qualify for the 2016 U.S. Championships. [1]

Shin placed ninth at the novice level at the 2017 U.S. Championships and ninth at the junior level at the 2018 U.S. Championships. She was assigned to her first international competition, the 2017 Asian Open, where she placed seventh at the junior level. [1]

2018–2019 season: Junior national medalist

Shin started the season at the 2018 JGP Amber Cup, where she placed seventh. In January, Shin competed at the 2019 U.S. Championships at the junior level, where she placed second behind Gabriella Izzo. Shin was then assigned to compete at the 2019 Egna Spring Trophy, where she placed fourth at the junior level. [1] Shin underwent ankle surgery in May 2019 to remove a ganglion cyst and was unable to train for a month following the surgery. [3] After the operation, she had to relearn how to walk. [4]

2019–2020 season: Youth Winter Olympian

Shin at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 2020-01-11 Women's Single Figure Skating Short Program (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Sandro Halank-036.jpg
Shin at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Shin began the season with a silver medal at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer international at the junior level and was assigned to JGP Russia, where she placed 12th. [1]

Shin experienced several issues with her boots and blades that contributed to an unsuccessful start to the season. [3] She failed to qualify for the 2020 U.S. Championships due to a sixth-place finish at the Eastern Sectional Final and coupled with her rough start to the season, considered quitting the sport. [4] Shin was later assigned to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she placed seventh. Shin described the Youth Winter Olympics as a "huge motivating factor" in her career. [5]

2020–2021 season: Senior international debut

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where Shin intended to compete, was canceled. She was instead assigned to the modified Grand Prix event, 2020 Skate America. After skating without errors on her jumping passes, Shin won a medal in her senior international debut by finishing in third place behind Mariah Bell and Bradie Tennell. [5] Although her scores were personal bests, the domestic nature of the event meant that they would not count as official ISU records.

Competing at the 2021 U.S. Championships at the senior level for the first time, Shin placed seventh. [6] As a result, she was named third alternate for the 2021 World Championships team.

Shin stated that she was working on both a triple Axel and quadruple toe loop with her coach, Tammy Gambill. [3]

2021–2022 season

Shin dealt with an injury in the off-season that caused her to scrap plans to attempt to up her technical content for the new season. [7] She began the season at her first Challenger event, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she won the bronze medal. [8] She was twelfth of twelve skaters at the 2021 Skate America, and went on to finish fourth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria. [9]

Ninth in the short program at the 2022 U.S. Championships, Shin rose to sixth overall with a fifth-place free skate, despite several underrotated jumps. [10] Her placement earned Shin an assignment to the 2022 Four Continents Championships. She was fifth in both segments and placed fourth overall with a new personal best score of 203.86. Speaking after, Shin said that she hoped to resume her efforts to introduce more difficult technical elements. [7]

2022−2023 season

Due to ongoing ankle problems, Shin initially scaled down her technical content at the start of the season. She began her season with a gold medal at the 2022 Cranberry Cup International. After feedback from judges at the event, she replaced her initial Tosca free skate with a modified version of her prior Michael W. Smith short program. [11] [12] She then went on to finish fourth at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. After the free skate there, she said, "it's a two-week-old program. So, it was very rushed trying to get into the choreography. I'm glad I performed decently, and I'm excited to build up from here." [13]

On the Grand Prix circuit, Shin finished fifth at the 2022 Grand Prix de France. [14] At her second event, the 2022 NHK Trophy, Shin finished fourth in the short program, less than three points back of third-place Rion Sumiyoshi. She was fifth in the free skate, but remained fourth overall, 4.12 points behind bronze medalist Sumiyoshi. [15]

2023−2024 season

For her new programs, Shin opted to fulfill a longstanding desire to skate to the soundtrack of Pina after it came up in a school project, using it in the short program. A fan of the music of Adele, her team selected "Skyfall" as a starting point and built a James Bond-themed program around it. [16]

Shin finished fourth at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International to start the season. [9] Competing on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Skate Canada International, a clean short program performance put her in fourth place after the short program. She struggled with jump underrotations and a fall in the free skate, placing ninth in the segment and dropping to seventh overall. [16] She went on to finish ninth at the 2023 Cup of China. [17]

Following a disappointing ninth-place finish at the 2024 U.S. Championships, Shin began looking into the idea of switching to pair skating, a discipline that she had always enjoyed. She got in contact with former U.S. pair skaters, Chris Knierim and Brandon Frazier to help her learn various pair elements. [2]

Partnership with Nagy

2024–2025 season

Upon learning that Shin was interested in transitioning from singles to pair skating, U.S. pair skater, Balázs Nagy, contacted her and asked if she would be interested in having a tryout with him. Shin agreed to this and after a week of skating together, the pair agreed to form a partnership. They announced that they would primarily train in Oakville, Ontario, Canada under coaches, Bruno Marcotte and Andrew Evans, while also making trips to Colorado to work with Tammy Gambill. [2] [18] [19]

Programs

Pairs skating with Nagy

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[19] [2] [20]
  • River Flows In You
  • River Flows In You (Orchestra Version)
    by Yiruma
    choreo. by Drew Meekins

Singles skating

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[21]
  • Lillies of the Valley
  • All Names
    (from Pina )
    by Thomas Hanreich and June Miyake
    choreo. by Cindy Stuart
2022–2023
[22] [23]
2021–2022
[24]
2020–2021
[25]
2019–2020
[26]
2018–2019
[27]
2017–2018
[28]
2016–2017
[29]
2015–2016
[29]

Competitive highlights

Pair skating with Nagy

Competition placements at senior level  [30]
Season 2024–25
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb TBD
CS Warsaw Cup TBD

Singles skating

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

International [9]
Event 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Four Continents 4th
GP Cup of China 9th
GP France 5th
GP NHK Trophy 4th
GP Skate America 3rd12th
GP Skate Canada 7th
CS Autumn Classic 4th
CS Cup of Austria 4th
CS Lombardia Trophy 3rd
CS U.S. Classic 4th
Cranberry Cup 4th1st
Kings Cup1st
International: Junior [9] [31]
Youth Olympics 7th
JGP Lithuania 11th
JGP Russia 12th
Asian Open 7th
Egna Trophy 4th
Philadelphia 2nd
National [9] [31]
U.S. Champ. 9th J2nd J7th6th13th9th
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Senior results

2023–2024 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 22–28, 2024 2024 U.S. Championships 7
62.79		10
112.82		9
175.61
November 10–12, 2023 2023 Cup of China 10
50.97		9
105.87		9
156.84
October 27–29, 2023 2023 Skate Canada International 4
65.19		9
111.95		7
177.14
October 5–7, 20232023 Kings Cup International2
58.57		1
112.88		1
171.45
September 14–17, 2023 2023 CS Autumn Classic International 2
60.07		4
108.97		4
169.04
2022–2023 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 23–29, 2023 2023 U.S. Championships 9
60.76		14
100.36		13
161.12
November 18–20, 2022 2022 NHK Trophy 4
65.87		5
123.13		4
189.00
November 4–6, 2022 2022 Grand Prix de France 4
64.27		5
119.66		5
183.93
September 13–16, 2022 2022 CS U.S. Classic 3
61.16		5
115.28		4
176.44
August 9–14, 2022 2022 Cranberry Cup International 3
56.20		2
119.69		1
175.89
2021–2022 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 18–23, 2022 2022 Four Continents Championships 5
67.20		5
136.66		4
203.86
January 2–9, 2022 2022 U.S. Championships 9
61.77		5
118.81		6
180.58
November 11–14, 2021 2021 CS Cup of Austria 5
54.58		3
115.41		4
169.99
October 22–24, 2021 2021 Skate America 9
62.82		12
97.97		12
160.78
September 10–12, 2021 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 5
58.80		4
113.66		3
172.46
2020–2021 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 11–21, 2021 2021 U.S. Championships 10
57.74		6
119.08		7
176.82
October 23–24, 2020 2020 Skate America 3
69.77		3
136.38		3
206.15

Junior results

2019–2020 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 10–15, 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 7
60.36		7
116.31		7
176.67
September 11–14, 2019 2019 JGP Russia 19
44.36		8
98.93		12
143.29
Jul. 29 – Aug. 3, 2019 2019 Philadelphia Summer International 2
49.93		2
93.57		2
143.50
2018–2019 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
March 28–31, 2019 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 1
54.10		4
90.84		4
144.94
January 19–27, 2019 2019 U.S. Championships 6
53.03		1
112.58		2
165.61
September 5–8, 2018 2018 JGP Lithuania 13
44.85		11
89.34		11
134.19
2017–2018 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
Dec. 29, 2017 – Jan. 8, 2018 2018 U.S. Championships 10
46.05		5
94.45		9
140.50
August 2–8, 2017 2017 Asian Open Trophy 7
42.60		7
76.21		7
118.81

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