Bianca Butler | |
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Personal information | |
Country represented | United States |
Born | September 2, 1989 |
Height | 163 cm (5.35 ft) |
Former partner | Joseph Jacobsen |
Coach | Angela Nikodinov |
Former coach | Todd Sand, Jenni Meno, Alexander Zaitsev |
Choreographer | Renne Rocca |
Skating club | All Year FSC |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 123.14 2006 JGPF |
Short program | 46.47 2006 JGP Norway |
Free skate | 78.84 2005 JGP Andorra |
Bianca Butler (born September 2, 1989 in Laguna Beach, California) is an American pair skater.
She teamed up with Joseph Jacobsen in 2000. [1] They were the 2007 US National junior silver medalists. They qualified for the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final in their first year on the circuit, and placed sixth.
Although they placed seventh on the day, they were later moved up a spot to a sixth-place finish at the 2007–2008 Junior Grand Prix Final following the retroactive disqualification of first-place-finishers Vera Bazarova & Yuri Larionov due to a positive doping sample from Larionov.
Their partnership ended in February 2009. [2]
(with Jacobsen)
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2008–2009 [2] | The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky |
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2007–2008 [2] [3] | Love Story by Francis Lai |
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2006–2007 [2] | Pas de Deux from "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky | Allegro Scherzando Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor Op. 18 by Rachmaninoff | |
2005–2006 [1] | The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky | Warsaw Concerto | It's a Wonderful Night by Fat Boy Slim |
(with Jacobsen)
Event | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 |
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World Junior Championships | 11th | ||||||
U.S. Championships | 7th N. | 7th N. | 2nd N. | 5th J. | 2nd J. | 9th | 13th |
Junior Grand Prix Final | 6th | 6th [4] | |||||
Junior Grand Prix, Germany | 5th | ||||||
Junior Grand Prix, USA | 4th | ||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Japan | 3rd | ||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Andorra | 1st | ||||||
Triglav Trophy | 2nd J. | ||||||
Pacific Coast Sectionals | 2nd N. | 1st N. | 1st N. | 1st J. | 3rd | ||
Southwest Pacific Regionals | 1st N. | 2nd N. | |||||
N. = Novice level; J. = Junior level |
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