Derek Trent

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Derek Trent
Vise & Trent in 2006.
Personal Info
Country: Flag of the United States United States
Date of birth: March 21, 1980 (1980-03-21) (age 28)
Height: 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Partner: Tiffany Vise
Former Partner: Brandi Sandoval, Stacey Pensgen, Katie Gadkowski
Coach: Doug Ladret
Former Coach: Irina Vorobieva
Choreographer: Doug Ladret,
Catarina Lindgreen,
Julie Patterson
Skating Club: Broadmoor SC
ISU Personal Best Scores
Short + Free Total: 165.76 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard
Short Program: 56.06 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard
Free Skate: 109.70 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard

Derek Trent (born March 21, 1980 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American pair skater. He skates with Tiffany Vise. On November 17, 2007, Vise & Trent landed the first clean throw quadruple salchow jump in international competition.[1] They are officially the first team to perform that element in international competition.[2][3]

Unlike most pair teams, Vise is a clockwise spinner while Trent is a counter-clockwise spinner. This leads to them having a different look from other pair teams because they utilize more mirror skating.

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[edit] Personal life

Derek Trent was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began skating at age eight and moved to Colorado Springs at age ten in order to train.

Trent graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2002 with a degree in business with a minor in Spanish. He currently attends the MBA program at that university. Trent works as a coach. He is certified as a judge on the national level, but does not currently judge.

Trent speaks fluent Spanish.

[edit] Career

He originally competed in ice dancing with Eve Chalom, with whom he competed on the Intermediate level and won the bronze medal at Junior Nationals in 1993. He also competed at Junior Nationals with his sister Kelli Trent, also in ice dancing. Derek Trent also briefly competed as a single skater.

Trent began pair skating as a teenager and was coached by Irina Vorobieva. He competed on the novice and junior levels with Katie Gadkowski, winning the Novice pewter in 1998 and the Junior pewter in 1999. He then competed with Brandilyn Sandoval, with whom he won the bronze medal on the junior level at the 2001 Nationals. When that partnership broke up, he skated with former-singles skater Stacey Pensgen, placing 14th at the 2003 Nationals.

That partnership broke off following the 2003 Nationals. Trent skated for years at the same rink as Tiffany Vise and her partnership had ended at the same time. Because they were both partnerless, they tried out together, despite the fact that they rotate in opposite directions, which is usually a partnership-killer. Very few teams at the highest level rotate in opposite directions because it makes elements like pair spins and twists much more difficult, due to the fact that one partner will have to "force" him- or herself to rotate in the "wrong" direction in order to complete the element (Vise spins his way on twist lifts). They teamed up in the summer of 2003 and have been skating together ever since. Vise and Trent represent the Broadmoor Skating Club.

Vise and Trent won the bronze medal at their first major event together, the Golden Spin of Zagreb. Since then they have been steadily moving up the ranks. Beginning in the 2006/2007 season, Vise and Trent began attempting the throw quadruple salchow in competition. They were credited for the element at the 2006 Skate Canada International, but not with landing it, because it was fully rotated but not landed successfully.[4]

They began the 2007-2008 season at Skate Canada, where they placed 5th. They went on to the 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard, where they successfully landed a throw quadruple salchow in their free skate, becoming the first pair team to ever perform that element in international competition.

[edit] Programs

Season Short Program Long Program
2007 - 2008 "Harem" by Sarah Brightman Les Miserables soundtrack
2006 - 2007 Shall We Dance, Dance with Me soundtracks Les Miserables soundtrack
2005 - 2006 Shall We Dance, Dance with Me soundtracks "Quidam" from Cirque du Soleil
2004 - 2005 The Italian Job soundtrack "Quidam" from Cirque du Soleil
2003 - 2004 The Italian Job soundtrack "Nights in White Satin" by Moody Blues

[edit] Competitive highlights

(with Vise)

Event 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008
Four Continents Championships 8th
U.S. Championships 13th 9th 6th 5th 4th
Trophee Eric Bompard 4th
Skate Canada International 5th 5th
Skate America 6th
Nebelhorn Trophy 5th
Karl Schafer Memorial 3rd
Golden Spin of Zagreb 3rd
Midwestern Sectionals 2nd 1st 1st

(with Pensgen)

Event 2002-2003
U.S. Championships 14th

(with Sandoval)

Event 2000-2001
U.S. Championships 3rd J.
Junior Grand Prix, China 5th

(with Gadkowski)

Event 1997-1998 1998-1999
U.S. Championships 4th N. 4th J.
Junior Grand Prix, Hungary 10th

(singles)

Event 1995-1996
U.S. Championships 11th N.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard Pairs Free Skating ProtocolPDF (72.4 KiB)
  2. ^ ISU : Full Story
  3. ^ International Skating Union Media AdvisoryPDF
  4. ^ 2006 Skate Canada ProtocolPDF (77.0 KiB)

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