Lauri Bonacorsi

Lauri Bonacorsi
Personal information
Country represented  United States
Born January 17, 1993 (1993-01-17) (age 19)
St. Louis, Missouri
Residence Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 12 in)
Partner Travis Mager
Coach Natalia Linichuk,
Gennadi Karponosov
Former coach Greg Maddalone,
Robbie Kaine,
Genrikh Sretenski
Choreographer Natalia Linichuk
Skating club Peninsula FSC
Current training locations Aston, Pennsylvania
Began skating 1997
World standing 29 (As of 19 October 2011 (2011 -10-19))[1]
Season's bests 48 (2010–2011)[2]
51 (2009–2010)[3]

Lauri Bonacorsi (born January 17, 1993) is an American ice dancer. With partner Travis Mager, she is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist.

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Career

Bonacorsi moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Plano, Texas in 2007.[4] She spent the 2007–08 season in search of a partner. Mager found her on IcePartnerSearch and they tried out together in February and April. Bonacorsi and Mager officially teamed up in late May 2008.[5][6] She relocated to Maryland to train with him.[4]

Bonacorsi and Mager won the 2009 U.S. novice ice dancing title. They won the bronze medal at the 2009 JGP Lake Placid. In May 2010, it was reported they had changed coaches to Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov at the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, Pennsylvania.[7]

In the 2010–11 season, Bonacorsi and Mager won the bronze medal at the 2010 JGP Brasov Cup in Romania. They won silver on the junior level at the U.S. Championships and placed 11th at the 2011 World Junior Championships.

Current 2011-12 season. September 2011, Bonacorsi and Mager won the silver medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Brisbane in Australia. In October 2011 they won the bronze medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Walter Lombardi Trophy Milan in Italy. Bonacorsi and Mager are the first alternates to the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Finals in Quebec City, Canada, December 2011.

Personal Life

Bonacorsi attended the University of Pennsylvania her senior year of high school, and graduated from Radnor High School in Radnor, PA in June 2011. She is currently deferring a year before returning to the University of Pennsylvania where she is majoring in International Relations.

Programs

(with Mager)

Season Short dance Free dance
2011–2012
  • Close to You
    by Sandra and Tony Alessi
2010–2011 My Sweet and Tender Beast
by Eugen Doga
From The Mask:
  • Cuban Pete
    by Jose Norman
  • This Business of Love
    by H. Hersh
  • Hey Pachuco
    Royal Crown Revue

Competitive highlights

(with Mager)

Event 2008–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012
World Junior Championships 11th
U.S. Championships 1st N. 6th J. 2nd J.
Junior Grand Prix, Italy 3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Australia 2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Romania 3rd
Junior Grand Prix, U.K. 5th
Junior Grand Prix, U.S. 3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Germany 9th

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