Brandon Frazier

Brandon Frazier

Denney/Frazier in 2012
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born November 19, 1992
Phoenix, Arizona
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Partner Haven Denney
Former partner Mandy Garza
Coach Ingo Steuer
Former coach Silvia Fontana, John Zimmerman, Dalilah Sappenfield, Jim Peterson, Lyndon Johnston
Choreographer John Zimmerman, Silvia Fontana, Renee Roca
Former choreographer Julie Marcotte, Dalilah Sappenfield
Skating club All Year FSC Culver City
Training locations Coral Springs, Florida
Former training locations Colorado Springs, Colorado
Began skating 2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 183.84
2014 Skate America
Short program 61.08
2014 Skate America
Free skate 122.76
2014 Skate America

Brandon Frazier (born November 19, 1992) is an American pair skater. With partner Haven Denney, he is the 2013 World Junior champion and 2012 U.S. national junior champion.

Personal life

Brandon Frazier was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He competed as a roller skater from 1998 until 2004.[1]

Career

Brandon Frazier and Haven Denney first teamed up in 2002 as roller skaters before switching to the ice.[2][3] As figure skaters, they competed together from 2005–2008, coached by Jim Peterson and Lyndon Johnston.[4] They won the 2008 U.S. intermediate bronze medal but then split.[3]

Skating with Mandy Garza, he was 8th at a 2010–11 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Austria and 5th on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships.[5] Garza and Frazier announced the end of their partnership in February 2011.[6]

Denney/Frazier teamed up again in spring 2011.[2][3] They competed on the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 8th and 7th in Latvia and Austria. They won the junior title at the 2012 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2012 World Junior Championships where they placed 4th. The pair was coached by Dalilah Sappenfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado until the fall of 2012 when they moved to Coral Springs, Florida to train with John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana at Coral Gables.[7]

In the 2012–13 season, Denney/Frazier finished 4th at the 2012–13 ISU Junior Grand Prix event held in Lake Placid, New York. They won gold at the 2013 World Junior Championships, the first American pair to win the title since 2007.

For the 2013-14 season, the team placed fifth in both their Grand Prix events at 2013 Skate Canada International and 2013 NHK Trophy. They were also fifth at the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and took fourth at the 2014 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.

In 2014-15, Denney and Frazier placed first at Lombardia Trophy and second at the Skate Canada Autumn Classica, both of which are ISU Challenger Series events. They then took silver at 2014 Skate America, their first medal on the Grand Prix circuit, and finished fourth at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup.

In the second half of the season, the team went on to win the silver medal at the 2015 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. After nationals, the skaters began training full time under Ingo Steuer. They then competed at the 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships and the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships where they finished seventh and twelfth, respectively.

In April 2015, the team changed their training location from Coral Springs, Fla. to West Palm Beach, Fla.[8]

Programs

With Denney

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2014–2015
[9]
2013–2014
[7][10]
2012–2013
[11]
  • Malagueña
    by Ernesto Lecuona
2011–2012
[1]

With Garza

Season Short program Free skating
2010–2011
[6]
2009–2010
[6]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series (began in the 2014–15 season); JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Denney

International[12]
Event 2007–08 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Worlds 12th
Four Continents 4th 7th
GP NHK Trophy 5th
GP Rostelecom Cup 4th
GP Skate America 2nd
GP Skate Canada 5th
CS Lombardia 1st
CS Autumn Classic 2nd
Nepela Trophy 4th
International: Junior[12]
Junior Worlds 4th 1st
JGP Austria 7th
JGP Latvia 8th
JGP USA 4th
National[4]
U.S. Champ. 3rd I. 1st J. 5th 5th 2nd
Levels: I. = Intermediate; J. = Junior

With Garza

International[13]
Event 2009–10 2010–11
JGP Austria 8th
National[6]
U.S. Championships 3rd N. 5th J.
Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Walker, Elvin (May 27, 2012). "Second time a charm for Denney and Frazier". Golden Skate.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rutherford, Lynn (January 24, 2012). "Colorado junior pairs face California challenge". Ice Network. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier". IceNetwork.
  5. ↑ "Mandy GARZA / Brandon FRAZIER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Mandy Garza / Brandon Frazier". Ice Network. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rutherford, Lynn (May 17, 2013). "Change of scenery serves Denney, Frazier well". IceNetwork.
  8. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 22, 2014). "Denney and Frazier regroup with Steuer". Golden Skate.
  9. ↑ Rutherford, Lynn (July 26, 2014). "Detroit postcards: More pair action off ice than on". IceNetwork.
  10. ↑ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 26, 2013.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Competition Results: Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER". International Skating Union.
  13. ↑ "Competition Results: Mandy GARZA / Brandon FRAZIER". International Skating Union.

External links

Media related to Brandon Frazier at Wikimedia Commons