Travis Mager

Travis Mager

Mager and Bonacorsi in 2012
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1990-09-09) September 9, 1990
Silver Spring, Maryland
Home town Fulton, Maryland
Residence Wilmington, Delaware
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Former partner Lauri Bonacorsi
Lauren Ely
Coach Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karponosov
Former coach Christine Binder (with Lauren Ely), Greg Maddalone, Robbie Kaine, Genrikh Sretenski
Choreographer Natalia Linichuk
Former choreographer Genrikh Sretenski
Skating club Ice Works Aston
Former skating club Columbia FSC, Columbia MD
Training locations Aston, Pennsylvania
Former training locations The Gardens Ice House, Laurel MD
Began skating 1998

Travis Alexander Mager (born September 9, 1990) is an American ice dancer. With former partner Lauri Bonacorsi, he is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist.

Career

Early in his career, Mager skated with Lauren Ely.[1] After a tryout in February 2008, he teamed up officially with Lauri Bonacorsi in late May 2008.[2][3]

Bonacorsi and Mager won the 2009 U.S. novice ice dancing title.[4] 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.[5]

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 2011 U.S. Championships. They placed 11th at the 2011 World Junior Championships.

Bonacorsi and Mager won the silver medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix event in Brisbane, Australia, and bronze at another JGP event, the Walter Lombardi Trophy in Milan, Italy. They were the first alternates to the 2011 Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec City, Canada in December 2011. Bonacorsi and Mager finished 7th at the 2012 World Junior Championships. They announced the end of their partnership in April 2012.[6]

Personal life

Mager completed two years at the University of Maryland and was then accepted as a transfer student at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated summa cum laude from the college of arts and sciences with his major in Art History.[7]

Programs

(with Bonacorsi)

Season Short dance Free dance
2011–2012
[8]
  • Close to You
    by Sandra and Tony Alessi
2010–2011
[9]		 The Mask:
  • Cuban Pete
    by Jose Norman
  • This Business of Love
    by Howie Hersh
  • Hey Pachuco
    Royal Crown Revue
2009–2010
[10]
2008–2009
[6]

Competitive highlights

With Bonacorsi

Results[6][11]
International
Event 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
World Junior Championships 11th 7th
JGP Australia 2nd
JGP Germany 9th
JGP Great Britain 5th
JGP Italy 3rd
JGP Romania 3rd
JGP United States 3rd
National
U.S. Championships 1st N. 6th J. 2nd J. 2nd J.
Pacific Coast Sectionals 1st N.
Eastern Sectionals 2nd J. 1st J. 1st J.
JGP = Junior Grand Prix; Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

With Ely

National
Event 2007–2008
U.S. Championships 8th N.
N. = Novice level

References

  1. ↑ Mittan, Barry (January 17, 2010). "Junior Dancers Off to Good Start". Skate Today.
  2. ↑ Rutherford, Lynn (January 20, 2009). "New partners Bonacorsi, Mager dance to win". Icenetwork. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ Boccella, Kathy (February 27, 2011). "Radnor High skater's odyssey takes her to world championships". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  4. ↑ "Lauri Bonacorsi and Travis Mager lead novice ice dance at 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". LifeSkate. January 19, 2009.
  5. ↑ "U.S. Figure Skaters Announce Off-season Changes". U.S. Figure Skating. May 7, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  6. 1 2 3 "Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager". Ice Network. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012.
  7. ↑ Walker, Elvin (October 16, 2011). "Bonacorsi and Mager hope to turn silver into gold". Golden Skate. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 3, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Competition Results: Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.

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