Logan Giulietti-Schmitt (born August 16, 1985) is an American former competitive
ice dancer
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
. With partner
Lynn Kriengkrairut, he is a two-time (2011–2012)
Ice Challenge champion and the 2012
U.S. national pewter medalist.
Career
Giulietti-Schmitt began learning to skate at age three and a half. He competed in
single skating
Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually. Men's singles and women's singles are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU). Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested ...
until 2004, when he sustained a stress fracture in his lower back.
[ Having started ]ice dancing
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...
in 1999, he competed with Caitlin Morocco on the intermediate level and with Mauri Gustafson on the junior level.[ His partnership with Gustafson came to an end in late June 2006, leaving him with little time to find a new partner for the next season.][
Giulietti-Schmitt contacted Lynn Kriengkrairut after seeing her on IcePartnerSearch.][ They began skating together in July 2006,][ agreeing to form a partnership on the second day of a planned three-day tryout.][ The two were coached by Yuri Chesnichenko and Yaroslava Nechaeva from the start of their partnership.][ They won the junior bronze medal at the 2007 U.S. Championships in their first season together.
Kriengkrairut/Giulietti-Schmitt received a host invitation to compete at ]2010 Skate America
The 2010 Skate America was the fourth event of six in the 2010–11 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon on November 11–14. M ...
where they finished 6th. At the 2011 U.S. Championships, they were in fourth after the short dance but dropped to fifth overall after a fall at the end of their free dance.[
At the 2012 U.S. Championships, Kriengkrairut/Giulietti-Schmitt placed fourth in both segments and won the pewter medal. The following season, they were fifth at the 2013 U.S. Championships. They changed coaches in February 2013, joining ]Igor Shpilband
Igor Yuryevich Shpilband (russian: Игорь Юрьевич Шпильбанд, born July 14, 1964) is an American ice dancing coach and former competitor for the Soviet Union. He is the 1983 World Junior champion with former partner Tatiana G ...
in Novi, Michigan.[ Kriengkrairut sustained a concussion in late June 2013.][ The two decided to retire from competition on April 24, 2014.][
Giulietti-Schmitt was the director of the Learn To Skate program at Ann Arbor Skating Club August 2008 thru August 2014.][
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Personal life
In December 2008, Giulietti-Schmitt earned a Bachelor's degree in geology from Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...
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Programs
(with Kriengkrairut)
Competitive highlights
With Kriengkrairut
With Gustafson
References
External links
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Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt
at IceNetwork
Official site
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1985 births
Living people
American male ice dancers
Figure skaters from Chicago