Alexandra Aldridge (born May 7, 1994) is an American
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. A ...
. With former partner
Daniel Eaton, she is the
2014 Four Continents bronze medalist, a two-time (2012, 2013)
World Junior bronze medalist, the 2012
JGP Final bronze medalist, and a two-time
U.S. national junior champion.
Career
Partnership with Eaton
Aldridge/Eaton teamed up in May 2009. In their first season together, they won the
U.S. novice title. The following season, they debuted on the
Junior Grand Prix
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...
series, placing 6th and 4th in France and England, respectively. They finished 5th on the junior level at the
2011 U.S. Championships.
During the
2011–12 season, Aldridge/Eaton won bronze in Latvia and silver in Austria on the
Junior Grand Prix
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...
circuit. They won the junior title at the
2012 U.S. Championships. They competed at the
2012 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal ahead of
Anna Yanovskaya
Anna Sviatoslavovna Yanovskaya (; born 23 November 1996) is a Russian ice dancer. Competing for Hungary with Ádám Lukács, she is a three-time Hungarian national champion (2018–19, 2021) and has competed in the final segment at three ISU ...
/
Sergey Mozgov
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former partner Anna Yanovskaya, he was the 2015 World Junior champi ...
.
In 2012–13, Aldridge/Eaton won gold medals at their JGP events in Lake Placid, USA and Slovenia. Their results qualified them for the
2012–13 JGP Final in
Sochi
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, Russia, where they won the bronze medal. They won another bronze medal at the
2013 World Junior Championships.
Aldridge/Eaton placed sixth in their senior international debut at the
2013 Ondrej Nepela Trophy
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and then fifth in their sole GP event, the
2013 Cup of China
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. They finished 5th at the
2014 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the
2014 Four Continents where they won the bronze medal. Aldridge/Eaton joined the U.S. team to the
2014 World Championships as a result of the withdrawal of
Meryl Davis
Meryl Davis (born January 1, 1987) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With partner Charlie White, she is the 2014 Olympic champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time (2011, 2013) World champion, five-time Grand Prix Fin ...
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Charlie White and injury to
Madison Hubbell (first alternate with
Zachary Donohue). They trained at the Detroit Skating Club in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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, coached by
Anjelika Krylova, until the end of the season.
Aldridge/Eaton made a coaching change in July 2014, joining
Marina Zueva
Marina Olegovna Zoueva or Zueva (; born 9 April 1956) is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor in ice dancing. Representing the Soviet Union with Andrei Vitman, she placed 5th at the 1977 World Championships and ...
,
Massimo Scali
Massimo Scali (born 11 December 1979) is an Italian former competitive Ice dancing, ice dancer. With partner Federica Faiella, he is the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships, 2010 World bronze medalist, a two-time (2009 European Figure Skating ...
,
Johnny Johns, and Oleg Epstein at
Canton, Michigan
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's Arctic Edge. After winning gold at the
U.S. Classic
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, they competed at two Grand Prix events, placing sixth at the
2014 Skate Canada International
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and seventh at the
2014 Rostelecom Cup
The 2014 Cup of Russia, Rostelecom Cup was the fourth event of six in the 2014–15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow on Novembe ...
. They finished sixth at the
2015 U.S. Championships. They announced the end of their partnership on January 30, 2015.
In August 2017, Aldridge/Eaton resumed training together at the Detroit Skating Club, coached by Krylova and Camerlengo.
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Partnership with Blackmer
On July 31, 2015, IceNetwork.com announced that Aldridge had teamed up two months earlier with former pair skater Matthew Blackmer.[ Anjelika Krylova, Pasquale Camerlengo, and Natalia Annenko-Deller served as their coaches.][ Blackmer passed sixteen dance tests in one week in order to compete with her.][ Their first competition together was the Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships, where they placed third in the senior category, finishing fourth in the short dance][ and third in the free.][ They finished ninth at the 2016 U.S. Championships.
On September 13, 2016, Aldridge and Blackmer announced the end of their one-year partnership; she intended to continue competing with a new partner while he decided to retire from competition.][
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Programs
With Blackmer
With Eaton
Competitive highlights
''GP: Grand Prix
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* Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition
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*** Monaco Grand Prix, the most prestigious ...
; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...
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With Eaton
With Blackmer
References
External links
*
Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
at IceNetwork
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American female ice dancers
1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Royal Oak, Michigan
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
21st-century American sportswomen