Kharis Ralph (born April 22, 1992) is a Canadian former

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

Asher Hill Asher Hill (born March 19, 1991) is a Canadian retired ice dancer. With previous partner Kharis Ralph, he is the 2008 Canadian national junior champion and 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist. He teamed up with Nicole Orford in 2015. He has s ...

, she is the 2008 Canadian national junior champion and

2011 Nebelhorn Trophy The 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy took place on September 21–24, 2011 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf. It is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain. It was one of the first international senior compe ...

bronze medalist.

Personal life

Kharis Ralph was born in

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

but moved to Canada as a child. Her mother is from the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. Ralph is a student at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, majoring in history.

Career

Kharis Ralph started skating at age six and began ice dancing a year later. She continued skating in singles for a few years before deciding to focus on ice dancing. She teamed up with

in 2002. Ralph and Hill won the Canadian pre-novice title in 2006 and the Canadian novice title in 2007. In 2007–08, they debuted on the

ISU 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 figure skating competition, junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded ...

series and became the 2008 Canadian junior champions. They were 8th at the 2008 World Junior Championships. The following season, they won two silver medals on the 2008–2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit and rose to 5th at the World Junior Championships. Ralph and Hill took another pair of silver medals on the 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed 4th on the senior level at the 2010 Canadian Championships. They were assigned to their first senior ISU Championships, the 2010 Four Continents, where they placed 6th. In 2011–2012, Ralph and Hill won the bronze medal at the

. They were fourth at the 2012 Canadian Championships and were assigned to the 2012 World Championships. Ralph and Hill finished 13th at Worlds. On May 12, 2014, Ralph announced that she had retired from competition.

Programs

(with Hill)

Competitive highlights

(with Hill)

References

External links

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Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill
at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ralph, Kharis 1992 births Living people Canadian female ice dancers Canadian sportspeople of Filipino descent Figure skaters from Toronto Figure skaters from Washington, D.C. American female ice dancers Dancers from Washington, D.C. 21st-century Canadian sportswomen 21st-century American sportswomen