Suna Murray (born April 16, 1955 in
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the populatio ...
)
is an American former
figure skater
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. She twice won a
bronze medal at the
U.S. Figure Skating Championships
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and competed at the 1972
Winter Olympics
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.
Murray coaches at the
Skating Club of Boston
The Skating Club of Boston is a not-for-profit figure skating club based in Norwood, Massachusetts. Founded in 1912, it is one of the oldest skating clubs in the United States, and a founding member of U.S. Figure Skating, the governing body for ...
. Her daughter
Kylie Gleason is also an elite skater. Her other daughter, Hadley Gleason, is a graduate of Trinity College playing both field and ice hockey. She is a technical panel member for US Figure Skating.
She graduated from Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ and
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
.
Results
References
External links
Where Are They Now: Suna Murray
American female single skaters
Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of the United States
1955 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tallahassee, Florida
Harvard College alumni
21st-century American women
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