Haven Denney
Haven Denney | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Ocala, Florida | October 28, 1995||||||||||||||
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||
Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
Partner | Brandon Frazier | ||||||||||||||
Coach | Rockne Brubaker, Stefania Berton | ||||||||||||||
Skating club | Broadmoor SC | ||||||||||||||
Began skating | 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Haven Denney (born October 28, 1995) is an American pair skater. With partner Brandon Frazier, she is the 2013 World Junior champion and the 2012 U.S. national junior champion.
Personal life
Haven Denney was born in Ocala, Florida. She competed as a roller skater until 2004 and won the 2003 U.S. pairs roller skating silver medal.[1] Her sister, Caydee Denney, is also a competitive pair skater.[1]
Career
Haven Denney and Brandon Frazier first teamed up in 2002 as roller skaters before switching to the ice.[2][3] As figure skaters, they competed together from 2005–2008, coached by Jim Peterson and Lyndon Johnston.[4] They won the 2008 U.S. intermediate bronze medal but then split.[3] Denney then competed with Daniel Raad for three seasons.[5]
Denney/Frazier teamed up again in spring 2011.[2][3] They competed on the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 8th and 7th in Latvia and Austria. They won the junior title at the 2012 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2012 World Junior Championships where they placed 4th. The pair was coached by Dalilah Sappenfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado until the fall of 2012 when they moved to Coral Springs, Florida to train with John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana at Coral Gables.[6]
In the 2012–13 season, Denney/Frazier finished 4th at the 2012–13 ISU Junior Grand Prix event held in Lake Placid, New York. They won gold at the 2013 World Junior Championships, the first American pair to win the title since 2007.
For the 2013-14 season, the team placed fifth in both their Grand Prix events at 2013 Skate Canada International and 2013 NHK Trophy. They were also fifth at the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and took fourth at the 2014 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
In 2014-15, Denney/Frazier placed first at Lombardia Trophy and second at the Skate Canada Autumn Classica, both of which are ISU Challenger Series events. They then took silver at 2014 Skate America, their first medal on the Grand Prix circuit, and finished fourth at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup. In the second half of the season, Denney/Frazier won the silver medal at the 2015 U.S. Championships. After nationals, they began training full-time under Ingo Steuer. They finished 7th at the 2015 Four Continents and 12th at the 2015 World Championships.
In April 2015, Denney/Frazier changed their training location from Coral Springs, Florida, to West Palm Beach, Florida.[7]
In April 2016, Denny/Frazier announced that they had changed training locations to Chicago to work with Rockne Brubaker and Stefania Berton.[8]
Programs
(with Frazier)
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2014–15 [9][10] |
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2013–14 [6][11] |
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2012–13 [12] |
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2011–12 [1] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Frazier
International[13] | ||||||
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Event | 05–06 | 07–08 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 |
Worlds | 12th | |||||
Four Continents | 4th | 7th | ||||
GP NHK Trophy | 5th | |||||
GP Rostelecom Cup | 4th | |||||
GP Skate America | 2nd | |||||
GP Skate Canada | 5th | |||||
CS Lombardia | 1st | |||||
CS Autumn Classic | 2nd | |||||
Nepela Trophy | 4th | |||||
International: Junior[13] | ||||||
Junior Worlds | 4th | 1st | ||||
JGP Austria | 7th | |||||
JGP Latvia | 8th | |||||
JGP USA | 4th | |||||
National[4] | ||||||
U.S. Champ. | 10th Jv. | 3rd I. | 1st J. | 5th | 5th | 2nd |
Levels: Jv. = Juvenile; I. = Intermediate; J. = Junior |
With Raad
National[5] | |||
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Event | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 |
U.S. Championships | 2nd N. | 7th J. | 6th J. |
Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior |
References
- ^ a b c "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.
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- ^ a b c Rutherford, Lynn (January 24, 2012). "Colorado junior pairs face California challenge". IceNetwork. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
- ^ a b "Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier". IceNetwork.
- ^ a b "Haven Denney / Daniel Raad". Ice Network. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
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- ^ Slater, Paula (April 22, 2015). "Denney and Frazier regroup with Steuer". Golden Skate.
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- ^ Rutherford, Lynn (July 26, 2014). "Detroit postcards: More pair action off ice than on". IceNetwork.
- ^ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014.
- ^ "Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 26, 2013.
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External links
Media related to Haven Denney at Wikimedia Commons