Alissa Czisny

Alissa Czisny
nation	United States
birthday	June 25, 1987
place of birth	Sylvania, Ohio
size	164 cm
Career
society	Detroit SC
Trainer	Yuka Satō , Jason Dungjen (former trainers: Julianne Berlin, Linda Leaver, Brian Boitano , Natalia Deller, Theresa McKendry)
choreographer	Renée Roca, Pasquale Camerlengo (former choreographers: David Wilson, Lori Nichol)
status	active
Personal best
Total points 182.25 World Cup 2011  Freestyle 121.90 TEB 2011  Short program 64.20 Skate America 2011
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 4th 2 3
last change: November 20, 2011

Alissa Czisny (born June 25, 1987 in Sylvania , Ohio ) is an American figure skater who starts in a single run .

Career

Alissa Czisny started figure skating at the age of one and a half when her mother was taking training lessons. Her twin sister Amber also pursued this sport at a professional level. Czisny starts for the Detroit Skating Club (Detroit SC) and was trained by Julianne Berlin since she was eleven. From childhood she also received ballet lessons .

Czisny first attracted international attention in 2005 when she won the women's competition in the Skate Canada competition. In the following two seasons 2006/07 and 2007/08 she was only able to build on this success to a limited extent. At the US Championships in 2007 she won her first bronze medal behind Kimmie Meissner and Emily Hughes , while she finished only 15th at the World Championships. Even after her victory at the US Championships in Cleveland in 2009 and the successes at the Nebelhorn Trophy (2008 and 2009), she did not get past an eleventh place at the World Championships in the same season.

Czisny after her Skate Canada victory together with the Russian Xenia Makarowa (left) and Amélie Lacoste (right) from Canada

After finishing tenth in the 2010 national championships, she missed qualifying for the Vancouver Winter Olympics . After that, Czisny actually wanted to end her career, but was changed by former US Olympic champion Brian Boitano and trainer Linda Leaver . The New York Times was supposed to describe her as a very elegant but painfully inconsistent runner in January 2011.

In February 2010, Czisny separated from her long-time trainer Julianne Berlin and has been training with former Japanese world champion Yuka Satō and her husband Jason Dungjen since May of the same year . Satō worked on the runner's mental problems while Dungjen focused on Czisny's technique and revised her jumping technique. Then Czisny developed again to the winner. In 2011 she won the National Championships for the second time in Greensboro and prevailed against defending champion Rachael Flatt and Mirai Nagasu . With her program for Erich Wolfgang Korngold's violin concerto (short program) and excerpts from George Winston's Winter into Spring (freestyle), she again won Skate Canada after five years and the Grand Prix final ahead of the Italian Carolina Kostner and the Japanese junior world champion Kanako Murakami . She set a new personal record with 180.75 evaluation points (63.76 for the short program, 116.99 for the freestyle).

At the following World Championships , which were relocated to Moscow due to a severe earthquake in Japan , Czisny was fourth after the short program and lost one place after the freestyle. With fifth place, Czisny achieved her best position so far at a World Cup and improved her personal scoring record in the freestyle (120.78 points) and the overall rating (182.25). The former German figure skater and ZDF commentator Tanja Szewczenko described the American as an “introverted runner” who tends to run for herself.

Alissa Czisny lives in Auburn Hills , Michigan . Her current training location is Bloomfield Hills , where she spends up to 21 hours a week on the ice. She attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She completed her studies in International Studies , French and Russian with the grade “summa cum laude”. The vegetarian counts the former Olympic and world champion Scott Hamilton among her role models and has worked as a trainer and photo model parallel to her sports career.

Results

Competition / season	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
World championships						15th		11.		5.	22nd
Four continents championships						5.		9.		5.
Junior World Championships				6th	6th
American championships	11.	10.	12.	7th	7th	3.	9.	1.	10.	1.	2.
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Grand Prix competition / season	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13
Grand Prix Final					6th					1.	5.
Skate America				4th	2.						1.
Skate Canada					1.	4th		3.	2.	1.
Cup of Russia						9.		4th	4th
Eric Bompard Trophy										3.	3.
NHK Trophy							6th
Cup of China							9.

Programs

Czisny doing a Biellmann pirouette (Skate Canada 2008)

season	Short program	Freestyle	Exhibition running
2010-2011	Romance from the Violin Concerto D by Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Excerpts from Winter into Spring by George Winston	You'll Never Walk Alone by Barbra Streisand
2009-2010	The Mask of the Zorro Soundtrack by James Horner interpreted by Vanessa-Mae and choreographed by Lori Nichol	Doctor Zhivago Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre	You'll Never Walk Alone by Barbra Streisand I Like the Way (You Move) from the Body Rockers
2008-2009	The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns	Doctor Zhivago Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre	I, Don Quixote by Linda Eder Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
2007-2008	The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns	West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein	Nessun dorma Yesterday by Michael Bolton
2006-2007	Prelude & Quadukka-I-Mayas by Jesse Cook , performed by the Hamzy Egyptian Strings Ensemble	Excerpts from Sabrina by John Williams	The Man from La Mancha by Mitch Leigh , sung by Joe Darion
2005-2006	Prelude & Quadukka-I-Mayas by Jesse Cook, performed by the Hamzy Egyptian Strings Ensemble	La Bayadère by Léon Minkus	Someone Like You by Linda Eder
2004-2005	The Mission from the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone	Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Un Bel di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini , interpreted by the Opera Babes
2003-2004	The Mission from the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone	Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Un Bel di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, interpreted by the Opera Babes
2002-2003	Rushing Wings of Dawn by Tim Janis	Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff	Romeo and Juliet from the soundtrack by Nino Rota and André Rieu
2001-2002	Rushing Wings of Dawn by Tim Janis	Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff	Romeo and Juliet from the soundtrack by Nino Rota and André Rieu
2000-2001	Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven	Faust by Charles Gounod

Web links

Commons : Alissa Czisny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Profile on figureskatersonline.com ( Memento from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Alissa Czisny in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Profile at icenetwork.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Macur, Juliet: US Champions Show There's No Quit . In: The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2011, Section D, Sport Desk, p. 2.
2. ↑ cf. Livestream for the World Cup freestyle at zdf.de, April 30, 2011.
3. ↑ Alissa Czisny in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
4. ↑ cf. Profile at icenetwork.com (accessed April 30, 2011).
5. ↑ cf. Bondy, Filip: Go Figure, Czisny Tames Teens for US Skate Titles . In: Daily News (New York), January 30, 2011, p. 61.
6. ↑ cf. Profile ( memento of April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at figureskatersonline.com (English; accessed April 30, 2011).