JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck 
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| Full name | Alicia Jo Starbuck | |||||||||
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 United States
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| birthday | February 14, 1951 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Birmingham, Alabama | |||||||||
| size | 165 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | Pair skating | |||||||||
| Partner | Kenneth Shelley | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
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Alicia Jo "JoJo" Starbuck (born February 14, 1951 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is a former American figure skater who started in pair skating .
Starbucks figure skating partner was Kenneth Shelley . As early as 1959, the two ran together in a show for the first time. In 1961 they began to train professionally with coach John Nicks . From 1970 to 1972 Starbuck and Shelley became US champions . They took part in world championships from 1968 to 1972 . At the World Championships in Lyon in 1971 and in Calgary in 1972 , they each won bronze behind the two Soviet couples Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanow and Lyudmila Smirnova and Andrei Suraikin . Shelley and Starbuck played two Olympic Games . In 1968 in Grenoble , where they finished 13th, they were the youngest athletes the US had ever sent to the Olympics. In 1972 in Sapporo they were fourth to miss a medal.
After finishing their careers, Starbuck and Shelley toured with the ice revue Ice Capades. She later began to work as a trainer and choreographer and also worked briefly as an actress. Starbuck was married to football player Terry Bradshaw from 1975 to 1983 .
Results
Pair skating
(with Kenneth Shelley )
| Competition / year | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 |
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| winter Olympics | 13. | 4th | |||
| World championships | 11. | 6th | 5. | 3. | 3. |
| American championships | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Web links
- JoJo Starbuck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Starbuck, JoJo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Starbuck, Alicia Jo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , United States |