Julia Pfrengle started ice skating in Mannheim when she was three years old . National trainer Peter Sczypa and her mother train the runner at the Mannheim ERC . Like her two-year-old club mate Sarah Hecken , Pfrengle won the national championship three times in a row in their respective age groups. As the youngest participant, she achieved third place on her debut in the master class at the 2010 German Championships in Mannheim. At the 2010 Junior World Championships in The Hague , she finished 10th out of 55 participants. This made her the only German starter who secured two starting positions at the 2011 Junior World Championships in Gangneung with her placement in the German Ice Skating Union . Due to injury, she was thrown back in her ambitions.