Karen Chen

Karen Chen
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Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	(1999-08-16) August 16, 1999 Fremont, California
Home town	Fremont, California
Height
Coach	Tammy Gambill
Former coach	Gilley Nicholson, Sherri Krahne-Thomas
Choreographer	Justin Dillon
Former choreographer	Cindy Stuart, Mark Pillay
Skating club	Peninsula FSC San Jose
Training locations	Riverside, California
Began skating	2005
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	179.08 2013 JGP Slovakia
Short program	64.46 2013 JGP Slovakia
Free skate	118.53 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Karen Chen
Traditional Chinese	陳楷雯
Simplified Chinese	陈楷雯
Transcriptions

Karen Chen (born August 16, 1999) is an American figure skater. She is the 2013 JGP Slovakia champion and the 2015 U.S. national bronze medalist.

Personal life

Karen Chen was born in Fremont, California. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. She has a younger brother, Jeffrey, who is also a figure skater. She is studying at home through Connections Academy.

Career

Early career

Chen won gold on the national intermediate level in 2011 and then gold competing as a novice in 2012. The following season, she competed on the junior level at the 2013 U.S. Championships, placing fourth. She made her international debut at the 2013 Gardena Spring Trophy where she won gold on the novice level.

2013–14 season: Junior international debut

In the 2013–14 season, Chen received her first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments. She won bronze in Riga, Latvia, followed by gold in Košice, Slovakia, and qualified for the JGP Final. While practicing a triple Lutz, she sustained a type three tibia fracture in her right ankle. The injury led her to withdraw from the JGP Final. Chen spent four weeks on crutches and resumed training in mid-December. She withdrew from the junior event at the 2014 U.S. Championships after placing fifth in the short program. At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, she placed sixth in the short program, ninth in the free skate, and ninth overall.

2014–15 season: First senior national medal

In the 2014–15 JGP series, Chen won bronze at Czech Skate and silver at the Croatia Cup, respectively. She was awarded the bronze medal in her senior national debut at the 2015 U.S Championships, behind Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold.

2015–16 season: Senior international debut

In September 2015, Chen finished fourth at the 2015 U.S. International Classic, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event and her first senior international. Making her Grand Prix debut, she placed fifth at both the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Cup of China. She won bronze at her second CS assignment, the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb in December, and finished 8th at the 2016 U.S Championships in January.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2015–2016	Violin Fantasy on Puccini's Turandot by Vanessa-Mae choreo. by Justin Dillon	Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schonberg choreo. by Cindy Stuart	Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto by Lü Siqing Because We Believe by Andrea Bocelli
2014–2015	Requiem for a Tower performed by Escala Requiem For a Dream arranged and performed by Jennifer Thomas Requiem for a Dream by Clint Mansell choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart	The Godfather Suite by Nino Rota, Drew Tretick choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart	Heart of Palm by Ding Dang Because We Believe by Andrea Bocelli
2013–2014	Esperanza by Maxime Rodriguez choreo. by Cindy Stuart	Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg choreo. by Mark Pillay
2012–2013	House of Flying Daggers by Shigeru Umebayashi	Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra by Joshua Bell
2011–2012	The Chairman's Waltz (from Memoirs of a Geisha) by John Williams	The Godfather Suite by Nino Rota, Drew Tretick choreo. by Justin Dillon, Cindy Stuart	Butterfly Dance
2010-2011	On Golden Pond by Dave Grusin	My Sweet and Tender Beast by Eugen Doga

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16
Four Continents							12th
GP Cup of China							5th
GP Skate America							5th
CS Golden Spin							3rd
CS U.S. Classic							4th
International: Junior
Junior Worlds					9th	8th
JGP Final					WD
JGP Croatia						2nd
JGP Czech Rep.						3rd
JGP Latvia					3rd
JGP Slovakia					1st
Gardena				1st N.
National
U.S. Champ.			1st N.	4th J.	WD	3rd	8th
U.S. Jr. Champ.	4th Jv.	1st I.
Pacific Coast			1st N.	2nd J.		1st
Central Pacific	1st Jv.	1st I.	1st N.
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: Jv. = Juvenile; I. = Intermediate; N. = Novice; J. = Junior

Detailed results

Senior career

2015–16 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 16–21, 2016	2016 Four Continents Championships	12 53.55	10 107.97	12 161.52
January 16–24, 2016	2016 U.S. Championships	12 54.86	8 113.89	8 168.75
December 3–5, 2015	2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb	4 56.82	3 118.53	3 175.35
November 5–8, 2015	2015 Cup of China	7 58.30	5 117.63	5 175.93
October 23–25, 2015	2015 Skate America	4 62.28	6 110.26	5 172.54
September 16–20, 2015	2015 U.S. Classic	3 60.94	5 98.24	4 159.18

Junior career

2014–15 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2015	2015 World Junior Championships	Junior	12 51.64	8 105.66	8 157.30
January 18–25, 2015	2015 U.S. Championships	Senior	6 64.66	3 135.13	3 199.79
November 18-22, 2014	2015 Pacific Coast	Senior	2 54.83	1 116.75	1 171.58
October 8–12, 2014	2014 Junior Grand Prix, Croatia	Junior	1 62.71	3 106.70	2 169.41
September 3–7, 2014	2014 Junior Grand Prix, Czech Republic	Junior	1 60.68	4 100.27	3 160.95

External links

• Karen Chen at the International Skating Union
• Karen Chen at IceNetwork

• http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028162.htm
• http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028158.htm