Brandon Mroz
| Brandon Mroz | |
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Mroz at the 2009 Worlds
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | United States |
| Born |
December 22, 1990 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Former coach | Tom Zakrajsek, Becky Calvin, Doug Leigh |
| Former choreographer | Catarina Lindgren, Lori Nichol, Tom Dickson, Kurt Browning |
| Skating club | Broadmoor Skating Club |
| Training locations | Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Began skating | 1994 |
| Retired | 2014 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 216.80 2010 Cup of China |
| Short program | 76.10 2009 Worlds |
| Free skate | 146.96 2010 Cup of China |
Brandon Mroz (born December 22, 1990) is an American figure skater. He is the 2009 U.S. silver medalist and the 2006 & 2007 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist. He has the record of the first skater to complete a quadruple Lutz jump in a sanctioned competition.
Brandon Mroz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, one of four brothers. His mother and a brother suffered serious injuries in a car accident. Mroz's mother was at one time a synchronized skater, and his father an ice hockey player.
Mroz has expressed interest in becoming a dentist.
Mroz began skating at age 3 and a half. He was coached by Shannon Nester and Debbie Howe from 2001 through 2004 and by Doug Leigh and Michelle Leigh in Barrie, Ontario, from 2002 through 2004. In addition to singles skating, he also trained as an ice dancer and tested in that discipline up to silver level in the U.S. Figure Skating testing structure.
In the 2001–02 season, Mroz competed on the juvenile level, the lowest competitive level in the United States. He represented the St. Louis Skating Club in competition. He won his regional competition, the Upper Great Lakes Regional Championship, to qualify at the juvenile level for the 2002 U.S. Junior Championships, where he placed 6th in his qualifying group and went on to place 18th overall.
In the 2002–03 season, Mroz moved up to the intermediate level. He won both the short program and the free skate at his regional competition to win the gold medal overall. By this win he qualified to compete at the intermediate level at the 2003 U.S. Junior Championships, where he placed second in his qualifying group, 16th in the short program, and 7th in the free skate to place 11th overall.
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