Brooklee Han | |
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Brooklee Han at the 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Australia |
Born |
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States |
July 6, 1995
Home town | Redding, Connecticut, United States |
Height | 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) |
Coach | Peter Cain, Darlene Cain |
Former coach | Serhii Vaypan |
Choreographer | Serhii Vaypan, Rohene Ward |
Skating club | Stars FSC of Texas Ice House FSC Melbourne IFSC |
Training locations | Euless, Texas |
Former training locations |
Connecticut Melbourne |
Began skating | 2000 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 152.05 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships |
Short program | 53.65 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
Free skate | 103.61 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships |
Brooklee Han (born July 6, 1995) is an Australian-American figure skater. In the 2013–14 season, she won the Australian national title and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Brooklee Han was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. In 2013, she graduated from Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut. She was accepted into Wesleyan University and decided to study part-time in the Olympic season. Her father is Australian.
Born to parents who were both equestrians, Han has also competed in dressage and eventing. She began playing the violin at age five. She started a community orchestra in her town and volunteers teaching violin to grade school students.
Brooklee Han began skating at age five in Brewster, New York. Serhii Vaypan became her coach in 2007. Han has trained at the Newington Arena in Newington, Connecticut, the International Skating Center of Connecticut in Simsbury, Connecticut, and Medibank Icehouse in Melbourne, Victoria.
The 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy was the qualifying competition for the 2014 Winter Olympics for countries which had not qualified an entry in a figure skating discipline at the 2013 Worlds. In August 2013, Australian skater Chantelle Kerry argued before the Australian Court of Arbitration for Sport that Han should not compete at Nebelhorn Trophy because she did not compete at the inaugural Skate Down Under competition, which was used as the Australian qualification event to select skaters for the Nebelhorn Trophy. That claim was rejected and Han was selected to compete. Han finished fifth at the Nebelhorn Trophy and, as a result of her placement, Australia received one of the six remaining ladies' spots to the Olympics.