Cathy Reed
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Cathy and Chris Reed at the 2009 NHK Trophy
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Japan |
| Born |
June 5, 1987 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States |
| Home town | Warren, Michigan |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Former partner | Chris Reed |
| Former coach | Marina Zueva, Oleg Eipstein, Massimo Scali, Galit Chait Moracci, Alexei Gorshkov, Tyler Myles, John Kerr, Inese Bucevica, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Nikolai Morozov, Valter Rizzo, Andrew Stroukoff, Susan Kelley |
| Former choreographer | Igor Shpilband, Patti Wilcox, Galit Chait, Inese Bucevica, Nikolai Morozov |
| Skating club | Arctic Edge FSC Kinoshita Club Tokyo |
| Former skating club | Kawagoe Figure Skating Club |
| Former training locations |
Canton, Michigan Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Began skating | 1994 |
| Retired | April 19, 2015 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 141.75 2013 World Team |
| Short dance | 56.35 2013 World Team |
| Free dance | 85.40 2013 World Team |
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Medal record
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| Japanese name | |
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| Kana | キャシー・リード |
Cathy Reed (born June 5, 1987) is an American-born Japanese ice dancer. With her brother Chris Reed, she is a seven-time Japanese national champion (2008–2011, 2013-2015).
Cathy Reed was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her mother is Japanese and her father is American. She was a dual citizen of Japan and the United States until she turned 22. Japanese law required those who are dual citizens at birth to relinquish their dual citizenship, so Cathy Reed chose Japanese citizenship at the age of 22 in order to continue to represent Japan in ice dancing. She competed in ice dancing with her younger brother Chris Reed until her retirement in April 2015. Her younger sister Allison Reed is also an ice dancer, who represented Georgia with Otar Japaridze and Israel with Vasili Rogov.
The Reeds are the 2006 U.S. Novice Dance Champions, but chose to represent Japan beginning in the 2006–2007 season. While Novice national champions are usually given a chance to compete on the Junior Grand Prix, Cathy Reed was too old at the time of their win to compete as a junior internationally. The Reeds were offered a chance to compete for Japan and they took it. They advanced immediately to the senior level, skipping Juniors entirely.
After advancing to the senior level, they placed fourth at the Golden Spin of Zagreb and second at the 2007 Japan Championships. At the 2007 Four Continents, they finished ahead of several teams who had been competing as seniors much longer.
At their Grand Prix debut, the 2007 Skate America, they placed 9th. They placed 8th at their second Grand Prix event, the 2007 NHK Trophy. They won the Japanese Championships. They repeated their 7th-place finish at the Four Continents, and then placed 16th at the 2008 World Championships. They represented Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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