Derek Trent
| Derek Trent | |
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Vise & Trent in 2006.
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
March 21, 1980 Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Former partner |
Tiffany Vise Brandi Sandoval Stacey Pensgen Katie Gadkowski |
| Former coach |
Doug Ladret Irina Vorobieva |
| Former choreographer |
Doug Ladret Catarina Lindgreen Julie Patterson |
| Skating club | Broadmoor SC |
| Retired | April 30, 2009 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 165.76 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard |
| Short program | 56.06 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard |
| Free skate | 109.70 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard |
Derek Trent (born March 21, 1980) is an American retired competitive pair skater. He competed for most of his career with Tiffany Vise. On November 17, 2007, Vise and Trent landed the first clean throw quadruple salchow jump in international competition. They officially became the first team to perform that element in international competition.
Because Vise spun and jumped in the clockwise direction and Trent in the counter-clockwise direction, they were a mirror pair.
On April 30, 2009, Trent announced his retirement from competitive figure skating.
Derek Trent was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began skating at age eight and moved to Colorado Springs at age ten in order to train.
Trent graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2002 with a degree in business with a minor in Spanish. He currently attends the MBA program at that university. Trent works as a coach. He is certified as a judge on the national level.
Trent speaks fluent Spanish.
He originally competed in ice dancing with Eve Chalom, with whom he competed on the Intermediate level and won the bronze medal at Junior Nationals in 1993. He also competed at Junior Nationals with his sister Kelli Trent, also in ice dancing. Derek Trent also briefly competed as a single skater.
Trent began pair skating as a teenager and was coached by Irina Vorobieva. He competed on the novice and junior levels with Katie Gadkowski, winning the Novice pewter in 1998 and the Junior pewter in 1999. He then competed with Brandilyn Sandoval, with whom he won the bronze medal on the junior level at the 2001 Nationals. When that partnership broke up, he skated with former-singles skater Stacey Pensgen. They placed 14th at the 2003 U.S. Championships and split shortly thereafter.
Trent teamed up with Tiffany Vise in the summer of 2003. They had skated for years at the same rink and her partnership had ended at the same time. Because they were both partnerless, they tried out together, despite the fact that they rotate in opposite directions, which is usually a partnership-killer. Very few teams at the highest level rotate in opposite directions because it makes elements like pair spins and twists much more difficult, due to the fact that one partner will have to "force" him- or herself to rotate in the "wrong" direction in order to complete the element (Vise spun his way on twist lifts). They represented the Broadmoor Skating Club.
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