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Emily Hughes in 2006
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Full name | Emily Anne Hughes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Great Neck, New York |
January 26, 1989 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Bonni Retzkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach |
Mark Mitchell Peter Johansson |
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Choreographer | David Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former choreographer | Mark Mitchell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | SC of New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Combined total | 166.60 2007 Four Continents |
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Short program | 60.88 2007 Worlds |
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Free skate | 111.26 2007 Four Continents |
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Medal record
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Emily Anne Hughes (born January 26, 1989) is an American former figure skater. She is the 2007 U.S. National silver medalist and was a member of the 2006 Olympic team. She is a younger sister of Sarah Hughes, the 2002 Olympic champion.
Emily Hughes was born in Great Neck, New York. Her father, John Hughes, is a Canadian of Irish descent, and was the captain of the NCAA champion 1969–70 Cornell University ice hockey team. Her mother, Amy Pastarnack, is Jewish and is a breast cancer survivor. Hughes has supported a variety of causes for breast cancer research and awareness, including Skating for Life, a television special that she promoted on NBC's Today show.
Hughes has five siblings. One of her older sisters, Sarah, is the 2002 Olympic champion. In December 2012, her older brother Matt, graduated from the police academy and is currently an NYPD officer. Her family has two dogs - Taz and Ty, though she prefers to play with Taz due to his energy and virile spirit.
She graduated from Great Neck North High School in June 2007, and announced on April 26, 2007 that she would attend Harvard University starting in Fall 2007. After moving to Harvard, she switched from long-time coach Bonni Retzkin to train under Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson at the Skating Club of Boston. Hughes had a concentration in sociology with a minor in government, and graduated as a member of the class of 2011. In 2002, she co-wrote a book in Random House's Young Dreamers series, I Am a Skater. On December 18, 2005, Hughes was the subject of a cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.