Stacey Pensgen | |||||||||||||
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Full name | Stacey Elizabeth Pensgen | ||||||||||||
Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Fairport, New York |
May 25, 1982 ||||||||||||
Residence | Rochester, New York | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
Former partner |
Derek Trent Nathan Pensgen |
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Former coach | Richard Callaghan, Mitch Moyer, Sergei Petrovsky, Diana Ronayne | ||||||||||||
Former choreographer | Olga Volozhinskaya | ||||||||||||
Former skating club | Genesee FSC | ||||||||||||
Former training locations | Rochester, New York Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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Began skating | 1988 | ||||||||||||
Retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Stacey Elizabeth Pensgen (born May 25, 1982) is an American former competitive figure skater who won the silver medal at the 2000 Four Continents Championships. As of August 10, 2016, she is the chief meteorologist for WROC-TV News 8 in Rochester, New York.
Pensgen was born in Fairport, New York. She trained in gymnastics from the age of three until she was fifteen. She was a regional champion in 1994 and 1995.
Pensgen studied at Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She later attended Oakland Community College, and the University of Colorado. In 2007, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from SUNY Brockport.
Pensgen began skating at the age of six after watching figure skating on television. From 1998, she was coached mainly by Richard Callaghan at the Onyx in Rochester. She was also coached by Mitch Moyer at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She represented Genesee Figure Skating Club.
Competing in single skating, Pensgen won the bronze medal at the 1999 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Canada and the silver medal at the 2000 Four Continents Championships. Her highest placement at the U.S. Championships was sixth in 2000.
In the 2001–02 season, Pensgen was coached by Callaghan and Sergei Petrovsky in Michigan. In 2003, she trained under Diana Ronayne in Colorado Springs, Colorado.