Stephen Carriere | |||||||||||||
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Carriere at the 2007 NHK Trophy.
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Melrose, Massachusetts |
June 15, 1989 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
Coach | Suna Murray | ||||||||||||
Former coach | Peter Johansson, Mark Mitchell, Sue Hamel, Priscilla Hill, Karl Kurtz | ||||||||||||
Choreographer | David Wilson, Tanith Belbin | ||||||||||||
Former choreographer | Scott Brown, Mark Mitchell, Jamie Isley | ||||||||||||
Skating club | Skating Club of Boston | ||||||||||||
Began skating | 1995 | ||||||||||||
Retired | June 10, 2015 | ||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
Combined total | 231.67 2014 Skate Canada |
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Short program | 80.33 2014 Skate Canada |
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Free skate | 151.34 2014 Skate Canada |
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Stephen Carriere (born June 15, 1989) is an American figure skater. He is the 2007 World Junior champion, 2006 JGP Final champion, and 2008 U.S. national bronze medalist. During his career, he has won two Grand Prix medals, one Challenger Series medal, and four other senior international medals.
Carriere was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wakefield High School in 2007. In 2007, he began attending Boston College part-time, where he is a corporate business major.
Carriere graduate from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College with a degree in marketing and management in 2015.
His cousin, Caroline Hallisey, is a short track speed skater and a three-time Olympian.
From 2000 through 2009, Carriere trained at the Skating Club of Boston and was coached by Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson.
Carriere won the pewter medal at the novice level of the 2004 U.S. Championships. The following season, 2004–2005, he made his junior debut. He placed 5th at his first Junior Grand Prix assignment but was not given a second one. That year, he placed 7th at 2005 U.S. Championships on the junior level.
In the 2005-2006 season, Carriere won a gold and a silver medal on the Junior Grand Prix and then placed 6th at the Final. He moved up at Nationals and won the junior gold medal. This earned him a trip to the World Junior Championships, where he placed just off the podium.