Tiffany Vise
| Tiffany Vise | |
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Vise / Baldwin in 2011.
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Tiffany Vise |
| Country represented | United States |
| Born |
February 2, 1986 Aurora, Colorado |
| Home town | Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) |
| Partner | Don Baldwin |
| Former partner |
Derek Trent Ryan Bradley Laureno Ibarra |
| Former coach |
Doug Ladret Irina Vorobieva |
| Former choreographer |
Doug Ladret Catarina Lindgren Julie Patterson |
| Skating club | Broadmoor SC |
| Retired | April 2013 |
Tiffany Vise (born February 2, 1986) is an American pair skater. Between 2003 and 2009, she competed with partner Derek Trent. 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.
Their partnership ended in the spring of 2009 when Trent retired from competitive skating. Vise teamed up with Don Baldwin and began competing with him in the 2009–2010 season.
Unlike most pair teams, Vise is a clockwise spinner while her partners have been counter-clockwise spinners. They are therefore mirror pair teams.
Vise was born in Aurora, Colorado. She works part-time as a skating coach. Her younger sister Brittany Vise is also a pair skater.
Vise is right-handed, but spins "lefty" (clockwise).
Vise began skating at age four. She competed with Ryan Bradley from 1997–1998. Following that partnership, she teamed up with Laureano Ibarra. She competed with Ibarra at the World Junior Championships, placing 6th, and on the Junior Grand Prix.
When that partnership broke up, Vise was left without a partner. She teamed up with Derek Trent in the summer of 2003. They had skated at the same rink for years. He was partnerless at the same time and so they began to practice 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 because 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.
Vise / Trent won the bronze medal at their first major event together, the 2003 Golden Spin of Zagreb. Beginning in the 2006–2007 season, Vise and Trent began attempting the throw quadruple salchow in competition. They were credited for the element at the 2006 Skate Canada International, but not with landing it, because it was fully rotated but not landed successfully.
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