Andrew Speroff (born May 19, 1988) is an American former

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With partner

Gretchen Donlan Gretchen Donlan (born November 18, 1993) is an American former pair skater. With partner Andrew Speroff, she is the 2013 Ondrej Nepela Trophy champion, 2013 Ice Challenge champion, and 2012 U.S. national pewter medalist. In July 2014, Donlan te ...

, he is the 2013

Ondrej Nepela Trophy The Nepela Memorial ( sk, Memoriál Ondreja Nepelu), formerly known as the Ondrej Nepela Trophy in 2013–15 & 2017 and the Ondrej Nepela Memorial, is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition. Named after 1972 Olympic champ ...

champion, 2013

Ice Challenge The Icechallenge (formerly known as the Leo-Scheu-Gedächtnislaufen or Leo Scheu Memorial) is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Grazer Eislaufverein and sanctioned by the Austrian Figure Skating association and the ...

champion, and 2012 U.S. national pewter medalist.

Personal life

Born in

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, Speroff was raised in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

until age ten when his family moved to

Colorado Springs, Colorado Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since ...

. He moved to

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

in 2009 to train with Donlan. He has a college degree in sports management. He married pair skater

Kylie Duarte Kylie Duarte (born April 23, 1993 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American former competitive pair skater. With Colin Grafton, she is the 2012 U.S. junior bronze medalist and finished eighth at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk. T ...

on October 8, 2018.

Career

Speroff began skating when he was eight. At age thirteen, he began training in the

pairs Concentration, also known as Memory, Shinkei-suijaku (Japanese meaning "nervous breakdown"), Matching Pairs, Match Match, Match Up, Pelmanism, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and tw ...

discipline with

Rachael Flatt Rachael Elizabeth Flatt (born July 21, 1992) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2008 World Junior champion, a winner of four silver medals on the Grand Prix series, and the 2010 U.S. national champion. She was nominat ...

, who would be his partner for over three years. In 2001, Speroff had stress fractures in his lower back. The pair won the 2004 U.S. national title on the intermediate level before parting ways. Speroff had nerve damage in his shoulder in 2004. He later skated with Ariel Avant, Amanda Luchau, and Brittany Chase. Speroff and

were paired together in spring 2009 by coach Bobby Martin. The pair made their international debut at the

2010 Nebelhorn Trophy The 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy took place between September 23 and 26, 2010 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf.http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100925&content_id=15065688&vkey=ice_news The competition is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germ ...

where they finished 4th. They were 8th at the 2011 U.S. Championships. Donlan/Speroff won the pewter medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships. The next season, they received a Grand Prix assignment, the

2012 Skate America The 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America was the first event of six in the 2012–13 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington on October 19� ...

, and finished 6th. The pair took the silver medal at the 2012

. In the 2013–14 season, Donlan/Speroff won gold medals at two international events, the 2013

and 2013

. Speroff retired from competition in 2014. He then began skating on cruise ships in partnership with

Programs

(with Donlan)

Competitive highlights

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Grand Prix Grand Prix ( , meaning ''Grand Prize''; plural Grands Prix), is a name sometimes used for competitions or sport events, alluding to the winner receiving a prize, trophy or honour Grand Prix or grand prix may refer to: Arts and entertainment ...

With Donlan

With Chase

With Luchau

With Flatt

References

External links

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Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff
at IceNetwork
Official website of Donlan / Speroff
{{DEFAULTSORT:Speroff, Andrew 1988 births American male pair skaters Living people Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey 20th-century American people 21st-century American people