Cathy Reed (born June 5, 1987) is a retired American-born Japanese

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. With her brother Chris Reed, she is a seven-time Japanese national champion (2008–2011, 2013-2015).

Personal life

Reed was born in

Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolit ...

. Her mother is Japanese and her father is American. She was a dual citizen of Japan and the United States until she turned 22. Japanese law required those who are dual citizens at birth to relinquish their dual citizenship, so Cathy Reed chose Japanese citizenship at the age of 22 in order to continue to represent Japan in ice dancing. She competed in ice dancing with her younger brother Chris Reed until her retirement in April 2015. Her younger sister

Allison Reed Allison Lynn Reed (born June 8, 1994) is an American-born ice dancer who currently competes for Lithuania with Saulius Ambrulevičius. She previously skated with Otar Japaridze for Georgia (country), Georgia and with Vasili Rogov for Israel. Wi ...

is also an ice dancer, who represented

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with

Otar Japaridze Otar Japaridze ( ka, ოთარ ჯაფარიძე, born December 23, 1987) is a Georgian former competitive ice dancer. With former partner Allison Reed, he represented Georgia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He later skated with Angelina ...

, Israel with Vasili Rogov and currently represents Lithuania with Saulius Ambrulevicius. Reed and her skating siblings grew up in

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Career

The Reeds are the 2006 U.S. Novice Dance Champions, but chose to represent Japan beginning in the 2006–2007 season. While Novice national champions are usually given a chance to compete on the Junior Grand Prix, Cathy Reed was too old at the time of their win to compete as a junior internationally. The Reeds were offered a chance to compete for Japan and they took it. They advanced immediately to the senior level, skipping Juniors entirely. After advancing to the senior level, they placed fourth at the Golden Spin of Zagreb and second at the 2007 Japan Championships. At the 2007 Four Continents, they finished ahead of several teams who had been competing as seniors much longer. At their Grand Prix debut, the

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, they placed 9th. They placed 8th at their second Grand Prix event, the

2007 NHK Trophy The 2007 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2007–08 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Sendai City Gymnasium in Sendai on November 28 – December 2. Med ...

. They won the Japanese Championships. They repeated their 7th-place finish at the

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and then placed 16th at the 2008 World Championships. They represented Japan at the

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Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

. The Reeds were named in the Japanese team to the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

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. After the

2014–15 figure skating season The 2014–15 figure skating season began on July 1, 2014, and ended on June 30, 2015. During this season, elite skaters competed at the ISU Championship level in the 2015 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships. Other ...

, Cathy retired from competitive figure skating. Reed now works as a figure skating coach and choreographer in

Kansai University , abbreviated as or , is a private non-sectarian and coeducational university with its main campus in Suita, Osaka, Japan and two sub-campuses in Sakai and Takatsuki, Osaka. Founded as Kansai Law School in 1886, It has been recognized as one of t ...

(

Takatsuki, Osaka is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is located in northern Osaka's Hokusetsu region. As of 2020, the city had an estimated population of 347,944 and a population density of 3,300 persons per km². The total area is 105.31 km². The c ...

) with

Mie Hamada is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor. Hamada graduated from Doshisha University in 1983. She currently coaches at the Kansai University Skating Club in Takatsuki, Osaka with Yamato Tamura. Her current students include: * Ay ...

and

Yamato Tamura is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor. As a single skater, he is a two-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics, placing 17th. Career As a competitor Competing in single skating ...

. Her students include: * Mariko Kihara *

Rika Kihira Rika Kihira ( ja, 紀平梨花; born 21 July 2002) is a Japanese figure skater. She is a two-time Four Continents champion (2019, 2020), the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, a four-time Grand Prix series medalist (2018 NHK Trophy gold, 2018 Inter ...

Yuna Shiraiwa is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2018 CS Asian Open silver medalist, the 2017 Asian Trophy silver medalist, and the 2018 Coupe du Printemps bronze medalist. Earlier in her career, she won gold medals at two ISU Junior Grand Prix ev ...

Programs

(with Chris Reed)

Competitive highlights

With Chris Reed for Japan

With Chris Reed for the United States

References

External links

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Cathy Reed & Chris Reed Official Blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Cathy 1987 births Japanese female ice dancers Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Japan Living people American female ice dancers American sportspeople of Japanese descent Japanese people of American descent People from Warren Township, New Jersey Former United States citizens Sportspeople from Kalamazoo, Michigan Sportspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey Asian Games medalists in figure skating Figure skaters at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Kansai University faculty American women academics