Garrett Lucash (born September 21, 1978, in
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Attleboro is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It was once known as "The Jewelry Capital of the World" for its many jewelry manufacturers. According to the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, Attleboro had a population ...
) is an American
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
Katie Orscher
Kathryn "Katie" Orscher (born June 18, 1984) is an American figure skater who competed as a single skater and pair skater. With partner Garrett Lucash, she is the 2005 U.S. national champion and 2005 Four Continents bronze medalist.
Persona ...
, he is the 2005
U.S. national champion and 2005
Four Continents bronze medalist.
Career
Lucash was searching for a new partner when he remembered Orscher and gave her a call. Unlike most skaters, they both rotate clockwise. They trained in
Simsbury, Connecticut.
[
In 2005, Orscher and Lucash won the gold medal at the U.S. Championships. They went on to win the bronze medal at the 2005 Four Continents Championships. At the 2005 Worlds, their placement combined with that of ]Rena Inoue
is a Japanese-born American retired pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters t ...
/ John Baldwin earned the United States two entries to the 2006 Winter Olympics
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.
In the summer of 2005, Orscher broke her foot, causing them to lose training time before the 2005–06 season. In January 2006 at the U.S Championships in St. Louis, Missouri
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, they were in first after the short program but dropped to third after the long program and missed the Olympic team by .66 points.
Orscher and Lucash announced their retirement from competitive skating in April 2006.[ Lucash is the co-creator and director of the National Figure Skating Academy in Boston, along with Dmitri Palamarchuk.
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Personal life
Lucash is a Boston Red Sox
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fan. On August 1, 2007, he was featured on the first episode of the Red Sox themed dating show
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Sox Appeal, in which he went on three blind dates at Fenway Park
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during a Red Sox game against the San Francisco Giants
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.
Programs
(with Orscher)
Competitive highlights
With MacAdam
With Waldstein
With Orscher
References
External links
National Figure Skating Academy - Boston
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1978 births
Living people
American male pair skaters
People from Attleboro, Massachusetts
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists