Logan Bye (born March 2, 1998) is an American ice dancer. With his skating partner and fiancée,

Eva Pate Eva Pate (born May 11, 2000) is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner and fiancé, Logan Bye, she is a two-time ISU Challenger Series silver medalist. Personal life Pate was born on May 11, 2000, in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents Je ...

, he is a two-time

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silver medalist. With former partner Chloe Lewis, he is the 2016 Youth Olympic silver medalist, 2016 JGP Estonia bronze medalist, and 2018 U.S. junior national bronze medalist.

Personal life

Logan Bye was born on March 2, 1998, in

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. He moved to

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in 2012, and then, two years later, to

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. He has a younger sister named Jessica. In May 2021, he graduated from the

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, earning a

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in biomedical engineering. Bye began dating

in December 2018 before their becoming on-ice partners. They became engaged in August 2022.

Career

Bye started learning to skate in 2001.

Partnership with Lewis

Early years

Bye and Chloe Lewis met in February 2010 at a rink in

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in the autumn of 2012. They won the novice title at the 2013 U.S. Championships. During the 2013–14 season, Lewis/Bye were coached by Ikaika Young in Portland, Oregon; by

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. They were invited to make their international junior debut, appearing twice on the

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. They finished fifth at the 2013 JGP Mexico in

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, and eleventh at the 2013 JGP Czech Republic in

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. Lewis/Bye ended the season at the 2014 U.S. Junior Championships, where they came sixth. In 2014–15, Lewis/Bye were coached by Shpilband and Blumberg in Novi, Michigan. Only given one

assignment for that season, they were fifth at the 2014 JGP France in Courchevel, and then finished seventh at the 2015 U.S. Junior Championships.

2015–16 season

Lewis/Bye were coached solely by Shpilband going into their third international junior season. Again given two

assignments, Lewis/Bye placed fifth at both the 2015 JGP Spain and the 2015 JGP United States. In January 2016, Lewis/Bye finished sixth at the 2016 U.S. Junior Championships. As a result of this placement, they were selected for Team USA as the lone American entry at the

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, Norway. Ranked third in the short dance and second in the free dance, they were awarded the silver medal behind Russians Shpilevaya/

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and ahead of Skoptsova/ Aleshin. Bye said afterward that "being here is an honor and getting a medal it definitely inspires us quite a bit, knowing that all of our work for the season has paid off, and we’re just going to keep on working."

2016–17 season

Beginning the season on the

, Lewis/Bye finished sixth at the 2016 JGP Czech Republic after encountering difficulties on their twizzle elements. They then competed at the 2016 JGP Estonia in

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. Despite twizzle difficulties in the short dance again, they won the bronze medal. At the 2017 U.S. Junior Championships, Lewis/Bye placed fourth and stood on the junior national podium as pewter medalists.

2017–18 season

In their final season on the

, Lewis/Bye were fifth at both the 2017 JGP Australia and the 2017 JGP Italy. Lewis/Bye won the bronze medal at the 2018 U.S. Junior Championships. By virtue of their top three finish, they were assigned to the American team for the 2018 World Junior Championships in

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. They placed seventh. While the team had initially intended to continue and had planned programs for the following season, Lewis had begun to feel "very burnt out" with training and ultimately opted to retire from competitive skating.

Partnership with Pate

2019–20 season

Bye had begun dating solo ice dancer

in December 2018, and in June 2019, they decided to become an on-ice partnership, her first in competitive ice dance. They were coached by Shpilband,

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, Adrienne Lenda and

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in Novi. Pate/Bye made their domestic debut at the Midwestern Sectional Dance Challenge, taking the silver medal. They went on to win the U.S. Ice Dance Final in

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. This, in turn, qualified them for their debut at the 2020 U.S. Championships, held in Greensboro, where they placed seventh.

2020–21 season

Due to the onset of the

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, competition opportunities were limited both domestically and internationally for the 2020–21 season. Pate/Bye were assigned to make their Grand Prix debut at the

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, attended primarily by American skaters due to travel restrictions pandemic. They finished in seventh place. At the U.S. national championships later that season, also in Las Vegas, they were seventh as well.

2021–22 season

With the resumption of a more normal international calendar, Pate/Bye made their season debut at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, where they placed fifth. They were assigned the U.S. Classic where they earned their first international bronze medal. Pate said of the occasion that "we have been training really hard every day and just being able to be out here and put out a clean skate makes me feel really proud of us." Making their debut on the Challenger series, they were seventh at the 2021 ISU Warsaw Cup. At the U.S. Championships, Pate/Bye finished in eighth.

2022–23 season

The new Olympic cycle brought began with the international dance scene considerably altered from the norm, with Russian teams banned as a result of the

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. For their program music, their rhythm dance included soundtrack music from the 2011 film ''

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'', which Pate had previously used in her solo dance career. Their free dance, to '' Riverdance'', was an acknowledgement of the couple's

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heritage. Pate/Bye started their season at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, where they took the silver medal. They were given two Challenger circuit assignments after that, first winning the silver medal at the 2022 CS U.S Classic, held in Lake Placid. They set new personal bests in the process, with Bye adding that "we wanted to put out what we've been training, so I thought it went well." They went on to win a second silver medal at the

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. The team received their second ever

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assignment for the

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. Pate described her reaction to the news "my mom called me, and she was like, ‘You're going to France!’ and I'm like, ‘that’s crazy!’ I was so excited." They finished fifth at the event. Pate/Bye were selected to compete in a third Challenger circuit assignment,

2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held on December 7–10, 2022 in Sisak, Croatia. It was part of the 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The non ...

, where they earned a seasons best free dance score and finished fourth. Concluding the season at the 2023 U.S. Championships, Pate/Bye finished eighth for the second consecutive year.

Programs

With Pate

With Lewis

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

With Pate

With Lewis

Chloe Lewis and Logan Bye at the 2018 World Junior Championships

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bye, Logan 1998 births American male ice dancers Living people Figure skaters from Colorado Springs, Colorado Dancers from Colorado Figure skaters at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Youth Olympic silver medalists for the United States Michigan Wolverines athletes 21st-century American people