Suna Murray (born April 16, 1955 in

Tallahassee, Florida Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, Florida, Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In ...

) is an American former

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

. She twice won a

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at the

U.S. Figure Skating Championships The U.S. Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is ofte ...

and competed at the 1972

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. Murray coaches at the

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. Her daughter

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is also an elite skater. Her other daughter, Hadley Gleason, is a graduate of Trinity College playing both field and ice hockey. She is a technical panel member for US Figure Skating. She graduated from Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ and

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Where Are They Now: Suna Murray
American female single skaters Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of the United States 1955 births Living people Sportspeople from Tallahassee, Florida Harvard College alumni 21st-century American women {{US-figure-skating-bio-stub