A Cool New Pairs Team!!!!

[FSWer]

Say everyone!!!! I was surfing Skateweb and found this link and just thought I'd share it with you all. Introducing the newest Pair team of Meredith Pipkin and Dean Copely!!!!! Meredith bears an amazing resemblance to some I know. A bagger in a store. So here is the link...
http://www.foy-copely.com/
for some reason there using Ashley's old link. BTW. anyone know if she herself yet has found a new partner? Have fun.

[CanAmSk8ter]

I saw Ashley recently and she's fine, but I'm going to leave it up to her whether she wants to come here and post anything more specific than that.

[Sylvia]

Thanks for sharing the link! The first-year pair team of Pipkin & Copely placed 5th in the Juvenile Pairs final at U.S. Junior Nationals earlier this month:
http://www.usfigureskating.org/event_related_details.asp?ri=content/events/200405/usjrchamps/juvpairs-final.htm

Index page for all Junior (Juvenile/Intermediate) Nationals results, photos, and articles is at:
http://www.usfigureskating.org/event_details.asp?id=20422

[Isk8NYC]

Meredith bears an amazing resemblance to some I know. A bagger in a store.
I thought you had written "A bagger, for sure." I thought it was a really mean insult about being so ugly you needed to wear a bag "for sure." When I realized my mistake, I started laughing.

I hope the pair do well this year.

[Sylvia]

Here's a nice little local article on Meredith Pipkin, age 10: http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/dec/mpipkin122204.html

[FSWer]

I thought she looked YOUNG!!!!!! HOLLY CRIPE!!!!!!!!! She's only 1O and does PAIRS!!!!!!!!! TALK ABOUT THE YOUNGEST PAIR SKATER...EVER!!!!!!!

[SkateFan123]

I thought she looked YOUNG!!!!!! HOLLY CRIPE!!!!!!!!! She's only 1O and does PAIRS!!!!!!!!! TALK ABOUT THE YOUNGEST PAIR SKATER...EVER!!!!!!!Shantel Jordon, the US Jr Pairs National Champ and the French National Champ with her partner Jeremy Barrett, is only 12! And she's the US Jr Pairs Champion! She also skates singles. She's been a pairs skater .

Here's their competitive history:
2005 Eastern Sectional Senior - 3rd
2004 North American Challenge Skate (Waterloo), Junior - 2nd
2004 State Farm U.S. Championships, Junior - 1st
2004 Eastern Sectional, Junior - 1st
2003 State Farm U.S. Championships, Junior - 9th
2003 Eastern Sectional, Junior - 3rd
2002 State Farm U.S. Championships, Novice - 9th
2002 Eastern Sectional, Novice - 1st
2002 South Atlantic Regional, Novice - 1st


Too bad she can't compete Internationally for the US!

[Sylvia]

Shantel Jordan was 9 years old when she made her debut at Novice Nationals in January 2002. Portland Nationals will be her 4th straight trip to "big" Nationals and Jordan/Barrett's senior debut.


Too bad she can't compete Internationally for the US!

Shantel's too young for ISU junior events, but she and Jeremy have competed at two North American Challenge Skates (in 2002 and 2004) and they were invited to compete as guests at France's senior nationals earlier this month, which they won over 2 other French pairs.

[CanAmSk8ter]

I thought she looked YOUNG!!!!!! HOLLY CRIPE!!!!!!!!! She's only 1O and does PAIRS!!!!!!!!! TALK ABOUT THE YOUNGEST PAIR SKATER...EVER!!!!!!!

:roll: Um... no. Doing pairs at ten isn't unusual at all. I have a friend who started pairs at ten and had won JN's a year later. I've heard of kids starting pairs as young as seven or eight, especially girls skating with their older brothers. She's definitely not the youngest ever by a long shot. Like someone else said, Shantel Jordan competed at *big* nationals for the first time at nine, and she was actually two levels ahead of Pipkin and Copely.

[SkateFan123]

Shantel Jordan was 9 years old when she made her debut at Novice Nationals in January 2002. Portland Nationals will be her 4th straight trip to "big" Nationals and Jordan/Barrett's senior debut.



Shantel's too young for ISU junior events, but she and Jeremy have competed at two North American Challenge Skates (in 2002 and 2004) and they were invited to compete as guests at France's senior nationals earlier this month, which they won over 2 other French pairs.
I think its pretty funny that the French Pairs Champs are Americans! They did get the championship trophy, I saw the picture online!