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Emily Chan (born August 11, 1997) is an American pair skater. With her skating partner, Spencer Howe, she is the 2022 Four Continents silver medalist, 2022 Skate Canada International silver medalist, and 2022 U.S. national pewter medalist.

Emily Chan
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	(1997-08-11) August 11, 1997 (age 25) Pasadena, Texas, U.S.
Residence	McKinney, Texas, U.S.
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Partner	Spencer Akira Howe
Former partner	Misha Mitrofanov J. Daniel Vallecilla
Coach	Olga Ganicheva, Aleksey Letov
Choreographer	Olga Ganicheva
Skating club	The Skating Club of Boston
Former skating club	Dallas FSC
Training locations	Norwood, MA
Former training locations	Plano, Texas
Began skating	2001
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	187.49 2022 NHK Trophy
Short program	67.39 2022 Skate Canada International
Free skate	122.87 2022 NHK Trophy
Medal record Representing  United States Figure skating: Pairs Four Continents Championships 2022 Tallinn Pairs

Earlier in her career, she competed in women's singles, becoming the 2016 U.S. national junior champion and 2015 U.S. national novice champion.

Personal life

Chan was born in Pasadena, Texas.[1] She attended Fairmont Elementary School and Fairmont Junior High in Pasadena,[2] and high school in McKinney, Texas.[1] In addition to skating, she has also trained in Chinese modern dance and ballet.[2]

Career

Single skating

Chan competed at the novice level until the 2014–15 season. At the U.S. Championships, she finished sixth in 2013 and ninth in 2014 before winning the gold medal in 2015.[1]

In 2015–16, Chan moved up to the junior level. She made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in Bratislava, Slovakia, finishing sixth.[1] She won the gold medal at the 2016 U.S. Championships.[3] She trained in Plano, Texas, coached by Aleksey Letov.[1][4]

Pair skating

Chan competed three seasons in juvenile pairs with J. Daniel Vallecilla. In December 2008, the two won the juvenile title at the 2009 U.S. Junior Championships. The pair was coached by Nicole Sciarrotta Nichols in Texas.[2]

Skating with Misha Mitrofanov, Chan placed eighth in novice pairs at the 2015 U.S. Championships

She teamed up with Spencer Howe in 2019, and the two decided to train at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, coached by Aleksey Letov and Olga Ganicheva.[5] In their second season together, Chan/Howe placed seventh at the 2020 Skate America and fifth at the 2021 U.S. Championships.

Chan/Howe finished ninth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup. In January, they won pewter for fourth place at the 2022 U.S. Championships and were sent to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. Ranked third in the short and second in the free, they moved ahead of Canada's Walsh/Michaud to take the silver medal behind fellow Americans Lu/Mitrofanov.[6]

The international pairs scene going into the 2022–23 season was greatly altered by the International Skating Union banning all Russian skaters in response to their country's invasion of Ukraine.[7] With more podium opportunities for pairs outside of Russia, Chan/Howe began with a silver medal win at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic. Howe said that they were pleased with the outcome in light of injury troubles that had hindered their preparations.[8] Given two Grand Prix assignments for the first time, they won the silver medal at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[9]

Programs

With Howe

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–23 [10]	Nyah performed by CH2 choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	Ghost: The Musical Unchained Melody / The Love Inside performed by Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy Unchained Melody performed by Marc Martel choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	Something's Got to Give by Labrinth
2021–22 [11]	Nyah performed by CH2 choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	Elegy For The Arctic Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	Something's Got to Give by Labrinth
2020–21 [12]	Onmyoji 2 by Shigeru Umebayashi choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	The Prayer by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa, Tony Renis performed by Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion choreo. by Olga Ganicheva
2019–20 [5]	Je Crois Entendre Encore by Alison Moyet choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter choreo. by Olga Ganicheva

Single skating

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2016–17 [1]	Je Suis Malade by Lara Fabian Olga Ganicheva	Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen choreo. by Olga Ganicheva
2015–16 [4]	I Will Always Love You (from The Bodyguard) by Whitney Houston choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	Chopin by Edvin Martin choreo. by Olga Ganicheva

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix. Pewter medals (fourth place) awarded only at U.S. national and subnational events.

Pairs with Howe

International[13]
Event	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Four Continents			2nd
GP Final				TBD
GP NHK Trophy				2nd
GP Skate America		7th
GP Skate Canada				2nd
CS Asian Open			WD
CS U.S. Classic				2nd
CS Warsaw Cup			9th
Cranberry Cup			4th
John Nicks IPC			6th	2nd
National[5]
U.S. Championships		5th	4th
ISP Points Challenge		8th
Championship Series		1st
U.S. Pairs Final	6th
Midwestern Sectionals	2nd
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Pairs with Mitrofanov

National
Event	2014–15
U.S. Championships	8th N
Midwestern Sectional	4th N
N = Novice level

Pairs with Vallecilla

National
Event	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09
U.S. Junior Champ.	10th V Q	3rd V	1st V
Midwestern Sectional			1st V
Q = Qualifying group; V = Juvenile level

Ladies singles

International[14]
Event	08–09	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18
CS U.S. Classic									6th
JGP Slovakia								6th
Gardena							2nd J
National[1]
U.S. Champ.					6th N	9th N	1st N	1st J		20th
Midwestern					4th N	2nd N	1st N	2nd J	5th	3rd
Southwestern	5th V	6th I	1st I	5th N	3rd N	3rd N	1st N	1st J
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

References

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