Logan Bye (born March 2, 1998) is an American ice dancer. With his skating partner, Eva Pate, he is the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic silver medalist.[2] With former partner Chloe Lewis, he is the 2016 Youth Olympic silver medalist.

Logan Bye
Eva Pate, Logan Bye, Igor Sphilband, and Adrienne Lenda at the 2020 US Figure Skating Championships
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	(1998-03-02) March 2, 1998 (age 24) Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Home town	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Partner	Eva Pate
Former partner	Chloe Lewis
Coach	Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Adrienne Lenda, Natalia Deller,[1]
Former coach	Marina Zueva, Judy Blumberg, Ikaika Young
Choreographer	Pasquale Camerlengo, Igor Shpilband, Renee Petkovski, Oksana Zolotarevskaya, Zachary Donohue
Former choreographer	Marina Zueva
Skating club	Skating Club of NY
Training locations	Novi, Michigan
Former training locations	Beaverton, Oregon Sun Valley, Idaho
Began skating	2001
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	179.63 2022 CS U.S. Classic
Short dance	72.66 2022 CS U.S. Classic
Free dance	106.97 2022 CS U.S. Classic

Personal life

Logan Bye was born on March 2, 1998 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[3] He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2012, and then, two years later, to Michigan. He has a younger sister named Jessica.[4] In May 2021, he graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor earning a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering.[5][6]

On August 23, Eva Pate announced that the two were engaged.[7]

Career

Bye started learning to skate in 2001.[3]

Intermediate and novice career

Bye and Chloe Lewis met in February 2010 at a rink in Sun Valley, Idaho and began training together in August 2010.[4] Because they lived in different cities, they trained half a month together, half apart during their first two seasons.[8][9] In the 2010–11 season, they qualified to compete on the intermediate level at the U.S. Junior Championships and finished sixth.

Lewis/Bye placed fourth on the novice level at the 2012 U.S. Championships. They began training together regularly after Bye moved to Beaverton, Oregon in autumn 2012.[4] They won the novice title at the 2013 U.S. Championships.

Junior career

During the 2013–14 season, Lewis/Bye were coached by Ikaika Young in Portland, Oregon; by Judy Blumberg in Sun Valley, Idaho; and by Igor Shpilband in Novi, Michigan.[4][10] Making their ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut, they placed fifth in September 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico, and 11th the following month in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The two finished sixth on the junior level at the 2014 U.S. Championships.

In 2014–15, Lewis/Bye were coached by Shpilband and Blumberg in Novi, Michigan.[11] They placed fifth in Courchevel, France at their sole 2015 JGP assignment and seventh in junior ice dancing at the 2015 U.S. Championships.

Coached by Shpilband,[3] Lewis/Bye placed fifth at both of their 2015–16 JGP assignments. In January 2016, they finished 6th on the junior level at the 2016 U.S. Championships. In February, they represented the United States at the 2016 Youth Olympics in Hamar, Norway.[12] Ranked third in the short dance and second in the free dance, they were awarded the silver medal behind Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov and ahead of Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin.[13][14]

Senior career

Bye and Eva Pate partnered up in June 2019 and were coached by Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Adrienne Lenda and Natalia Deller in Novi, Michigan.

2019–2020 season

On July 25, Bye announced his new partnership with Eva Pate.[15] They competed at the Midwestern Sectional Dance Challenge placing 2nd.[16] They won the U.S. Ice Dance Final in Hyannis, Massachusetts.[17] Making their debut at the 2020 US Figure Skating Championships they placed seventh.[18]

2020–2021 season

Pate/Bye were assigned to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Skate America in Las Vegas, NV, attended primarily by American skaters due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] They finished in seventh place. At the U.S. national championships later that season, they were seventh as well there.[20]

2021–2022 season

Pate/Bye began the season at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International where they placed fifth.[21] They were assigned the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic where they earned their first international bronze medal.[16] Making their debut on the Challenger series, they were seventh at the 2021 ISU Warsaw Cup.[22] At the U.S. Championships, Pate/Bye finished in eighth.[23]

2022–2023 season

Pate/Bye started their season at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International where they won the silver international medal.[24] They were assigned the CS U.S International Figure Skating Classic held in Lake Placid, NY, where they won the silver medal.[2] At their second assigned Challenger Series competition of the season, Nepela Memorial, Pate/Bye won the silver medal.[25]

Programs

With Pate

With Lewis

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Pate

With Lewis

Notes

References

External links

• Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye at the International Skating Union