Tiffany Vise

Tiffany Vise

Vise & Trent in 2006.
Personal information
Full name	Tiffany Vise
Country represented	United States
Born	February 2, 1986 (1986-02-02) (age 25) Aurora, Colorado
Home town	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Height	5 ft 0 in (1.52 m)
Partner	Don Baldwin
Former partner	Derek Trent Ryan Bradley Laureno Ibarra
Coach	Doug Ladret
Former coach	Irina Vorobieva
Former choreographer	Doug Ladret Catarina Lindgren Julie Patterson
Skating club	Broadmoor SC

Tiffany Vise (born February 2, 1986) is an American pair skater. Between 2003 and 2009, she competed with partner Derek Trent. On November 17, 2007, Vise & Trent landed the first clean throw quadruple salchow jump in international competition.^[1] They officially became the first team to perform that element in international competition.^[2]

Their partnership ended in the spring of 2009 when Trent retired from competitive skating.^[3] Vise teamed up with Don Baldwin and began competing with him in the 2009-2010 season.

Unlike most pair teams, Vise is a clockwise spinner while her partners have been counter-clockwise spinners. They are therefore mirror pair teams.

Personal life

Vise was born in Aurora, Colorado. She currently attends Scottsdale Community College, where she is studying kinesiology. She works parttime as a waitress and skating coach. Her younger sister Brittany Vise is also a pair skater.

Vise is right-handed, but spins "lefty" (clockwise).^[4]

Career

Vise began skating at age four. She competed with Ryan Bradley from 1997–1998. Following that partnership, she teamed up with Laureano Ibarra. She competed with Ibarra at the World Junior Championshps, placing 6th, and on the Junior Grand Prix.

When that partnership broke up, Vise was left without a partner. She teamed up with Derek Trent in the summer of 2003.^[5] They had skated at the same rink for years. He was partnerless at the same time and so they began to practice together, despite the fact that they rotate in opposite directions, which is usually a partnership-killer. Very few teams at the highest level rotate in opposite directions because it makes elements like pair spins and twists much more difficult because one partner will have to "force" him- or herself to rotate in the "wrong" direction in order to complete the element (Vise spinned his way on twist lifts). They represented the Broadmoor Skating Club.

Vise and Trent won the bronze medal at their first major event together, the 2003 Golden Spin of Zagreb. Beginning in the 2006-2007 season, Vise and Trent began attempting the throw quadruple salchow in competition. They were credited for the element at the 2006 Skate Canada International, but not with landing it, because it was fully rotated but not landed successfully.^[6]

They began the 2007–2008 season at the 2007 Skate Canada, where they placed 5th. They went on to the 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard, where they successfully landed a throw quadruple salchow jump in their free skate, becoming the first pair team to ever perform that element in international competition.^[2] They won the pewter medal at the 2008 U.S. Championships and were sent to the 2008 Four Continents, where they placed 8th.

In the 2008-2009 season, they placed 5th at the 2008 Skate Canada International and the 2008 Trophée Eric Bompard. They placed 8th at the 2009 U.S. Championships. Trent retired from competitive skating following that season.^[3]

Vise began the 2009-2010 season with Don Baldwin at the 2010 Pacific Coast Sectional Championships, where they won the senior pairs event.^[7] They placed second at the 2010 Ice Challenge in Graz.^[8]

Programs

With Baldwin

Season	Short program	Free skating
2011–2012	Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt	Legends of the Fall by James Horner Time to Say Goodbye by Francesco Sartori performed by Erich Kunzel
2010–2011	Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt

With Trent

Season	Short program	Free skating
2007–2008	Harem by Sarah Brightman	Les Misérables
2006–2007	Shall We Dance? Dance with Me soundtracks	Les Misérables
2005–2006	Shall We Dance? Dance with Me soundtracks	Quidam from Cirque du Soleil
2004–2005	The Italian Job soundtrack	Quidam from Cirque du Soleil
2003–2004	The Italian Job soundtrack	Nights in White Satin by Moody Blues

Competitive highlights

With Baldwin

Event	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
U.S. Championships	8th	6th
Skate America			6th
Nebelhorn Trophy			7th
Ice Challenge		2nd
Pacific Coast Sectional Championships	1st

With Trent

Event	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008-09
Four Continents Championships					8th
U.S. Championships	13th	9th	6th	5th	4th	8th
Trophée Eric Bompard					4th	5th
Skate Canada International				5th	5th	5th
Skate America				6th
Nebelhorn Trophy					5th
Karl Schafer Memorial			3rd
Golden Spin of Zagreb	3rd
Midwestern Sectionals		2nd	1st	1st

With Ibarra

Event	2001–02	2002–03
World Junior Championships	6th
U.S. Championships	3rd J.	11th
Junior Grand Prix, Slovakia		3rd
Junior Grand Prix, China		2nd
Midwestern Sectionals	1st J.	1st

• J = Junior level

With Bradley

Event	1997–98	1998–99
U.S. Championships	6th N.	7th N.

• N = Novice level

Ladies' singles

Event	2000
U.S. Championships	6th N.

References

• Tiffany Vise & Don Baldwin at the International Skating Union
• Tiffany Vise & Derek Trent at the International Skating Union
• Vise & Trent at the United States Figure Skating Association

1. ^ 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard Pairs Free Skating ProtocolPDF (72.4 KB)
2. ^ ^{a b} International Skating Union Media AdvisoryPDF
3. ^ ^{a b} "Vise, Trent End Competitive Partnership". Icenetwork. April 30, 2009. http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090430&content_id=64379&vkey=ice_news. 
4. ^ "Tiffany Vise & Derek Trent". U.S. Figure Skating. http://www.usfigureskating.org/AthletePairBio.asp?id=30842. 
5. ^ Mittan, Barry (December 12, 2005). "Vise and Trent Start Strong in 2006". SkateToday. http://www.skatetoday.com/2005/12/12/vise-and-trent-start-strong-in-2006/. Retrieved August 12, 2011. 
6. ^ 2006 Skate Canada ProtocolPDF (77.0 KB)
7. ^ "2010 Pacific Coast Sectional Championships 11/17/2009 - 11/22/2009 Senior Pairs Final Results". U.S. Figure Skating. Nov 20, 2009. http://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2010/65685/CAT003.html. Retrieved Nov 20, 2009. 
8. ^ "Results, Ice Challenge 2010". http://www.slovakskating.org/results/2010/11/09/graz/CAT003RS.HTM. 

External links

• Vise & Trent official Site

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Name	Vise, Tiffany
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Date of birth	February 2, 1986
Place of birth	Aurora, Colorado
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