Audrey Sumin Shin (born March 12, 2004) is an American figure skater who currently competes in the pairs discipline with Balázs Nagy. Together, they are the 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalists.
| Audrey Shin | |
|---|---|
 Audrey Shin at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria | |
| Full name | Audrey Sumin Shin |
| Native name | 신수민/愼秀慜 |
| Born | March 12, 2004 Smithtown, New York |
| Hometown | Northport, New York |
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Figure skating career | |
| Country |  United States |
| Discipline | Pair skating (since 2024) Women's singles (2014–24) |
| Partner | Balázs Nagy (since 2024) |
| Coach | Bruno Marcotte Meagan Duhamel |
| Skating club | Skating Club of New York |
| Began skating | 2010 |
As a singles skater, she is the 2020 Skate America bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy bronze medalist, and finished fourth at the 2022 Four Continents Championships. On the junior level, she is the 2019 U.S. junior silver medalist and finished in the top ten at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Personal life
editShin was born on March 12, 2004, in Smithtown, New York, to parents Eric and Nicole Shin. She also has a younger sister named Sydney.[1]
Shin is bilingual and able to communicate in both English and Korean fluently.[1]
Career
editEarly career
editShin started skating in 2010 at the age of five after a new ice rink was built next to her family's church. Her dad, Eric, was a former speed skater and thus encouraged Shin and her sister to try skating recreationally. Shin ultimately fell in love with the sport and decided to pursue it competitively.[1][2]
She first made her appearance at the U.S. Championships in 2014 at the juvenile level, placing ninth. The following season, Shin did not qualify for the 2015 U.S. Championships for the intermediate competition due to a tenth-place finish at Eastern Sectionals. Similarly, after placing fifth at the 2016 Eastern Sectionals at the novice level, Shin did not qualify for the 2016 U.S. Championships.[1]
Shin placed ninth at the novice level at the 2017 U.S. Championships and ninth at the junior level at the 2018 U.S. Championships. She was assigned to her first international competition, the 2017 Asian Open, where she placed seventh at the junior level.[1]
Singles skating career
edit2018–2019 season: Junior national medalist
editShin started the season at the 2018 JGP Amber Cup, where she placed seventh. In January, Shin competed at the 2019 U.S. Championships at the junior level, where she placed second behind Gabriella Izzo. Shin was then assigned to compete at the 2019 Egna Spring Trophy, where she placed fourth at the junior level.[1] Shin underwent ankle surgery in May 2019 to remove a ganglion cyst and was unable to train for a month following the surgery.[3] After the operation, she had to relearn how to walk.[4]
2019–2020 season: Youth Winter Olympian
edit
Shin began the season with a silver medal at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer international at the junior level and was assigned to JGP Russia, where she placed 12th.[1]
Shin experienced several issues with her boots and blades that contributed to an unsuccessful start to the season.[3] She failed to qualify for the 2020 U.S. Championships due to a sixth-place finish at the Eastern Sectional Final and coupled with her rough start to the season, considered quitting the sport.[4] Shin was later assigned to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she placed seventh. Shin described the Youth Winter Olympics as a "huge motivating factor" in her career.[5]
2020–2021 season: Senior international debut
editDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where Shin intended to compete, was canceled. She was instead assigned to the modified Grand Prix event, 2020 Skate America. After skating without errors on her jumping passes, Shin won a medal in her senior international debut by finishing in third place behind Mariah Bell and Bradie Tennell.[5] Although her scores were personal bests, the domestic nature of the event meant that they would not count as official ISU records.
Competing at the 2021 U.S. Championships at the senior level for the first time, Shin placed seventh.[6] As a result, she was named third alternate for the 2021 World Championships team.
Shin stated that she was working on both a triple Axel and quadruple toe loop with her coach, Tammy Gambill.[3]
2021–2022 season
editShin dealt with an injury in the off-season that caused her to scrap plans to attempt to up her technical content for the new season.[7] She began the season at her first Challenger event, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she won the bronze medal.[8] She was twelfth of twelve skaters at the 2021 Skate America, and went on to finish fourth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria.[9]
Ninth in the short program at the 2022 U.S. Championships, Shin rose to sixth overall with a fifth-place free skate, despite several underrotated jumps.[10] Her placement earned Shin an assignment to the 2022 Four Continents Championships. She was fifth in both segments and placed fourth overall with a new personal best score of 203.86. Speaking after, Shin said that she hoped to resume her efforts to introduce more difficult technical elements.[7]
2022−2023 season
editDue to ongoing ankle problems, Shin initially scaled down her technical content at the start of the season. She began her season with a gold medal at the 2022 Cranberry Cup International. After feedback from judges at the event, she replaced her initial Tosca free skate with a modified version of her prior Michael W. Smith short program.[11][12] She then went on to finish fourth at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. After the free skate there, she said, "it's a two-week-old program. So, it was very rushed trying to get into the choreography. I'm glad I performed decently, and I'm excited to build up from here."[13]
On the Grand Prix circuit, Shin finished fifth at the 2022 Grand Prix de France.[14] At her second event, the 2022 NHK Trophy, Shin finished fourth in the short program, less than three points back of third-place Rion Sumiyoshi. She was fifth in the free skate, but remained fourth overall, 4.12 points behind bronze medalist Sumiyoshi.[15]
2023−2024 season
editFor her new programs, Shin opted to fulfill a longstanding desire to skate to the soundtrack of Pina after it came up in a school project, using it in the short program. A fan of the music of Adele, her team selected "Skyfall" as a starting point and built a James Bond-themed program around it.[16]
Shin finished fourth at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International to start the season.[9] Competing on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Skate Canada International, a clean short program performance put her in fourth place after the short program. She struggled with jump underrotations and a fall in the free skate, placing ninth in the segment and dropping to seventh overall.[16] She went on to finish ninth at the 2023 Cup of China.[17]
Following a disappointing ninth-place finish at the 2024 U.S. Championships, Shin began looking into the idea of switching to pair skating, a discipline that she had always enjoyed. She got in contact with former U.S. pair skaters, Chris Knierim and Brandon Frazier to help her learn various pair elements.[2]
Pair skating with Nagy
edit2024–2025 season
editUpon learning that Shin was interested in transitioning from singles to pair skating, U.S. pair skater, Balázs Nagy, contacted her and asked if she would be interested in having a tryout with him. Shin agreed to this and after a week of skating together, the pair agreed to form a partnership. They announced that they would primarily train in Oakville, Ontario, Canada under coaches, Bruno Marcotte and Andrew Evans, while also making trips to Colorado to work with Tammy Gambill.[2][18][19]
The pair began their season in December, winning the bronze medal at the 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.[20]
Programs
editPair skating with Balázs Nagy
edit| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–2025 [19][2][21] |
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Single skating
editCompetitive highlights
edit- GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
Pair skating with Balázs Nagy
edit| Season | 2024–25 |
|---|---|
| CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 3rd |
Single skating
edit| International[9] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 | 23–24 |
| Four Continents | 4th | ||||||
| GP Cup of China | 9th | ||||||
| GP France | 5th | ||||||
| GP NHK Trophy | 4th | ||||||
| GP Skate America | 3rd | 12th | |||||
| GP Skate Canada | 7th | ||||||
| CS Autumn Classic | 4th | ||||||
| CS Cup of Austria | 4th | ||||||
| CS Lombardia Trophy | 3rd | ||||||
| CS U.S. Classic | 4th | ||||||
| Cranberry Cup | 4th | 1st | |||||
| Kings Cup | 1st | ||||||
| International: Junior[9][32] | |||||||
| Youth Olympics | 7th | ||||||
| JGP Lithuania | 11th | ||||||
| JGP Russia | 12th | ||||||
| Asian Open | 7th | ||||||
| Egna Trophy | 4th | ||||||
| Philadelphia | 2nd | ||||||
| National[9][32] | |||||||
| U.S. Champ. | 9th J | 2nd J | 7th | 6th | 13th | 9th | |
Detailed results
editPair skating with Balázs Nagy
edit| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | TSS | 170.21 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
| Short program | TSS | 58.22 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
| TES | 31.09 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
| PCS | 27.13 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
| Free skating | TSS | 111.99 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
| TES | 56.31 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
| PCS | 55.68 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Dec 5–7, 2024 |  2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
|
3 | 58.22 | 3 | 111.99 | 3 | 170.21 |
Single skating
edit| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | TSS | 203.86 | 2022 Four Continents Championships |
| Short program | TSS | 67.20 | 2022 Four Continents Championships |
| TES | 36.40 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
| PCS | 31.53 | 2022 Grand Prix de France | |
| Free skating | TSS | 136.66 | 2022 Four Continents Championships |
| TES | 72.32 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | |
| PCS | 64.34 | 2022 Four Continents Championships |
Senior level
editCurrent personal best scores are highlighted in bold.
| 2023–2024 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 22–28, 2024 | 2024 U.S. Championships | 7 62.79 |
10 112.82 |
9 175.61 |
| November 10–12, 2023 | 2023 Cup of China | 10 50.97 |
9 105.87 |
9 156.84 |
| October 27–29, 2023 | 2023 Skate Canada International | 4 65.19 |
9 111.95 |
7 177.14 |
| October 5–7, 2023 | 2023 Kings Cup International | 2 58.57 |
1 112.88 |
1 171.45 |
| September 14–17, 2023 | 2023 CS Autumn Classic International | 2 60.07 |
4 108.97 |
4 169.04 |
| 2022–2023 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 23–29, 2023 | 2023 U.S. Championships | 9 60.76 |
14 100.36 |
13 161.12 |
| November 18–20, 2022 | 2022 NHK Trophy | 4 65.87 |
5 123.13 |
4 189.00 |
| November 4–6, 2022 | 2022 Grand Prix de France | 4 64.27 |
5 119.66 |
5 183.93 |
| September 13–16, 2022 | 2022 CS U.S. Classic | 3 61.16 |
5 115.28 |
4 176.44 |
| August 9–14, 2022 | 2022 Cranberry Cup International | 3 56.20 |
2 119.69 |
1 175.89 |
| 2021–2022 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | 5 67.20 |
5 136.66 |
4 203.86 |
| January 2–9, 2022 | 2022 U.S. Championships | 9 61.77 |
5 118.81 |
6 180.58 |
| November 11–14, 2021 | 2021 CS Cup of Austria | 5 54.58 |
3 115.41 |
4 169.99 |
| October 22–24, 2021 | 2021 Skate America | 9 62.82 |
12 97.97 |
12 160.78 |
| September 10–12, 2021 | 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy | 5 58.80 |
4 113.66 |
3 172.46 |
| 2020–2021 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 11–21, 2021 | 2021 U.S. Championships | 10 57.74 |
6 119.08 |
7 176.82 |
| October 23–24, 2020 | 2020 Skate America | 3 69.77 |
3 136.38 |
3 206.15 |
Junior level
edit| 2019–2020 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 10–15, 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | 7 60.36 |
7 116.31 |
7 176.67 |
| September 11–14, 2019 | 2019 JGP Russia | 19 44.36 |
8 98.93 |
12 143.29 |
| Jul. 29 – Aug. 3, 2019 | 2019 Philadelphia Summer International | 2 49.93 |
2 93.57 |
2 143.50 |
| 2018–2019 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 28–31, 2019 | 2019 Egna Spring Trophy | 1 54.10 |
4 90.84 |
4 144.94 |
| January 19–27, 2019 | 2019 U.S. Championships | 6 53.03 |
1 112.58 |
2 165.61 |
| September 5–8, 2018 | 2018 JGP Lithuania | 13 44.85 |
11 89.34 |
11 134.19 |
| 2017–2018 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| Dec. 29, 2017 – Jan. 8, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Championships | 10 46.05 |
5 94.45 |
9 140.50 |
| August 2–8, 2017 | 2017 Asian Open Trophy | 7 42.60 |
7 76.21 |
7 118.81 |
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