Alexandra Rodriguez Long
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Alexandra Rodríguez Long (born January 30, 1997 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
) is a Spanish
Pair Ice Skater
. With partner Aritz Maestu, she is the 2010-11 Junior Spanish champion. Alexandra and Aritz are the first Pair team to represent Spain in ISU competition.
Alexandra decided she wanted to try figure skating
with her identical twin sister Victoria, after watching the 2002 Winter Olympics
. At the time, she was living in Germany and started skating in Duisburg in December 2003, when she was nearly 7 years old. Next season (2004-05) she joined the Essener Jugend-Eiskunstlauf Club beginning her competitive career
.
. That year she came 4th in the category of Debs/Juvenile in the Spanish Nationals
in Barcelona
.
but her trainer, Mikel Garcia, moved to the US. It was around this time that the European Figure Skating School was being launched in Oberstdorf, Germany
under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Huth
. She moved to Oberstdorf to join, together with her sister Victoria, the first year of EFSS and trained mainly with Alexander König
. That year she came 4th again, in Infantil/Intermediate category in the Spanish Nationals.
It was during a Novice Pair Seminar in Oberstdorf, and in particular, watching a pair performing warm up lifts, that she and her sister decided that what they really wanted to do was Pair skating
.
, from Samara, Russia
, the family moved back to Jaca. That year she started competing in Novice and came 11th in the 2010 Spanish Nationals
.
That same season, two single skaters from the San Sebastian ice skating club, Txuri Berri, were approached with the intention of skating as Pair Skaters with the Rodriguez Long sisters. Both Aritz Maestu and Felipe Montoya accepted and at the end of March, the two pairs went back to Oberstdorf for a week's seminar with Alexander König
. A few weeks later, at the beginning of April 2010, they also attended the yearly ISU
Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
Later that year, in June, they attended a Seminar with Oleg Vasiliev in Barcelona.
2010–11
In August 2010 Aritz moved to Jaca to train pairs full time with Alexandra with their new trainers, Miguel Alegre and his wife Emmaly Baxter. That year they attended some regional competitions in Spain. In December 2010 they went to Spanish Nationals and came 1st in Junior competing alone. For the first time Spain had all 4 disciplines in the Spanish Nationals. Alexandra also competed in Novice ladies singles and came 9th.
In May 2011 they attended their second ISU Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
In the summer they were sent to Quebec, Canada
to train with Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte
for three weeks.
2011–12
This season they attended two ISU Junior Grand Prix. The first one in Innsbruck, Austria
where they came 17th with 90.97. That was the first time they ever competed with their new long program, music from Phantom of the Opera, coreographed by Emma Baxter. Their second junior grand prix was in Tallinn, Estonia
where they achieved a new SB of 91.30 and came 11th. Their free program also earned a new SB.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...
) is a Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Pair Ice Skater
Pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...
. With partner Aritz Maestu, she is the 2010-11 Junior Spanish champion. Alexandra and Aritz are the first Pair team to represent Spain in ISU competition.
Early career
Alexandra Rodriguez started skating in 2002.Alexandra decided she wanted to try figure skating
Figure skating
Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
with her identical twin sister Victoria, after watching the 2002 Winter Olympics
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...
. At the time, she was living in Germany and started skating in Duisburg in December 2003, when she was nearly 7 years old. Next season (2004-05) she joined the Essener Jugend-Eiskunstlauf Club beginning her competitive career
Figure skating competition
-International:* International competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union. These competitions are held using ISU rules; skaters are entered by their respective national skating federations....
.
2007–08
After 3 years the family moved back to Spain for her to train with Mikel Garcia in the http://www.clubhielojaca.es/patinaje/patinaje.htm Club Hielo Jaca]. A year later due to problems with the rink, some members of the club continued training during weekends in Anglet, FranceAnglet
Anglet is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in Aquitaine in south-western France. The town's name is pronounced [ãglet]; i.e...
. That year she came 4th in the category of Debs/Juvenile in the Spanish Nationals
Spanish Figure Skating Championships
The Spanish Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Spain. Skaters compete across the disciplines of Novice, Junior, and Senior in men's and ladies singles...
in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
.
2008–09
Next season a new rink opened in Jaca, SpainJaca
Jaca is a city of northeastern Spain near the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca...
but her trainer, Mikel Garcia, moved to the US. It was around this time that the European Figure Skating School was being launched in Oberstdorf, Germany
Oberstdorf
Oberstdorf is a municipality and skiing and hiking town in southwest Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps.At the center of Oberstdorf is a church whose tall spire serves as a landmark for navigating around town. The summits of the Nebelhorn and Fellhorn provide...
under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Huth
Michael Huth
Michael Huth is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. Following his retirement from competitive skating, he became a coach.-Competitive career:...
. She moved to Oberstdorf to join, together with her sister Victoria, the first year of EFSS and trained mainly with Alexander König
Alexander König
Alexander König is a German former pair skater.-Career:In 1969 his family moved from Eilenburg to Berlin, where he started skating. In time König would come to represent SC Dynamo Berlin...
. That year she came 4th again, in Infantil/Intermediate category in the Spanish Nationals.
It was during a Novice Pair Seminar in Oberstdorf, and in particular, watching a pair performing warm up lifts, that she and her sister decided that what they really wanted to do was Pair skating
Pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...
.
2009–10
A season later, when her spanish club, Club Hielo Jaca, hired the new trainer, Igor SinyutinIgor Sinyutin
Igor Sinyutin ; is a Russian figure skater. He is a contemporary of great Russian skaters such as Evgeni Plushenko, Alexei Yagudin, Alexei Urmanov and Ilia Kulik. He was the 1995 Grand Prix International St. Gervais Silver Medallist...
, from Samara, Russia
Samara, Russia
Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...
, the family moved back to Jaca. That year she started competing in Novice and came 11th in the 2010 Spanish Nationals
2010 Spanish Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 Spanish Figure Skating Championships were the Spanish Figure Skating Championships of the 2009-2010 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, and ice dancing on the Senior, Junior, and Novice levels for the title of national champion of...
.
That same season, two single skaters from the San Sebastian ice skating club, Txuri Berri, were approached with the intention of skating as Pair Skaters with the Rodriguez Long sisters. Both Aritz Maestu and Felipe Montoya accepted and at the end of March, the two pairs went back to Oberstdorf for a week's seminar with Alexander König
Alexander König
Alexander König is a German former pair skater.-Career:In 1969 his family moved from Eilenburg to Berlin, where he started skating. In time König would come to represent SC Dynamo Berlin...
. A few weeks later, at the beginning of April 2010, they also attended the yearly ISU
International Skating Union
The International Skating Union is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1892, making it one of the oldest international...
Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
Later that year, in June, they attended a Seminar with Oleg Vasiliev in Barcelona.
2010–112010–2011 figure skating seasonThe 2010–2011 figure skating season began on July 1, 2010, and ended on June 30, 2011. During this season, elite skaters competed on the ISU Championship level at the 2011 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships...
In August 2010 Aritz moved to Jaca to train pairs full time with Alexandra with their new trainers, Miguel Alegre and his wife Emmaly Baxter. That year they attended some regional competitions in Spain. In December 2010 they went to Spanish Nationals and came 1st in Junior competing alone. For the first time Spain had all 4 disciplines in the Spanish Nationals. Alexandra also competed in Novice ladies singles and came 9th.In May 2011 they attended their second ISU Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
In the summer they were sent to Quebec, Canada
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
to train with Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte
Bruno Marcotte
Bruno Marcotte is a Canadian retired pair skater who currently works as a coach. Over the course of his eligible career, he competed with Isabelle Coulombe, Nadia Micallef, and Valérie Marcoux. He won the bronze medal a the 1993 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with Isabelle Coulombe...
for three weeks.
2011–122011–2012 figure skating seasonThe 2011–2012 figure skating season begins on July 1, 2011, and ends on June 30, 2012. During this season, elite skaters will compete on the ISU Championship level at the 2012 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships...
This season they attended two ISU Junior Grand Prix. The first one in Innsbruck, AustriaInnsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
where they came 17th with 90.97. That was the first time they ever competed with their new long program, music from Phantom of the Opera, coreographed by Emma Baxter. Their second junior grand prix was in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
where they achieved a new SB of 91.30 and came 11th. Their free program also earned a new SB.
Personal life
Rodriguez studies full time as a secondary student in the Colegio Escuelas Pías de Jaca. She also enjoys photography, reading, movies and internet.Programs
(with Maestu)| Season | Short Program Short Program is the title of a series of unrelated short manga collections by Mitsuru Adachi. Four volumes compile stories selected from shōjo, shōnen, josei and seinen works released from 1985 until 2009.- Short Program :... |
Free Skating Free skating The free skating competition of figure skating, sometimes called the "free skate" or "long program", is usually the second of two phases in major figure skating competitions in single skating and pair skating. It is the longer of the two programs, the other one being the Short Program... |
Exhibition |
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| 2011–2012 | Tango Flamenco by Paco de Lucia Paco de Lucía Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez , is a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist and composer. He is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest guitarist of the flamenco genre... |
Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of... |
Your Song from Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème... |
Competitive highlights
(with Maestu)| Event | 2010–11 | 2011–12 |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish Championships Spanish Figure Skating Championships The Spanish Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Spain. Skaters compete across the disciplines of Novice, Junior, and Senior in men's and ladies singles... |
1st J. | |
| ISU JGP Tallinn Cup 2011 2011–2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2011–2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix is the 15th season of the series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the junior-level complement to the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating contested by senior-level skaters... |
11th J. | |
| ISU JGP Austria 2011 2011–2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2011–2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix is the 15th season of the series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the junior-level complement to the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating contested by senior-level skaters... |
17th J. |
- J = Junior level