David Neil Santee(born July 22, 1957 inOak Park, Illinois)[1]is an American former competitivefigure skater.He finished fourth in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and is the1981 World silver medalistand an eight-timeU.S. nationalmedalist. He competed at theWinter Olympicstwice.
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| Full name | David Neil Santee | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 22, 1957 Oak Park, Illinois,U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Chicago FSC | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1982 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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His younger brotherJames Santeewas also an elite-level skater.[2]
David was inducted to both the U.S. Figure Skating and ISI Hall of Fame in 2015. He achieved the PSA Master Coach's rating in 2017.
Santee is an ISU Technical Specialist.[3]He also works as a coach. He coachedAgnes Zawadzkifor seven years as a child and again since June 2011.[4][5]He is currently the Director of Skating at the Oakton Ice Arena in his hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois. He has served on the ISI Board of Directors as the Instructors Rep for many years and is ISI's representative to the US Figure Skating Board of Directors.
He has two sons.[2]
Results
edit| International | |||||||||||||
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| Event | 69–70 | 70–71 | 71–72 | 72–73 | 73–74 | 74–75 | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 78–79 | 79–80 | 80–81 | 81–82 |
| Olympics | 6th | 4th | |||||||||||
| Worlds | 5th | 4th | 6th | 8th | 4th | 2nd | 8th | ||||||
| Skate Canada | 3rd | 3rd | |||||||||||
| NHK Trophy | 3rd | ||||||||||||
| Nebelhorn | 1st | ||||||||||||
| Prague Skate | 2nd | ||||||||||||
| St. Gervais | 1st | ||||||||||||
| National | |||||||||||||
| U.S. Champ. | 3rd N | 1st J | 8th | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill;et al."David Santee".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC.Archived fromthe originalon September 23, 2013.RetrievedJuly 20,2013.
- ^abMandernach, Mark (February 15, 1998)."The Northwest Suburbs' First Family Of Skating".Chicago Tribune.
- ^"Communication No. 1409"(PDF).International Skating Union. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on September 27, 2007.
- ^"2010 U.S. Junior Champion Agnes Zawadzki Announces Coaching Change".U.S. Figure Skating.June 3, 2011. Archived fromthe originalon March 24, 2012.RetrievedJune 3,2011.
- ^Daday, Eileen O. (June 13, 2011)."Des Plaines figure skater turns to old pro to help her move up".Daily Herald.
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