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Starr Andrews
Andrews at the 2021 Cup of Austria
Born (2001-06-23) June 23, 2001 (age 23)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Height1.49 m (4 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachDerrick Delmore
Ivan Dinev
Angela Nikodinov
Skating clubLos Angeles Figure Skating Club
Began skating2004

Starr Andrews (born June 23, 2001) is an American figure skater. She is the 2022 Skate Canada International silver medalist, 2019 International Challenge Cup silver medalist, 2019 Egna Trophy silver medalist, and finished fourth at the 2023 U.S. Nationals. She has finished in the top ten at three ISU Championships and is the first African American woman to win a Grand Prix medal in the singles discipline.

Earlier in her career, Andrews is the 2017 U.S. national junior silver medalist.

Personal life

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Starr Andrews was born on June 23, 2001, in Los Angeles, California.[1] She is home-schooled.[2] She has a brother and two sisters — Skylar, a gymnast, and Ashton, a baseball player.[3][4] Their mother, Toshawa Andrews, has cardiac microvascular disease, which has led to a dozen heart attacks.[4][5]

Career

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Early years

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Andrews became interested in figure skating after her mother brought her to the ice rink when she was three. She recalled in 2018: "I wanted to get on the ice really, really bad, but I was too small, so I had to wait."[6] She began learning to skate in 2005.[1] A video of nine-year-old Andrews skating to Whip My Hair went viral after appearing on YouTube in December 2010.[7] By March 2018, it had reached 53 million views.[4]

Derrick Delmore became her coach around 2013.[8] Andrews placed 6th on the novice level at the 2016 U.S. Championships.

2016–17 season

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Andrews decided to move up to the junior level, coached by Delmore and Peter Kongkasem in Lakewood, California and Riverside, California.[9] Making her international debut, she won the junior ladies title at the Golden Bear of Zagreb in October 2016.

In January, she received the junior silver medal at the 2017 U.S. Championships.[10] After Amber Glenn withdrew, Andrews was added to the U.S. team to the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.[11] At the event, held in March, she qualified to the final segment by placing ninth in the short program and went on to finish twelfth overall.

2017–18 season

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Andrews began her season on the junior level, placing fifth at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria. In December, making her senior international debut, she placed sixth at the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she also obtained the minimum technical scores for both senior-level ISU Championships.

In January, Andrews finished sixth in the senior ladies' category at the 2018 U.S. Championships, having placed eighth in the short program and fifth in the free skate. She was assigned to the 2018 Four Continents, where she placed seventh, and the 2018 World Junior Championships, from which she withdrew. She was replaced by Emmy Ma.

2018–19 season

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Andrews at the 2019 International Challenge Cup

In early August, Andrews competed at the 2018 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy; she placed second in the short program with a personal best score but dropped to fifth after the free skate. In September, at the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, she ranked fifth in the short and seventh overall. She attempted the triple Axel in the free program, but her jump had a two-footed landing and was downgraded due to insufficient rotation. She made her Grand Prix debut in October at the 2018 Skate America and placed ninth in the short program, tenth in the free skate, and tenth overall. She was also invited to the 2018 Skate Canada International, where she placed fourth in the short program, ninth in the free skate, and seventh overall.[8]

Andrews would place eighth at the 2019 U.S. Championships before going on to win silver at the 2019 International Challenge Cup and the 2019 Egna Spring Trophy.

2019–20 season

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Andrews performing a spiral at the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy

Beginning on the Challenger series, Andrews placed fifth at both the 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy and the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy. On the Grand Prix, Andrews placed fourth in the short program at the 2019 Internationaux de France with a new personal best.[12] Fifth in the free skate, she placed fifth overall.[13]

Andrews finished sixth at the 2020 U.S. Championships.[14] Finishing the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, Andrews placed eighth.[15]

2020–21 season

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Andrews started her season competing at the ISP Points Challenge, a virtual US domestic competition. At the first opportunity, she placed fourth. She was assigned to compete at the 2020 Skate America in Las Vegas, an event attended only by skaters training in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic.[16] She placed eighth.[17]

Competing at the 2021 U.S. Championships, also held in Las Vegas, Andrews placed twelfth.[18]

2021–22 season

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Andrews at the 2021 Cup of Austria

Beginning the Olympic season on the Challenger series, Andrews placed fifth at the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International.[19]

Following Bradie Tennell's withdrawal from the 2021 Skate America, Andrews was named to replace her.[20] She placed tenth at the event. She finished in fifth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria. She had to withdraw from the 2021 Internationaux de France due to an injury in the warmup.[21]

Andrews finished ninth at the 2022 U.S. Championships.[22] This result earned her an assignment to the 2022 Four Continents Championships, where she came ninth as well.[23]

2022–23 season

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Andrews finished in sixth place at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to start the season.[21] At her first Grand Prix assignment, the 2022 Skate Canada International, she finished fifth in the short program in a close field.[24] She then "surprised" many by finishing second in the free skate, rising to take the silver medal.[25] She became the first African American woman to medal in singles in the Grand Prix era that began in 1995, and the second Black woman after Frenchwoman Surya Bonaly.[26][27] Andrews noted the significance, saying "it is a huge deal for me. I am one of the few people of color in the sport, and to bring home a medal is even more special."[26] Heading into the 2022 NHK Trophy, she planned to add a second flip to her free skate, having recovered from an ankle "tweak" that had necessitated lessening her content in the early events.[28] Fifth in the short program, she dropped to ninth after the free skate, where she singled her planned second flip.[29]

At the 2023 U.S. Championships, Andrews placed narrowly third in the short program.[30] In the free skate she made two jump errors and was overtaken for the bronze medal by Amber Glenn, but still won the pewter medal and stood on the senior podium for the first time in her career. She was the first African-American woman to stand on the US podium since Debi Thomas in 1988, which Andrews acknowledged as "amazing."[31]

2023–24 season

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Andrews at the 2023 Skate Canada International

Andrews' preparation for the new season was first delayed while spending time preparing for a potential appearance at Coachella that ultimately did not come to fruition. She then had heart surgery to deal with atrial tachycardia, which she had been dealing with for a decade. She was ultimately able to begin work on her programs by July, but did not feature in early domestic and international competitions due both to the delays and to an unrelated illness. She finally debuted at the Kings Cup International in early October, winning the silver medal.[32]

Beginning on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Skate Canada International, she finished sixth in the short program. Jump problems in the free skate dropped her to eighth place.[33] She went on came tenth at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo.[34]

Competing at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb in Croatia, Andrews won the bronze medal.[21]

At the 2024 U.S. Championships, Andrews ninth in the short program but delivered a strong fifth-place free skate and moved up to sixth overall.[35]

2024–25 season

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Andrews began the season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing fifth at the 2024 Cranberry Cup International and tenth at the 2024 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge.[21] In late November, she competed at the 2025 Pacific Coast Sectional Championships, where she won the silver medal, thus qualifying for the U.S. Championships.[35][36] She then went on to win gold at the 2024 Santa Claus Cup.

Programs

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Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–25
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2023–24
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2022–23
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2021–22
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2020–21
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2019–20
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2018–19
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  • African Tribal Xotica
    • Desert Spirit
      by John Herberman
    • Under African Skies
      by John Herberman
    • Tribal Gathering
      by Vanessa-Mae
    • Xotica: Journey of the Heart
      by René Dupéré
    • Minus One
      by Greg Ellis
      choreo. by Derrick Delmore
2017–18
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2016–17
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Competitive highlights

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Competition placements at senior level [35]
Season 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Four Continents Championships 7th 9th
U.S. Championships 6th 8th 6th 12th 9th 4th 6th TBD
GP Finland 10th
GP France 5th
GP NHK Trophy 8th 9th
GP Skate America 10th 8th 10th
GP Skate Canada 7th 2nd 8th
CS Asian Open Trophy 5th
CS Autumn Classic 7th 5th
CS Cranberry Cup 5th
CS Cup of Austria 5th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 10th
CS Finlandia Trophy 5th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 6th 3rd
CS Lombardia Trophy 5th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 6th
Coupe du Printemps 2nd
Egna Spring Trophy 2nd
Challenge Cup 2nd
Kings Cup 2nd
Philadelphia Summer 6th 4th
Santa Claus Cup 1st
Competition placements at junior level [35][21]
Season 2016–17 2017–18 2019–20
World Junior Championships 12th 8th
U.S. Championships 2nd
JGP Austria 5th
Golden Bear of Zagreb 1st
Golden Spin of Zagreb 2nd

Detailed results

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Andrews at the 2019 Internationaux de France
ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [35]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 191.26 2022 Skate Canada International
Short program TSS 66.60 2022 Four Continents Championships
TES 36.86 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy
PCS 31.06 2022 Four Continents Championships
Free skating TSS 126.57 2022 Skate Canada International
TES 64.87 2022 Skate Canada International
PCS 61.70 2022 Skate Canada International
ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE System [35]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 172.65 2018 Four Continents Championships
Short program TSS 60.80 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
TES 35.10 2018 Four Continents Championships
PCS 26.24 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
Free skating TSS 112.04 2018 Four Continents Championships
TES 58.83 2018 Four Continents Championships
PCS 54.21 2018 Four Continents Championships

Senior level

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Results in the 2017–18 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 3–6, 2017 United States 2017 Philadelphia Summer International 6 56.73 8 93.18 6 149.91
Dec 6–9, 2017 Croatia 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 4 60.80 7 102.69 6 163.49
Dec 29, 2017 – Jan 8, 2018 United States 2018 U.S. Championships 8 62.55 5 127.36 6 189.91
Jan 22–27, 2018 Taiwan 2018 Four Continents Championships 7 60.61 7 112.04 7 172.65
Results in the 2018–19 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 1–5, 2018 Thailand 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy 2 62.60 5 97.16 5 159.76
Sep 20–22, 2018 Canada 2018 CS Autumn Classic International 5 56.70 7 102.93 7 159.63
Oct 19–21, 2018 United States 2018 Skate America 9 56.03 10 94.53 10 150.56
Oct 26–29, 2018 Canada 2018 Skate Canada International 4 64.77 9 108.95 7 174.72
Jan 18–27, 2019 United States 2019 U.S. Championships 8 58.66 7 117.04 8 175.70
Feb 21–24, 2019 Netherlands 2019 International Challenge Cup 3 64.76 3 122.93 2 187.69
Mar 28–31, 2019 Italy 2019 Gardena Spring Trophy 1 64.83 2 105.96 2 170.79
Results in the 2019–20 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jul 31 –
Aug 3, 2019 		United States 2019 Philadelphia Summer International 4 53.91 4 94.05 4 147.96
Sep 13–15, 2019 Italy 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy 4 66.38 6 114.80 5 181.18
Oct 11–13, 2019 Finland 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy 6 57.25 5 111.85 5 169.10
Nov 1–3, 2019 France 2019 Internationaux de France 4 66.59 5 113.95 5 180.54
Nov 22–24, 2019 Japan 2019 NHK Trophy 9 58.92 9 107.80 8 166.72
Jan 20–26, 2020 United States 2020 U.S. Championships 7 65.86 6 115.92 6 181.78
Results in the 2020–21 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 23–24, 2020 United States 2020 Skate America 10 57.20 7 114.50 8 171.70
Jan 11–21, 2021 United States 2021 U.S. Championships 17 45.93 10 106.20 12 152.13
Results in the 2021–22 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 16–18, 2021 Canada 2021 CS Autumn Classic International 4 59.21 7 96.04 5 155.25
Oct 22–24, 2021 United States 2021 Skate America 10 61.94 11 115.69 10 177.63
Nov 11–14, 2021 Austria 2021 CS Cup of Austria 7 53.78 6 103.57 5 157.35
Jan 3–9, 2022 United States 2022 U.S. Championships 11 59.43 9 113.61 9 173.04
Jan 18–23, 2022 Estonia 2022 Four Continents Championships 6 66.60 12 106.41 9 173.01
Results in the 2022–23 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 21–24, 2022 Germany 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 7 53.31 6 103.29 6 156.60
Oct 28–30, 2022 Canada 2022 Skate Canada International 5 64.69 2 126.57 2 191.26
Nov 18–20, 2022 Japan 2022 NHK Trophy 5 64.13 12 109.93 9 174.06
Jan 23–29, 2023 United States 2023 U.S. Championships 3 68.97 7 119.27 4 188.24
Mar 17–19, 2023 Luxembourg 2023 Coupe du Printemps 2 64.89 3 115.70 2 180.59
Results in the 2023–24 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 5–8, 2023 United States 2023 Kings Cup International 1 65.79 3 101.16 2 166.95
Oct 27–29, 2023 Canada 2023 Skate Canada International 6 61.07 8 113.75 8 174.82
Nov 17–19, 2023 Finland 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo 9 57.63 10 97.06 10 154.42
Dec 6–9, 2023 Croatia 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 6 53.98 3 111.57 3 165.55
Jan 22–28, 2024 United States 2024 U.S. Championships 9 60.35 5 125.14 6 185.49
Results in the 2024–25 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 8–11, 2024 United States 2024 CS Cranberry Cup International 5 57.19 5 107.70 5 164.89
Oct 3–6, 2024 Kazakhstan 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 6 59.10 10 92.55 10 151.65
Nov 27 - Dec 2, 2024 Hungary 2024 Santa Claus Cup 1 64.32 2 104.38 1 168.70

Junior level

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Andrews at the 2017 World Junior Championships
Results in the 2016–17 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 27–30, 2016 Croatia 2016 Golden Bear of Zagreb 1 63.27 1 108.75 1 172.02
Jan 14–22, 2017 United States 2017 U.S. Championships (Junior) 2 57.83 2 97.31 2 155.14
Mar 15–19, 2017 Taiwan 2017 World Junior Championships 9 55.83 12 93.22 12 149.05
Results in the 2017–18 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 31 – Sep 2, 2017 Austria 2017 JGP Austria 4 59.93 5 99.35 5 159.28
Results in the 2019–20 season [35]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 4–7, 2019 Croatia 2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb 2 55.91 2 105.62 2 161.53
Mar 2–8, 2020 Estonia 2020 World Championships 7 65.31 8 115.56 8 180.87

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