Clare_Seo

Clare Seo

Clare Seo

Korean-American figure skater

Clare Seo or Seo Hee-won (Korean: 서희원; born 17 October 2006) is a Korean-American figure skater. Competing for the United States, she is the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy bronze medalist, 2021 JGP France I bronze medalist, and the 2022 U.S. junior national champion. She has placed within the top ten at two World Junior Championships, finishing sixth in 2022 and eighth in 2023.

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Seo is also the 2020 South Korean junior national champion.

Personal life

Seo was born on 17 October 2006 in Claremont, California, to Korean parents who were studying in the United States at the time. The family returned to South Korea when Seo was five years old and remained there until 2020, after which Seo moved back to the U.S. with her mother and her younger sister, Clara.[1] As of 2022, she is a student at Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[2] She intends to pursue a career in sports psychology once she retires from competitive skating.[3]

Career

Early years

Seo began learning to skate in 2010.[4] She won gold in the junior women's event at the 2020 South Korean Championships. She was the junior women's bronze medalist at the 2021 U.S. Championships.

2021–22 season: U.S. junior national champion

Seo made her junior international debut on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit in August at the 2021 JGP France I, the first of two JGP events held in Courchevel, France. She placed first in the short program, but fell to fourth in the free skate to finish third overall behind compatriot Lindsay Thorngren and Canadian competitor Kaiya Ruiter.[5] At her second JGP assignment, the 2021 JGP Poland held in September, Seo was third in the short program and, again, fourth in the free skate to finish just off the podium in fourth overall.[6]

Seo did not compete again until January, when she won the junior national title at the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, besting domestic rivals Ava Ziegler, Josephine Lee, and Katie Shen. Due to her placement at junior nationals, Seo was named to the American team for the 2022 World Junior Figure Skating Championships alongside Isabeau Levito and Lindsay Thorngren, both of whom competed at the senior level at nationals.[7]

At Junior Worlds in April, Seo was 10th in the short program, but climbed to fifth in the free skate to finish sixth overall.[8]

2022–23 season

Seo opened her season back in Courchevel, France at the 2022 JGP France in late August. She placed fifth in both the short program and free skating segments of the competition, and finished fifth overall.[9] At Seo's second Grand Prix event, 2022 JGP Poland, she finished in eighth place after placing tenth in the short program and ninth in the free skate.[10]

Making her international senior debut at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge, Seo finished sixteenth in the short program after falling on two jump elements, but rebounded with a fourth-place free skate and finished eighth overall.[11] Also competing as a senior, she finished seventh at the 2023 U.S. Championships. She was assigned to the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, where she placed eighth, the highest placement of the three American girls at the event.

2023–24 season

Seo began the season with a seventh-place finish at the 2023 Cranberry Cup International, before going on to win the bronze medal at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy.[12] Invited to make her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2023 Skate America, she came tenth.[13]

Programs

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Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix.

For the United States

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For South Korea

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Detailed results

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Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Senior results

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Junior results

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References

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    Feigenbaum, Paige (April 12, 2022). "U.S. Junior Champion Clare Seo Sets Sights on Clean Routines at World Junior Championships". U.S. Figure Skating.
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    Martinez, Jillian L. (August 17, 2022). "Clare Seo Preparing for Senior Level". U.S. Figure Skating.
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    "2022–23 Figure Skating Roster: Clare Seo". U.S. Figure Skating. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023.
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    "Clare SEO: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 3, 2023.
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    "2021 JGP Gdansk Women Results". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "2021 JGP Courchevel Women Results". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "Junior Ladies Results". U.S. Figure Skating. U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "2022 Junior Worlds Women Results". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "2022 JGP Courchevel Women Results". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "2022 JGP Gdansk Women Results". ISU Results. ISU. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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    "2022 CS Ice Challenge". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
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    "Clare SEO: Competition Results". International Skating Union. August 25, 2022.
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    Slater, Paula (October 23, 2023). "Belgium's Hendrickx clear winner at Skate America". Golden Skate. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
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    "Clare SEO: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 23, 2023.
  15. [15]
    "Clare SEO: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022.
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    "USA-Clare SEO". SkatingScores.
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