168 Facts About Bradie Tennell

Bradie Tennell was born on January 31,1998 and is an American figure skater.

Bradie Tennell is a 2018 Olympic team event bronze medalist, the 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2018 CS Autumn Classic champion, the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, and a two-time US national champion.

Bradie Tennell began working with coach Denise Myers when she was nine, up until August 2020.

Bradie Tennell won her first competition at age ten as a juvenile and rose up the ranks, becoming a senior-level skater in November 2016.

Bradie Tennell was born on January 31,1998, in Winfield, Illinois.

Bradie Tennell's mother, Jean Tennell, was a registered nurse and single mother.

In 2018, Bradie Tennell described to a reporter the financial hardships her family went through to support her skating career.

Bradie Tennell began skating when she was two years old and had to wear orthotics in her shoes to correct a pronation of the hip problem.

Bradie Tennell told reporters that she was not sure how she got into figure skating, although she remembered begging her mother to take her to the ice rink.

When Bradie Tennell was seven years old, she drew a picture of herself atop an Olympic podium, flanked by her role models Michelle Kwan and Kristi Yamaguchi.

When Bradie Tennell was ten, she began working with Denise Myers.

Bradie Tennell skated most of her life at a rink in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where she gave lessons to young skaters before beginning her own training, even after competing nationally.

Bradie Tennell won her first competition when she was ten years old.

Bradie Tennell competed, as a novice, at the 2012 US Championships in San Jose, California, where she came in tenth place overall, after earning 32.60 points and coming in tenth place in her short program and 68.78 points in her free skate.

Bradie Tennell later told a reporter that she almost got lost getting to the event, and began her short program on the wrong side of the rink because it was the first time she skated in a big stadium and there were no lines or hockey circles on the ice like the on rinks she was familiar with.

Bradie Tennell came in second place overall as a novice at the 2013 Midwestern Sectionals, coming in first place after the short program with 46.05 points and coming in fourth place after the free skate with 72.95 points.

Bradie Tennell won the gold medal at the Upper Great Lakes Regionals, as a novice.

Bradie Tennell won the bronze medal, her first "notable medal", at the 2013 US Nationals, again in the novice division, even though she had only two triples in her free skate.

Bradie Tennell opened her program with a triple Salchow but fell while attempting a triple toe loop.

Bradie Tennell successfully executed three triple jumps, coming in fourth place in the free skate and earning 116.91 points overall.

Bradie Tennell came in second place at the 2014 Midwestern Sectionals as a junior.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place at the 2014 US Nationals and second place at the Gardena Spring Trophy, again as a junior.

Bradie Tennell came in second place at the 2015 Midwestern Sectionals.

Bradie Tennell later said that although she was well-trained, she went into the competition not expecting to win.

Bradie Tennell considered her win at Nationals the first step to competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics; as figure skating reporter Philip Hersh stated, "Both the 2012 junior champion, Gracie Gold, and the 2013 junior champion, Polina Edmunds, had made the 2014 US Olympic team, so a similar progression for Tennell seemed realistic".

Bradie Tennell won both her sectional and regional competitions, which qualified her for the 2016 US Championships.

Bradie Tennell came in sixth place at her senior debut at the US Nationals, earning a spot at the World Junior championships, where she came in 11th place overall, after falling three times during her free skate.

In June 2016, Bradie Tennell had the same back injury as the year before, but to a different vertebra.

Bradie Tennell was again in a back brace and off the ice for three months in the summer of 2016 while undergoing intense physical therapy.

Bradie Tennell was not able to return to the ice until early September 2016.

Bradie Tennell later told Time magazine that not being able to skate for months at a time was "not very pleasant or fun for me".

Bradie Tennell said that the experience reinforced her love for figure skating and gave her a renewed sense of motivation.

Bradie Tennell's coach Denise Myers praised Tennell for her tenacity, later saying, "Even when she was injured, it wasn't a matter of if she was coming back, it was a matter of when she was coming back".

Bradie Tennell struggled throughout the season; 48 other skaters had higher season's-best scores than her, including seven from the US, and she earned 14 points less than the next-highest scoring female American skater.

Bradie Tennell missed six months of competition over two years, but made her senior international debut in November 2016, at the 2016 Tallinn Trophy, where she came in third place.

Bradie Tennell had four months to prepare for the 2017 US Championships and came in a "disappointing" ninth place.

Bradie Tennell began the season as a relative unknown, even within the US, but ended the year as a US champion, an Olympic medalist, and "one of the biggest names in American skating".

Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post said that Bradie Tennell overcame her previous injuries and "the inconsistency that so often follows them".

Bradie Tennell said that she "fell in love with how powerful" the piece was after a friend recommended it to her.

Bradie Tennell's coach called the music "a conscious choice", since the 2018 Olympics were in Korea.

Bradie Tennell came in second place in both the short program and the free skate in Philadelphia and earned 184.98 points overall.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place overall at the 2017 Lombardia Trophy, with 196.70 points, coming in fifth place in the short program, third place in the free skate, and beating 2014 Olympic bronze medalist Carolina Kostner of Italy and 2015 world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia.

Bradie Tennell competed against three-time US national champion Ashley Wagner and former World Championship medalists Gabrielle Daleman of Canada, Satoko Miyahara of Japan, and Alena Leonova of Russia.

Bradie Tennell performed two "flawless routines" and came in third place overall; she and Wagner were the only two American women to win Grand Prix medals during the season.

Bradie Tennell's short program score, 67.01 points, was a personal best.

Bradie Tennell "shone" in her free skate, skating a clean program and successfully executing seven triple jumps, and earning Level 4 marks for her spins.

Bradie Tennell earned 204.10 points overall, the highest international score by an American woman since Wagner earned 215.39 points at the 2016 World Championships.

Bradie Tennell was the first US female single skater to win a medal at her first Grand Prix for ten years, since Caroline Zhang in 2007.

Myers said that Bradie Tennell did so well because she had successfully overcome her past injuries and that when she was healthy, she tended to excel.

Bradie Tennell was pleased with her performances at Skate America but went home with the goal of working on fine-tuning both her programs for Nationals, including earning Level 4 scores on both step sequences.

At the US Championships, Bradie Tennell skated "two more flawless routines" largely due to her jumping and technical abilities, which helped her earn the maximum number of technical points.

Bradie Tennell was in first place after the short program, with Mirai Nagasu seven-tenths of a point behind her in second place, Karen Chen in third place, and Wagner in fifth place.

Bradie Tennell received a standing ovation from the audience with her "masterfully executed jumps and aggressive, tight spins".

Bradie Tennell earned 73.79 points during her short program, the highest-scoring women's short program at US Nationals up to that point.

Bradie Tennell executed her triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination "with metronomic precision".

Bradie Tennell came in first place after her free skate by almost five points with a career-best score of 219.51 points, again beating Nagusu, who came in second place in the free skate.

Longman, who reported that Bradie Tennell had successfully completed every triple jump she had attempted for three competitions, said that she handled the pressure of possibly qualifying for the Olympics with no outward sign of nervousness.

Bradie Tennell won her first Nationals gold medal; Nagusu won the silver medal, and Chen won the bronze medal.

Bradie Tennell was able to make up for her struggles the previous season.

Bradie Tennell came into the Olympics as a "long shot", although Gary D'Amato of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called Tennell "the dark horse" of the Olympics.

Bradie Tennell skated a clean and error-free short program for the team competition.

Bradie Tennell had the support of the Korean audience due to the Korean piece of music she used.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed her first and hardest jump combination, a triple Lutz-triple toe loop, as well as every other jump in her program.

Bradie Tennell continued her consistency with her "textbook technique and reliability in landing jumps".

Bradie Tennell received lower scores for her choreography, skating skills, and transitions compared to more experienced skaters like Katelyn Osmond from Canada and Carolina Kostner from Italy.

Bradie Tennell came in fifth place out of ten competitors, earning 68.94 points and helping the US win a bronze medal in the team event.

Bradie Tennell said that she was happy with her performance: "I don't think I could have asked for a better first program at the Olympics".

Bradie Tennell was able to hold onto a poor landing on the opening jump of her combination, the triple Lutz, but fell on the second jump, the triple toe loop.

Bradie Tennell said later that she could not remember the last time she fell; she was the only skater at the Olympics who had not had a fall in previous competitions, and she had not fallen in the previous 34 jumping passes competed in four competitions earlier in the season.

Bradie Tennell recovered and skated the rest of her program cleanly, including a triple loop and double Axel, and remained in first place for over two hours.

Bradie Tennell came in 11th place after the short program and earned 64.01 points.

Bradie Tennell rebounded with a strong free skate, coming in ninth place.

Bradie Tennell came in ninth place overall, with 192.35 points, the highest placement among her American teammates.

When Bradie Tennell returned home, she began training for the 2018 World Championships immediately.

Bradie Tennell appeared, for the first time, in a parade in East Dundee, Illinois, near her hometown of Carpentersville.

Bradie Tennell finished in sixth place overall, the highest placement among the American women.

Bradie Tennell skated a clean short program, coming in seventh place, with 68.76 points, almost 12 points behind Carolina Kostner of Italy, who earned a personal-best score of 80.27 points.

Bradie Tennell ended the season with "a full and physically demanding" tour with Stars on Ice.

Bradie Tennell worked on being more expressive, less shy, and allowing her personality to come through in her skating.

Bradie Tennell's programs were more challenging, with fewer and more difficult transitions.

Bradie Tennell added a triple Lutz-triple loop combination in both her short program and free skate and a triple Lutz-triple toe in her free skate and worked to improve her edges on her triple flip.

Reporter Karen Rosen stated that Bradie Tennell competed "with an intensity" missing from the previous season.

Bradie Tennell came in second place after the short program, just 1.72 points behind Medvedeva.

Bradie Tennell had a difficult warm-up before the free skate but was happy with her performance so early in the season.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed seven solid triples, including two triple-triple combinations, although the judges ruled two jumps short of rotation.

Bradie Tennell completed intricate footwork and transitions, ending with "a beautiful spinning sequence".

Bradie Tennell earned a personal free skate best score of 137.15 points, and 206.41 points overall.

Figure skating analyst Tara Lipinski stated that although Bradie Tennell was not yet at the same level as Medvedeva or Zagitova, her performance at the Autumn Classic demonstrated a strong start to the season, as well as a dramatic improvement in her music choices, choreography, and intention behind each movement.

Bradie Tennell was "one of the headliners" going into the 2018 Skate America.

Bradie Tennell "displayed great tempo and flow" in the short program, but she popped the second jump in her planned triple Lutz-triple loop combination into a single jump, ending up with a score of 61.72 and in fifth place.

Bradie Tennell earned high scores on her Level 4 spins and footwork, coming in second place in the free skate, with 136.44 points overall, and third place overall, with 197.78 points.

Bradie Tennell came in first place at 2018 CS Golden Spin in both the short program and free skate, and after earning 202.41 points, came in first place overall.

Bradie Tennell later told a reporter that she was disappointed with her artistic performance, calling it "lackluster" and expressing her intention to work on improving it before the US Championships.

At Nationals in Detroit, Bradie Tennell came in first place after her "sharp, clean" short program, earning 76.60 points, the best all-time women's short program score at US Nationals, beating the previous score of 73.79 points, a record she had made a year earlier.

Bradie Tennell opened her program with a "breathtaking" triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination and successfully executed a double Axel but got an edge call on her triple flip.

Bradie Tennell earned high-scoring Level 4s on all her elements and went into the free skate as the favorite to win her second US Nationals in a row.

Bradie Tennell came in second place overall, behind Alysa Liu, who, at her debut on the senior level, became the youngest US women's champion in history.

Bradie Tennell completed Level 4 spins and footwork, all with high marks, throughout her program and earned the second-highest component score of the competition.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place after the free skate, earning 136.99 points and 213.59 points overall.

At Four Continents, Bradie Tennell held a slight lead after the short program by half a point over Kaori Sakamoto of Japan.

Bradie Tennell skated a "strong and fluid" program, successfully completing a triple Lutz-triple toe in the opening moments of the program, a double Axel, and her final jump, a triple flip.

Bradie Tennell earned high-scoring Level 4s on all her elements, earning a season's best of 73.91 points.

Bradie Tennell was, like at US Nationals, unable to complete her triple Lutz-triple loop combination.

Bradie Tennell earned Level 4s on all her spins and footwork but came in fifth place after the free skate and fifth place overall.

Bradie Tennell later expressed frustration that the only time she failed to complete her Lutz-loop combination was during competitions and told a reporter that she was considering removing it before Worlds.

At Worlds in Saitama, Japan, Bradie Tennell came in tenth place after a "disappointing" short program, earning 69.50 points.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed an Axel and triple flip but underrotated the last jump in her triple Lutz-triple toe combination, even though she had performed it consistently in practice.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed seven triple jumps during her free skate, including a double Axel and a triple Lutz-triple toe combination jump early in her program, earning a season's best score of 143.97 points and coming in seventh place overall, with 213.47 points.

Bradie Tennell told reporters that she was happy with her free skate, which was called "one of the best skates of her career", and that her confidence had improved since Four Continents after wavering earlier in the season.

Bradie Tennell ended the season competing for the US at the 2019 World Team Trophy, helping her team win the competition for the fourth time since it started in 2009.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place after the short program, earning 74.81 points.

Bradie Tennell scored 150.83 points, a new US record, and came in second place, more than three points under Elizaveta Tuktamysheva from Russia, who came in first in the free skate.

Bradie Tennell worked with Alexei Mishin in Courchevel in the French Alps during the summer of 2019; she worked on her choreography, body movements, gestures, and artistry, which, according to figure skating reporter Jean-Christophe Berlot, "deeply modified her style on the ice" throughout the season, especially her two appearances during the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Final.

Bradie Tennell worked on including a triple Axel into her routines, which was ready at the beginning of the season, but a stress fracture in her foot in July 2019 prevented her from using it.

Bradie Tennell had to withdraw from a Challenger Series competition early in the season due to the injury but returned to training one month before her first competition of the season, 2019 Skate America.

Bradie Tennell placed first place in her "flawless" short program, with a personal best score of 75.10 points, an almost two-point advantage over Japanese skaters Kaori Sakamoto and Wakaba Higuchi, who were in second and third place, and Anna Shcherbakova from Russia, who was in fourth place, going into the free skate.

Bradie Tennell's jumps were "effortless" and included "a solid" triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, a double Axel, and triple flip.

Bradie Tennell skated a clean free skate as well, scoring 141.04 points.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed six triple jumps, including opening with her most difficult element, a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, as well as a triple flip-double toe-double loop combination and another triple Lutz-triple toe combination during the second half of the program.

Bradie Tennell earned 150.83 points during the free skate and the highest program component score of the competition.

Bradie Tennell came in second place overall, earning a total of 216.14 points and her first silver medal at a Grand Prix competition.

Bradie Tennell placed fourth at Skate Canada, a week after Skate America, earning a total of 211.31 points overall.

Bradie Tennell skated two "fairly clean" programs, and was the highest-scoring competitor without a quadruple jump.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place after the short program, earning 72.92 points overall.

Bradie Tennell was given Level 4 marks for three elements and earned the second-highest program component score.

Bradie Tennell came in fifth place in the free skate but earned the third-highest program component score of the competition, with 138.39 points.

Bradie Tennell was the only American woman to compete at the 2019 Grand Prix Final, the first American woman since Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold in 2015 and the first Grand Prix Final of her career.

Bradie Tennell came in "a creditable fifth place", ahead of World champion Alina Zagitova.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed a double Axel and triple flip, as well as earning Level 4s and positive grades of execution in her spins and footwork.

Bradie Tennell came in fourth place after the short program, with 72.20 points, three points below her personal best score.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed a triple Lutz-triple toe and triple Salchow in her "beautiful" free skate, although she underrotated the final jump in her second triple Lutz-triple toe combination later in the program.

Bradie Tennell underrotated the triple flip portion of her three-jump combination, which included a double toe jump and double loop.

Bradie Tennell earned positive grades of execution for her "solid" double Axels, spins, and footwork.

Bradie Tennell earned 139.98 points, less than two points below her season's best, and 212.18 points overall.

At the 2020 US Nationals, Bradie Tennell required treatment for an infected hematoma in her arm, injured a few months earlier when she hit a wall during a fall.

Bradie Tennell opened with a "solid" triple Lutz-double Axel combination, and successfully completed a triple flip and executed strong Level 4 spins and footwork.

Bradie Tennell earned 78.96 points, over 3.5 points more than Liu and the highest-ever short program score at Nationals.

Bradie Tennell earned Level 4s for all her elements and received the second-highest component scores.

Bradie Tennell finished third in the free skate, with 141.90 points, and came in third place overall, with 220.86 points.

Bradie Tennell later said that competing at Nationals was more challenging than competing at the Grand Prix Finals.

Bradie Tennell came in third place at the 2020 Four Continents Championships.

Bradie Tennell "showed intensity" during her short program, successfully executing a solid triple Lutz-triple toe combination, double Axel, and triple flip.

Bradie Tennell earned a Level 3 on her final combination spin and Level 4s on all her other elements, coming in second place with 75.93 points, a season's best score, and five points behind Japanese skater Rika Kihira.

Bradie Tennell successfully completed four clean triple jumps and two double Axels and earned Level 4 spins and footwork.

Bradie Tennell earned 147.04 points, a season's-best score, and 222.97 points overall.

Bradie Tennell moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Zakrajsek is based, to train with him.

Bradie Tennell came in second place at Skate America, after Mariah Bell, who won the gold medal.

Bradie Tennell won the US Nationals in 2021 for the second time, three years after winning her first title.

Bradie Tennell placed seventh in the short program and eight in the free skate, ending up in the ninth place overall.

Subsequently, Bradie Tennell was named to the American team for the 2021 World Team Trophy.

Bradie Tennell withdrew from what was scheduled to be her first Grand Prix assignment of the season, the 2021 Skate America, due to a foot injury.

Bradie Tennell withdrew from 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia and 2021 CS Cup of Austria.

On December 28,2021, Bradie Tennell announced on social media that she was withdrawing from the 2022 US Championships, due to the same foot injury that had plagued her all season, making her ineligible to compete in the Olympics unless she filed a petition for a place on the USteam.

Bradie Tennell's withdrawal made her the first American woman not to defend her national title since Sasha Cohen in 2007 and the first not to do so during an Olympic year since Michelle Kwan in 2006.

Bradie Tennell initially planned to begin her season at the Japan Open as part of the American team, but a new ankle injury prompted her to withdraw from that event, as well as from the International Cup of Nice.

Bradie Tennell fell twice in the short program, finishing tenth of twelve skaters in that segment.

Bradie Tennell dropped to twelfth place after the free skate.

Bradie Tennell then finished eighth at the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo.

Bradie Tennell was overtaken in the free skate by fellow American Lindsay Thorngren, winning the silver medal.

At the 2023 US Championships, Bradie Tennell placed narrowly second in the short program, only 0.02 points behind title favourite Isabeau Levito after making a spin error.

Bradie Tennell was sixth in the free skate, and dropped to sixth overall.

Bradie Tennell revealed afterward that she had been sick during the preceding week and felt "like a frog" on the day, but that she was "proud" about having maintained control.

Bradie Tennell later came fifteenth at the 2023 World Championships.

Bradie Tennell was known for her consistency, jumping proficiency, resiliency, and mental toughness.

Reporter Gary D'Amato stated that Bradie Tennell's strengths were her athleticism and her consistency in completing difficult jumps.

Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post agreed, stating that "Bradie Tennell's gift is her jumping ability".

Bradie Tennell rarely fell in competition, which helped her earn high technical element scores; she credited it to the technique her first coach, Denise Myers, taught her.

Figure skater and commentator Scott Hamilton stated that Bradie Tennell was "as unflappable" as Olympic athletes Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva from Russia.