233 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 2025 Four Continents silver medalist and 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2018 Autumn Classic International champion, the 2018 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.

When Bradie Tennell was 16, her parents had a "bitter divorce"; as of 2018, her father was not in her or her siblings' lives.

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, when she would greet her mother when she returned home after an overnight shift and beg her 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 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, which was set to music from The Nutcracker.

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 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.

Sean Jacobs of NBC called this period "dark days" for Bradie Tennell, who said that wearing a back brace was "very tough".

Bradie Tennell said that her mother helped her not give up and to "put things in perspective".

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 Kaetlyn 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 came in seventh place in the short program, with 68.76 points, came in fourth place in the free skate, with 131.13 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, over three points more than her score at Nationals in 2018.

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, the first American women to medal at Four Continents since 2017.

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 was based, to train with him, where she could train with other elite skaters such as 2018 Olympians Vincent Zhou and Karen Chen, 2019 World Junior champion Tomoki Hiwatashi, and 2018 US Junior champion Camden Pulkinen.

Bradie Tennell told Philip Hersh from NBC Sports that she was frustrated about not reaching her goals or progressing fast enough, as well as by her failure to add the triple Axel.

Bradie Tennell recognized that the limits on traveling and competing imposed by the COVID outbreak could benefit her in her training.

Bradie Tennell said the move to Colorado felt "like a fresh start".

Bradie Tennell wanted to show a more mature side to her skating.

Bradie Tennell returned to playing the piano, which she had learned as a child and gave up to focus on skating.

Bradie Tennell started off the season by competing in the International Skating Pool, a virtual competition conducted by US Figure Skating; she came in second place overall, behind Mariah Bell.

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

Bradie Tennell had a few injuries early in the season that prevented her from practicing jumps until the week before Skate America.

Bradie Tennell had boot problems that were resolved a few weeks before her season began.

Skating "an engaging routine" and to "Moderation" by Florence and the Machine, Bradie Tennell's only error during her short program was an underrotated triple toe jump, the second jump in her triple Lutz-triple toe jump combination, but was able to execute a successful double Axel and triple flip.

Bradie Tennell later told a reporter that she appreciated being able to compete despite the establishment of COVID restrictions.

Bradie Tennell underrotated her first jump, a triple Lutz-triple toe jump, but successfully completed her double Axel and triple loop jump.

Bradie Tennell stepped out of and put her hand down her triple Salchow and underrotated her second triple Lutz-triple toe combination jump, but earned a level 4 and positive GOEs for her footwork and spins.

Bradie Tennell said later that she felt good about her free skating performance.

Bradie Tennell won the US Nationals in 2021 for the second time, three years after winning her first title, making her the first woman in 101 years to go three years between winning the US championship, when Theresa Weld won in 1914 and 1920.

Bradie Tennell credited Zakrajsek, who was unable to watch the competition in person because he had tested positive for COVID, with helping her regain her consistency.

Bradie Tennell broke the record US Nationals women's short program score, a record she had set in 2020.

Bradie Tennell successfully executed a double Axel, a triple Lutz-triple toe combination jump, and a triple flip, with positive GOEs for all jumps.

Bradie Tennell earned level 4s on all three of her spins and footwork, earning 79.40 points.

Bradie Tennell later said that she was happy with and proud of her short program performance.

Bradie Tennell earned 153.21 points in the free skate, with 232.61 points overall, more than 17 points over the second-place winner, Amber Glenn, and the biggest margin in the women's event since 2014.

Bradie Tennell's only error was a short slip at the end of her program, but as Zakrajsek stated, she "left it all out there".

Bradie Tennell said that it was "exactly the performance I wanted to give, and I enjoyed every second of it".

Bradie Tennell earned 69.87 points and came in seventh place going into the free skate.

Bradie Tennell later said that she was disappointed in her performance and that her timing was off during her triple Lutz combination jump, even though she considered it one of her strongest jumps and had successfully executed it in every practice since US Nationals.

Bradie Tennell placed eighth in the free skate, ending up in ninth place overall.

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

Bradie Tennell's footwork was a Level 2, but she earned Level 4s and positive GOEs on all her spins, earning 67.40 points for Team USA.

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 the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, due to injury.

In December 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 reported that she had consulted doctors from all over the US, changed boots, and tried many treatments, none of which were effective.

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 called it "the hardest decision of my life", wished her fellow skaters good luck at Nationals and in Beijing, and vowed that she would return to competition.

Bradie Tennell started to learn French and trained with Adam Siao Him Fa.

Bradie Tennell initially planned to begin her season at the Japan Open, but an ankle injury, which occurred the day before she was to leave for Japan, prompted her to withdraw from the competition, as well as from the International Cup of Nice.

Bradie Tennell was able to participate in the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy in Sheffield, a replacement event for the Cup of China, which was cancelled due to travel and quarantine restrictions caused by COVID and would provide her with a bye into the 2023 US Championships.

Bradie Tennell later said that she was "tempering her expectations" due to her difficulties and limited training.

In Sheffield, Bradie Tennell fell twice in her short program, finishing tenth of twelve skaters, eventually coming in twelfth place overall.

Bradie Tennell came in second place at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, her first time on the podium this season, behind her teammate, Lindsay Thorngren.

Bradie Tennell came in first place in the short program, with 68.84 points, successfully executing her opening triple Lutz-triple toe combination jump and a double Axel; she earned level 4s on all of her spins.

Bradie Tennell earned 124.47 points in the free skate and earned 193.31 points overall.

At the 2023 US Championships in San Jose, California, Bradie Tennell placed narrowly second in the short program, only 0.02 points, with 73.76 points, behind favorite Isabeau Levito, after making what she called "a silly" spin error.

Bradie Tennell said that she felt nostalgic skating in San Jose again, since it was where she won her first Nationals in 2018.

Bradie Tennell opened her program with a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination jump and earned level 4s on her layback spin and step sequence, although she lost points on her flying spin, which was judged as a Level 1, and on her closing combination spin, which gave Levito a slight edge going into the free skate.

Bradie Tennell explained that her final spin errors occurred "because I got a little excited", adding that "we're going to take that in stride and move forward for the long program".

Bradie Tennell opened her program with her reliable and confident triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination jump and successfully executed three more triple jumps, although she underrotated and stepped out of the last jump in her double Axel-triple toe loop combination jump and doubled her planned second triple Lutz.

Bradie Tennell earned positive GOEs for her spins and footwork sequence, which were all Level 4s, earning 139.36 points in her free skate and 213.12 points overall, ten points behind Isabeau Levito.

Bradie Tennell later said that winning the silver medal at San Jose was sentimental for her and that despite her errors, she was proud of her performance.

At Four Continents in Colorado Springs, Bradie Tennell finished fifth in the short program, skating to "Michigan 7" and earning a personal best score of 69.49 points.

Bradie Tennell slightly underrotated the final jump of her triple Lutz-triple toe jump combination, but the rest of the program was clean, with many positive GOEs and level 4 spins and footwork.

Bradie Tennell later said that she felt a little stiff, but that she was excited to experience Four Continents in her home country and that she felt that she had improved.

Bradie Tennell made minor but costly errors in her free skate, lightly underrotating her opening jump of her triple Lutz-triple toe combination jump and her triple loop.

Bradie Tennell underrotated the closing jump of her double Axel-triple toe-double toe combination jump, as well as her first jump in her triple Lutz-double toe combination jump.

Bradie Tennell came in sixth place in the free skate, with 130.42 points, and dropped to sixth place overall, with 199.91 points.

Bradie Tennell later revealed that she had been sick during the preceding week and felt "like a frog" while skating, but that she felt proud that she was able to maintain control anyway.

Bradie Tennell came 15th place at the 2023 World Championships, earning 117.69 points for her free skate program and earned an overall score of 184.14 points.

Bradie Tennell attributed her difficulties to "a lot of nerves today with it being my first Worlds back", but said that she was pleased with "the fight that I displayed".

Bradie Tennell said on social media that "I had a little mishap while warming up my step sequence during training" and "caught an edge on a bracket and managed to break my ankle in a funky fall".

Bradie Tennell had a spiral oblique fracture, which required doctors to insert a large four-inch plate, with five screws, in the area of her ankle.

Bradie Tennell then had to have a second surgery to remove the plate because it limited her range of motion and caused tendon irritation.

Bradie Tennell said that she was determined to come back stronger the following season.

Bradie Tennell said that the injury was "devastating" after coming back the previous season and doing well in her first two Grand Prix events, but credited her physical therapist with her recovery.

Bradie Tennell stated that it was too painful to watch US Nationals that year and that she was not sure if she would be able to perform jumps again.

Bradie Tennell made her return to competition at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy, where she won the silver medal.

Bradie Tennell placed second in the short program, earning 66.99 points, less than 1.5 points behind Isabeau Levito, but sixth in the free skate, dropping to fifth place overall.

Bradie Tennell later told reporters, "It was worth every day of doubt, every small setback, every moment of can I ever get back to this level again, just to come out and skate like that".

Skating to music from the Puccini opera Turandot, Bradie Tennell came in sixth place in the free skate, earning 123.05 points and 192.04 points overall.

Bradie Tennell successfully executed five clean triple jumps, but underrotated as she came out of a double Axel-triple toe loop combination jump and popped a Lutz jump.

Bradie Tennell earned fewer points in her step sequence and one of her spins was downgraded to a level two.

Bradie Tennell later said that she was disappointed in her performance because she had skated clean programs during practice and that it was not how she wanted to end the competition.

Bradie Tennell stated that the wrong cut of her music played during her free skate, which distracted her and resulted in being "off the music throughout".

Bradie Tennell came in fifth place in the short program at NHK Trophy.

Bradie Tennell struggled on her opening jumping pass, but skated cleanly the rest of the program with strong components, including a double Axel jump and a triple loop jump.

Bradie Tennell finished in fifth place overall, with 190.25 points.

Bradie Tennell subsequently won the bronze medal at the 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.

In January, Bradie Tennell competed at the 2025 US Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

Bradie Tennell placed second in the short program behind Alysa Liu, earning 71.23 points.

Bradie Tennell fought to successfully execute a few jumps, although her only major error was a fall on a triple Lutz jump.

At the event, Bradie Tennell placed fifth in the short program with 66.58 points and came in second place in the free skate, moving up to the silver medal position overall.

Skating again to "Nessum Dorma," Bradie Tennell earned 137.80 points in the free skate and 204.38 points overall, which was her season's best score.

Bradie Tennell closed the season by winning gold at the 2025 Maria Olszewska Memorial.

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.

Myers stated that Bradie Tennell had perseverance and had patience with herself.