Clare Seo or Seo Hee-won is an American figure skater.
15 Facts About Clare Seo
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Clare Seo has placed within the top ten at two World Junior Championships, finishing sixth in 2022 and eighth in 2023.
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The family returned to South Korea when Seo was five years old and remained there until 2020, after which Seo moved back to the US with her mother and her younger sister, Clara.
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Clare Seo intends to pursue a career in sports psychology once she retires from competitive skating.
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Clare Seo won gold in the junior women's event at the 2020 South Korean Championships.
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Clare Seo was the junior women's bronze medalist at the 2021 US Championships.
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Clare 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.
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Clare Seo 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.
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At her second JGP assignment, the 2021 JGP Poland held in September, Clare Seo was third in the short program and, again, fourth in the free skate to finish just off the podium in fourth overall.
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Clare Seo did not compete again until January, when she won the junior national title at the 2022 US Figure Skating Championships, besting domestic rivals Ava Ziegler, Josephine Lee, and Katie Shen.
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Clare Seo opened her season back in Courchevel, France at the 2022 JGP France in late August.
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Clare Seo placed fifth in both the short program and free skating segments of the competition, and finished fifth overall.
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Clare Seo 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.
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Clare 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.
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At the 2024 US Championships, Clare Seo placed third in the short program but sixth in the free skate, dropping to eighth place overall.