2022-23 Figure Skating Roster

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56   Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier

  • Level/Discipline Senior/Pairs
  • Training Town Irvine, Calif.
  • Club DuPage FSC | All Year FSC
  • Birth Date June 10, 1991 | Nov. 19, 1992
  • Coach(es) Todd Sand, Jenni Meno, Chris Knierim
  • Birthplace Glendale Heights, Ill. | Phoenix
  • Choreographer(s) Shae-Lynn Bourne, John Kerr
  • Hometown Addison, Ill. | Colorado Springs, Colo.
  • Connect Alexa: Twitter | Instagram
    Brandon: Twitter | Instagram

Biography

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Olympic Team Event gold medalists (2022)
Olympians (2022)
World champions (2022)
World silver medalists (2023)
Grand Prix Final silver medalists (2022)
U.S. champions (2023, '21)
World Team Trophy champions (team)  (2023)
World Team Trophy silver medalist (team) (2021)
Grand Prix Series medals: 4

2022-23 SEASON NOTES
SP Music: "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Journey
FS Music: "Sign of the Times" by Harry Styles

IJS PERSONAL BESTS
International Competition
SP – 82.25 (2023 World Team Trophy)
FS – 147.87 (2023 World Team Trophy)
Final Score – 230.12 (2023 World Team Trophy)

U.S. Qualifying Competition
SP – 81.96 (2023 U.S. Championships)
FS – 150.64 (2021 U.S. Championships)
Final Score – 228.10 (2021 U.S. Championships)

SKATING NOTES
Began partnership in March 2020 ... Became the first U.S. pairs figure skating team to win multiple Grand Prix events in one season (since the series started in 1995) in 2022 with golds at Skate America and MK John Wilson Trophy ... Became the first U.S. pairs team to win a medal at Grand Prix Final with silver in 2022 ... Broke the record for the best-ever pairs short program score at the U.S. Championships in 2023.

Knierim started skating at age 7 ... Previously skated with husband Chris Knierim with whom she won three U.S. titles (2015, ’18, ’20) and an Olympic Team Event bronze medal in 2018 … Also skated with Ivan Dimitrov (2011- 12) ... Previously coached by Dalilah Sappenfield (2011-2018), Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova (2009-11), Maria Jezak-Athey (2008-09), Trish Cazeau Brown and Sergei Telenkov (1998-2008).

Frazier began figure skating at age 11 after roller skating for six years ... Competed with Mandy Garza from 2009-11, winning the novice bronze medal at the 2010 U.S. Championships … Previously skated with Haven Denney with whom he won the U.S. pairs title in 2017 and a World Junior title in 2013 … Previously coached by Ingo Stauer (2014-15), John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana (2011-20).

PERSONAL NOTES
Knierim earned an associate degree in general studies from College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, Illinois) in 2014 ... Parents are Tom and Tina ... Has one sister, Alivia, and one brother, Derek … Married Chris Knierim June 26, 2016 … Has two cats named Scarlet and Muffy and two dogs named Cami and Diesel.

Frazier has a brother named Samuel ... Parents are Beth (director of operations) and Samuel (IT).

PREVIOUS SEASON NOTES
  • 2021-22 Season Notes
    FS Music: "Fix You" by Fearless Soul and Coldplay, and "Redemption Through Love" by Karl Hugo 
     
  • 2020-21 Season Notes
    SP Music: "In the End" by Tommee Profitt and "Too Far Gone" by Hidden Citizens
    FS Music: "Fall on Me" by Andrew Bocelli and Matteo Bocelli

COMPETITIVE HISTORY
  • 2023 World Team Trophy – 1st (team)
  • 2023 World Championships – 2nd
  • 2023 U.S. Championships – 1st
  • 2022 Grand Prix Final – 2nd
  • 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy – 1st
  • 2022 Skate America® – 1st
  • 2022 World Championships – 1st
  • 2022 Olympic Winter Games – 6th
  • 2022 Olympic Winter Games – 1st (team)
  • 2021 Golden Spin – 5th
  • 2021 Internationaux de France – 3rd
  • 2021 Skate America® – 4th
  • 2021 John Nicks International Pairs Challenge – 1st
  • 2021 Cranberry Cup – 2nd
  • 2021 World Team Trophy – 2nd (team)
  • 2021 World Championships – 7th
  • 2021 U.S. Championships – 1st
  • 2020 Skate America® – 1st

Historical Player Information

  • 51

    2020-21Senior/Pairs

    June 10, 1991 | Nov. 19, 1992
    51
  • 40

    2021-22Senior/Pairs

    June 10, 1991 | Nov. 19, 1992
    40
  • 56

    2022-23Senior/Pairs

    June 10, 1991 | Nov. 19, 1992
    56