2025-26 SEASON NOTES
RD Music: "Enter Sandman" by Metallica and "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC
FD Music: Music from The Lion King (1994 and 2019)
 
IJS PERSONAL BESTS
International Competition
RD – 77.02 (2023 Autumn Classic)
FD – 114.18 (2023 Autumn Classic)
Final Score – 191.20 (2023 Autumn Classic)

U.S. Qualifying Competition
RD – 75.52 (2023 U.S. Championships)
FD – 110.94 (2024 U.S. Championships)
Final Score – 184.75 (2024 U.S. Championships)
 
SKATING NOTES
Announced partnership in June 2019. 

Pate starting skating at age 5 while attending a Girl Scouts troop event at an ice rink in Strongsville, Ohio and then started in Learn to Skate ... Competed in the National Solo Dance Series from 2012-17 and is a seven-time medalist.

Bye started skating at age 4 in the Learn to Skate program in Colorado Springs, Colorado to improve his skiing, but he was more interested in skating as he got older ... Has competed in singles, pairs and ice dance ... Previously skated with Chloe Lewis from 2010-18, winning the silver medal at the Winter Youth Olympic 2016 in Hamar, Norway, and medaled twice at the junior and novice levels at the U.S. Championships.

PERSONAL NOTES
Couple was married in May 2024 ... Have a cat named Indy.

Pates parents are Jenny (chief content officer) and David (vice president of sales) Pate ... Has a younger brother, Gavin, who played hockey for Eastern Michigan University ... Earned Associate of Arts Degree from Tri-C ... Graduated from Strongsville High School in 2018 ... Participated in Girls Scouts and earned the bronze and silver awards ... Was a competitive gymnast until she was 14 ... Wants to coach after her skating career ... Enjoys boating, spending time with family and friends, and reading.

Bye graduated from University of Michigan with a master's degree in biomedical engineering ... Graduated from Northville High School in 2016 ... Parents are Janet and Tim (Builder and Sales Representative) ... Has a younger sister named Jessica ... Wants to stay involved with the sport after his career by coaching/choreographing ... Enjoys cooking, playing frisbee, LEGOs, listening to music, spending time with friends, playing video games, and paddle boarding on the lake.

PREVIOUS SEASON NOTES

• 2024-25 Season Notes
  RD Music: "Le Freak" by Chic, "Car Wash" by Rose Royce and "Shake Your Grove Thing" by Peaches & Herb
  FD Music: "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor by Alex Borodin/Torgny Sporsen, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, Gothenburg Symphony Choir and Ove Gotting
   
• 2023-24 Season Notes
  RD Music: "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown and "Walk This Way" by Run DMC ft. Aerosmith
  FD Music: "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor by Alex Borodin/Torgny Sporsen, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, Gothenburg Symphony Choir and Ove Gotting
   
• 2022-23 Season Notes
  RD Music: “Beautiful Creatures" by Barbatuques, Andy Garcia and Rita Moreno, "Fly Love" by Jamie Foxx and "Real in Rio" by the Rio Singers
  FD Music: "Reel Around The Sun" by Bill Whelan
   
• 2021-22 Season Notes
  RD Music: “Cry Me A River” by Justin Timberlake; “Bye Bye Bye” by *NSYNC
  FD Music: "The Hanging Tree" (feat. Jennifer Lawrence) by James Newton Howard, "Abraham's Daughter" by Arcade Fire and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Lorde
   
• 2020-21 Season Notes
  RD Music: Selections from Motown The Musical
  FD Music: "Say Something" by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, and "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi
   
• 2019-20 Season Notes
  RD Music: "Anything Goes" by New Broadway Orchestra and " It's De-Lovely" by Sarah Vaughan
  FD Music: "Say Something" by A Great New World and Christina Aguilera, and "Primavera" by Luovico Einaudi 

COMPETITIVE HISTORY

• 2025 Lake Placid Ice Dance International – 4th
• 2025 U.S. Championships – 8th
• 2024 Warsaw Cup – 4th
• 2024 Finlandia Trophy – 7th
• 2024 Grand Prix de France – 9th
• 2024 Trophy Metropole Nice Cote d'Azur – 3rd
• 2024 Lake Placid Ice Dance International – 3rd
• 2024 U.S. Championships – 5th
• 2023 Cup of China – 4th
• 2023 Skate Canada International – 6th
• 2023 Autumn Classic – 1st
• 2023 Lake Placid Ice Dance International – 3rd
• 2023 U.S. Championships – 8th
• 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb – 4th
• 2022 Grand Prix de France – 5th
• 2022 Ondrej Nepela Memorial – 2nd
• 2022 U.S. International Classic – 2nd
• 2022 Lake Placid Ice Dance International – 2nd
• 2022 U.S. Championships – 8th
• 2021 Warsaw Cup – 7th
• 2022 U.S. Championship Series (Blaine, Minn.) – 2nd
• 2021 U.S. International Classic – 3rd
• 2021 Lake Placid Ice Dance International – 5th
• 2021 U.S. Championships – 7th
• 2020 Skate America® – 7th
• 2020 U.S. Championships – 7th
• 2020 U.S. Ice Dance Challenge – 1st
• 2020 Midwestern Sectional Challenge – 2nd