Joshua Farris

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Joshua Farris
Joshua Farris in 2011
Born (1995-01-06) January 6, 1995 (age 29)
Renton, Washington
HometownColorado Springs, Colorado
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
DisciplineMen's singles
Began skating2001
Retired2018
Four Continents Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Seoul Singles
U.S. Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Greensboro Singles
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Milan Singles
Silver medal – second place 2012 Minsk Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Silver medal – second place 2012–13 Sochi Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2011–12 Quebec Singles

Joshua Farris (born January 6, 1995) is a former American competitive figure skater. He is the 2015 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2013 World Junior champion, a two-time Junior Grand Prix Final medalist (silver in 2012, bronze in 2011), and the 2010 U.S. national junior silver medalist. He won five Junior Grand Prix titles, as well as U.S. national titles on the juvenile (2006), intermediate (2008), and novice levels (2009).

Personal life

Joshua Farris was born in Renton, Washington, to father Rodney.[1] At the age of eight, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, which may be connected with a concussion he sustained as a child.[2]

Career

Early years

Farris began skating at age five after his mother took him skating for his birthday.[3] He moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in mid-2007 to train with Tom Zakrajsek and Becky Calvin.[4]

Farris won his third national title when he took the novice gold at the 2009 U.S. Championships. He was then sent to the 2009 International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands, where he took silver on the junior level.

He made his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in the following season. He was assigned to the 2009–10 ISU Junior Grand Prix events in the United States and Turkey where he placed 4th and 5th, respectively. At the 2010 U.S. Championships, he took silver on the junior level.

2010–11 season

In the 2010–11 season, Farris was assigned the Junior Grand Prix events in Romania and the U.K. where he took silver and gold, respectively. This qualified him for the 2010-11 Junior Grand Prix Final, where he placed 6th.

Farris decided to move up to the senior level nationally.[4] At the 2011 U.S. Championships, Farris fell hard on his left hip while training a quad during the second day of practices. The fall resulted in a torn abductor muscle but he decided to compete despite the pain.[5] He placed 13th after a shaky short program. On the day between the short and long programs Farris went to a restaurant and suffered anaphylactic shock due to his allergy to dairy products.[5] He was rushed to the emergency room where he stayed until 3 a.m.[5] He decided to compete in the long program where he had several shaky landings and three falls. He placed 21st in the free skate and overall. It was later learned that he had broken his fibula and sprained a tendon when he fell on his second triple Axel attempt.[5] Following this competition, Farris decided to change coaches to Christy Krall, with whom he had already worked,[4] and Damon Allen.

2011–12 season

In the 2011–12 season, Farris was assigned to a Junior Grand Prix event in Gdańsk, Poland, which he won.[6] He then took gold at his second event in Tallinn, Estonia, and qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final where he won the bronze medal. He finished 16th on the senior level at the 2012 U.S. Championships. At the 2012 World Junior Championships, Farris won the short program and won the silver medal overall. He also won The Denver Post's Youth Excellence in Sports award for March 2012.[3]

2012–13 season

In the 2012–13 season, Farris was assigned to JGP events in the U.S. and Slovenia. He took gold in both, resulting in qualification to the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia. At the JGP Final, he was first in the short program and second in the free skate and won the overall silver medal.[7]

At the 2013 U.S. Championships, Farris placed third in the short program. He fell on his planned quadruple toe loop in the long program, but managed to secure 4th place. He then won the gold medal at the 2013 World Junior Championships with an overall score of 228.32 points. Farris' score was a new record set for men competing on the junior level.

2013–14 season: Senior debut

In the 2013–14 season, Farris made his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2013 Skate Canada, where he finished 5th. He withdrew from his next assignment, the 2013 Cup of Russia.

At the 2014 U.S. Championships, Farris placed 4th again.

2014–15 season

In the 2014–15 season, Farris was assigned to 2014 Cup of China and 2014 NHK Trophy. However, he had to withdraw from the Cup of China due to a recurring right ankle injury,[8] which had been a problem since 2011.[9] At the NHK Trophy, he ended up 11th.

At the 2015 U.S. Championships, Farris won the bronze medal. In his free program, he executed a double toe jump three times, losing credit for one of his triple jump combinations. Still, his placement was an improvement from the previous year.[10] At the 2015 Four Continents Championships, he set the personal best scores in both the short program and the free skating and won silver with total points of 260.01.[11][12] This was his first medal in a prominent senior level international competition.[13] At the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships, he placed 11th.[14]

2015–16 season

Farris' Grand Prix assignments were the 2015 Skate Canada International and 2015 NHK Trophy. However, he had to withdraw from both events after sustaining three concussions in three weeks.[2] The first occurred when he fell while practicing a quadruple toe loop jump in July.[15][16][17] Since a scan indicated nothing, he resumed training but then sustained a second concussion, followed soon after by a third when he hit his head entering a car.[2] He did not compete during the season.[18]

Hiatus

Farris announced his retirement from competitive skating on July 1, 2016, after struggling with the aftereffects of the concussions and depression.[2] He resumed skating in early November 2016, after his health had improved, and announced in February 2017 that he hoped to return to competition in the 2017–18 season.[19] He trained at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, coached by Christy Krall and Damon Allen.[19] However, the side effects from his brain injury did not go away, and he had to stop training again.[20]

Choreographing career

Following his competitive career, Farris began working as a figure skating choreographer at the Broadmoor Skating Club.[21][22]

Farris' past clients have included:

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2014–2015
[25][26][1]
2013–2014
[27][28]
2012–2013
[29]
2011–2012
[31]
2010–2011
[32][4]
2009–2010
[33][34]
2008–2009
[25]
2007–2008
[25]
2006–2007
[25]
2005–2006
[25]

Competitive highlights

Competition placements at senior level [35][25]
Season 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014-15
World Championships 11th
Four Continents Championships 6th 2nd
GP NHK Trophy 11th
GP Skate Canada 5th
U.S. Classic 3rd
U.S. Championships 21st 16th 4th 4th 3rd
Competition placements at junior level [35][25]
Season 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13
World Junior Championships 2nd 1st
JGP Final 6th 3rd 2nd
JGP Estonia 1st
JGP Great Britain 1st
JGP Poland 1st
JGP Romania 2nd
JGP Slovenia 1st
JGP Turkey 5th
JGP United States 4th 1st
Challenge Cup 2nd
U.S. Championships 2nd

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE system 
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 260.01 2015 Four Continents Championships
Short program TSS 84.29 2015 Four Continents Championships
TES 44.53 2015 Four Continents Championships
PCS 39.76 2015 Four Continents Championships
Free skating TSS 175.72 2015 Four Continents Championships
TES 91.02 2015 Four Continents Championships
PCS 84.70 2015 Four Continents Championships

Senior level

  • Small medals for the short program and free skating are only awarded at ISU Championships.
  • At national events in the United States, pewter medals are awarded for fourth place.
Results in the 2010–11 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jan 22–30, 2011 United States 2011 U.S. Championships 13 60.91 22 90.82 21 151.73
Results in the 2011–12 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jan 22–29, 2012 United States 2012 U.S. Championships 14 65.43 16 132.55 16 197.98
Results in the 2012–13 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jan 19–27, 2013 United States 2013 U.S. Championships 3 79.78 4 165.04 4 244.82
Results in the 2013–14 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 11–15, 2013 United States 2013 U.S. International Classic 3 71.85 3 134.71 3 206.56
Oct 24–27, 2013 Canada 2013 Skate Canada International 8 69.14 4 147.58 5 216.72
Jan 5–12, 2013 United States 2014 U.S. Championships 5 78.37 4 169.69 4 248.06
Jan 20–26, 2014 Taiwan 2014 Four Continents Championships 7 74.85 5 146.15 6 221.00
Results in the 2014–15 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 28–30, 2014 Japan 2014 NHK Trophy 11 58.35 11 111.53 11 169.88
Jan 18–25, 2015 United States 2015 U.S. Championships 2 90.40 3 177.58 3 267.98
Feb 9–15, 2015 South Korea 2015 Four Continents Championships 5 84.29 2 175.72 2 260.01
Mar 23–29, 2015 China 2015 World Championships 13 73.52 10 149.52 11 223.04

Junior level

  • Small medals for the short program and free skating are only awarded at ISU Championships.
Results in the 2008–09 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 4–8, 2009 Netherlands 2009 International Challenge Cup 6 46.75 1 114.58 2 161.33
Results in the 2009–10 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 2–6, 2009 United States 2009 JGP United States 10 50.30 3 104.22 4 154.52
Oct 14–18, 2009 Turkey 2009 JGP Turkey 2 62.50 7 99.33 5 161.83
Jan 14–26, 2010 United States 2010 U.S. Championships (Junior) 4 58.24 1 136.79 2 195.03
Results in the 2010–11 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 8–11, 2010 Romania 2010 JGP Romania 1 67.03 3 112.19 2 179.22
Sep 29 – Oct 3, 2010 United Kingdom 2010 JGP Great Britain 1 59.79 1 127.95 1 207.67
Dec 8–21, 2010 China 2010–11 JGP Final 4 65.24 7 108.73 6 173.97
Results in the 2011–12 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 14–17, 2011 Poland 2011 JGP Poland 1 75.69 2 126.76 1 202.45
Oct 12–15, 2011 Estonia 2011 JGP Estonia 1 74.55 1 133.12 1 207.67
Dec 8–11, 2011 Canada 2011–12 JGP Final 1 72.99 3 130.99 3 203.98
Feb 27 – Mar 4, 2012 Belarus 2012 World Junior Championships 1 75.43 2 146.54 2 221.97
Results in the 2012–13 season 
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 30 – Sep 1, 2012 United States 2012 JGP United States 1 72.20 1 146.49 1 218.69
Sep 27–29, 2012 Slovenia 2012 JGP Slovenia 1 74.35 1 136.86 1 211.21
Dec 6–9, 2012 Russia 2012–13 JGP Final 1 74.53 2 136.84 2 211.37
Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2013 Italy 2013 World Junior Championships 1 75.84 2 152.48 1 228.32

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