Travis Mager
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Travis Alexander Mager is an American ice dancer
Ice dancing
Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

. With partner Lauri Bonacorsi
Lauri Bonacorsi
Lauri Bonacorsi is an American ice dancer. With partner Travis Mager, she is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist.- Career :...

, he is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist
2011 United States Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 United States Figure Skating Championships were a national figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed for the title of U.S. national champion in men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels...

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Career

Bonacorsi and Mager officially teamed up in late May 2008.

Bonacorsi and Mager won the 2009 U.S. novice ice dancing
2009 United States Figure Skating Championships
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 title. They won the bronze medal at the 2009 JGP Lake Placid. In May 2010, it was reported they had changed coaches to Natalia Linichuk
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 and Gennadi Karponosov at the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, Pennsylvania.

In the 2010–11 season, Bonacorsi and Mager won the bronze medal at the 2010 JGP Brasov Cup in Romania. They won silver on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships
2011 United States Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 United States Figure Skating Championships were a national figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed for the title of U.S. national champion in men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels...

. They placed 11th at the 2011 World Junior Championships
2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event crowned the World Junior Champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and...

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Current 2011-12 season. September 2011, Bonacorsi and Mager won the silver medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Brisbane in Australia. In October 2011 they won the bronze medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Walter Lombardi Trophy Milan in Italy.
Bonacorsi and Mager are the first alternates to the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Finals in Quebec City, Canada, December 2011.

Personal life

Mager completed two years at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland
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 and was then accepted as a transfer student at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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 but deferred admission.

Programs

(with Bonacorsi)
Season Short dance
Short dance
The short dance is a segment of an ice dancing competition. It was approved by the June 2010 International Skating Union congress and instituted beginning in the 2010–2011 figure skating season...

Free dance
Free dance (figure skating)
The free dance is a part of an ice dancing competition. It is the second part of the competition to be contested, after the short dance.-Structure and content:...

2011–2012
  • Cha Cha: Chilly Cha Cha
    by Jessica Jay
  • Rhumba: Besame Mucho
    Bésame Mucho
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    performed by Nana Mouskouri
    Nana Mouskouri
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  • Close to You
    by Sandra and Tony Alessi
  • 2010–2011 My Sweet and Tender Beast
    by Eugen Doga
    Eugen Doga
    Eugen Doga is a Moldovan/Romanian composer. After the fall of the Soviet Union he lives in Moscow, Russia.-Biography:Doga was born on March 1, 1937 in the village of Mocra in the Rîbniţa district of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...

     
    From The Mask
    The Mask
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  • Cuban Pete
    by Jose Norman
  • This Business of Love
    by H. Hersh
  • Hey Pachuco
    Royal Crown Revue

  • Competitive highlights

    (with Bonacorsi)
    Event 2008–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012
    World Junior Championships
    World Junior Figure Skating Championships
    The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...

     
    11th
    U.S. Championships
    United States Figure Skating Championships
    The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...

     
    1st N. 6th J. 2nd J.
    Junior Grand Prix, Italy  3rd
    Junior Grand Prix, Australia  2nd
    Junior Grand Prix, Romania  3rd
    Junior Grand Prix, U.K.  5th
    Junior Grand Prix, U.S.  3rd
    Junior Grand Prix, Germany  9th
    • N. = Novice-level J. = Junior-level

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