Audrey Lu


Audrey Lu is an American pair skater. With her skating partner, Misha Mitrofanov, she is the 2018 CS U.S. International Classic silver medalist and 2018 U.S. national junior champion. The pair placed within the top five at the 2018 World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Lu was born on August 30, 2002, in Dallas, Texas. She attended Spring Creek Academy in Plano, Texas.

Career

Early years

Lu began learning to skate in 2007. She won the 2015 Southwestern Regional Championships. She placed 7th in the juvenile ladies' event at the 2015 U.S. Championships and 6th in the intermediate category at the 2016 U.S. Championships.

2016–2017 season

Lu's pair skating career began when she teamed up with Misha Mitrofanov in May 2016. Making their international debut, the pair placed 12th at an ISU Junior Grand Prix event in the Czech Republic in September 2016. Their season came to an end in November, after Mitrofanov dislocated his shoulder at the Midwestern Sectional Championships. He underwent shoulder surgery and resumed training after six months.

2017–2018 season

Lu/Mitrofanov placed 5th at both of their JGP assignments. In January, they won the junior pairs' title at the 2018 U.S. Championships; they ranked first in both segments and outscored the silver medalists by 17.74 points. In March, the pair placed 5th at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2018–2019 season

Making their senior international debut, Lu/Mitrofanov won silver at the 2018 CS U.S. Classic in mid-September, and then placed fifth at the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. They were invited to two Grand Prix events, the 2018 NHK Trophy and 2018 Internationaux de France, where they placed seventh and sixth, respectively. Debuting at senior Nationals at the 2019 U.S. Championships, they placed sixth.

2019–2020 season

Lu/Mitrofanov began the season with a fifth-place finish at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic. On the Grand Prix, they were eighth at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup. They concluded the season at the 2020 U.S. Championships, where they finished sixth.

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skating
2019–2020

from Moulin Rouge!
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by Adele

by Riccardo Cocciante, Luc Plamondon,
Will Jennings
2018–2019

  • Masquerade: Waltz
by Aram Khachaturian

2017–2018

by Deana Carter


by Andrew Lloyd Webber

by Andrew Lloyd Webber
2016–2017


by Carl Orff

  • Memory

by Andrew Lloyd Webber

by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Pairs with Mitrofanov

Ladies' singles