LAURI BONACORSI

Birthday: January 17th

Hometown: St. Louis, MO

Started skating: Age 4

Home club: Peninsula SC

Favorites: St. Louis Cardinals, New York City, Harper Lee, Teen Vogue, CNN.com, chai tea, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Ugly Betty, Blackberry, The Devil Wears Prada, Winter



TRAVIS MAGER

Birthday: September 9th

Hometown: Fulton, MD

Started skating: Age 9

Home club: Columbia FSC

Favorites: Fall, Maryland Terrapins, True Blood, Youtube.com, Harry Potter Series, National Geographic, fruit smoothies, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Augusten Burroughs

 

 
  • Lauri & Travis train in Aston, Pennsylvania and are coached by Natalia Linichuk & Gennady Karponosov.

  • Lauri has been accepted to an Ivy, and will be attending the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. She has been named to the 2011 U.S. Figure Skating Scholastic Honors Team, making her a two-time winner of the award, and she is also a two-time recipient of the U.S. Figure Skating Athlete Alumni Ambassador (3A) Award.

  • Travis is a student of the University of Maryland and a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma and the Golden Key International Honor Society.

  • Lauri started skating when she was 4 because she was always at the rink watching her brother play hockey.

  • Travis started skating at age 9 after being inspired by senior men's competitor Scott Smith, whose father was the headmaster at his school.