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The pair finished fourth in the 2003 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
The pair finished fourth in the 2003 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
Together they are the 2004 United States. bronze medalists. Mitchell began skating at the age of eight and took up ice dancing at ten. He teamed up with Galler-Rabinowitz before the 1999 season, finishing fifth on the novice level at their first-time competition at the United States Figure Skating That, combined with their pewter medal in 2003 at the senior level, made them the first United States figure skaters to medal at the Novice, Junior, and Senior levels at Nationals in a four-year span.
They missed the following year"s national championship due to surgery to repair torn cartilage in Mitchell"s shoulder.
Their bronze medal finish was noteworthy in that both teams who placed above them were at the time ineligible for the Olympics. Had the Olympics been held that year, Mitchell and Galler-Rabinowitz would have been the highest ranking United States ice dancers sent.
The pair made news in late 2005 when Mitchell"s mother campaigned against a bill that would make ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Maxim Zavozin United States. citizens in time for the 2006 Winter Olympics. Despite her letter urging Senator Hillary Clinton to vote against it, the bill passed.
The effort was moot, however: Galler-Rabinowitz and Mitchell only finished ninth at the 2006 United States. Championships, which would not have scored the duo an Olympic berth even if the Belbin and Zavozin teams had been ineligible.
Mitchell retired after the 2005/2006 competitive season. (with Galler-Rabinowitz).