Background
Jennifer Kirk was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
Jennifer Kirk was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
She also studied ballet and once performed with the Boston Ballet.
Prior to skating, she was a gymnast until the age of nine. Kirk grew interested in skating and began training with coaches Evy and Mary Scotvold at the age of 10 at the Skating Club of Boston. At 15, a piece of bone tore from her pelvis and jutted into her hip flexor.
In 2002, she captured the Four Continents title.
After failing to make the United States. Olympic team in 2002, she moved to the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California, to train with Frank Carroll and Ken Congemi. In addition to single skating, she also briefly dabbled in pair skating with Fedor Andreev in the summer of 2003, describing it as fun but challenging.
On September 7, 2005, Kirk announced her retirement from competitive figure skating. She moved to Boston, where she worked as a coach, but later returned to Southern California.
Kirk"s decision to quit competitive skating the year before the Olympics was profiled on Ice Diaries.
The two interview current and former skaters, coaches, choreographers and skating officials including Debi Thomas, Frank Carroll, Sandra Bezic, Alissa Czisny and Rudy Galindo. The web-series has garnered a following of thousands of figure skating fans with its weekly video interviews. 1 At the 2002 World Championships, Kirk was 15th in the short program before withdrawing.
Kirk is a member of the United States Figure Skating International Committee.