Stephanie Gardner

Stephanie Gardner (born November 11, 1989) is a Brazilian-American retired figure skater. She is the first skater to represent Brazil in at an ISU Championship, which she did at the 2007 Four Continents Championships.

Personal life Gardner's father is American while her mother's Brazilian, which gives her double citizenship. She learned to speak Portuguese when she was 13 from watching Brazilian telenovelas on Globo International.

Carreira Stephanie Gardner began skating at nine years old at Costa Mesa, California, after watching Tara Lipinski win gold at the Nagano Olympic Games in 1998. Until 2004, she used to compete at the USFS domestic circuit in ladies' singles, but in 2005 she decided to change to synchronized skating, when she began competing for the ICE'Kateers team, with whom she got 4th place at the Intermediate level US Nationals. The skater reviewed her lack of good results as a consequence of not training for the singles category for three years, and the Four Continents being her first ever senior-level competition.