Loren Galler-Rabinowitz - Biography

Loren Galler-Rabinowitz (born January 19, 1986, in Boston, MA) is an American ice dancer and pageant titleholder. She is the 2004 U.S. Ice Dancing Bronze Medalist with David Mitchell. Galler-Rabinowitz competed in the Miss America 2011 pageant.

Galler-Rabinowitz graduated from The Park School and then from Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge in 2004 and from Harvard University in 2010.

Ice dancing

Career

Galler-Rabinowitz began figure skating at the age of two and moved into ice dancing when she was nine. She also played the piano since the age of ten months and won the Massachusetts state piano competition in the junior high division.

Galler-Rabinowitz competed in ice dancing with partner David Mitchell from age 11 to 20. The dance team won the 1999 North American Novice Challenge Skate in Toronto, the 2000 United States Figure Skating Eastern Sectional Championships (Novice), the 2000 United States Championships (Novice), the 2002 Eastern Sectional Championships (Junior), and the 2002 United States Championships (Junior). They placed fourth overall at the 2003 Junior World Championships, and were the Junior World Compulsory Dance winners. Galler-Rabinowitz and Mitchell won the pewter medal at the 2003 United States National Championships (senior) and a bronze medal at the 2004 United States Figure Skating Championships, a total of four national medals in four years.

They missed the following year's national championship due to Mitchell's shoulder injury. The dance team competed on the international (ISU) Junior Grand Prix and Grand Prix circuits and at the Four Continents Championships. Galler-Rabinowitz's partnership with David Mitchell ended following the 2006 Nationals.

In March 2011 the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame awarded her the Marty Glickman Award, as the female Jewish Athlete of the Year.

Competitive highlights

(with Mitchell)

• N = Novice level; J = Junior level

Pageants

Galler-Rabinowitz competed in the Miss Massachusetts USA 2010 pageant in 2009 and made the semi-finals. After winning the Miss Collegiate Area local pageant, Galler-Rabinowitz won the Miss Massachusetts title on June 26, 2010. She competed in the Miss America 2011 pageant in January 2011, and won the Children's Miracle Network's Miss Miracle Maker award for raising the most money for charity.

See also

• List of select Jewish figure skaters

External links

• "2002 US National Junior Dance Champions," 5/03
• Poetry on ice, paper: Loren Galler Rabinowitz takes the creative approach to pre-med