Eva Pate
Pate (center right) with Bye (center left) and coaches Igor Shpilband and Adrienne Lenda
Born (2000-05-11) May 11, 2000
Cleveland, Ohio, US
HometownStrongsville, Ohio, USA
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
PartnerLogan Bye
CoachIgor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Natalia Deller, Adrienne Lenda
Skating clubStrongsville Skating Club
Began skating2006

Eva Pate (born May 11, 2000) is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner and fiancé, Logan Bye, she is the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International champion and a two-time ISU Challenger Series silver medalist.

Personal life

Pate was born on May 11, 2000, in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents Jenny and David Pate. She has a younger brother, Gavin, who plays hockey at Eastern Michigan University. Pate is a graduate of Strongsville High School and currently attends Cuyahoga Community College.[1]

Pate began dating Logan Bye in December 2018, before becoming on-ice partners.[2] They became engaged in August 2022.[3]

Career

Early years

Pate began learning to skate at age five after attending an ice rink event with her Girl Scout troop.[4] By age 10, she was on the verge of quitting skating, with practice becoming a "daily grind." At the suggestion of coach Janet Wene, she switched to the recently formed solo ice dance competition circuit, which had been started the year earlier to create more opportunities for girls in the sport who lacked partners. Pate reached the national championship in solo dance for the first time in 2012, finishing sixth.[5] The following year, she placed fourth, winning the pewter medal.[6] Watching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi inspired Pate to definitively choose to focus on ice dance over gymnastics, which she had also been participating in until that point. For the 2014 solo dance championship, she won the pattern dance competition and qualified to the juvenile free dance competition for the first time, finishing fourth.[5][7]

In November 2015, Pate was referred to Marina Zoueva, the coach of Olympic dance champions Virtue/Moir and Davis/White. For the next three years, she split time between Cleveland and Zoueva's base in Canton, Michigan before moving to train full-time in 2018. In January 2019 she left Zoueva to train with Igor Shpilband in Novi, Michigan.[4]

2019–20 season

Pate had begun dating ice dancer Logan Bye in December 2018, and in June 2019, they decided to become an on-ice partnership, her first in competitive ice dance.[2][4] They were coached by Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Adrienne Lenda and Natalia Deller in Novi.[4]

Pate/Bye made their domestic debut at the Midwestern Sectional Dance Challenge, taking the silver medal.[8] They went on to win the U.S. Ice Dance Final in Hyannis, Massachusetts.[9] This, in turn, qualified them for their debut at the 2020 U.S. Championships, held in Greensboro, where they placed seventh.[10]

2020–21 season

Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, competition opportunities were limited both domestically and internationally for the 2020–21 season. Pate/Bye were assigned to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Skate America in Las Vegas, attended primarily by American skaters due to travel restrictions pandemic.[11] They finished in seventh place.[12]

At the U.S. national championships later that season, also in Las Vegas, they were seventh as well.[12]

2021–22 season

With the resumption of a more normal international calendar, Pate/Bye made their season debut at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, where they placed fifth.[12] They were assigned the U.S. Classic where they earned their first international bronze medal. Pate said of the occasion that "we have been training really hard every day and just being able to be out here and put out a clean skate makes me feel really proud of us."[13] Making their debut on the Challenger series, they were seventh at the 2021 ISU Warsaw Cup.[12] The assignment to Warsaw was Pate's first-ever trip outside the United States.[14]

At the U.S. Championships, Pate/Bye finished in eighth.[12]

2022–23 season

The new Olympic cycle brought began with the international dance scene considerably altered from the norm, with Russian teams banned as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War.[15] For their program music, their rhythm dance included soundtrack music from the 2011 film Rio, which Pate had previously used in her solo dance career. Their free dance, to Riverdance, was an acknowledgement of the couple's Irish American heritage.[14][2]

Pate/Bye started their season at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, where they took the silver medal.[12] They were given two Challenger circuit assignments after that, first winning the silver medal at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic, held in Lake Placid. They set new personal bests in the process, with Bye adding that "we wanted to put out what we've been training, so I thought it went well."[16] They went on to win a second silver medal at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial.[17] The team received their second ever Grand Prix assignment for the 2022 Grand Prix de France. Pate described her reaction to the news "my mom called me, and she was like, ‘You're going to France!’ and I'm like, ‘that’s crazy!’ I was so excited."[14] They finished fifth at the event.[18] Pate/Bye were selected to compete in a third Challenger circuit assignment, 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they earned a seasons best free dance score and finished fourth.[19]

Concluding the season at the 2023 U.S. Championships, Pate/Bye finished eighth for the second consecutive year.[12]

2023–24 season

Pate/Bye at the 2023 Skate Canada International

Pate/Bye won the bronze medal at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International in August, before competing at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International. They set new personal bests at the competition and won the gold medal.[12] This was the team's first international gold medal.[20] Given two assignments on the Grand Prix assignments, they placed sixth at the 2023 Skate Canada International.[21][22] They came fourth at the 2023 Cup of China, 4.75 points back of bronze medalists Green/Parsons.[23]

Programs

With Bye

Season Rhythm dance Free dance Exhibition
2023–2024
[24]
2022–2023
[25]
2021–2022
[26]

The Hunger Games
2020–2021
[27]
2019–2020
[1]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

With Bye

International[12]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
GP Cup of China4th
GP France5th
GP Skate America7th
GP Skate Canada6th
CS Autumn Classic1st
CS Golden Spin4th
CS U.S. Classic2nd
CS Nepela Memorial2nd
CS Warsaw Cup7th
Lake Placid I.D.I.5th2nd3rd
U.S. Classic3rd
National
U.S. Championships7th7th8th8th
U.S. Ice Dance Final1st
ISP Points Challenge7th
USCS Minnesota2nd
TBD = Assigned

References

  1. 1 2 "2022–23 Figure Skating Roster: Eva Pate / Logan Bye". U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Walker, Elvin (November 1, 2022). "Pate and Bye Celebrate Engagement, Momentum Heading into Grand Prix de France". U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  3. ↑ @logan_bye1 (August 23, 2022). "Some new exciting news…she said yes!" – via Instagram.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "About Eva & Logan". Eva Pate & Logan Bye. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  5. 1 2 Sandrick, Bob (October 14, 2014). "Strongsville ice dancer uses failure to win national championship". Cleveland.com. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  6. ↑ Palmer, Debbie (October 6, 2013). "Strongsville 8th Grader is National Skating Medalist". Patch. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  7. ↑ Brlas, Terry (October 10, 2014). "Eva Pate a national figure skating champion". The Strongsville Post. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  8. ↑ "2021 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic". ijs.usfigureskating.org. Sep 15, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  9. ↑ "2020 U.S. Ice Dance Final".
  10. ↑ Sabo, Elizabeth (February 26, 2020). "Strongsville native skating her dream". The Strongsville Post. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  11. ↑ "2020 Skate America". International Figure Skating. October 20, 2020.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Eva PATE / Logan BYE: Competition Results". International Skating Union. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  13. ↑ Walker, Elvin (September 18, 2021). "United States earns three medals to close U.S. International Figure Skating Classic". U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  14. 1 2 3 "Pate & Bye focus on improving and pushing everything". Ice-Dance.com. August 17, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  15. ↑ McCarvel, Nick (October 19, 2022). "Figure skating 2022/23 season preview: New Olympic quad begins with intrigue and plenty of familiar faces". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  16. ↑ Sausa, Christie (September 15, 2022). "Pate and Bye, McNamara and Spiridonov Capture Silver and Bronze in Lake Placid". U.S. Figure Skating.
  17. ↑ Sausa, Christie (October 1, 2022). "Team USA Secures Two Medals at Ondrej Nepela Memorial". U.S. Figure Skating.
  18. ↑ Slater, Paula (November 5, 2022). "Guignard and Fabbri golden at Grand Prix de France". Golden Skate.
  19. ↑ "Team USA Wraps up Challenger Series with Seven Medals at Golden Spin of Zagreb". U.S. Figure Skating. December 10, 2022.
  20. ↑ Pate, Eva (September 17, 2023). "Proud of our first international gold at Autumn Classic!!" (Instagram). Archived from the original on September 17, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Browns, Thorngren Earn Career-Best Grand Prix Finishes at Skate Canada International". U.S. Figure Skating. October 28, 2023. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  22. ↑ Slater, Paula (October 29, 2023). "Gilles and Poirier win fourth consecutive Skate Canada title". Golden Skate. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  23. ↑ "Gilles/Poirier (CAN) dance their way to glory taking Cup of China gold in Chongqing". International Skating Union. November 11, 2023. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Eva PATE / Logan BYE: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 17, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Eva PATE / Logan BYE: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 1, 2022.
  26. ↑ "Eva PATE / Logan BYE: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022.
  27. ↑ "Eva PATE / Logan BYE: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021.
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