Tippy Packard | |
Birth Name: | Tiffany Packard Yu |
Birth Date: | 29 June 1995 |
Birth Place: | Monterey Park, California, United States |
Coach: | Alex Chang Sondra Holmes Jere Michael |
Beganskating: | 1996 |
Discipline: | Women's singles & adagio pairs |
Hometown: | Hong Kong |
Country: |
Tiffany Packard Yu, known as Tippy Packard,[1] , is a figure skater who represented Hong Kong and United States.[2] Packard is an American professional ice skater and choreographer. She first gained attention in 2013, when the 18-year-old won her third Hong Kong Championship and began her career in show biz with Happiness is…Snoopy. Packard continued her professional skating career in mid 2013 as a female principle in Royal Caribbean Ice Shows and CNE-Canadian National Exhibition. She toured over 40 countries as a show skater after retiring from the competitive sport. In 2018, she joined a part of ice skating history by becoming the female principle for the 75th Anniversary of Holiday on Ice.[3]
She was announced as a professional skater in Dancing on Ice Series 14.[4]
She is a three time Hong Kong National Champion and Worlds Competitor. In 2022, Packard became a professional skater on the ITV skating series Dancing on Ice. In her first season, she was paired with Olympic BMX racer Kye Whyte.[5] In Season 14, Packard and her partner Kye had an extremely successful first year: they were eliminated in the semi-final stage.
Tippy was partnered with former ski jumper Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards in Series 16: however a knee injury in training forced her to withdraw from the programme.