Personal life
Jean-Luc Baker was born in Burnley, England.[2] He is the son of Sharon Jones Baker, who represented the United Kingdom in ice dancing at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Stephen Baker, who competed for the U.K. in pair skating at the 1976 World Junior Championships.[3]
Baker was born with a club foot.[4] At the age of four, he moved with his family to the United States. He attended Harbour Pointe Middle School and Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington. After graduation, he moved to Detroit, Michigan to pursue his career.[5] He has a black belt in taekwondo.[6]
Career
Early years
Jean-Luc Baker was introduced to ice skating by his parents in 1995.[2][8] He was inspired to switch from singles to ice dancing by his mother.[9] He teamed up with Joylyn Yang in the summer of 2006, with his parents coaching the duo.[6][11] They won U.S. national titles on the juvenile and intermediate levels and took the novice bronze medal at the 2010 U.S. Championships. The following season, Yang/Baker were assigned to two ISU Junior Grand Prix events, finishing seventh in Japan and tenth in the Czech Republic. They were sixth on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships.
2012–2013 season: First season with Hawayek
Baker teamed up with Kaitlin Hawayek in June 2012.[12] They were sent to two JGP events and won the silver medal in Germany. Hawayek/Baker took the junior silver medal at the 2013 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan where they finished seventh.
2013–2014 season: World Junior title
During the 2013–14 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Hawayek/Baker won the gold medal in their JGP events, at the JGP Mexico and the JGP Poland. Their results qualified them to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they won the silver medal. They then won the gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships, setting a new Junior World record for the overall score with a total of 157.12 points.
2014–2015 season
Hawayek/Baker began their season at an ISU Challenger Series event, the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy. They finished fourth after placing fourth in the short and third in the free dance. Their Grand Prix assignments were the 2014 Rostelecom Cup and 2014 NHK Trophy, winning the bronze medal at the latter.[13]
2015–2016 season
Baker sustained a concussion when Hawayek accidentally struck him with her arm in September 2015, just prior to the Labor Day weekend.[14][15] He returned to limited training after two weeks and full training a week later.[14]
Hawayek/Baker finished fourth at the 2015 Skate America. Due to food poisoning, Hawayek vomited eight times in four hours during the night before the short dance at the 2015 Cup of China.[15] After competing in the first segment, the duo decided to withdraw. They placed fifth at the 2016 U.S. Championships.
2016–2017 season
Hawayek/Baker won the silver medal at the 2016 CS Autumn Classic International. Competing on the Grand Prix series, they finished sixth at the 2016 Skate Canada International and fourth at the 2016 NHK Trophy.
2017–2018 season: Four Continents title
Beginning the season at the 2017 CS U.S. Classic, Hawayek/Baker won the silver medal. Their Grand Prix assignments were the 2018 Skate Canada International, where they placed fourth, and the 2018 Skate America, where they placed fifth. Following the Grand Prix they competed a second Challenger event, the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, winning the bronze medal.
Hawayek/Baker won the pewter medal at the 2018 U.S. Championships, and were assigned to the 2018 Four Continents Championships, as the top three teams were sent to the 2018 Winter Olympics. They won the gold medal at Four Continents, finishing 9.33 points ahead of silver medalists Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus. Baker remarked "it was really awesome, it was a new experience for us. We’ve medaled at junior events and sporadically at senior events in Grand Prixs or senior Bs. It was a really cool experience and we hope to do it more often in the future."[18]
Following the withdrawal of Maia and Alex Shibutani, they were named to the US team for the 2018 World Championships in Milan, where they placed tenth. On April 20, 2018, they announced that in the summer they would begin training under Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[19]
2018–2019 season
Baker sustained a concussion during training in August 2018, and a result they withdrew from the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy.[20] At their first Grand Prix assignment, the 2018 NHK Trophy, the withdrawal of Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron due to injury left several teams competing for the gold medal. Hawayek/Baker came second in the rhythm dance, behind Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro, but narrowly placed first in the free dance, winning the title overall. Hawayek called it "just such a pleasure and honor to be here performing", and was especially pleased at their results given they "had just three weeks of training fully recovered" prior.[21] They placed only fourth at the 2018 Internationaux de France, but their results qualified them for the Grand Prix Final in Vancouver, where they placed sixth.
At the 2019 U.S. Championships, Hawayker/Baker won the bronze medal. Reflecting on their move to Montreal, Hawayek called it "a great training center that we’re happy to be a part of. It makes us feel able to skate more openly and freely, and I think we’ll continue that for the next few years."[22] They were assigned to the 2019 Four Continents Championships, where they finished fifth, and the 2019 World Championships.
Programs
With Hawayek
Season | Short dance | Free dance | Exhibition | 2018–2019 [23]- {{small|Tango:}} Vuelo al Sur
{{small| by Juan Carlos Caceres }} - {{small|Tango:}} A los Amigo
{{small| by Forever Tango }}
- Trampoline Theme
{{small| by The Irrepressibles }} - In This Shirt
{{small| by The Irrepressibles }}
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2017–2018 [24][25]- {{small|Samba:}} Get Busy
{{small| by Sean Paul }} - {{small|Rhumba:}} Soha Mil Paso
{{small| by Isabelle & Felicien }} - {{small|Samba:}} Fireball
{{small| by Pitbull choreo. by Pasquale Camerlengo }}
- Liebesträume
{{small| by Franz Liszt choreo. by Pasquale Camerlengo }} Austen Powers medley[26]- Shining Star
{{small| by Maurice White, Larry Dunn, Philip Bailey }} - Let's Get It On
{{small| by Marvin Gaye, Ed Townsend }} - Soul Bossa Nova
{{small| by Quincy Jones }}
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2016–2017 [2][25][29][4]- {{small|Blues:}} Feeling Good
{{small| by Michael Bublé }} - {{small|Hip Hop:}} How I Feel remix
{{small| by Flo Rida choreo. by Pasquale Camerlengo }}
- Liebesträume
{{small| by Franz Liszt choreo. by Pasquale Camerlengo }}
- Earned It
{{small| by The Weeknd }}
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2015–2016 [31][32][33][34]- The Nutcracker
{{small| by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky }}- {{small|Waltz:}} Waltz of the Flowers
- {{small|Polka:}} (The Nutcracker) March
- {{small|Waltz:}} Waltz of the Flowers
{{small|choreo. by Anjelika Krylova, Kaitlin Hawayek, and Jean-Luc Baker}}
- The Theory of Everything
{{small| by Jóhann Jóhannsson choreo. by Pasquale Camerlengo }}
- Take Me to Church
{{small| by Hozier }}
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2014–2015 [8][36]- {{small|Flamenco:}} Malagueña
{{small| by Ernesto Lecuona }} - {{small|Paso Doble}}
- {{small|Flamenco}}
- Romeo and Juliet
{{small| by Abel Korzeniowski }}- Wedding Vows
- The Cheek of Night
- Come, Gentle Night
- Forbidden Love
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2013–2014 [9][38]- Happy Feet
- It Had To Be You
{{small| by Harry Connick }} - Sing, Sing, Sing
- Amélie
{{small| by Yann Tiersen }}- J'y suis jamais allé
- Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi
- La noyée
- Sur le fil
- Dreaming with a Broken Heart
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2012–2013 [12]- Minnie the Moocher
{{small| performed by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy }} - Gimme Some Rhythm Daddy
{{small| performed by The Brian Setzer Orchestra }}
- Singin' in the Rain
{{small| by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed }}
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With Yang
Season | Short dance | Free dance | 2010–2011 [40]- Chudat Medoni
{{small| by Oleg Fesov }}
- The Windmills of Your Mind
{{small| (from Thomas Crown Affair) by Vic Damone }} - The Windmills of Your Mind
{{small| by Parenthetical Girls }}
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2009–2010 [3]- Titanic
{{small| by James Horner }}
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2008–2009 [3][11]- Kingdom of Heaven
{{small| by Harry Gregson-Williams }}
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2007–2008 [3]- Harem
{{small| by Sarah Brightman }}
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix With Hawayek
International |
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Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 |
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Worlds | 10th | 9th |
Four Continents | 5th | 1st | 5th |
{{small|GP}} Final | 6th |
{{small|GP}} Cup of China | WD |
{{small|GP}} France | 4th |
{{small|GP}} NHK Trophy | 3rd | 4th | 1st |
{{small|GP}} Rostelecom Cup | 6th |
{{small|GP}} Skate America | 4th | 5th |
{{small|GP}} Skate Canada | 6th | 4th |
{{small|CS}} Autumn Classic | 2nd |
{{small|CS}} Finlandia | 4th | WD |
{{small|CS}} Golden Spin | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd |
{{small|CS}} Nebelhorn | 4th |
{{small|CS}} U.S. Classic | 2nd |
International: Junior |
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Junior Worlds | 7th | 1st |
{{small|JGP}} Final | 2nd |
{{small|JGP}} Germany | 2nd |
{{small|JGP}} Mexico | 1st |
{{small|JGP}} Poland | 1st |
{{small|JGP}} Turkey | 5th |
National[47] |
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U.S. Champ. | 2nd J | 1st J | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 3rd |
J = Junior level TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew |
With Yang
International[48] |
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Event | 06–07|2006–07 | 07–08 | 08–09 | 09–10 | 10–11 |
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{{small|JGP}} Czech Republic | 10th |
{{small|JGP}} Japan | 7th |
National[3] |
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U.S. Championships | 7th N | 3rd N | 6th J |
U.S. Junior Champ. | 1st V | 1st I |
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior |
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