Kalamazoo-born Olympian Allison Reed represents Lithuania in Ice Dance

Allison Reed is a Kalamazoo-born figure skater currently representing Lithuania at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in ice dance.

Born in Kalamazoo in 1994, Reed has represented Lithuania since teaming up with Lithuanian ice dance partner Saulius Ambrulevičius in 2017. Her hometown is listed as Elk Grove, Illinois on the International Skating Union website and she previously represented Georgia in ice dance at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She’s also known to have trained in Canton, where she first met her partner, Ambrulevičius.

Though Reed and Ambrulevičius have been skating together nearly ten years and won several Grand Prix medals and a bronze medal at the European Skating Championships in 2024, the pair weren’t able to compete in the 2022 Olympics because Reed, who is Japanese-American, didn’t get her Lithuanian passport in time…

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