First-Year Senior Brandon Mroz Confident about 2010

New to the senior circuit in 2009, 19 year-old Brandon Mroz has proven he can hold his own by taking silver at the 2009 U.S. Nationals, beating out former champion Evan Lysacek and then earning a respectable 9 ^th place at the World Championships—not too shabby for a first-year senior.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Brandon lives and trains in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his coach since 2005, Tom Zakrajsek.

With skating running rampant through his DNA—his mother was a synchronized skater, and his father was a hockey player—Brandon was on the ice by the age of 3 ½ years old.

First training as an ice dancer, Brandon tested up to the silver level in the discipline in the U.S. Figure Skating testing structure, before deciding figure skating was the path he wanted to take.

2009 U.S. Silver Medalist Brandon Mroz talks about preparing for 2010 with his eye on the U.S. Nationals gold.