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}} Meryl Elizabeth Davis (born January 1, 1987) is an American ice dancer. With partner Charlie White, she is the 2014 Olympic Champion, a two-time (2011, 2013) World champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, two-time (2010, 2012) World silver medalist, five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013), three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2011, 2013) and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). At the 2014 Winter Olympics, they also won a bronze medal in the team event. Davis and White teamed up in 1997 and they are currently the longest lasting dance team in the United States. They are the first American ice dancers to win the World title, as well as the first Americans to win the Olympic ice dancing gold medal; in addition, their Olympic performance scored the highest point total ever recorded in ice dancing. At the 2006 NHK Trophy, they became the first ice dancing team to earn level fours on all their elements.〔 In 2014, Davis won the eighteenth season of ''Dancing with the Stars'' with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Davis and White are the current world record holders for the short dance, free dance, and total combined score. ==Personal life== Meryl Davis was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and raised in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the daughter of Cheryl and Paul D. Davis. She has one younger brother, Clayton.〔 She is of English, Irish, Scottish and German descent.〔 Her paternal grandmother was born in Regina, Saskatchewan.〔 Davis was diagnosed with dyslexia in the third grade and she struggled with reading until the 11th grade.〔〔 In June 2005, Davis graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School.〔 She was a member of the National Honor Society. Davis lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attends the University of Michigan,〔 where she is majoring in cultural anthropology,〔 and also studying Italian.〔〔 She is an active member of the sorority Delta Delta Delta and plays the flute.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meryl Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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