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Vincent Zhou (born October 25, 2000) is an American figure skater. He is the 2013 U.S. Junior champion and has won a silver medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.〔 ==Personal life== Vincent Zhou was born in San Jose, California.〔 Both his parents were from China.〔 Zhou's older sister, Vivian, is a talented violinist and has been a member of the Stanford Diving Club.〔〔 His mother, Fay Ge, is a computer scientist and worked in Silicon Valley for 16 years. Her specialty was the bitmap index of the Oracle Database kernel. She holds several U.S. software patents.〔 When Zhou was 2½, his family moved to Palo Alto, California where they continue to reside. He trained in Riverside, California, which was about 6½ hours drive away.〔 Zhou's mother gave up her tech job in December 2009 to focus on his training and education.〔 Zhou and his mother traveled to Riverside on Sundays and traveled back home on Fridays, while Zhou's father and sister remained in Palo Alto.〔 Zhou used to attend Hoover Elementary, but switched to Capistrano Connections Academy (CapoCA) to accommodate his training.〔 His mother was his "Learning Coach". He was allowed to skip a couple of grade levels.〔 For the 2013-14 school year, he took classes at the 9th grade level or higher, including pre-calculus and programming (agewise, he should have been in 7th grade).〔〔 Zhou is a straight-A student and received the Presidential Award for Educational Excellence from President Obama.〔 In the spring of 2015, Zhou and his mother moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to train under Tom Zakrajsek and Becky Calvin.〔 Zhou has a Siamese tabby cat named Snookie.〔 In his free time, Zhou likes to play with his cat, write short stories, read books, and ride his bike.〔 He also volunteers a lot.〔〔 Zhou admires Patrick Chan, Brian Boitano, Michael Weiss, Yuzuru Hanyu, and Richard Dornbush.〔〔 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「Vincent Zhou」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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