Matilda Friend

{{Infobox figure skater

|name= Matilda Friend

|image= Matilda Friend, 2017 (cropped).jpg

|caption= Friend in 2017

|fullname=

|altname=

|country= Australia

|formercountry=

|birth_date= {{birth date and age|df=yes|1999|8|30}}

|birth_place= Sydney

|hometown= Sydney

|height= {{height|m=1.58}}

|coach= Monica MacDonald
John Dunn

|choreographer= Monica MacDonald

|skating club= Macquarie ISC

|currenttraininglocations= Sydney

|formertraininglocations=

|beganskating= 2007

|retired= August 10, 2021 {{cite instagram|postid=CSXxBOnB18B|user=tillyfriend|title=🖤|first=Matilda|last=Friend|author-link=Matilda Friend|date=August 10, 2021}}

|combined total= 137.36

|combined date= 2020 Four Continents

|SP score= 55.80

|SP date= 2020 Four Continents

|FS score= 82.52

|FS date= 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy

}}

Matilda Friend (born 30 August 1999) is an Australian former competitive ice dancer. With her skating partner, William Badaoui, she is the 2016 Australian national champion and represented Australia at five Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.

Career

Early in her career, Friend skated with Patrick Adderley. They won two Australian junior titles.

By the 2014–15 season, Friend had teamed up with William Badaoui. The two debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series and won the first of their three junior national titles.

In 2015–16, Friend/Badaoui returned to the JGP series and also made their senior international debut at the Open d'Andorra, in November 2015. They then competed at their first ISU Championships, placing 16th at the 2016 Four Continents Championships, held in February in Taiwan, and 30th at the 2016 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in Hungary.

Friend/Badaoui took the Australian national senior title in the 2016–17 season. They finished 15th at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in South Korea and 25th at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taiwan.

The duo competed at three more Four Continents, placing 14th in 2018, 12th in 2019, and 15th in 2020.

They trained at Macquarie Ice Rink under 1988 Winter Olympian Monica MacDonald.

Programs

;with Badaoui

2019–2020 \| Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical) {{small\|Disco:}} I Will Survive {{small\|Quickstep:}} Night Fever \| Game of Thrones {{small\| by Ramin Djawadi }} Jenny of Oldstones Game of Thrones Theme
class=wikitable style=text-align:center ! Season ! Rhythm dance ! Free dance
2018–2019 \| {{small\|Tango:}} Tango A La Haut {{small\| by Tango Society }} \| Million Reasons {{small\| by Lady Gaga }} Someone like You {{small\| by Adele }}
2017–2018 \| {{small\|Samba:}} Arranca {{small\| by Manzanita }} {{small\|Rhumba:}} I'm Not Giving Up On You {{small\| by Gloria Estefan }} {{small\|Samba:}} Arranca {{small\| by Manzanita }} \| Love Story {{small\| by Henry Mancini }}
2016–2017 \| {{small\|Hip Hop:}} One More Night {{small\| by Maroon 5 }} {{small\|Blues:}} Why Don't You Do Right? {{small\| (from Who Framed Roger Rabbit) }} {{small\|Hip Hop:}} One More Night {{small\| by Maroon 5 }} \| It's So Overt, It's Covert {{small\| (from Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)) by Hans Zimmer }} Irene Adler - The Woman's Theme {{small\| (from Sherlock (TV series)) by David Arnold }}
2015–2016 \| {{small\|Waltz:}} Beethoven's Five Secrets {{small\| by The Piano Guys }} \| In the Mood {{small\| by Glenn Miller }} Moonlight Serenade {{small\| by Glenn Miller }} Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy {{small\| performed by the Andrews Sisters }}
2014–2015 \| Sway {{small\| by Luis Demetrio, Pablo Beltrán Ruiz }} Calypso Samba {{small\| by José Abreu }} \| Chambermaid Swing {{small\| by Parov Stelar }} Minnie the Moocher {{small\| by Cab Calloway }} Booty Swing {{small\| by Parov Stelar }}

Competitive highlights

= With Badaoui =

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=7 align=center \| International
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Event ! 14–15 ! 15–16 ! 16–17 ! 17–18 ! 18–19 ! 19–20
align=left \| Four Continents		16th	15th	14th	12th	15th
align=left \| {{small\|CS}} Alpen Trophy					12th
align=left \| {{small\|CS}} Asian Open						10th
align=left \| {{small\|CS}} Autumn Classic						6th
align=left \| Asian Games			6th
align=left \| Lake Placid IDI				14th
align=left \| Open d'Andorra		8th				8th
align=left \| Warsaw Cup					6th
align=left \| Winter Universiade					12th
style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=7 align=center \| International: Junior
align=left \| Junior Worlds		30th	25th
align=left \| {{small\|JGP}} Austria					10th
align=left \| {{small\|JGP}} Canada					9th
align=left \| {{small\|JGP}} Croatia	15th	17th
align=left \| {{small\|JGP}} Japan	12th		10th
align=left \| {{small\|JGP}} U.S.		13th
align=left \| Lake Placid IDI					9th
align=left \| Toruń Cup		9th
style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=7 align=center \| National
align=left \| Australia			bgcolor=gold \| 1st		bgcolor=silver \| 2nd	bgcolor=cc9966 \| 3rd
align=left \| Australia, Junior	bgcolor=gold \| 1st	bgcolor=gold \| 1st			bgcolor=gold \| 1st
colspan=7 align=center \| J = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

= With Adderley =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=3 align=center \| National
Event ! 2011–12 ! 2012–13
align=left \| Australian Champ.	bgcolor=gold \| 1st J	bgcolor=gold \| 1st J

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=3 align=center | National

Event

! 2011–12

! 2012–13

align=left | Australian Champ.

bgcolor=gold | 1st J

References

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{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Competition Results: Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211105155940/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs_cr_00014987.htm |archive-date= 5 November 2021 |url-status= live }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2014/2015 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150520184807/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 20 May 2015 |url-status= dead }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2015/2016 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160527070806/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 27 May 2016 |url-status= dead }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2016/2017 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170609084208/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 9 June 2017 |url-status= dead }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2017/2018 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180619091626/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 19 June 2018 |url-status= dead }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2018/2019 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190717210940/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 17 July 2019 |url-status= dead }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |title= Matilda FRIEND / William BADAOUI: 2019/2020 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200629223225/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014987.htm |archive-date= 29 June 2020 |url-status= live }}

{{cite news |url= https://anythinggoe.com/interview-with-matilda-friend/ |title= Matilda Friend on training for the new season, coming from an unconventional skating nation, and her goals for the future |website= anythinggoe.com | date= 17 August 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200815012919/https://anythinggoe.com/interview-with-matilda-friend/ |archive-date= 15 August 2020 |url-status= live }}

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Category:Australian female ice dancers

Category:1999 births

Category:Living people

Category:Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade

Category:Figure skaters from Sydney

Category:Figure skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen