Lindsay Thorngren

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Lindsay Thorngren (born December 5, 2005) is a retired American figure skater who competed in women’s singles. She won silver at the 2023 NHK Trophy and gold at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and on the junior level she earned bronze at the 2022 World Junior Championships, was the 2021 JGP France I champion, and the 2020 U.S. national junior champion.

Thorngren was born in White Plains, New York, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. She is 1.60 meters tall and trained under coach Julia Lautowa at the Ice House Figure Skating Club of New Jersey. She began skating in 2011 in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and later moved to New Jersey to continue training with Lautowa.

Her skating career started with success at the U.S. Championships, finishing sixth at the juvenile level in 2017, then winning the intermediate title in 2019 and the junior title in 2020. She first competed on the Junior Grand Prix circuit in 2019, and then won the U.S. junior title in 2020, earning a spot at the World Junior Championships.

The 2021–22 season featured strong results on the junior circuit, including gold at the JGP Courchevel (France) and bronze at JGP Slovenia. The World Junior Championships in Tallinn saw her finish with a bronze medal. In 2022 she finished fifth at the U.S. Championships, won the CS Golden Spin of Zagreb on the Challenger series, and competed on the Grand Prix circuit, with a ninth-place finish at Skate Canada and a solid showing at the Grand Prix of Espoo.

In 2023 she won gold at the Cranberry Cup International, then competed on the Grand Prix circuit despite injuries, finishing fifth at Skate Canada and winning silver at NHK Trophy. She sustained a back fracture in 2023 but kept competing and later faced ankle issues.

The 2024 season included challenges from injuries, but she still competed at the U.S. Championships (finishing seventh) and at the Four Continents Championships (finishing twelfth). In the 2024–25 season, she placed ninth at the NHK Trophy and ninth at the Finlandia Trophy, ending the season with a twelfth-place finish at the 2025 U.S. Championships. On June 6, 2025, she was removed from the World Standings list and is no longer in the Team USA International Selection Pool. She has since begun coaching at Montclair State University Ice Arena.