Career
Kirk grew interested in skating and began training with coaches Evy and Mary Scotvold at the age of 10, at the Skating Club of Boston. She won gold at the 2000 World Junior Championships. In 2002, she captured the Four Continents title. After failing to make the U.S. Olympic team in 2002, she moved to the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California to train with Frank Carroll and Ken Congemi. In addition to single skating, she also briefly dabbled in pair skating with Fedor Andreev in the summer of 2003, describing it as fun but challenging.
Kirk won the bronze medal at the 2004 Nationals. She also won bronze at the 2005 Four Continents.
On September 7, 2005, Kirk announced her retirement from competitive figure skating. She moved to Boston, where she worked as a coach, but later returned to Southern California. Kirk's decision to quit competitive skating the year before the Olympics was profiled on Ice Diaries.
Kirk is a member of the US Figure Skating International Committee.
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