# Andrea Montesinos Cantú

Andrea Montesinos Cantú (born October 4, 2002) is a Mexican figure skater. She is a two-time Mexican national champion (2019, 2023) has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships.

## Career
### Early years

Montesinos Cantú began learning to skate as a five-year-old in Mexico before relocating to the United States. Competing in the advanced novice category, she won silver at the 2014 Santa Claus Cup in Hungary.

### 2016–2017 season

In September, making her junior international debut, Montesinos Cantú placed 9th at the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) in Yokohama, Japan. In March, she qualified to the final segment at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan. She ranked twenty-fourth in the short program, seventeenth in the free skate, and nineteenth overall. She was coached by Vladimir Petrenko in Simsbury, Connecticut.

### 2017–2018 season

Montesinos Cantú decided to train in Lakewood, California, coached by Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, and Nadia Kanaeva. Competing in her second JGP series, she placed twelfth in Brisbane, Australia, and fourteenth in Zagreb, Croatia. Ranked twenty-seventh in the short program, she did not reach the free skate at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

### 2018–2019 season

Montesinos Cantú made her senior debut in August 2018, placing seventh at the Philadelphia Summer International. Competing in the ISU Challenger Series, she finished eleventh at the 2018 CS U.S. Classic, eleventh at the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, and fifteenth at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. She also appeared at a pair of JGP events, placing sixteenth in Bratislava, Slovakia, and seventeenth in Yerevan, Armenia.
In February, Montesinos Cantú finished twentieth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships in Anaheim, California. A month later, she competed at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, but she did not advance to the free skate after placing forty-third in the short.

### 2019–2020 season

Montesinos Cantú opened her season at the second event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Lake Placid, New York, where she set a new personal best of 50.59 in the short program. She finished seventeenth. Competing on the Challenger series, she was tenth at the 2019 CS Autumn Classic International with personal bests in all three scores, then fifth at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, and finally twentieth at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.
In the second half of the season, Montesinos Cantú was sixteenth at the 2020 Four Continents Championships and thirty-eighth at the 2020 World Junior Championships.

### 2020–2021 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international competition, Montesinos Cantú's lone appearance of the season saw her finish seventeenth at the International Challenge Cup.

### 2021–2022 season

Montesinos Cantú began the season by finishing twenty-first at the 2021 Cranberry Cup. She then went on to place fifteenth at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb and ended the season with an eighteenth-place finish at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.

### 2022–2023 season

Montesinos Cantú's lone competition appearance for the season was at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, where she finished thirteenth.

### 2023–2024 season

Prior to the season, it was announced that Montesinos Cantú was now training in Salt Lake City, Utah and being coached by Jozef Sabovcik. Montesinos Cantú's first competition of the season was the 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup, where she placed tenth. She went on to take gold at the 2023 NRW Trophy.
At the 2024 Mexican Championships, Montesinos Cantú her second senior national title. Selected to compete at the 2024 Four Continents Championships, Montesinos Cantú finished fifteenth.

## Programs

| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2024–2025 | Stay by Rihanna & Mikky Ekko Diamonds by Rihanna choreo. by Benoit Richaud | Tris (from Divergent) by Junkie XL & Ellie Goulding choreo. by Mark Pillay |
| 2023–2024 | Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto Andrei by Martin Phipps choreo. by Benoit Richaud | The Storm by Balázs Havasi choreo. by David Wilson |
| 2022–2023 | Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto Andrei by Martin Phipps choreo. by Benoit Richaud | Everybody Wants to Rule the World (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) performed by Lorde choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne |
| 2021–2022 | Jennifer Lopez medley choreo. by Adam Rippon | Everybody Wants to Rule the World (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) performed by Lorde choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne |
| 2020–2021 | Jennifer Lopez medley choreo. by Adam Rippon | Everybody Wants to Rule the World (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) performed by Lorde choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne |
| 2019–2020 | Swing da Cor by Daniela Mercury choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva | Jeux d'Eau (from O) choreo. by Cynthia Stuart |
| 2018–2019 | Swing da Cor by Daniela Mercury choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva | Jeux d'Eau (from O) choreo. by Cynthia Stuart |
| 2017–2018 | Experience by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Nikolai Morozov | Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov |
| 2016–2017 | La califfa by Ennio Morricone choreo. by Nikolai Morozov | Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov |

## Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International :
| Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 | 23–24 | 24–25 |
| Four Continents | | | 20th | 16th | | 18th | | 15th | |
| CS Autumn Classic | | | 11th | 10th | | | | | |
| CS Cup of Tyrol | | | | | C | | | | |
| CS Golden Spin | | | 15th | 20th | | 15th | | | |
| CS U.S. Classic | | | 11th | 5th | | | 13th | | |
| Challenge Cup | | | | | 17th | | | | |
| Cranberry Cup | | | | | | 21st | | | |
| Denkova-Staviski Cup | | | | | | | | 11th | |
| NRW Trophy | | | | | | | | 1st | |
| Philadelphia | | | 7th | | | | | | |
| Tayside Trophy | | | | | | | WD | | |
| Winter University Games | | | | | | | | | 25th |
| International: Junior ||||||||||
| Junior Worlds | 19th | 27th | 43rd | 38th | | | | | |
| JGP Armenia | | | 17th | | | | | | |
| JGP Australia | | 12th | | | | | | | |
| JGP Croatia | | 14th | | | | | | | |
| JGP Japan | 9th | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Slovakia | | | 16th | | | | | | |
| JGP U.S. | | | | 17th | | | | | |
| Autumn Classic | 8th | | | | | | | | |
| National ||||||||||
| Mexican Champ. | | 1st J | 1st J | 1st | | 2nd | | 1st | 2nd |

## Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
ISU Personal best in bold.

### Senior results

2023–2024 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 1–4, 2024 | 2024 Four Continents Championships | 16 50.86 | 16 92.38 | 15 143.24 |
| November 27-December 3, 2023 | 2023 Mexican Figure Skating Championships | 2 47.60 | 1 97.07 | 1 144.67 |
| November 16–19, 2023 | 2023 NRW Trophy | 1 51.23 | 4 84.96 | 1 136.19 |
| November 7–12, 2023 | 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 13 41.16 | 9 89.66 | 11 131.12 |
| 2022–2023 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| September 13–16, 2022 | 2022 CS U.S. Classic | 12 39.86 | 13 63.43 | 13 103.29 |
| 2021–2022 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | 19 47.36 | 18 85.67 | 18 133.03 |
| December 7–11, 2021 | 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 19 42.78 | 15 89.07 | 15 131.85 |
| August 11–15, 2021 | 2021 Cranberry Cup International | 24 34.53 | 21 71.97 | 21 106.50 |
| 2020–2021 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 25–28, 2021 | 2021 International Challenge Cup | 13 49.29 | 17 71.41 | 17 120.70 |
| 2019–2020 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 4–9, 2020 | 2020 Four Continents Championships | 15 47.40 | 18 87.84 | 16 135.24 |
| December 4–7, 2019 | 2019 Golden Spin | 22 40.96 | 17 86.49 | 20 127.45 |
| September 19–21, 2019 | 2019 U.S. Classic | 8 49.54 | 5 91.05 | 5 140.59 |
| September 12–14, 2019 | 2019 Autumn Classic | 8 52.59 | 12 95.96 | 10 148.55 |
| 2018–2019 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 7–10, 2019 | 2019 Four Continents Championships | 22 42.92 | 20 81.59 | 20 124.51 |
| December 5–8, 2018 | 2018 Golden Spin | 19 45.39 | 17 88.91 | 15 134.30 |
| September 20–22, 2018 | 2018 Autumn Classic | 15 43.25 | 10 84.90 | 11 128.15 |
| September 12–16, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Classic | 12 45.61 | 8 93.21 | 11 138.82 |
| August 3–5, 2018 | 2018 Philadelphia Summer International | 8 35.94 | 6 74.58 | 7 110.52 |

### Junior results

2019–2020 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 38 42.04 | - | 38 42.04 |
| August 28–31, 2019 | 2019 JGP United States | 14 50.59 | 20 68.60 | 17 119.19 |
| 2018–2019 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 4–10, 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | 43 35.15 | - | 43 35.15 |
| October 10–13, 2018 | 2018 JGP Armenia | 17 39.31 | 18 64.79 | 17 104.10 |
| August 22–25, 2018 | 2018 JGP SLovakia | 20 40.41 | 14 82.87 | 16 123.28 |
| 2017–2018 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 5–11, 2018 | 2018 World Junior Championships | 27 44.26 | - | 27 44.26 |
| September 27–30, 2017 | 2017 JGP Croatia | 18 38.18 | 13 82.12 | 14 120.30 |
| August 23–26, 2017 | 2017 JGP Australia | 15 37.66 | 12 77.13 | 12 114.79 |
| 2016–2017 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 13–19, 2017 | 2017 World Junior Championships | 24 44.66 | 17 83.89 | 19 128.55 |
| Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2016 | 2016 Autumn Classic Junior | 8 36.50 | 8 66.85 | 8 103.35 |
| September 8–11, 2016 | 2016 JGP Japan | 9 45.36 | 9 80.25 | 9 125.61 |