# Emmy Ma

Emmy Ma (born January 19, 2001) is a Taiwanese-American former competitive figure skater. Representing Chinese Taipei, she is the 2021 International Challenge Cup silver medalist and 2019 Taiwanese national champion.
Earlier in her career, representing the United States, she won bronze at 2017 JGP Latvia and placed 19th at the 2018 World Junior Championships.

## Personal life

Emmy Ma was born on January 19, 2001, in Manhasset, New York. She has an older brother, Edward, and older sister, Emily. She plays violin for New England Conservatory's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. As of 2019, Ma is a student at Boston University. She has spoken about dealing with an eating disorder, citing fellow skaters Gabrielle Daleman and Gracie Gold's openness about their own struggles as a reason to come forward.

## Career

Ma began learning to skate in 2007. She won a pewter medal in the junior ladies' event at the 2017 U.S. Championships.

### For the United States

Ma won bronze at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Latvia in September 2017. Making her senior international debut, she placed fifth at the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb in December. In March, she competed at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She qualified to the final segment and finished 19th overall.
Competing in the senior ranks, Ma placed 16th at the 2018 U.S. Championships and 9th at the 2019 U.S. Championships. She switched to represent Taiwan from the 2019–20 season.

### For Taiwan

Ma won the 2019–20 Taiwanese national title, but did not compete internationally for Chinese Taipei. During the 2020–21 season, she did not travel to Taiwan for the 2020–21 Taiwanese Championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ma was set to make her international debut for Taiwan at the 2020 CS Cup of Tyrol, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic. She made her debut at the 2021 Challenge Cup where she won a silver medal. She placed second in the short and third in the free skate. This earned her her minimums for the 2021 World Championships, where she placed twenty-ninth.

## Programs

| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2020–2021 | Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson and Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saëns choreo. by Jamie Isley | Amazing Grace My Chains Are Gone performed by Alison Jiear choreo. by Jamie Isley |
| 2017–2018 | One More Try by George Michael performed by Brenna Whitaker choreo. by Jamie Isley | The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Jamie Isley |
| 2016–2017 | Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix by Camille Saint-Saëns | The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Jamie Isley |

## Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

### For Chinese Taipei

International :
| Event | 19–20 | 20–21 |
| Worlds | | 29th |
| CS Cup of Tyrol | | C |
| Challenge Cup | | 2nd |
| National |||
| Taiwanese Champ. | 1st | |
| TBD = Assigned; C = Cancelled |||

### For the United States

International :
| Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 |
| CS Golden Spin | | 5th | |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | | | WD |
| International: Junior ||||
| Junior Worlds | | 19th | |
| JGP Latvia | | 3rd | |
| JGP Poland | | 5th | |
| Challenge Cup | | 1st | |
| National ||||
| U.S. Champ. | 4th J | 16th | 9th |
| WD = Withdrew Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior ||||

## Detailed results
### For Chinese Taipei

2020–2021 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 29 55.63 | - | 29 55.63 |
| February 25–28, 2021 | 2021 Challenge Cup | 2 65.25 | 3 112.04 | 2 177.29 |
| 2019–2020 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| August 2–3, 2019 | 2019–20 Taiwanese Championships | 1 51.62 | 1 103.42 | 1 155.04 |

### For the United States

2018–2019 season :
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| January 19–27, 2019 | 2019 U.S. Championships | Senior | 6 65.13 | 9 109.69 | 9 174.82 |
| 2017–2018 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| March 5–11, 2018 | 2018 World Junior Championships | Junior | 16 52.78 | 19 87.20 | 19 139.98 |
| Dec. 29, 2017 – Jan. 8, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Championships | Senior | 18 45.55 | 15 92.47 | 16 138.02 |
| December 6–9, 2017 | 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | Senior | 9 49.63 | 2 117.08 | 5 166.71 |
| October 4–7, 2017 | 2017 JGP Poland | Junior | 6 52.41 | 6 103.45 | 5 155.86 |
| September 6–9, 2017 | 2017 JGP Latvia | Junior | 3 59.92 | 4 112.70 | 3 172.62 |
| 2016–2017 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| February 23–26, 2017 | 2017 Challenge Cup | Junior | 1 52.91 | 2 95.82 | 1 148.73 |
| January 14–22, 2017 | 2017 U.S. Championships | Junior | 1 60.31 | 5 89.57 | 4 149.88 |