formerpartner birth_date formercoach article_title name
brandon klus , chris obzansky forsyth ryan o'meara , vitali shalin , michel 16 september 1982 igor elizabeth coates , genrikh sretenski shpilband , marina zoueva , j. santoferrara , lydia manon
 lydia manon
lydia manon

lydia manon -lrb- born september 16 , 1982 in reading , pa -rrb- is an american ice dancer .
with ryan o'meara , she is the 2005 u.s. bronze medalist and four continents bronze medalist .
they announced the end of their partnership in march 2005 .
manon began skating with brandon forsyth in march 2005 .
they skated together until mid-2006 when she retired to pursue academic studies at the george washington university .
prior to joining forces with o'meara in 2003 , she competed with michel klus .
currently , manon is a graduate student in the slavic department at the university of virginia .
