Alice Ordway

Alice Johanna Lileas Ordway (born 30 April 1989 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a retired Scottish figure skater who represented Great Britain in international competition. With her husband Christian Dwight, she is the 2016 and 2018 Olympic gold medalist in pairs figure skating and multiple World champion. Presently she works as a choreographer.

Personal life
Alice Ordway was born 30 April 1989 in Dumfries, Scotland, to Ross Ordway, a lawyer, and Anna Patterson, a homemaker. She is one of ten children. The family moved to Edinburgh in 1997, where Alice grew up and began skating at Murrayfield Ice Arena.

She and Christian Dwight of Aberdeen became skating partners in 2001. The couple became engaged in 2015 and married on 30 July 2016 at St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh. Their daughter, Juliet Mary, was born on 1 November 2019.

Ordway is Roman Catholic.

Skating career
Ordway became interested in figure skating after being taken to a friend's birthday party at an ice rink. "There were so many of us," she said, "I think my mother appreciated having me out of her hair for a few hours a week." She wanted to skate singles, but found her skills were not adequate and so had been recommended to try pairs when she was a pre-teen.

Partnership with Christian Dwight
Alice Ordway was paired up with Christian Dwight in 2001 at a pairs clinic in Edinburgh, when she was twelve and Dwight was fifteen. From Aberdeen, his mother drove him to the rink in Murrayfield - a drive of 130 miles - multiple times a week so the couple could learn to skate together. They were coached by Ian Robertson, a former British pairs champion. They finished second at the 2005 British National Championships, and competed for the first time that year at the European and World Championships, where they finished 6th and 9th respectively - the highest finish for a British pair in years. The couple worked mostly in Edinburgh.

2005-2006 Season
In their second senior season together, Ordway and Dwight were sent to their first senior-level Grand Prix event, Skate America, where they finished fourth. They won British Nationals that year, and were the only British pair team selected to attend the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy. They finished second at the European Championships that year despite a dismal short program where Ordway fell twice. At the 2006 Olympics, they won the bronze medal, becoming one of Britain's few medalists that year. At the time, Dwight was studying English Literature at the University of St Andrews and Ordway had accepted a place at the University of Edinburgh to study Sport Science. Due to Dwight's educational commitments, they skipped the World Championships that year.