Marissa Castelli

Marissa Castelli is an American retired pair skater born on August 20, 1990, in Providence, Rhode Island. With Simon Shnapir she won the 2009 World Junior bronze medal, the 2013 Four Continents bronze medal and the U.S. national title in 2013 and 2014, and the pair won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they placed ninth in the pairs event. After the partnership ended in May 2014 she teamed up with Canadian Mervin Tran, and the pair were the 2017 U.S. national silver medalists. Her mother, Lori Castelli, is a figure skating coach, and Castelli began skating at the age of three.