Ana Cecilia Cantu

Who is Ana Cecilia Cantu?

Ana Cecilia Cantu Felix is a Mexican figure skater from Monterrey, Mexico.

She is a four time National champion. She has represented Mexico in one Junior World Championship, and four World Championships. In the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, she became the first Mexican to qualify to the final round. She is to-date still the only one to have ever achieve a final.

At the 2003 Four Continent Championships, Cantu's bag with her skates was stolen after the Short Program. She was able to finish the competition with the skates of her teammate Ingrid Roth, who had not qualified for the Free Skating, and was able to lend her skates to Cantu.

Ana Cecilia's programs are choreographed by David Wilson, Mark Hird, Michele Cantu and Shawn Sawyer. She is currently coached by Vladimir Petrenko and training at the International Skating Center of Connecticut, in Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S.A., and Ice Complex, in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. Her younger sister Michele Cantu is also an elite senior-level skater.

Cantu is the creator of the sit spin variation called AC-Sit.