<P> Meryl Elizabeth Davis (born January 1, 1987) is an American ice dancer . With partner Charlie White, she is the 2014 Olympic champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a two - time (2011, 2013) World champion, five - time Grand Prix Final champion (2009--2013), three - time Four Continents champion (2009, 2011, 2013) and six - time U.S. national champion (2009--2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics . </P> <P> Davis and White teamed up in 1997 and they are currently the longest lasting dance team in the United States . They are the first American ice dancers to win the World title, as well as the first Americans to win the Olympic title . At the 2006 NHK Trophy, they became the first ice dancing team to earn level fours on all their elements . </P> <P> In 2014, Davis won the eighteenth season of Dancing with the Stars with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy . </P> <P> Meryl Davis was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and raised in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the daughter of Cheryl and Paul D. Davis . She has one younger brother, Clayton . She is of English, Irish, Scottish and German descent . Her paternal grandmother was born in Regina, Saskatchewan . Davis was diagnosed with dyslexia in the third grade and she struggled with reading until the 11th grade . In June 2005, Davis graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School . She was a member of the National Honor Society . </P>

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