Figure skating competition
The 2019 GEICO U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 18, 2019 – January 27, 2019 at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan . Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles , pair skating , and ice dancing at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results will be part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2019 Four Continents Championships , 2019 World Junior Championships , and the 2019 World Championships .
Detroit was announced as the host in November 2017.[1]
Qualifying Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from October to November 2018, or earned a bye. The top four finishers in each discipline at sectionals earned a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships. A list of qualified skaters was published on December 13, 2018.[2]
Date Event Type Location Results October 3–7, 2018 Upper Great Lakes Regional Peoria, Illinois [3] October 3–7, 2018 Northwest Pacific Regional Sherwood, Oregon [4] October 3–7, 2018 South Atlantic Regional Coral Springs, Florida [5] October 10–14, 2018 Central Pacific Regional Vacaville, California [6] October 10–14, 2018 Southwestern Regional Plano, Texas [7] October 10–14, 2018 New England Regional Boston, Massachusetts [8] October 17–21, 2018 Southwest Pacific Regional Anaheim, California [9] October 17–21, 2018 North Atlantic Regional Lake Placid, New York [10] October 17–21, 2018 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Ann Arbor, Michigan [11] November 13–17, 2018 Eastern Sectional Wake Forest, North Carolina [12] November 13–17, 2018 Midwestern Sectional Fort Wayne, Indiana [13] November 13–17, 2018 Pacific Coast Sectional Salt Lake City, Utah [14] January 18–27, 2019 U.S. Championships Final Detroit, Michigan [15]
Entries Changes to preliminary entries Schedule The Little Caesars Arena, the home of the Detroit Red Wings which opened in September 2017, will host all junior and senior (Championship) level practices and competitions. The Detroit Skating Club will host all Juvenile, Intermediate and Novice practice sessions and competitions from January 18 – 22, 2019.[21]
Date Time Event January 22 5:30 PM Junior Ladies and Junior Men Short Program January 23 10:30 AM Junior Pairs Short Program 3:00 PM Junior Rhythm Dance 5:30 PM Junior Ladies and Junior Men Free Skate January 24 12:00 PM Junior Pairs Free Skate 4:00 PM Senior Pairs Short Program 7:45 PM Senior Ladies Short Program January 25 12:00 PM Junior Free Dance 3:45 PM Senior Rhythm Dance 6:30 PM Senior Ladies Free Skate January 26 9:15 AM Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program 1:15 PM Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program 6:00 PM Senior Free Dance January 27 2:00 PM Senior Men Free Skate 8:00 PM Skating Spectacular
Medal summary Senior Junior Novice Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men William Annis Matthew Nielsen Ilia Malinin Joseph Klein Ladies Calista Choi Aubrey Ignacio Isabelle Inthisone Laura Jacobson Pairs Isabelle Goldstein / Keyton Bearinger Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia Alexandra Schneiderhahn / Timmy Chapman Ice dancing Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov Jordan Lin / Morgan Sletten Layla Karnes / Kirill Aksenov Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal
Intermediate Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Robert Yampolsky Daniel Martynov Jacob Sanchez Kai Kovar Ladies Lindsay Thorngren Isabeau Levito Hazel Collier Tamnhi Huynh Pairs Faye Kropf / Sasha Lunin Natasha Mishkutionok / Daniel Tioumentsev Kayla Black / Kamden Black Aleksandra Prudsky / Enoch Chen Ice dancing Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao Leah Neset / Dimitry TsarevskiZoe Sensenbrenner / Matthew Sperry Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr
Juvenile Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Boys Lucas Broussard Matthew Grossman Jonathan Hildebrandt Nikita Prudsky Girls Kanon Smith Tia Hilbelink Lilly Mills Ava Ziegler Pairs Hailey Sundstrom / Andy Deng Ashley Stark / Kevin Ponceau Madeline Phan / Laz Lune Dailia DeLara / Ryan Xie Ice dancing Kiana Pan / Ilya Mondrowski Olivia Ilin / Dylan Cain Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers Rhiannon Rodriguez / Rogue Rodriguez
Senior results Senior men Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Nathan Chen Salt Lake Figure Skating 342.22 1 113.42 1 228.80 2 Vincent Zhou SC of San Francisco 284.01 3 100.25 2 183.76 3 Jason Brown Skokie Valley SC 273.08 2 100.52 3 172.56 4 Tomoki Hiwatashi DuPage FSC 253.28 4 84.05 4 169.23 5 Alexei Krasnozhon Dallas FSC 234.52 5 82.53 5 151.99 6 Timothy Dolensky Atlanta FSC 228.94 6 81.10 7 147.84 7 Andrew Torgashev Broadmoor SC 225.97 9 76.95 6 149.02 8 Sean Rabbitt Glacier Falls FSC 217.84 7 79.66 9 138.18 9 Alexander Johnson Braemar-City of Lakes FSC 216.48 11 74.07 8 142.41 10 Jimmy Ma SC of New York 206.92 10 74.84 11 132.08 11 Emmanuel Savary Broadmoor SC 202.45 13 69.89 10 132.56 12 Camden Pulkinen Broadmoor SC 199.87 8 78.39 15 121.48 13 Jordan Moeller Northern Ice SC 197.82 14 66.15 12 131.67 14 Kevin Shum SC of Boston 196.11 12 71.13 13 124.98 15 Daniel Kulenkamp Coyotes SC of Arizona 188.93 16 64.64 14 124.29 16 William Hubbart St. Moritz ISC 186.02 15 65.34 16 120.68 17 Sebastien Payannet Los Angeles FSC 169.14 17 61.55 18 107.59 18 Ben Jalovick Centennial 7k SC 167.51 19 58.51 17 109.00 19 Tony Lu North Jersey FSC 144.99 18 59.81 20 85.18 20 Andrew Austin Skokie Valley SC 131.39 20 45.68 19 85.71
Senior ladies Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Alysa Liu St. Moritz ISC 217.51 2 73.89 1 143.62 2 Bradie Tennell Skokie Valley SC 213.59 1 76.60 4 136.99 3 Mariah Bell Rocky Mountain FSC 212.40 3 70.30 2 142.10 4 Hanna Harrell Dallas FSC 203.11 5 68.16 5 134.95 5 Ting Cui Baltimore FSC 194.30 12 54.64 3 139.66 6 Megan Wessenberg Mitchell Johansson Method 182.55 7 60.37 6 122.18 7 Amber Glenn Dallas FSC 180.73 4 69.86 8 110.87 8 Starr Andrews Los Angeles FSC 175.70 8 58.66 7 117.04 9 Emmy Ma Mitchell Johansson Method 174.82 6 65.13 9 109.69 10 Akari Nakahara All Year FSC 166.76 10 57.72 10 109.04 11 Brynne McIsaac Los Angeles FSC 157.34 11 56.46 13 100.88 12 Sierra Venetta SC of San Francisco 152.93 18 47.77 11 105.16 13 Rena Ikenishi SC of New York 152.70 16 51.01 12 101.69 14 Heidi Munger Mitchell Johansson Method 151.85 15 52.37 14 99.48 15 Hannah Miller Lansing SC 148.38 14 52.75 15 95.63 16 Courtney Hicks All Year FSC 145.95 13 53.04 16 92.91 17 Julia Biechler Colonial FSC 133.88 17 50.98 17 82.90 WD Pooja Kalyan Ozark FSC withdrew 9 58.64 withdrew from competition
Senior pairs Senior ice dance Junior results Junior men Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Ryan Dunk Baltimore FSC 201.43 2 68.58 1 132.85 2 Dinh Tran SC of San Francisco 196.03 4 64.84 2 131.19 3 Joonsoo Kim Los Angeles FSC 187.95 1 70.72 4 117.23 4 Peter Liu SC of Wilmington 182.32 5 64.33 3 117.99 5 Lucas Altieri Pines FSC 172.87 6 60.94 7 111.93 6 Joseph Kang University of Delaware FSC 170.98 11 54.42 5 116.56 7 David Shapiro Detroit SC 166.85 7 57.30 8 109.55 8 Max Lake All Year FSC 165.69 12 52.43 6 113.26 9 Alex Wellman Broadmoor SC 163.20 9 55.70 9 107.50 10 Eric Sjoberg Los Angeles FSC 161.99 10 55.54 10 106.45 11 Luke Ferrante SC of Huntsville 161.89 3 65.08 11 96.81 12 Chase Finster Northern Kentucky SC 132.25 8 56.27 12 75.98
Junior ladies Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Gabriella Izzo Mitchell Johansson Method 172.42 1 60.97 2 111.45 2 Audrey Shin SC of New York 165.61 6 53.03 1 112.58 3 Emilia Murdock SC of San Francisco 154.48 2 58.15 4 96.33 4 Sarah Jung Columbia FSC (MD) 150.88 4 56.07 5 94.81 5 Wren Warne-Jacobsen St. Paul FSC 150.13 7 51.50 3 98.63 6 Emily Zhang Richmond FSC 146.64 5 55.46 7 91.18 7 Noelle Rosa Salt Lake Figure Skating 144.91 8 51.33 6 93.58 8 Amie Miyagi Salt Lake Figure Skating 133.58 3 56.25 10 77.33 9 Caitlin Ha Glacier Falls FSC 132.68 9 49.31 8 83.37 10 Alyssa Rich Dallas FSC 128.02 10 46.53 9 81.49 11 Akane Eguchi Dallas FSC 118.56 12 43.36 11 75.20 12 Stephanie Ciarochi Dallas FSC 116.53 11 44.47 12 72.06
Junior pairs Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow DuPage FSC / DuPage FSC 163.35 1 61.52 1 101.83 2 Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy Northern Kentucky SC / Broadmoor SC 149.48 2 59.65 2 89.83 3 Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard Chicago FSC / Northern Ice SC 141.97 3 52.16 3 89.81 4 Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov Chelsea FSC / Chelsea FSC 136.61 4 48.47 4 88.14 5 Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach Southwest Florida FSC / Rocky Mountain FSC 128.87 5 47.31 5 81.56 6 Ainsley Peterson / Matthew Rounis All Year FSC / Broadmoor FSC 124.35 6 44.46 6 79.89 7 Sarah Rose / Jim Garbutt Champions Edge SC / Champions Edge SC 119.76 8 44.14 7 75.62 8 Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogrens Broadmoor SC / Kansas City FSC 116.15 7 44.23 8 71.92 9 Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle Ice House Skating Academy / Ice House Skating Academy 103.61 9 35.74 9 67.87
Junior ice dance Rank Name Club Total points RD FD 1 Caroline Green / Gordon Green Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights / Washington FSC 172.54 1 70.82 2 101.72 2 Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik Washington FSC / SC of Novi 171.06 2 65.92 1 105.14 3 Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights / Washington FSC 155.46 4 62.60 3 92.86 4 Oona Brown / Gage Brown SC of New York / SC of New York 153.67 3 63.34 4 90.33 5 Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov Washington FSC / Peninsula SC 144.23 5 58.57 5 85.66 6 Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta Buffalo SC / Glacier Falls FSC 136.64 7 54.67 6 81.97 7 Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik Los Angeles FSC / SC of Novi 132.24 6 56.99 9 75.25 8 Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder Louisville Skating Academy / Louisville Skating Academy 131.94 8 52.10 7 79.84 9 Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard ZhaoPeninsula SC / Detroit SC 127.63 9 50.07 8 77.56 10 Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart Dallas FSC / All Year FSC 121.52 11 48.22 10 73.30 11 Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov Peninsula SC / Hershey FSC 119.73 10 48.89 11 70.84 12 Claire Purnell / Lucas Purnell Louisville Skating Academy / Louisville Skating Academy 108.10 12 41.87 12 66.23 13 Samantha Udell / Garrett Udell Broadmoor SC / All Year FSC 53.96 13 22.37 13 31.59
Novice results Novice men Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 William Annis Yarmouth Ice Club 168.08 1 61.27 3 106.81 2 Matthew Nielsen Strongsville SC 167.64 4 57.83 1 109.81 3 Ilia Malinin Washington FSC 167.05 2 59.60 2 107.45 4 Joseph Klein Skokie Valley SC 154.39 3 59.10 6 95.29 5 Liam Kapeikis Wenatchee FSC 151.92 8 49.09 4 102.85 6 Eric Prober Pines FSC 151.81 5 53.37 5 98.44 7 Henry Privett-Mendoza FSC of Southern California 138.69 6 51.82 8 86.87 8 Daniel Tioumentsev Dallas FSC 137.46 7 50.84 9 86.62 9 Philip Baker Colonial FSC 131.16 9 46.62 10 84.54 10 Daniel Argueta SC of Houston 127.44 12 39.95 7 87.49 11 Samuel Mindra Portland ISC 123.29 10 42.48 11 80.81 12 Samir Mallya Los Angeles FSC 121.12 11 42.35 12 78.77
Novice ladies Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Calista Choi Skokie Valley SC 160.15 1 56.84 1 103.31 2 Aubrey Ignacio All Year FSC 149.33 4 52.15 2 97.18 3 Isabelle Inthisone DuPage FSC 148.16 3 52.21 3 95.95 4 Laura Jacobson SC of New York 139.52 6 48.92 4 90.60 5 Indi Cha Mitchell Johansson Method 138.62 8 48.26 5 90.36 6 Allison Zheng Highland SC 133.81 7 48.42 6 85.39 7 Alena Budko Winterhawks FSC 130.55 2 53.12 10 77.43 8 Arianna Concepcion Colonial FSC 129.21 9 47.68 7 81.53 9 Emily Zhang SC of New York 127.41 5 49.76 9 77.65 10 Kate Wang SC of San Francisco 124.14 10 47.25 11 76.89 11 Alyssa Chan Dallas FSC 118.97 11 42.47 12 76.50 12 Abby Slovin DuPage FSC 117.55 12 39.72 8 77.83
Novice pairs Rank Name Club Total points SP FS 1 Isabelle Goldstein / Keyton Bearinger Detroit SC / Detroit SC 134.28 2 48.35 1 85.93 2 Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell SC of Boston / SC of Boston 131.35 1 49.48 3 81.87 3 Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia Yarmouth Ice Club / All Year FSC 129.45 3 44.92 2 84.53 4 Alexandra Schneiderhahn / Timmy Chapman St. Louis SC / Central Florida FSC 123.55 5 44.42 5 79.13 5 Sarah Burden / Jake Pagano Broadmoor SC / Nashville FSC 123.17 4 44.43 6 78.74 6 Campbell Young / Mikhail Gumba Broadmoor SC / Broadmoor SC 120.51 6 44.33 7 76.18 7 Taylor Nordquist / Mark Sadusky Southwest Florida FSC / St. Moritz ISC 119.89 7 39.11 4 80.78 8 Zoe Larson / Nick Hubbart Champions Edge SC / Champions Edge SC 98.93 8 34.05 8 64.88 9 Alexandra Fakhroutdinov / Christopher Aaron Singletary Ice House Of New Jersey FSC / Hudson Valley FSC 89.95 9 30.25 9 59.70 10 Ariana LoPinto / Joshua Levitt SC of New York / SC of Northern Virginia 73.28 10 28.29 11 44.99 11 Anastasia Lestina / Benjamin McLemore Pittsburgh FSC / Pittsburgh FSC 68.79 11 21.13 10 47.66
Novice ice dance Rank Name Club Total points PD1 PD2 FD 1 Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov Washington FSC / Washington FSC 124.53 2 27.29 1 27.94 1 69.30 2 Jordan Lin / Morgan Sletten Washington FSC / Washington FSC 118.52 1 27.65 2 27.55 4 63.32 3 Layla Karnes / Kirill Aksenov All Year FSC / Skokie Valley SC 118.47 3 25.63 3 24.18 3 68.66 4 Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal Skokie Valley SC / Skokie Valley SC 116.85 4 24.16 4 23.40 2 69.29 5 Claire Cain / Andrei Davydov Washington FSC / Washington FSC 102.70 5 23.79 6 21.21 7 57.70 6 Anna Nicklas / Max Ryan Ann Arbor FSC / All Year FSC 99.23 8 19.47 7 20.80 5 58.96 7 Kelsey Schaub / Anthony Haddad IceWorks SC / All Year FSC 97.34 7 20.85 9 18.75 6 57.74 8 Cordelia Pride / Benjamin Lawless All Year FSC / Philadelphia SC & HS 96.85 6 22.05 8 20.50 8 54.30 9 Maria Brown / Marius Driscoll Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights / Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights 88.23 10 17.41 5 21.66 9 49.16 10 Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer Atlanta FSC / Los Angeles FSC 83.96 11 16.32 10 18.62 10 49.02 11 Katherine Bronov / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi IceWorks SC / IceWorks SC 77.76 9 17.81 11 15.20 11 44.75 12 Lauren Miller / Alexander Bator Genesee FSC / All Year FSC 53.44 12 10.05 12 9.45 12 33.94
International team selections World Championships U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 World Championships on January 26.[22] [23] [24]
Four Continents Championships U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 Four Continents Championships on January 26.[22] [23] [24]
World Junior Championships U.S. Figure Skating began announcing entries for the 2019 World Junior Championships team on January 26. The men and ladies will be selected after a training camp.[22] [23] [24] The men and ladies were announced on February 5.[25]
U.S. Figure Skating invited the following skaters to a selection camp for Junior Worlds.
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