2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:National Championship
Date:December 29 – January 8
Season:2017–18
Location:San Jose, California
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:SAP Center
Champions
Men's singles:
Nathan Chen (S)
Camden Pulkinen (J)
Ladies' singles:
Bradie Tennell (S)
Alysa Liu (J)
Pairs:
Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim (S)
Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov (J)
Ice dance:
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (S)
Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko (J)
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The 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships, 2018 World Junior Championships, and the 2018 World Championships.

San Jose was announced as the host in August 2016.[1]

Qualifying

Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2017 or earned a bye. Skaters must place in the top 4 in order to earn a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.

Date Event Type Location Results
October 4–8, 2017 North Atlantic Regional Hackensack, New Jersey [2]
October 4–8, 2017 Upper Great Lakes Regional Blaine, Minnesota [3]
October 11–15, 2017 Northwest Pacific Regional Eugene, Oregon [4]
October 11–15, 2017 South Atlantic Regional Aston, Pennsylvania [5]
October 11–15, 2017 Southwestern Regional Fort Collins, Colorado [6]
October 11–15, 2017 Southwest Pacific Regional Ontario, California [7]
October 18–22, 2017 New England Regional Westborough, Massachusetts [8]
October 18–22, 2017 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Antioch, Tennessee [9]
October 18–22, 2017 Central Pacific Regional Salt Lake City, Utah [10]
November 15–19, 2017 Eastern Sectional Boxborough, Massachusetts [11]
November 15–19, 2017 Midwestern Sectional Bloomington, Minnesota [12]
November 15–19, 2017 Pacific Coast Sectional Spokane, Washington [13]
December 29, 2017 – January 7, 2018 U.S. Championships Final San Jose, California [14]

In late December 2017, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye.[15]

Schedule

The competition took place over ten days. All times are in PST.[14][16]

Date Time Event Segment
December 29 9:10 AM Juvenile girls Free skate
10:45 AM Juvenile boys
12:30 PM Juvenile pairs
3:00 PM Intermediate pairs Short program
4:45 PM Intermediate ladies
6:30 PM Intermediate men
December 30 2:45 PM Intermediate pairs Free skate
4:45 PM Intermediate ladies
6:30 PM Intermediate men
December 31 10:30 AM Juvenile dance Pattern dance 1 (Foxtrot)
11:45 AM Pattern dance 2 (Cha Cha)
7:00 PM Junior pairs Short program
8:55 PM Junior ladies
January 1 9:30 AM Intermediate dance Pattern dance 1 (Tango)
10:45 AM Pattern dance 2 (Fourteenstep)
12:10 PM Junior men Short program
2:15 PM Juvenile dance Free dance
4:05 PM Novice dance Pattern dance 1 (Argentine tango)
5:20 PM Pattern dance 2 (Quickstep)
6:45 PM Novice pairs Short program
January 2 8:50 AM Novice ladies Short program
10:30 AM Novice men
12:10 PM Intermediate dance Free dance
12:30 PM Junior pairs Free skate
3:30 PM Novice pairs
6:15 PM Novice dance Free dance
7:50 PM Junior ladies Free skate
January 3 8:15 AM Novice ladies Free skate
10:15 AM Junior men
1:00 PM Junior dance Short dance
3:15 PM Novice men Free skate
6:35 PM Senior ladies Short program
January 4 9:50 AM Junior dance Free dance
1:00 PM Senior pairs Short program
5:40 PM Senior men
January 5 1:10 PM Senior dance Short dance
3:45 PM Senior ladies Free skate
January 6 11:45 AM Senior pairs Free skate
3:45 PM Senior men
January 7 12:30 PM Senior dance Free dance

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Nathan Chen Ross Miner Vincent Zhou Adam Rippon
Ladies Bradie Tennell Mirai Nagasu Karen Chen Ashley Wagner
Pairs Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc
Ice dance Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

Junior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Camden Pulkinen Dinh Tran Maxim Naumov Ryan Dunk
Ladies Alysa Liu Pooja Kalyan Ting Cui Hanna Harrell
Pairs Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe
Ice dance Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Gordon Green Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville

Novice

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Goku Endo Max Lake Nicholas Hsieh Lucas Altieri
Ladies Beverly Zhu Emilea Zingas Violeta Ushakova Calista Choi
Pairs Jade Hom / Franz-Peter Jerosch Joanna Hubbart / William Hubbart Masha Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov Ellie McClellan / Jim Garbutt
Ice dance Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao Gianna Buckley / Jeffrey Chen Caroline Liu / Kenan Slevira Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov

Intermediate

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Maxim Zharkov Matthew Nielsen Liam Kapeikis William Annis
Ladies Indi Cha Alyssa Chan Arianna Concepcion Alena Budko
Pairs Zoe Larson / Nick Hubbart Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell Katie Luong / Nathan Luong Sydney Flaum / Cayden McKenzie-Cook
Ice dance Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal Claire Cain / Andrei Davydov Anna Gissibl / Alexander Colucci Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao

Juvenile

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Keita Horiko Jacob Sanchez Nhat-Viet Nguyen Andriy Kratyuk
Ladies Isabeau Levito Clara Kim Macie Rolf Madeleine Park
Pairs Natasha Mishkutionok / Daniel Tioumentsev Nadia Wang / Jaden Schwab Dalila DeLaura / Ryan Xie Megan Voigt / Levon Davis
Ice dance Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr Zoe Sensenbrenner / Matthew Sperry Kristina Bland / Gabriel Francis Emma L'Esperance / Mika Amdour

Senior results

Men

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Nathan Chen 315.23 1 104.45 1 210.78
2 Ross Miner 274.51 6 88.91 2 185.60
3 Vincent Zhou 273.83 5 89.02 3 184.81
4 Adam Rippon 268.34 2 96.52 4 171.82
5 Grant Hochstein 255.31 4 92.18 5 163.13
6 Jason Brown 253.68 3 93.23 6 160.45
7 Timothy Dolensky 236.33 7 85.06 9 151.27
8 Alexander Johnson 232.62 10 79.60 8 153.02
9 Max Aaron 224.20 12 74.95 10 149.25
10 Alexei Krasnozhon 223.58 8 82.58 13 141.00
11 Jimmy Ma 222.41 11 75.28 11 147.13
12 Tomoki Hiwatashi 217.53 15 63.48 7 154.05
13 Andrew Torgashev 217.01 9 81.32 14 135.69
14 Sean Rabbitt 214.53 13 73.29 12 141.24
15 Jordan Moeller 180.21 20 55.35 15 124.86
16 Ben Jalovick 178.33 19 56.12 16 122.21
17 Daniel Kulenkamp 177.95 18 60.15 17 117.80
18 Emmanuel Savary 177.13 14 64.65 18 112.48
19 Sebastien Payannet 172.89 16 61.29 20 111.60
20 Scott Dyer 172.04 17 60.17 19 111.87
21 Kevin Shum 163.33 21 52.04 21 111.29

Ladies

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Bradie Tennell 219.51 1 73.79 1 145.72
2 Mirai Nagasu 213.84 2 73.09 2 140.75
3 Karen Chen 198.59 3 69.48 4 129.11
4 Ashley Wagner 196.19 5 65.94 3 130.25
5 Mariah Bell 192.34 6 65.18 6 127.16
6 Starr Andrews 189.91 8 62.55 5 127.36
7 Angela Wang 188.01 4 67.00 7 121.01
8 Amber Glenn 168.06 9 61.62 9 106.44
9 Courtney Hicks 165.48 11 57.81 8 107.67
10 Tessa Hong 156.86 13 55.82 11 101.04
11 Caroline Zhang 156.38 10 60.29 14 96.09
12 Franchesca Chiera 150.99 14 53.85 13 97.14
13 Hannah Miller 149.14 12 57.57 16 91.57
14 Kaitlyn Nguyen 146.20 17 46.30 12 99.90
15 Brynne McIsaac 145.54 20 43.97 10 101.57
16 Emmy Ma 138.02 18 45.55 15 92.47
17 Megan Wessenberg 131.73 22 40.90 17 90.83
18 Katie McBeath 124.64 15 48.53 18 76.11
19 Vivian Le 122.60 16 46.65 19 75.95
20 Emily Chan 104.43 19 44.79 20 59.64
WD Polina Edmunds 63.78 7 63.78 withdrew from competition
WD Ashley Lin 42.33 21 42.33 withdrew from competition

Pairs

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim 206.60 1 71.10 1 135.50
2 Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea 200.80 2 68.93 2 131.87
3 Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay 197.65 3 67.84 3 129.81
4 Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc 187.14 8 60.03 4 127.11
5 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier 186.32 4 63.63 5 122.69
6 Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran 182.38 6 60.75 6 121.63
7 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson 167.47 5 62.35 9 105.12
8 Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan 163.62 7 60.52 10 103.10
9 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu 162.23 12 50.43 7 111.80
10 Erika Smith / AJ Reiss 159.03 11 50.95 8 108.08
11 Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker 154.10 9 53.78 11 100.32
12 Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage 145.66 10 51.15 13 94.51
13 Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens 142.12 13 45.49 12 96.63
14 Alexandria Yao / Jacob Simon 128.12 15 40.97 14 87.15
15 Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman 126.05 14 41.70 15 84.35

Ice dance

Rank Name Total SD FD
1 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 197.12 2 79.10 2 118.02
2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 196.93 1 82.33 3 114.60
3 Madison Chock / Evan Bates 196.60 3 77.61 1 118.99
4 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 187.61 4 73.18 4 114.43
5 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 176.07 5 72.69 6 103.38
6 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 175.19 6 69.16 5 106.03
7 Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit 167.98 7 66.41 7 101.57
8 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton 153.93 8 61.21 8 92.72
9 Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson 151.00 9 58.29 9 92.71
10 Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge 136.37 10 54.53 10 81.84
11 Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds 110.92 11 40.92 11 70.00
12 Cassidy Klopstock / Jacob Schedl 89.28 12 37.16 12 52.12
13 Ashley Bain / Oleg Altukhov 79.42 13 31.17 13 48.25

Junior results

Men

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Camden Pulkinen 219.29 1 67.88 1 151.41
2 Dinh Tran 199.95 2 67.28 2 132.67
3 Maxim Naumov 179.00 3 64.07 4 114.93
4 Ryan Dunk 172.68 10 53.43 3 119.25
5 Tony Lu 166.57 4 62.43 7 104.14
6 Alex Wellman 160.69 8 56.23 6 104.46
7 Paul Yeung 158.71 11 53.30 5 105.41
8 Sasha Lunin 148.67 9 54.86 8 93.81
9 Peter Liu 143.63 5 58.33 11 85.30
10 Patrick Frohling 138.43 12 52.22 10 86.21
11 Kendrick Weston 136.83 6 58.10 12 78.73
12 Justin Wichmann 135.95 13 48.05 9 87.90
13 Luke Ferrante 129.58 7 56.48 13 73.10

Ladies

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Alysa Liu 184.16 1 63.83 1 120.33
2 Pooja Kalyan 166.53 4 54.55 3 111.98
3 Ting Cui 165.51 11 45.55 2 119.96
4 Hanna Harrell 154.36 5 52.10 4 102.26
5 Emily Zhang 149.83 2 56.97 8 92.86
6 Gabriella Izzo 148.04 3 55.19 7 93.05
7 Angelina Huang 143.84 6 51.27 9 92.57
8 Akari Nakahara 143.41 7 49.12 6 94.29
9 Audrey Shin 140.50 10 46.05 5 94.45
10 Emma Coppess 139.30 8 48.08 10 91.22
11 Lily Sun 137.75 9 47.38 11 90.37
12 Jenna Shi 114.50 12 44.20 12 70.30

Pairs

Rank Name Total SP FS
1 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov 173.31 1 60.80 1 112.51
2 Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman 155.57 3 58.37 2 97.20
3 Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow 153.04 2 58.67 3 94.37
4 Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe 135.96 5 46.58 4 89.38
5 Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett 132.90 4 52.18 5 80.72
6 Ainsley Peterson / Griffin Schwab 124.21 6 45.86 6 78.35
7 Sarah Rose / Ian Meyh 115.54 9 39.48 7 76.06
8 Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogren 114.62 7 43.85 9 70.77
9 Meiryla Findley / Matthew Rounis 113.82 8 40.74 8 73.08
10 Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach 100.74 10 37.14 10 63.60
11 Sapphire Jaeckel / Matthew Scoralle 88.92 11 35.35 12 53.57
12 Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle 85.44 12 27.56 11 57.88
13 Juliette Erickson / Nathan Grundhofer 64.86 13 24.67 13 40.19

Ice dance

Rank Name Total SD FD
1 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 159.18 1 68.70 1 90.48
2 Caroline Green / Gordon Green 146.72 2 63.14 2 83.58
3 Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye 143.21 3 62.14 3 81.07
4 Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville 138.90 4 61.13 5 77.77
5 Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 134.31 7 54.02 4 80.29
6 Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein 132.89 5 56.31 6 76.58
7 Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta 126.59 6 55.69 7 70.90
8 Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov 120.92 8 52.06 8 68.86
9 Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart 116.65 9 50.26 10 66.39
10 Isabelle Amoia / Luca Becker 116.08 10 49.50 9 66.58
11 Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder 111.02 11 49.14 12 61.88
12 Molly Cesanek / Nikolay Usanov 106.60 13 44.04 11 62.56
13 Allie Rose / JT Michel 103.55 12 45.11 13 58.44

International team selections

Winter Olympics

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics on January 6, 2018.

Men[17] Ladies[18] Pairs[19] Ice dance[20]
Nathan Chen Karen Chen Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Adam Rippon Mirai Nagasu Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Vincent Zhou Bradie Tennell Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt. Jason Brown Ashley Wagner Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt. Ross Miner Mariah Bell Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
3rd alt. Max Aaron Angela Wang Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

The selections for the team event at the Olympics were as follows:

Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
SP/SD Nathan Chen Bradie Tennell Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
FS/FD Adam Rippon Mirai Nagasu

World Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Championships on January 6, 2018.

Men[21] Ladies[22] Pairs[23] Ice dance[24]
Nathan Chen Karen Chen (withdrew) Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Adam Rippon (withdrew) Mirai Nagasu Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Vincent Zhou Bradie Tennell Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt. Jason Brown Ashley Wagner (withdrew) Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt. Ross Miner Mariah Bell (called up) Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
3rd alt. Max Aaron (called up) Angela Wang Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

Four Continents

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Four Continents Championships on January 6, 2018.

Men[21] Ladies[22] Pairs[23] Ice dance[24]
Max Aaron Starr Andrews Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
Jason Brown Mariah Bell Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
Ross Miner (withdrew) Ashley Wagner (withdrew) Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
1st alt. Grant Hochstein (called up) Angela Wang (called up) Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
2nd alt. Timothy Dolensky Amber Glenn Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson
3rd alt. Alexander Johnson Courtney Hicks Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge

World Junior Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Junior Championships on January 6, 2018.

Men[21] Ladies[22] Pairs[23] Ice dance[24]
Tomoki Hiwatashi Starr Andrews (withdrew) Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Alexei Krasnozhon Ting Cui Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Caroline Green / Gordon Green
Camden Pulkinen Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye
Alt. Maxim Naumov Hanna Harrell Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville
Alt. Andrew Torgashev Tessa Hong Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
Alt. Dinh Tran Emmy Ma (called up) Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein

References

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