The 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 18–27, 2019, at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's 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 2019 Four Continents Championships, 2019 World Junior Championships, and the 2019 World Championships.
Detroit was announced as the host in November 2017.
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.
Date Event Type Location Results October 3–7, 2018 Upper Great Lakes Regional Peoria, Illinois October 3–7, 2018 Northwest Pacific Regional Sherwood, Oregon October 3–7, 2018 South Atlantic Regional Coral Springs, Florida October 10–14, 2018 Central Pacific Regional Vacaville, California October 10–14, 2018 Southwestern Regional Plano, Texas October 10–14, 2018 New England Regional Boston, Massachusetts October 17–21, 2018 Southwest Pacific Regional Anaheim, California October 17–21, 2018 North Atlantic Regional Lake Placid, New York October 17–21, 2018 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Ann Arbor, Michigan November 13–17, 2018 Eastern Sectional Wake Forest, North Carolina November 13–17, 2018 Midwestern Sectional Fort Wayne, Indiana November 13–17, 2018 Pacific Coast Sectional Salt Lake City, Utah January 18–27, 2019 U.S. Championships Final Detroit, Michigan
Entries Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Andrew Austin Starr Andrews Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Alannah Binotto / Shiloh Judd Jason Brown Mariah Bell Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Nathan Chen Julia Biechler Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage Madison Chock / Evan Bates Timothy Dolensky Ting Cui Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Lydia Erdman / Yuri Vlasenko Tomoki Hiwatashi Amber Glenn Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker William Hubbart Hanna Harrell Tarah Kayne / Danny O’Shea Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Ben Jalovick Courtney Hicks Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson Alexander Johnson Rena Ikenishi Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Alexei Krasnozhon Pooja Kalyan Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell Daniel Kulenkamp Alysa Liu Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Tony Lu Emmy Ma Erika Smith / AJ Reiss Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds Jimmy Ma Brynne McIsaac Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay Nicole Takahashi / Oleg Altukhov Jordan Moeller Hannah Miller Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman Sebastien Payannet Heidi Munger Camden Pulkinen Akari Nakahara Sean Rabbitt Bradie Tennell Emmanuel Savary Sierra Venetta Kevin Shum Megan Wessenberg Andrew Torgashev Vincent Zhou
Changes to preliminary entries Date Discipline Withdrew Reason/Other notes Refs January 2 Pairs Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Injury January 4 Ladies Karen Chen Injury recovery January 9 Ladies Gracie Gold Personal January 13 Ladies Angela Wang Illness & injury January 14 Ladies Ashley Lin Pairs Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman
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.
Date Time EventJanuary 22 5:30 PM Junior Ladies and Junior Men Short ProgramJanuary 23 10:30 AM Junior Pairs Short Program 3:00 PM Junior Rhythm Dance 5:30 PM Junior Ladies and Junior Men Free SkateJanuary 24 12:00 PM Junior Pairs Free Skate 4:00 PM Senior Pairs Short Program 7:45 PM Senior Ladies Short ProgramJanuary 25 12:00 PM Junior Free Dance 3:45 PM Senior Rhythm Dance 6:30 PM Senior Ladies Free SkateJanuary 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 DanceJanuary 27 2:00 PM Senior Men Free Skate 8:00 PM Skating Spectacular
Medal summary Senior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Nathan Chen Vincent Zhou Jason Brown Tomoki Hiwatashi Women Alysa Liu Bradie Tennell Mariah Bell Hanna Harrell Pairs Ice dance
Junior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Ryan Dunk Dinh Tran Joonsoo Kim Peter Liu Women Gabriella Izzo Audrey Shin Emilia Murdock Sarah Jung Pairs Ice dance
Senior results Men's singles Rank Skater Total SP FS Nathan Chen342.22 1113.421228.80 Vincent Zhou284.01 3100.252183.76 Jason Brown273.08 2100.523172.56 4 Tomoki Hiwatashi253.28 484.054169.23 5 Alexei Krasnozhon234.52 582.535151.99 6 Timothy Dolensky228.94 681.107147.84 7 Andrew Torgashev225.97 976.956149.02 8 Sean Rabbitt217.84 779.669138.18 9Alexander Johnson216.4811 74.078142.41 10Jimmy Ma206.92 10 74.8411132.08 11 Emmanuel Savary202.45 1369.8910132.56 12 Camden Pulkinen199.87 878.3915121.48 13 Jordan Moeller197.82 1466.1512131.67 14 Kevin Shum196.11 1271.1313124.98 15 Daniel Kulenkamp188.93 1664.6414124.29 16 William Hubbart186.02 15 65.3416120.68 17 Sebastien Payannet169.14 1761.5518107.59 18 Ben Jalovick167.51 1958.5117109.00 19 Tony Lu144.99 1859.812085.18 20 Andrew Austin131.39 2045.681985.71
Women's singles Rank Skater Total SP FS Alysa Liu 217.51 2 73.89 1 143.62 Bradie Tennell 213.59 1 76.60 4 136.99 Mariah Bell 212.40 3 70.30 2 142.10 4 Hanna Harrell 203.11 5 68.16 5 134.95 5 Ting Cui 194.30 12 54.64 3 139.66 6 Megan Wessenberg 182.55 7 60.37 6 122.18 7 Amber Glenn 180.73 4 69.86 8 110.87 8 Starr Andrews 175.70 8 58.66 7 117.04 9 Emmy Ma 174.82 6 65.13 9 109.69 10 Akari Nakahara 166.76 10 57.72 10 109.04 11 Brynne McIsaac 157.34 11 56.46 13 100.88 12 Sierra Venetta 152.93 18 47.77 11 105.16 13 Rena Ikenishi 152.70 16 51.01 12 101.69 14 Heidi Munger 151.85 15 52.37 14 99.48 15 Hannah Miller 148.38 14 52.75 15 95.63 16 Courtney Hicks 145.95 13 53.04 16 92.91 17 Julia Biechler 133.88 17 50.98 17 82.90 Pooja Kalyan 9 58.64 colspan=2
Pairs Rank Team Total SP FS 212.36 2 70.47 1 141.89 201.64 3 68.32 2 133.32 199.92 4 68.18 3 131.74 4 198.64 1 71.83 4 126.81 5 183.36 6 62.94 5 120.42 6 182.42 5 66.21 6 116.21 7 171.42 7 61.56 7 109.86 8 163.63 9 58.84 9 104.79 9 162.52 10 56.25 8 106.27 10 154.80 12 53.14 10 101.66 11 154.69 8 59.44 12 95.25 12 153.12 11 55.27 11 97.85 13 137.95 13 51.32 13 86.63
Ice dance Rank Team Total RD FD 215.88 1 84.561131.32 211.52 2 82.332129.19 196.95 3 76.773120.18 4 191.10 5 74.424116.68 5 190.01 4 75.235114.78 6 170.26 6 72.52797.74 7 159.97 7 55.166104.81 8 124.92 8 45.99878.93 9 111.69 9 39.16972.53 10 91.31 12 31.931059.38 11 90.64 11 34.871155.77 12 88.53 10 36.601251.93
Junior results Junior men Rank Name Total points SP FS 1Ryan Dunk 201.43 2 68.58 1 132.85 2 Dinh Tran 196.03 4 64.84 2 131.19 3 Joonsoo Kim 187.95 1 70.72 4 117.23 4 Peter Liu 182.32 5 64.33 3 117.99 5 Lucas Altieri 172.87 6 60.94 7 111.93 6 Joseph Kang 170.98 11 54.42 5 116.56 7 David Shapiro 166.85 7 57.30 8 109.55 8 Max Lake 165.69 12 52.43 6 113.26 9 Alex Wellman 163.20 9 55.70 9 107.50 10 Eric Sjoberg 161.99 10 55.54 10 106.45 11 Luke Ferrante 161.89 3 65.08 11 96.81 12 Chase Finster 132.25 8 56.27 12 75.98
Junior women Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Gabriella Izzo 172.42 1 60.97 2 111.45 2 Audrey Shin 165.61 6 53.03 1 112.58 3 Emilia Murdock 154.48 2 58.15 4 96.33 4 Sarah Jung 150.88 4 56.07 5 94.81 5 Wren Warne-Jacobsen 150.13 7 51.50 3 98.63 6 Emily Zhang 146.64 5 55.46 7 91.18 7 Noelle Rosa 144.91 8 51.33 6 93.58 8 Amie Miyagi 133.58 3 56.25 10 77.33 9 Caitlin Ha 132.68 9 49.31 8 83.37 10 Alyssa Rich 128.02 10 46.53 9 81.49 11 Akane Eguchi 118.56 12 43.36 11 75.20 12 Stephanie Ciarochi 116.53 11 44.47 12 72.06
Junior pairs Rank Name Total points SP FS 1Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow 163.35 1 61.52 1 101.83 2 Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy 149.48 2 59.65 2 89.83 3 Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard 141.97 3 52.16 3 89.81 4 Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov 136.61 4 48.47 4 88.14 5 Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach 128.87 5 47.31 5 81.56 6 Ainsley Peterson / Matthew Rounis 124.35 6 44.46 6 79.89 7 Sarah Rose / Jim Garbutt 119.76 8 44.14 7 75.62 8 Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogrens 116.15 7 44.23 8 71.92 9 Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle 103.61 9 35.74 9 67.87
Junior ice dance Rank Name Total points RD FD 1 Caroline Green / Gordon Green 172.54 1 70.82 2 101.72 2 Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 171.06 2 65.92 1 105.14 3 Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville 155.46 4 62.60 3 92.86 4 Oona Brown / Gage Brown 153.67 3 63.34 4 90.33 5 Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov 144.23 5 58.57 5 85.66 6 Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta 136.64 7 54.67 6 81.97 7 Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik 132.24 6 56.99 9 75.25 8 Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder 131.94 8 52.10 7 79.84 9 Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao 127.63 9 50.07 8 77.56 10 Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart 121.52 11 48.22 10 73.30 11 Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov 119.73 10 48.89 11 70.84 12 Claire Purnell / Lucas Purnell 108.10 12 41.87 12 66.23 13 Samantha Udell / Garrett Udell 53.96 13 22.37 13 31.59
International team selections World Championships U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 World Championships on January 26. Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Jason Brown Mariah Bell Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Madison Chock / Evan Bates Nathan Chen Bradie Tennell Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Vincent Zhou Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 1st alt. Tomoki Hiwatashi Ting Cui Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 2nd alt. Alexei Krasnozhon Megan Wessenberg Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 3rd alt. Timothy Dolensky Starr Andrews Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
Four Continents Championships U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 Four Continents Championships on January 26. Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Jason Brown Mariah Bell Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Madison Chock / Evan Bates Tomoki Hiwatashi Ting Cui Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Vincent Zhou Bradie Tennell Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 1st alt. Alexei Krasnozhon Megan Wessenberg Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 2nd alt. Timothy Dolensky Starr Andrews Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 3rd alt. Andrew Torgashev Amber Glenn Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
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. The men and ladies were announced on February 5. Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Tomoki Hiwatashi Ting Cui Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Caroline Green / Gordon Green Alexei Krasnozhon Hanna Harrell Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville Camden Pulkinen Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 1st alt. Andrew Torgashev Starr Andrews Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh Oona Brown / Gage Brown 2nd alt. Ryan Dunk Gabriella Izzo Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta 3rd alt. Dinh Tran Audrey Shin Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik
References
External links
Competition Central at U.S. Figure Skating