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The ISU "season standings" prize, B events, and the University games
Continuing our series…
Figure skating is contested at the international University Games every two years. Here are some notable past winners:
Gentlemen:
1966. Nobuo Sato (father of Yuka Sato and current coach of Mao Asada and many others)
1970 Ondrej Nepela (Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion)
1987 Petr Barna (Paul Wiley was third)
1990 Michael Chack (I wonder if he was chacked.)
1995 Michael Weiss
2005 Daisuke Takahashi
2007 Daisuke Takahashi (Nobunari Oda was second)
Ladies
1995 Tonia Kwiatkowski (Maria Butryskaya was second)
1999 Elena Sokolova (Irina Slutskaya was second)
2003 Shizuka Arakawa
2007 Akiko Shizuki
2009 Yukari Nakano (Kira Korpi was third)
Who should we nominate for 2011? Tufts University graduate student Michelle Kwan?. Recent Yale graduate Sarah Hughes?
Pairs
1997 Shen and Zhao
2007 and 2009 Zhang and Zhang
Dance
1985 Usova and Shulin
1987 Cathrin Beck and Christoff Beck of Australia : (Usova and Shulin were second)
1995 Lobacheva and Averbukh
2003 Grushina and Goncharov
2005 & 2007 Khocklova and Novitsky
To represent the U.S., a skater has to qualify by winning the U.S. Collegiate Championship. Some recent winners are
1998 Sydney Vogel (University of Alaska)
1999 Derrick Delmore (Stanford)
2003 Jennifer Don (University of Delaware – once held the ISU record CoP score )
2005, 2006, 2007 Ryan Bradley (University of Colorado)
2004 and 2008 Alissa Czisny (Bowling Green University – two-time Skate Canada champion, 2009 U.S. champion and 2010-11 Grand Prix Champion!)
Continuing our series…
Figure skating is contested at the international University Games every two years. Here are some notable past winners:
Gentlemen:
1966. Nobuo Sato (father of Yuka Sato and current coach of Mao Asada and many others)
1970 Ondrej Nepela (Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion)
1987 Petr Barna (Paul Wiley was third)
1990 Michael Chack (I wonder if he was chacked.)
1995 Michael Weiss
2005 Daisuke Takahashi
2007 Daisuke Takahashi (Nobunari Oda was second)
Ladies
1995 Tonia Kwiatkowski (Maria Butryskaya was second)
1999 Elena Sokolova (Irina Slutskaya was second)
2003 Shizuka Arakawa
2007 Akiko Shizuki
2009 Yukari Nakano (Kira Korpi was third)
Who should we nominate for 2011? Tufts University graduate student Michelle Kwan?. Recent Yale graduate Sarah Hughes?
Pairs
1997 Shen and Zhao
2007 and 2009 Zhang and Zhang
Dance
1985 Usova and Shulin
1987 Cathrin Beck and Christoff Beck of Australia : (Usova and Shulin were second)
1995 Lobacheva and Averbukh
2003 Grushina and Goncharov
2005 & 2007 Khocklova and Novitsky
To represent the U.S., a skater has to qualify by winning the U.S. Collegiate Championship. Some recent winners are
1998 Sydney Vogel (University of Alaska)
1999 Derrick Delmore (Stanford)
2003 Jennifer Don (University of Delaware – once held the ISU record CoP score )
2005, 2006, 2007 Ryan Bradley (University of Colorado)
2004 and 2008 Alissa Czisny (Bowling Green University – two-time Skate Canada champion, 2009 U.S. champion and 2010-11 Grand Prix Champion!)