- Joined
- Oct 14, 2019
At Cup of Austria, several American ice dance teams made their international season debuts.
The new ice dance team of Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville were the highest placing of all the American teams, scoring 67.18. If they perform well in the free dance and at US Nationals, they will certainly be hoping to try to challenge for one of the 4CC spots.
McNamara/Spiridonov scored 63.82.
Wolfkostin/Chen made their senior international debut with a score of 63.04. It's an interesting choice for them to be attempting to go for both a senior and junior season this year. They have said that they plan on skating at Senior US Nationals this year. They will almost certainly be assigned to Junior World Championships, so it will just be interesting to see how they stack up against the other Senior US teams.
For 4CC spots, one of them will certainly go to whichever of Hawayek/Baker and Green/Parsons don't go to the Olympics, another will go to Carreira/Ponomarenko, and the last one is more up for grabs. Cesanek/Yehorov are probably favored to get the spot, since they were selected to go to Skate America, while their rivals aren't on the Grand Prix, but it looks like Pate/Bye and Bratti/Somerville can also contend, especially B/S, who got a huge score for a debut team. By contrast, C/Y scored 58.75 at Lombardia and 61.07 at Skate America. Pate/Bye scored 67.20 in the rhythm dance at US Classic and will compete at Warsaw Cup next week. We are still yet to see the two new teams of Hsu/Kolesnik and Nguyen/Smirnov, so it will be interesting to see if they can challenge for the last 4CC spot as well.
The new ice dance team of Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville were the highest placing of all the American teams, scoring 67.18. If they perform well in the free dance and at US Nationals, they will certainly be hoping to try to challenge for one of the 4CC spots.
McNamara/Spiridonov scored 63.82.
Wolfkostin/Chen made their senior international debut with a score of 63.04. It's an interesting choice for them to be attempting to go for both a senior and junior season this year. They have said that they plan on skating at Senior US Nationals this year. They will almost certainly be assigned to Junior World Championships, so it will just be interesting to see how they stack up against the other Senior US teams.
For 4CC spots, one of them will certainly go to whichever of Hawayek/Baker and Green/Parsons don't go to the Olympics, another will go to Carreira/Ponomarenko, and the last one is more up for grabs. Cesanek/Yehorov are probably favored to get the spot, since they were selected to go to Skate America, while their rivals aren't on the Grand Prix, but it looks like Pate/Bye and Bratti/Somerville can also contend, especially B/S, who got a huge score for a debut team. By contrast, C/Y scored 58.75 at Lombardia and 61.07 at Skate America. Pate/Bye scored 67.20 in the rhythm dance at US Classic and will compete at Warsaw Cup next week. We are still yet to see the two new teams of Hsu/Kolesnik and Nguyen/Smirnov, so it will be interesting to see if they can challenge for the last 4CC spot as well.