2022 US Nationals: Pre-game Chat

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As of Jan 3, 2022

Official Results

Seniors​

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Jason Brown	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville
Nathan Chen	Mariah Bell	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Artur Dmitriev	Karen Chen	Emily Chan / Spencer Howe	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov
Ryan Dunk	Amber Glenn	Sydney Cooke / Keyton Bearinger	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Mitchell Friess	Gracie Gold	Kate Finster / Matej Silecky	Cayla Cottrell / Uladzislau Palkhouski
Tomoki Hiwatashi	Hanna Harrell	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
William Hubbart	Finley Hawk (withdrew)	Chelsea Liu / Danny O'Shea (withdrew)	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
Liam Kapeikis	Jill Heiner	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Jimmy Ma	Rena Ikenishi	Kate McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay	Raffaella Koncius / Alexey Shchepetov
Ilia Malinin	Gabriella Izzo	Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov (withdrew)	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov
Maxim Naumov (withdrew)	Isabeau Levito	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	Cara Murphy / Joshau Levitt
Yaroslav Paniot	Alysa Liu	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia (withdrew)	Avonley Nguyen / Grigory Smirnov
Sebastien Payannet	Audrey Shin		Eva Pate / Logan Bye
Camden Pulkinen	Bradie Tennell (withdrew)	Livvy Shilling / Ryan O'Donnell
Eric Sjoberg	Lindsay Thorngren	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
Dinh Tran	Sierra Venetta
Paul Yeung	Kate Wang
Vincent Zhou	Wren Warne-Jacobsen

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Juniors​

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Will Annis	Sonia Baram	Sonia Baram / Danil Tioumentsev	Kristina Bland / Matthew Sperry
Philip Baker (added)	Gwen Bloesch	Brooke Barret / Levon Davis	Oona Brown / Gage Brown (withdrew)
Lucas Broussard (withdrew)	Elsa Cheng	Winter Deardorff / Jake Pagano	Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi
Goku Endo	Hazel Collier	Cate Fleming / Chase Finster	Olivia Dietrich / Eduard Pylypenko
Allan Fisher	Sarah Everhardt	Ashley Fletcher / Aiden Brown (withdrew)	Isabella Flores / Dmitry Tsarevski (withdrew)
Jonathan Hildebrandt	Hannah Herrera	Ellie Kam / Ian Meyh	Madeline Freeman / Christian Bennett (added)
Joseph Klein	Mia Kalin	Isabella Martins / Ryan Bedard	Madeleine Gans / Jim Wang
Kai Kovar	Katie Krafchik	Lilianna Murray / Jordan Gillette (added)	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr
Lake Liao	Ashley Leahy (withdrew)	Catherine Rivers / Timmy Chapman	Rebecca Kerscher / Davis Ortonward (withdrew)
Samuel Mindra (withdrew)	Josephine Lee	Mandy Romero / Kristofer Ogren	Romy Malcom / Noah Lafornara
Antonio Monaco	Soho Lee (withdrew)	Cayla Smith / Andy Deng	Anabelle Larson / Lucas Appel (withdrew)
Nhat-Viet Nguyen	Elyce Lin-Gracey	Megan Wessenberg / Blake Eisenach	Angela Ling / Caleb Wein
Matthew Neilsen (withdrew)	Hannah Lofton	Sylvia Wong / Skylar Weirens	Leah Neset / Artem Markelov
Jacob Sanchez	Rinako Oya (added)		Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen
Taira Shinohara	Abigail Ross	Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal
Beck Strommer	Clare Seo	Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers
Michael Xie	Katie Shen
Robert Yampolsky	Adele Zheng
Maxim Zarkhov	Ava Ziegler

 

[Azikin]

So what is the current status of Starr and Isabeau? I'm also wondering about Ting and Pooja...

 

[CoyoteChris]

So what is the current status of Starr and Isabeau? I'm also wondering about Ting and Pooja...

Sr. Ladies going to Nationals

I am not completely sure how to figure who has made the cut for nationals. I realize there is 1 more event for championship series to finish. But I have a compiled a list of the current standing. I have read the criteria, how is it decide which section a skater is is from? Is it based on...

www.goldenskate.com

 

[RatedPG]

So what is the current status of Starr and Isabeau? I'm also wondering about Ting and Pooja...

Starr and Isabeau haven’t pulled out yet. But, Ting and Pooja didn’t qualify to Nationals.

 

[sworddance21]

Chelsea and Danny are still listed. Are they training again?

 

[el henry]

Chelsea and Danny are marked as withdrawn

https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/Entries%20to%202022%20Toyota%20U.S.%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships.pdf

h/t @ice coverage for the link in the US Pairs thread.

 

[moonvine]

Toyota is kindly providing a way for us to virtually cheer on our favorite athletes. You do have to give them some info (can be an email you don’t use much).

Since the juniors don’t get much attention I’m going to try to virtually cheer them on individually. Maybe I will photograph parts of my stuffie collection.

Here is the link. https://www.toyotagoodluckblvd.com/...03931&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

 

[Wilwarin]

Bradie announced she won't compete today.

 

[RatedPG]

Bradie announced she won't compete today.

Nooooo!

 

[ElSoteroLoco]

Bradie announced she won't compete today.

She hasn't competed all season, is she expecting to get a "bye" to the Olympics then? Does anyone know the probability of that happening?

 

[el henry]

She hasn't competed all season, is she expecting to get a "bye" to the Olympics then? Does anyone know the probability of that happening?

She would need to petition for a spot. I do not know the process, but it is not a "done deal" and judging only from her IG post, I don't see where Bradie is planning to petition. But I do not know.

 

[cathlen]

She hasn't competed all season, is she expecting to get a "bye" to the Olympics then? Does anyone know the probability of that happening?

I think not, mainly because as you said yourself, she hasn't been competing. So, like USFS has no results to support the spot for Bradie. But who knows, we'll see. She seems to know she won't go to Olympics though.

 

[moonvine]

She hasn't competed all season, is she expecting to get a "bye" to the Olympics then? Does anyone know the probability of that happening?

In my opinion, slim to none. Jason had a much stronger BOW (in my opinion) in 2016 and his petition to Worlds was denied. He was top 10 ranking in the world at the time.

 

[yuumagical]

The pairs team of Smirnova/Sianitsya have withdrawn, they both have Covid. I hope they get well soon!

 

[elliana]

Since Bradie withdrew, will someone be taking that spot?

 

[el henry]

Since Bradie withdrew, will someone be taking that spot?

I cannot link to the source, but I have read that skaters who had a "bye" to Nats are not replaced. Skaters who "qualified" can be replaced.

I hope I have that right since I cannot immediately find a link.

 

[purplecat]

Gosh, dang all these withdrawals. The Browns have tested positive now and are out!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPmReuLlZ_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

[Carolla5501]

I don’t blame Bradie if she does choose to petition, but if it’s successful I would be completely shocked. Just based on what she’s written she hasn’t been skating much at all and I can’t see them thinking “oh well you know she hasn’t skated at all this year but She’ll have a competitive jump Arsenal in three weeks”. that’s just not likely in my opinion

 

[moonvine]

Gosh, dang all these withdrawals. The Browns have tested positive now and are out!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPmReuLlZ_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Oh NO!!! All skaters go into a bubble right now. Ugh.

 

[ice coverage]

I cannot link to the source, but I have read that skaters who had a "bye" to Nats are not replaced. Skaters who "qualified" can be replaced.

I hope I have that right since I cannot immediately find a link.

Per USFS rulebook (Rule 2521), "For the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, there are no alternates for the championship (senior events)."
Does not matter whether the senior skater(s) who withdrew had a bye or not.

Junior events at Nats do have alternates.

(I am echoing what I previously posted in the U.S. Men thread at the time of Naumov's withdrawal.)

But in case anyone is wondering about junior dance: Even before the news that Flores/Tsarevski and the Browns will not be at Nats, there were no more junior dance competitors from Championship Series who would have been potential additions.
Freeman/Bennett already had filled the slot created by the earlier withdrawal of Larson/Appel.

The only junior couple from Championship Series who will be missing from Nats is the late Joshua Soto and Mila Guberman.