Is Annabelle Morozov by any chance Tricky Nicky's daughter?
Low score for Cannuscio/Bramante.
Very close scores for top 3 Senior Men. Interestingly they all got Lv4 for pretty much all of their elements. I wonder whether the panel was quite lenient or whether they really hit all of the criteria. Congratulations to Hochstein on 4toe in the FS (his first?).
Great performances from the top 4 Senior Ladies in the SP. Again mostly Lv4s for them. A disaster for Siraj in the FS but she managed to qualify. Extremely impressive FS (and SP) from Chiera, for a skater who didn't even compete at Nats last year. Her performances would have won almost all of ISU Nationals.
Is there someway we can watch Chiera's LP?
To accelerate her progress, Chiera had to get busy. After her disappointing performance at regionals last season, she and her coaches sat down and came to a decision: Since she already had the triple jumps, why not move up a level? She took her junior test shortly thereafter, and in January took her senior test.
"I think maybe we gave her two days off after those regionals," said Melnichenko, who handles Chiera's choreography and spins. "We told her, 'One bad performance doesn't have to stop you from achieving your goals.'"
Typically, coaches like to take conservative approaches with their skaters and have them get competition experience at each level, but Chiera's didn't want to wait. In addition to Melnichenko, Chiera's coaching team includes Artem Torgashev, who focuses on Chiera's jumps, and Curtis Chornopyski, who works with the jumping harness.
"We just really wanted to push her and challenge her," Melnichenko said.
Wow, so she's never even qualified for Novice Sectionals in the past and here she is winning Senior Sectionals. Well done!