2025-26 US Women's Figure Skating

[crystalspin]

Good luck to Amber and Bradie in Finland this week! Lets get to the final Amber.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Congrats to all sectional to make to nationals.
It will be interesting to see how Sophia von Felton , Emily does and score at national. They could contend for podium spots depending on how favorite skate.
They score well at sectionals and Sophia did decent at her jgp events.

Sophia tried a quad and a 3axel.

 

[crystalspin]

Congrats to Amber on her silver medal in Finland! On to the GP final

Also congrats to Bradie on skating well at her final gp.

 

[crystalspin]

Next week for American Women:

Tallinn Trophy Senior
Starr Andrews
Alina Bonillo
Sarah Everhardt

Junior
Sophie Joline von Felton
Sofia Bezkorovainaya
Emilia Nemirovsky

Santa Claus Cup Senior
Kendall Erne
Erica Machida
Ava Ziegler

Junior
Angela Shao
Jessica Jurka
Annika Chao

Advanced Novice
Tera Gropp
Grace Zhang

Best of luck to them all!!

 

[Remilia]

So, I'm thinking about the Olympic team event. Looking at Amber's scores here in Finlandia, her sp isn't that much higher than what Aysa/Isabeau have gotten this season, and her fs score is the same as what Isabeau got in Canada and Alysa in China. If Amber doesn't win nats, I could see a scenario where, assuming they split the women's event, Isabeau does the short and Alysa the long or vice versa. They have both repeatedly proven themselves to have nerves of steel and that they're capable of delivering under pressure, but the same cannot be said for Amber.

 

[crystalspin]

So, I'm thinking about the Olympic team event. Looking at Amber's scores here in Finlandia, her sp isn't that much higher than what Aysa/Isabeau have gotten this season, and her fs score is the same as what Isabeau got in Canada and Alysa in China. If Amber doesn't win nats, I could see a scenario where, assuming they split the women's event, Isabeau does the short and Alysa the long or vice versa. They have both repeatedly proven themselves to have nerves of steel and that they're capable of delivering under pressure, but the same cannot be said for Amber.

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. In big events, Amber has still shown nerves, and I think the team medal potentially being on her shoulders would be too much for her. But if she wants to do the team event I can't imagine they would tell her no. Alysa in the short and Isabeau in the free would work very well. But then again its actually so nice that we have 3 american ladies that could easily score 70+ in the short and 130+ in the free to help the team win gold.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Great job all. We'll deserve and earn

 

[moonvine]

Next week for American Women:

Tallinn Trophy Senior
Starr Andrews
Alina Bonillo
Sarah Everhardt

Junior
Sophie Joline von Felton
Sofia Bezkorovainaya
Emilia Nemirovsky

Santa Claus Cup Senior
Kendall Erne
Erica Machida
Ava Ziegler

Junior
Angela Shao
Jessica Jurka
Annika Chao

Advanced Novice
Tera Gropp
Grace Zhang

Best of luck to them all!!

Any streams?

 

[crystalspin]

Any streams?

Tallinn has a paid stream for $30 for full comp and Santa Claus stream is $47 for full comp I looked at both and leaning towards purchasing Tallinn I guess since its cheaper but I really want to see Erica Machida in her first international... so maybe i'll splurge on both or be smart with my money and do none..

 

[crystalspin]

Tallinn Trophy Junior
Sophie Joline von Felton -- withdrew
Sofia Bezkorovainaya
Emilia Nemirovsky

Santa Claus Cup Junior
Angela Shao
Jessica Jurka
Annika Chao
**Jasmine Clarke added as well

 

[macy]

i'm happy Emilia is getting some more international assignments, she was SO impressive at Mids. her jumps are ginormous in person with hang time on her triples before she lands and she received no q's or carrots at all. if she's clean at nationals i think she can place top 6, maybe even higher if others don't do well.

i DESPERATELY wish Gasparatto would work on her PCS. she and Emilia can JUMP and she is soooooo gifted in that area, but the rest of her skating is so far behind. i'm not sure if she's working with anyone on that area but there sadly hasn't been much improvement over the last couple years. she has so much potential that she hasn't been able to tap into yet, and won't unless she improves her interpretation and skating skills.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

List of athletes in each discipline who have a spot at U.S. Nats 2026:

2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced - U.S. Figure Skating

More than 180 athletes have qualified for the 2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which will take place Jan. 4-11 in St. Louis, Missouri.

www.usfigureskating.org

 

[crystalspin]

Santa Claus Cup:
For the senior women the only one of the three NOT going to nationals had the best result coming in 2nd (Kendall Erne). Ava Ziegler and Erica Machida had pretty terrible outings and will be hoping to rebound by Nationals. I'm happy USFSA is not giving up on Ava and letting her have a multitude of international competitions.
For the junior women it was a USA sweep with Annika 1st, Jessica 2nd, and Angela 3rd. Jasmine Clare had a bad outing and only scored 101 total. (the top 3 will be at nationals, Jasmine did not qualify)

Advanced novice had Tera in 2nd and Grace in 3rd. Tera was close to winning by .07

 

[crystalspin]

If anyone wants to see golden spin in which Ava Ziegler, Bradie Tennell, and Elyce Lin Gracey will be performing its $30USD here: https://ice-stars.tv/golden-spin/watch/golden-spin-of-zagreb-day-1

 

[crystalspin]

AND NOW SHE HAS GPF GOLD!!! Alysa Liu!

ALSO LETS GO AMBER FOR THE FREE SKATE OF HER LIFE!! I'm so proud of the usa ladies.

 

[ramurphy2005]

3A practice clip from Alysa:

刘美贤 on Instagram: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first"

260K likes, 792 comments - alysaxliu on December 15, 2025: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first".

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[RatedPG]

3A practice clip from Alysa:

刘美贤 on Instagram: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first"

260K likes, 792 comments - alysaxliu on December 15, 2025: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first".

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Wow Alysa knows what she is doing.

If Alysa brings this 3A back to both SP and FP, her steady competitive nerves and loop combo may make her technically too strong to contend with at the Olympic Games!!

(She is right now winning without the 3A. But, I think she knows from GPF that Mone, Kaori and Ami could have beaten her with clean skates. The 3A kind of puts everything on her court and is good to have in case she needs to pull it out, for the Olympic Games)

 

[macy]

3A practice clip from Alysa:

刘美贤 on Instagram: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first"

260K likes, 792 comments - alysaxliu on December 15, 2025: "@fallontonight @jimmyfallon saw it first".

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wow this is so much farther along than i thought it was, i didn't think she was actually working on it yet!! AND she's doing it out of a spread eagle???? crazy. it looks SO much better than before!!!

 

[AlysaLiuStan]

If I were Kaori or Adeliia I would be very worried

 

[Sjs5572]

wow this is so much farther along than i thought it was, i didn't think she was actually working on it yet!! AND she's doing it out of a spread eagle???? crazy. it looks SO much better than before!!!

I wonder if we'll see an 85 point sp at Nationals?