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Articles about skaters going to US Nationals

Thank you for the articles. I especially enjoyed the analysis of the ladies. I have to agree about Alissa. I'm hoping she would make only one mistake in each phase of the competition, which will still leave her good chance to medal.
I have trouble getting why people keep calling Rachael's skating 'flat' aside from that pun can be irresistable.
 
Good find, Trish!

flying camel said:
I just wanted to share this article I just read.

http://www.newsday.com/services/new...ts/ny-skfigure28a5979927dec28,0,6637465.story
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Thanks! This 3-page article is a worthy read -- it profiles 5 Long Island (NY) skaters -- seniors Joelle Forte and Chloe Katz/Joseph Lynch (pairs), Samantha Cesario (junior) and Christine Mozer (novice).
Two excerpts:
Just before her 18th birthday, citing burnout, Merrick's Joelle Forte walked away from the sport that had been her life since she was 4 years old.
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The Fordham student also wants to use her psychology degree to become a sports psychologist and work with skaters to avoid a similar burnout.

"I want to help people get through and see that when you're at a competition, it's just another day, it's just another practice," she said. "There is a point in skating where it becomes not physical, you can do the physical, but mental. If you're mentally prepared and mentally tough, it makes you physically able to go."
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It's been like that since they were 14, when their coach, Adam Lieb, first thought of pairing Katz with Lynch.

Except of course, back then they wouldn't touch each other.

"We both weren't too into it," Lynch said. "She said I was hurting her arms, I said she was bothering me, so we went our separate ways. [Lieb] forced us to do it again."
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Today, the NYU students are the second longest-tenured pair in the country,
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flying camel said:
http://videoreplayartistry.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-us-figure-skating-championships.html

This is a interesting article on the other ladies competing.
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I though it was worth reposting this link into a separate thread here -- it's titled "Analysis Blog Post on Senior Ladies at US Nationals": http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26190

Here's a local Maryland article on Kristine Musademba:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/01062009/silvspo194347_32473.shtml
 
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nothing on Keegan - locally - that I can find, but I did notice that the ADN printed his JGP medal accomplishment a few months back. Nothing on his other competitions though... *sigh*
 
Defending champs get ready for Cleveland

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090116&content_id=58220&vkey=ice_news

Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir may not always agree, but they are in perfect accord about the International Judging System (IJS).

Neither skater likes its decimal-point precision or the system's counting how long they hold a spin position down to a tenth of a second. Both say they miss the days of Michelle Kwan gracefully gliding around the ice, racking up 6.0's with her elegant spirals and soft-kneed landings.
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Forte could be dark horse at U.S. Champs

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090114&content_id=58167&vkey=ice_news

With the 2009 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland just days away, the ladies' podium is almost impossible to predict.

Defending champion Mirai Nagasu, reigning world junior champ Rachael Flatt, 2007 world junior champ Caroline Zhang, and reigning U.S. bronze medalist Ashley Wagner are among the favorites. But Junior Grand Prix stars Becky Bereswill, Angela Maxwell and Alexe Gilles, and former U.S. World Team member Alissa Czisny have had good performances this season, and 2006 world champ Kimmie Meissner could make a timely return to form. And that's just scratching the surface of a deep and varied field.

Among the least known of the "dark horses" that could crack the top six is a 22-year-old Fordham University student whose only trip to the U.S. Championships was back in 2000 -- the last time the event was held in Cleveland.
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Mathman, Thank you!

I liked this part especially:

Davis and White were sixth at last year's world championships in Sweden. Detroit SC coach Pasquale Camerlengo, who coached Italians Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali to a fifth-place finish at the same event, said Davis and White this year have performed and matured their way into the elite ranks.

"They will win" in Cleveland, Camerlengo said. "They're excellent. They're a really good team, and I really like him. Charlie has a huge amazing skating scale, meaning it seems like there's nothing he can't do. They're a very good match together."
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I love Brittany! She's a great kid. I have several friends in the GGR club and they remember when she passed her Junior FS and one of the judges handed her the papers and said "good luck at Nationals", implying she had what it took to make nationals at the Junior level (which she did, but didn't skate her best while at Nationals).
 
Rachael is a solid competitor and she is pretty consistent among the current US ladies. However, there is nothing really "exciting" in her skating. Neither does she have the crispness like Mirai Nagasu, nor the lines or postures like Caroline Zhang. For me, she is sort of like then Kimmie Meissner.
Wrlmy said:
Thank you for the articles. I especially enjoyed the analysis of the ladies. I have to agree about Alissa. I'm hoping she would make only one mistake in each phase of the competition, which will still leave her good chance to medal.
I have trouble getting why people keep calling Rachael's skating 'flat' aside from that pun can be irresistable.
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