Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Christopher Knierim will be grabbing the lone pairs spot on the U.S. Olympic team after the married couple won the 2018 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships on Saturday in San Jose, Calif.
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“It wasn’t our best skate,” admitted Christopher, 30. “We have a lot of strong elements that help us stay up in points, but we still need to get better in future competitions. We’re in a much better place now than in the Grand Prix series, and from where we’ve been, we are much better in practice. Everything is starting to come together.”
“I am so proud of my partner and how she has grown in the past month,” O’Shea said. “We have only been doing all of our elements for two weeks before Golden Spin. Her right knee is used to pick in those elements. Since then, we have had a little more time to feel comfortable and confident with our programs. That showed with our program this week.”
“I am glad to be here with these two teams,” Bartholomay said. “Last year, we said we would go home and work harder to push the envelope of what we can do. When you do what you love, it makes it easier. We are happy with ourselves and this competition.”
“I still need to learn a lot about pairs,” the former singles skater Stellato-Dudek said. “If I come out of my jump and I shimmy, he’s (Bartholomay) like ‘There’s no shimmy.’ I can’t change it on a whim. It’s only been a year and a half, but now I have a little bit of muscle memory.
Very proud of Stellato! "‘There’s no shimmy" .....