2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Explained

2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	National Championship
Startdate:	January 20
Enddate:	27
Skatingseason:	2007–08
Location:	Saint Paul, Minnesota
Venue:	Xcel Energy Center
Championmen:	Evan Lysacek
Championladies:	Mirai Nagasu
Championpairs:	Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker
Championdance:	Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto
Previouscomp:	2007 U.S. Championships
Nextcomp:	2009 U.S. Championships

The 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place between January 20 and 27th at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels of competition – senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).

The event was used to determine the U.S. teams for the 2008 World Championships, 2008 Four Continents Championships, and 2008 World Junior Championships.

Competition notes

Reigning four-time ice dancing silver medalists Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov withdrew before the event due to injury.
Reigning silver medalist single skater Emily Hughes withdrew before the event due to injury.
Ladies gold medalist Mirai Nagasu, silver medalist Rachael Flatt, and pewter medalist Caroline Zhang were not placed on the World or Four Continents team because they were not age-eligible.
Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir tied in the overall score, with Weir winning the short program and Lysacek winning the free skating. Lysacek won the title on the first tiebreak under International Skating Union rules, which was the free skating score.

Qualifying

Qualification for the U.S. Championships begins at one of nine regional competitions. The regions are New England, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Upper Great Lakes, Eastern Great Lakes, Southwestern, Northwest Pacific, Central Pacific, and Southwest Pacific. The top four finishers in each regional advance to one of three sectional competitions (Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast). Skaters who place in the top four at sectionals advance to the U.S. Championships.

The top five finishers in each discipline from the previous year are given byes to the U.S. Championships, as are any skaters who qualify for the Junior or the Senior Grand Prix Final. Skaters are also given byes through a qualifying competition if they are assigned to an international event during the time that qualifying event is to take place. For example, if a skater is competing at an event at the same time as his or her regional competition, that skater would receive a bye to sectionals. If a skater is competing at an event at the same time as his or her sectional competition, that skater would qualify for the national event without having had to compete at a sectional championship.

Senior results

Men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		244.77	2	82.05	1	162.72
2		244.77	1	83.40	2	161.37
3		228.06	3	76.66	3	151.40
4		221.85	5	73.28	4	148.57
5		221.31	4	74.20	5	147.11
6		210.55	6	66.34	6	144.21
7	Wesley Campbell	200.10	8	65.53	7	134.57
8		195.96	13	64.11	9	131.85
9	Tommy Steenberg	195.32	12	64.22	10	131.10
10		193.75	15	59.27	8	134.48
11		188.82	10	65.32	13	123.50
12	Geoffry Varner	184.52	9	65.40	14	119.12
13		183.67	17	56.03	11	127.64
14		182.86	16	57.18	12	125.68
15		180.83	7	65.67	16	115.16
16		180.21	11	64.83	15	115.38
17		164.35	14	61.66	18	102.69
18		160.45	18	54.83	17	105.62

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		190.41	1	70.23	3	120.18
2		188.73	3	62.91	1	125.82
3		188.56	2	65.15	2	123.41
4		173.16	7	53.49	4	119.67
5		164.87	6	55.10	5	109.77
6	Katrina Hacker	158.28	5	56.87	6	101.41
7		157.56	4	57.58	7	99.98
8		149.22	8	52.77	8	96.45
9		146.38	9	50.58	9	95.80
10		137.65	14	46.52	10	91.13
11		132.80	15	44.86	11	87.94
12		132.22	10	50.46	13	81.76
13		130.40	12	49.23	14	81.17
14	Chrissy Hughes	126.84	16	43.36	12	83.48
15		125.13	11	49.47	15	75.66
16		116.30	17	42.62	16	73.68
17		112.25	13	47.42	20	64.83
18	Megan Hyatt	108.69	19	35.32	17	73.37
19		107.49	18	40.76	18	66.73
20		99.20	20	33.22	19	65.98

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		190.74	1	66.54	1	124.20
2		183.17	2	65.24	2	117.93
3		175.07	3	58.95	3	116.12
4		161.20	5	53.97	4	107.23
5		158.94	4	57.10	5	101.84
6		153.80	6	52.09	6	101.71
7		145.89	8	48.51	7	97.38
8		142.29	7	50.62	8	91.67
9	Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen	136.65	11	45.33	9	91.32
10	MeeRan Trombley / Laureano Ibarra	130.29	12	44.39	10	85.90
11	Kaela Pflumm / Christopher Pottenger	127.27	10	46.73	12	80.54
12		125.52	9	47.09	14	78.43
13	Amber Wehrle / Nicholas Kole	125.17	13	43.64	11	81.53
14	Laura Lepzinski / Ethan Burgess	119.40	14	42.89	15	76.51
15		117.98	15	38.03	13	79.95

Ice dancing

Rank	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	216.07	1	41.86	1	64.29	1	109.92
2	206.82	2	40.59	2	62.69	2	103.54
3	187.94	3	35.38	3	58.71	3	93.85
4	175.16	4	34.00	4	57.62	6	83.54
5	169.37	5	30.46	6	53.26	5	85.65
6	166.86	10	26.31	5	53.35	4	87.20
7	161.17	7	28.53	7	51.20	7	81.44
8	157.10	6	28.69	8	48.72	8	79.69
9	151.50	8	27.76	9	46.33	9	77.41
10	138.20	9	26.83	10	44.97	10	66.40
11	130.90	11	23.84	11	42.71	11	64.35
12	120.51	12	21.09	12	38.42	12	61.00
13	105.71	13	20.84	13	30.75	13	54.12

Junior results

Men

Rank	Total points	SP		FS
1	213.76	1	71.33	1	142.43
2	203.63	3	65.89	2	137.74
3	182.27	4	60.01	4	122.26
4	179.27	12	52.46	3	126.81
5	176.63	6	57.11	5	119.52
6	176.44	2	68.15	10	108.29
7	169.19	5	59.12	9	110.07
8	167.76	9	53.29	6	114.47
9	167.70	7	56.43	8	111.27
10	165.06	10	53.02	7	112.04
11	162.12	8	53.84	11	108.28
12	152.68	11	52.89	13	99.79
13	146.98	13	49.52	14	97.46
14	145.30	16	43.20	12	102.10
15	141.46	14	45.32	15	96.14
16	116.52	15	43.71	16	72.81

Ladies

Rank	Total points	SP		FS
1	156.17	3	52.63	1	103.54
2	150.11	1	54.91	3	95.20
3	149.60	2	54.59	4	95.01
4	143.86	5	49.10	5	94.76
5	142.76	6	47.36	2	95.40
6	137.70	4	49.50	6	88.20
7	130.21	7	46.56	7	83.65
8	122.74	8	45.53	8	77.21
9	110.76	11	40.17	9	70.59
10	110.72	9	44.97	11	65.75
11	108.68	12	40.16	10	68.52
12	104.20	10	43.74	12	60.46
13	97.54	13	39.70	13	57.84
14	91.40	14	39.47	14	51.93

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss	143.19	2	52.13	1	91.06
2		137.36	3	50.83	2	86.53
3	Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon	134.58	1	53.65	4	80.93
4		129.75	5	47.04	3	82.71
5		124.71	6	45.56	5	79.15
6		123.69	4	47.14	6	76.55
7		113.90	10	38.99	7	74.91
8		113.42	9	41.63	8	71.79
9		107.41	8	42.53	10	64.88
10		104.02	12	35.70	9	68.32
11		101.50	11	38.41	11	63.09
12	Claire Davis / Nathan Miller	100.70	7	43.34	13	57.36
13		95.64	13	34.15	12	61.49

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1		167.48	1	34.61	3	50.66	1	82.21
2	Piper Gilles / Timothy McKernan	161.66	2	30.97	4	50.24	2	80.45
3		161.40	4	29.92	1	53.03	3	78.45
4		157.80	7	27.66	2	52.32	4	77.82
5		154.09	8	27.42	5	49.17	5	77.50
6	Pilar Bosley / John Corona	144.37	3	30.07	6	48.35	9	65.95
7		141.62	5	29.29	11	42.25	6	70.08
8		140.14	6	28.50	7	45.51	8	66.13
9		139.14	9	26.37	8	44.88	7	67.89
10		131.72	11	24.61	9	44.56	10	62.55
11		127.62	12	24.06	10	43.70	12	59.86
12		127.12	13	23.41	12	41.91	11	61.80
13		124.74	10	25.42	13	40.21	13	59.11

International team selections

World Championships

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Evan Lysacek	Ashley Wagner	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto
2	Johnny Weir	Bebe Liang	Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski	Meryl Davis / Charlie White
3	Stephen Carriere	Kimmie Meissner		Kim Navarro / Brent Bommentre
1st alternate	Jeremy Abbott	Katrina Hacker	Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent	Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev
2nd alternate	Ryan Bradley	Melissa Bulanhagui	Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig	Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles
3rd alternate	Scott Smith	Alissa Czisny	Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin	Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler

Four Continents Championships

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Evan Lysacek	Ashley Wagner	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	Meryl Davis / Charlie White
2	Johnny Weir	Bebe Liang	Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski	Kim Navarro / Brent Bommentre
3	Stephen Carriere	Katrina Hacker	Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent	Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev
1st alternate	Jeremy Abbott	Alexe Gilles	Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig	Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles
2nd alternate	Ryan Bradley	Melissa Bulanhagui	Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin	Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler
3rd alternate	Scott Smith	Alissa Czisny	Naomi Nari Nam / Themi Leftheris	Mimi Whetstone / Chris Obzansky

World Junior Championships

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Adam Rippon	Mirai Nagasu	Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen	Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates
2	Brandon Mroz	Rachael Flatt	Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss	Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell
3	Tommy Steenberg	Caroline Zhang	Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon
1st alternate	Eliot Halverson	Alexe Gilles	Kaela Pflumm / Christopher Pottenger	Piper Gilles / Timothy McKernan
2nd alternate	Douglas Razzano	Angela Maxwell	Meg Byrne / Nathan Bartholomay	Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein
3rd alternate	Andrew Gonzales	Melissa Bulanhagui	Arielle Trujillo / Daniyel Cohen	Shannon Wingle / Ryan Devereaux

References

Sources

U.S. Figure Skating Announces World, Four Continents and World Junior Teams
Web site: 89th U.S. Figure Skating ChampionShipS: Ladies' singles biographies . . January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110613154617/http://www.usfigureskating.org/content/events/200708/uschamps/bios/ladies-bios.pdf . June 13, 2011 . dead.
Web site: 89th U.S. Figure Skating ChampionShipS: Men's singles biographies . . January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120927023534/http://www.usfigureskating.org/content/events/200708/uschamps/bios/men-bios.pdf . September 27, 2012 . live.
Web site: 89th U.S. Figure Skating ChampionShipS: Pairs biographies . . January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110613143040/http://www.usfigureskating.org/content/events/200708/uschamps/bios/pairs-bios.pdf . June 13, 2011 . live.
Web site: 89th U.S. Figure Skating ChampionShipS: Ice dancing biographies . . January 2008.

External links

- Saint Paul 2008 Figure Skating Championships