2015 Skate America Explained

The 2015 Progressive Skate America was the first event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 23–25. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
Brendan Kerry
	Alaine Chartrand	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
Yan Han		Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Florent Amodio
Alexei Bychenko
Takahito Mura Shoma Uno	Haruka Imai Satoko Miyahara Miyu Nakashio
Denis Ten	Elizabet Tursynbaeva
	Park So-youn
Konstantin Menshov Adian Pitkeev	Yulia Lipnitskaya Evgenia Medvedeva	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
	Nicole Rajičová
			Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
Max Aaron Jason Brown Ross Miner	Mariah Bell Karen Chen Gracie Gold	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

On August 21, three out of the four host picks were announced as Ross Miner, Karen Chen, and Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay.
On August 26, the fourth host pick was officially announced as Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.
On October 21, Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay were replaced by Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan as Donlan / Bartholomay withdrew due to Donlan recovering from an illness.

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Max Aaron	258.95	1	86.67	2	172.28
2	Shoma Uno	257.43	4	80.78	1	176.65
3	Jason Brown	238.47	8	78.64	3	159.83
4	Yan Han	236.03	2	86.53	5	149.50
5	Konstantin Menshov	230.79	3	86.15	6	144.64
6	Adian Pitkeev	230.75	5	79.90	4	150.85
7	Ross Miner	215.11	7	78.96	8	136.15
8	Brendan Kerry	203.48	11	65.41	7	138.07
9	Denis Ten	201.52	6	79.02	11	122.50
10	Takahito Mura	200.83	10	71.66	9	129.17
11	Florent Amodio	197.45	9	71.96	10	125.49
12	Alexei Bychenko	171.83	12	50.68	12	121.15

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	206.01	1	70.92	2	135.09
2	Gracie Gold	202.80	2	65.39	1	137.41
3	Satoko Miyahara	188.07	3	65.12	3	122.95
4	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	178.56	7	59.26	4	119.30
5	Karen Chen	172.54	4	62.28	6	110.26
6	Yulia Lipnitskaya	170.63	5	62.24	7	108.39
7	Nicole Rajičová	167.32	12	50.33	5	116.99
8	Mariah Bell	160.94	11	52.73	8	108.21
9	Park So-youn	159.66	10	53.78	9	105.88
10	Haruka Imai	158.65	9	56.52	10	102.13
11	Miyu Nakashio	153.29	8	57.01	11	96.28
12	Alaine Chartrand	148.20	6	59.40	12	88.80

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	202.00	2	68.28	1	133.72
2	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	191.97	1	69.69	4	122.28
3	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	189.49	4	64.85	3	124.64
4	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	189.06	5	63.41	2	125.65
5	Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	171.77	3	64.95	6	106.82
6	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	165.99	6	58.38	5	107.61
7	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	157.97	7	58.25	8	99.72
8	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	151.40	8	50.20	7	101.20

Rank	Name	Total points	SD		FD
1	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	173.22	1	70.56	1	102.66
2	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	162.21	2	62.76	2	99.45
3	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	157.58	3	61.33	3	96.25
4	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	150.69	4	56.54	4	94.15
5	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	143.67	6	52.92	5	90.75
6	Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov	140.92	5	53.35	6	87.57
7	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	135.60	7	50.53	7	85.07
8	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	129.59	8	49.37	8	80.22