2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Explained
The 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships, 2018 World Junior Championships, and the 2018 World Championships.
San Jose was announced as the host in August 2016.
Qualifying
Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2017 or earned a bye. Skaters must place in the top 4 in order to earn a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.
| Date | Event | Type | Location | Results |
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| October 4–8, 2017 | North Atlantic | Regional | Hackensack, New Jersey | |
| October 4–8, 2017 | Upper Great Lakes | Regional | Blaine, Minnesota | |
| October 11–15, 2017 | Northwest Pacific | Regional | Eugene, Oregon | |
| October 11–15, 2017 | South Atlantic | Regional | Aston, Pennsylvania | |
| October 11–15, 2017 | Southwestern | Regional | Fort Collins, Colorado | |
| October 11–15, 2017 | Southwest Pacific | Regional | Ontario, California | |
| October 18–22, 2017 | New England | Regional | Westborough, Massachusetts | |
| October 18–22, 2017 | Eastern Great Lakes | Regional | Antioch, Tennessee | |
| October 18–22, 2017 | Central Pacific | Regional | Salt Lake City, Utah | |
| November 15–19, 2017 | Eastern | Sectional | Boxborough, Massachusetts | |
| November 15–19, 2017 | Midwestern | Sectional | Bloomington, Minnesota | |
| November 15–19, 2017 | Pacific Coast | Sectional | Spokane, Washington | |
| December 29, 2017 – January 7, 2018 | U.S. Championships | Final | San Jose, California | | |
In late December 2017, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye.
Schedule
The competition took place over ten days. All times are in PST.
| Date | Time | Event | Segment |
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| December 29 | 9:10 AM | Juvenile girls | Free skate |
| 10:45 AM | Juvenile boys |
| 12:30 PM | Juvenile pairs |
| 3:00 PM | Intermediate pairs | Short program |
| 4:45 PM | Intermediate ladies |
| 6:30 PM | Intermediate men |
| December 30 | 2:45 PM | Intermediate pairs | Free skate |
| 4:45 PM | Intermediate ladies |
| 6:30 PM | Intermediate men |
| December 31 | 10:30 AM | Juvenile dance | Pattern dance 1 (Foxtrot) |
| 11:45 AM | Pattern dance 2 (Cha Cha) |
| 7:00 PM | Junior pairs | Short program |
| 8:55 PM | Junior ladies |
| January 1 | 9:30 AM | Intermediate dance | Pattern dance 1 (Tango) |
| 10:45 AM | Pattern dance 2 (Fourteenstep) |
| 12:10 PM | Junior men | Short program |
| 2:15 PM | Juvenile dance | Free dance |
| 4:05 PM | Novice dance | Pattern dance 1 (Argentine tango) |
| 5:20 PM | Pattern dance 2 (Quickstep) |
| 6:45 PM | Novice pairs | Short program |
| January 2 | 8:50 AM | Novice ladies | Short program |
| 10:30 AM | Novice men |
| 12:10 PM | Intermediate dance | Free dance |
| 12:30 PM | Junior pairs | Free skate |
| 3:30 PM | Novice pairs |
| 6:15 PM | Novice dance | Free dance |
| 7:50 PM | Junior ladies | Free skate |
| January 3 | 8:15 AM | Novice ladies | Free skate |
| 10:15 AM | Junior men |
| 1:00 PM | Junior dance | Short dance |
| 3:15 PM | Novice men | Free skate |
| 6:35 PM | Senior ladies | Short program |
| January 4 | 9:50 AM | Junior dance | Free dance |
| 1:00 PM | Senior pairs | Short program |
| 5:40 PM | Senior men |
| January 5 | 1:10 PM | Senior dance | Short dance |
| 3:45 PM | Senior ladies | Free skate |
| January 6 | 11:45 AM | Senior pairs | Free skate |
| 3:45 PM | Senior men |
| January 7 | 12:30 PM | Senior dance | Free dance | |
Medal summary
Senior
Junior
Novice
| Discipline | align=center bgcolor=gold | Gold | align=center bgcolor=silver | Silver | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | Bronze | align=center bgcolor=d1c571 | Pewter |
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| Men | Goku Endo | Max Lake | Nicholas Hsieh | Lucas Altieri |
| Ladies | Beverly Zhu | Emilea Zingas | Violeta Ushakova | Calista Choi |
| Pairs | Jade Hom / Franz-Peter Jerosch | Joanna Hubbart / William Hubbart | Masha Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov | Ellie McClellan / Jim Garbutt |
| Ice dance | Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao | Gianna Buckley / Jeffrey Chen | Caroline Liu / Kenan Slevira | Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov | |
Intermediate
| Discipline | align=center bgcolor=gold | Gold | align=center bgcolor=silver | Silver | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | Bronze | align=center bgcolor=d1c571 | Pewter |
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| Men | Maxim Zharkov | Matthew Nielsen | Liam Kapeikis | William Annis |
| Ladies | Indi Cha | Alyssa Chan | Arianna Concepcion | Alena Budko |
| Pairs | Zoe Larson / Nick Hubbart | Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell | Katie Luong / Nathan Luong | Sydney Flaum / Cayden McKenzie-Cook |
| Ice dance | Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal | Claire Cain / Andrei Davydov | Anna Gissibl / Alexander Colucci | Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao | |
Juvenile
| Discipline | align=center bgcolor=gold | Gold | align=center bgcolor=silver | Silver | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | Bronze | align=center bgcolor=d1c571 | Pewter |
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| Men | Keita Horiko | Jacob Sanchez | Nhat-Viet Nguyen | Andriy Kratyuk |
| Ladies | Isabeau Levito | Clara Kim | Macie Rolf | Madeleine Park |
| Pairs | Natasha Mishkutionok / Daniel Tioumentsev | Nadia Wang / Jaden Schwab | Dalila DeLaura / Ryan Xie | Megan Voigt / Levon Davis |
| Ice dance | Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr | Zoe Sensenbrenner / Matthew Sperry | Kristina Bland / Gabriel Francis | Emma L'Esperance / Mika Amdour | |
Senior results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dance
Junior results
Men
| Rank | Name | Total | SP | FS |
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| 1 | Camden Pulkinen | 219.29 | 1 | 67.88 | 1 | 151.41 |
| 2 | Dinh Tran | 199.95 | 2 | 67.28 | 2 | 132.67 |
| 3 | Maxim Naumov | 179.00 | 3 | 64.07 | 4 | 114.93 |
| 4 | Ryan Dunk | 172.68 | 10 | 53.43 | 3 | 119.25 |
| 5 | Tony Lu | 166.57 | 4 | 62.43 | 7 | 104.14 |
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| 6 | Alex Wellman | 160.69 | 8 | 56.23 | 6 | 104.46 |
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| 7 | Paul Yeung | 158.71 | 11 | 53.30 | 5 | 105.41 |
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| 8 | Sasha Lunin | 148.67 | 9 | 54.86 | 8 | 93.81 |
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| 9 | Peter Liu | 143.63 | 5 | 58.33 | 11 | 85.30 |
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| 10 | Patrick Frohling | 138.43 | 12 | 52.22 | 10 | 86.21 |
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| 11 | Kendrick Weston | 136.83 | 6 | 58.10 | 12 | 78.73 |
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| 12 | Justin Wichmann | 135.95 | 13 | 48.05 | 9 | 87.90 |
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| 13 | Luke Ferrante | 129.58 | 7 | 56.48 | 13 | 73.10 | |
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Ladies
| Rank | Name | Total | SP | FS |
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| 1 | Alysa Liu | 184.16 | 1 | 63.83 | 1 | 120.33 |
| 2 | Pooja Kalyan | 166.53 | 4 | 54.55 | 3 | 111.98 |
| 3 | Ting Cui | 165.51 | 11 | 45.55 | 2 | 119.96 |
| 4 | Hanna Harrell | 154.36 | 5 | 52.10 | 4 | 102.26 |
| 5 | Emily Zhang | 149.83 | 2 | 56.97 | 8 | 92.86 |
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| 6 | Gabriella Izzo | 148.04 | 3 | 55.19 | 7 | 93.05 |
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| 7 | Angelina Huang | 143.84 | 6 | 51.27 | 9 | 92.57 |
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| 8 | Akari Nakahara | 143.41 | 7 | 49.12 | 6 | 94.29 |
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| 9 | Audrey Shin | 140.50 | 10 | 46.05 | 5 | 94.45 |
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| 10 | Emma Coppess | 139.30 | 8 | 48.08 | 10 | 91.22 |
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| 11 | Lily Sun | 137.75 | 9 | 47.38 | 11 | 90.37 |
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| 12 | Jenna Shi | 114.50 | 12 | 44.20 | 12 | 70.30 | |
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Pairs
| Rank | Name | Total | SP | FS |
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| 1 | Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov | 173.31 | 1 | 60.80 | 1 | 112.51 |
| 2 | Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman | 155.57 | 3 | 58.37 | 2 | 97.20 |
| 3 | Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow | 153.04 | 2 | 58.67 | 3 | 94.37 |
| 4 | Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe | 135.96 | 5 | 46.58 | 4 | 89.38 |
| 5 | Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett | 132.90 | 4 | 52.18 | 5 | 80.72 |
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| 6 | Ainsley Peterson / Griffin Schwab | 124.21 | 6 | 45.86 | 6 | 78.35 |
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| 7 | Sarah Rose / Ian Meyh | 115.54 | 9 | 39.48 | 7 | 76.06 |
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| 8 | Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogren | 114.62 | 7 | 43.85 | 9 | 70.77 |
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| 9 | Meiryla Findley / Matthew Rounis | 113.82 | 8 | 40.74 | 8 | 73.08 |
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| 10 | Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach | 100.74 | 10 | 37.14 | 10 | 63.60 |
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| 11 | Sapphire Jaeckel / Matthew Scoralle | 88.92 | 11 | 35.35 | 12 | 53.57 |
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| 12 | Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle | 85.44 | 12 | 27.56 | 11 | 57.88 |
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| 13 | Juliette Erickson / Nathan Grundhofer | 64.86 | 13 | 24.67 | 13 | 40.19 | |
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Ice dance
| Rank | Name | Total | SD | FD |
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| 1 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | 159.18 | 1 | 68.70 | 1 | 90.48 |
| 2 | Caroline Green / Gordon Green | 146.72 | 2 | 63.14 | 2 | 83.58 |
| 3 | Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye | 143.21 | 3 | 62.14 | 3 | 81.07 |
| 4 | Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville | 138.90 | 4 | 61.13 | 5 | 77.77 |
| 5 | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | 134.31 | 7 | 54.02 | 4 | 80.29 |
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| 6 | Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein | 132.89 | 5 | 56.31 | 6 | 76.58 |
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| 7 | Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta | 126.59 | 6 | 55.69 | 7 | 70.90 |
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| 8 | Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov | 120.92 | 8 | 52.06 | 8 | 68.86 |
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| 9 | Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart | 116.65 | 9 | 50.26 | 10 | 66.39 |
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| 10 | Isabelle Amoia / Luca Becker | 116.08 | 10 | 49.50 | 9 | 66.58 |
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| 11 | Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder | 111.02 | 11 | 49.14 | 12 | 61.88 |
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| 12 | Molly Cesanek / Nikolay Usanov | 106.60 | 13 | 44.04 | 11 | 62.56 |
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| 13 | Allie Rose / JT Michel | 103.55 | 12 | 45.11 | 13 | 58.44 | |
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International team selections
Winter Olympics
U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics on January 6, 2018.
The selections for the team event at the Olympics were as follows:
World Championships
U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Championships on January 6, 2018.
Four Continents
U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Four Continents Championships on January 6, 2018.
World Junior Championships
U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Junior Championships on January 6, 2018.
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