2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Explained

2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:National championship
Startdate:January 20
Enddate:26
Skatingseason:2024–25
Location:Wichita, Kansas
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Intrust Bank Arena
Previouscomp:2024 U.S. Championships
Nextcomp:2026 U.S. Championships

The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will be held January 20-26, 2025, at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas. Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results will be part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2025 Four Continents Championships, 2025 World Championships, and 2025 World Junior Championships.

Qualifying

Skaters qualified for the U.S. Championships by competing in the National Qualifying Series, a series of competitions that allowed skaters to qualify for Sectionals, U.S. Pairs Final, and U.S. Ice Dance Final in November. Skaters could receive a bye to the finals through competing in at least one Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix, or Challenger competition. Additional junior competitors could qualify through having won the 2024 U.S. Championships at the junior level. Additional senior competitors could qualify thorugh having won the 2024 sectional singles final at the senior level.

Advancement to U.S. Championships

Skaters advanced by either having a bye or competing at Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals.

Senior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:

Junior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:

If the number of athletes with three international competitions from the approved competition list exceeded the number of available byes, byes were awarded based on the highest to lowest total score in the following order of importance:

There was a minimum required Technical Element Score for all athletes to compete.

After accounting for all byes, the top placements from Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals were then used until the maximum number of competitors for each event was met.

Seniors

Singles

Singles skaters could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

Pairs could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 12 spots.

Ice dance

Ice dance teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 15 spots.

Juniors

Singles

Singles skaters could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

Pairs teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 8 spots.

Ice dance

Ice dance teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

There were a maximum of 10 spots.

Entries

U.S. Figure Skating published the official list of preliminary entries on November 25, 2024.

Senior

MenWomenPairsIce dance
Jason BrownStarr Andrews
Goku EndoAlina Bonillo
Tomoki HiwatashiTing Cui
Liam KapeikisAlex Evans
Lucius KazaneckiSarah Everhardt
Joseph KleinAmber Glenn
Kai KovarLogan Higase-Chen
Jimmy MaSonja Hilmer
Ilia MalininMia Kalin
Daniel MartynovJosephine Lee
Samuel MindraIsabeau Levito
Maxim NaumovElyce Lin-Gracey
Camden PulkinenAlysa Liu
Jacob SanchezClare Seo
Beck StrommerBradie Tennellrowspan="4"
Emmanuel SavaryLindsay Thorngren
Andrew TorgashevSherry Zhang
Michael XieAva Marie Ziegler

Junior

MenWomenPairsIce dance
Ryan William AzadpourSofia Bezkorovainaya
Patrick BlackwellAnnika Chao
Thomas ChenAlayna Coats
Lorenzo ElanoEla Cui
Sergei EvseevMia Iwase
Aleksandr FeganJiaying Ellyse Johnson
Isaac FultonJessica Jurka
Kirk HaugetoHannah Kim
Michael JinTeryn Kim
Louis MallaneSkylar Lautowa-Peguero
Brendan ManEmilia Nemirovsky
Arsen MeghavoryanCleo Park
Evan NeuhausMaria Platonovarowspan="9"
Jared SedlisAngela Shao
Alek TankovicCarina Tanabe
Vaclav VasquezKaya Tiernan
Ethan YanSophie Joline von Felten
David ZhaoAnnabelle Wilkins

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