2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
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| 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships | |
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| Type: | National Championship |
| Date: | January 20 – 26 |
| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Location: | Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Host: | U.S. Figure Skating |
| Venue: | Greensboro Coliseum Complex |
| Champions | |
| Men's singles: Nathan Chen (Senior) & Maxim Naumov (Junior) | |
| Women's singles: Alysa Liu (Senior) & Lindsay Thorngren (Junior) | |
| Pairs: Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim (Senior) & Kate Finster and Balázs Nagy (Junior) | |
| Ice dance: Madison Chock and Evan Bates (Senior) & Avonley Nguyen and Vadym Kolesnik (Junior) | |
| Previous: 2019 U.S. Championships | |
| Next: 2021 U.S. Championships | |
The 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 20–26, 2020 at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2020 Four Continents Championships, 2020 World Junior Championships, and the 2020 World Championships.
Greensboro was announced as the host in November 2018.[1] The city previously hosted the event in 2011 and 2015.
Minimum TES requirements
U.S. Figure Skating implemented a new qualifying structure beginning from the 2019–20 season.[2] Competitors qualified through the National Qualifying Series (NQS), Regional (singles) and Sectional (pairs/ice dance) Challenges, and Sectional (singles) and U.S. (pairs/ice dance) Finals, held from June to November 2019, or earned a bye. The NQS is not mandatory, but the top six singles athletes in each section may earn a bye to the Sectional Singles Final, and the top three teams/couples in pairs and ice dance may earn a bye to the U.S. Final in their respective disciplines.[3] The top four finishers at the Sectional Finals (singles) and the top twelve finishers at the U.S. Finals (pairs/ice dance) earned a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.
Juvenile, intermediate, and novice skaters qualified for the National High Performance Development Team and Camp in lieu of participating at U.S. Championships.
| Date | Event | Type | Location | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June–September 2019 | National Qualifying Series (NQS) | Various cities | Details Archived 2019-04-06 at the Wayback Machine | |
| October 2–6, 2019 | South Atlantic | Regional Challenge | Aston, Pennsylvania | Details |
| Eastern Ice Dance/Pairs | Sectional Challenge | Details | ||
| Eastern Great Lakes | Regional Challenge | Lansing, Michigan | Details | |
| Midwestern Ice Dance | Sectional Challenge | Details | ||
| Northwest Pacific | Regional Challenge | Mountlake Terrace, Washington | Details | |
| October 16–20, 2019 | Southwestern | Regional Challenge | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Details |
| Midwestern Pairs | Sectional Challenge | Details | ||
| Southwest Pacific | Regional Challenge | Irvine, California | Details | |
| Pacific Coast Pairs | Sectional Challenge | Details | ||
| October 23–27, 2019 | New England | Regional Challenge | Westborough, Massachusetts | Details |
| North Atlantic | Regional Challenge | Details | ||
| Upper Great Lakes | Regional Challenge | Saint Paul, Minnesota | Details | |
| Central Pacific | Regional Challenge | Salt Lake City, Utah | Details | |
| Pacific Coast Ice Dance | Sectional Challenge | Details | ||
| November 12–16, 2019 | Eastern | Sectional Final | Hyannis, Massachusetts | Details |
| U.S. Ice Dance Final | U.S. Final | Details | ||
| Midwestern | Sectional Final | Allen, Texas | Details | |
| U.S. Pairs Final | U.S. Final | Details | ||
| Pacific Coast | Sectional Final | Wenatchee, Washington | Details | |
| January 20–26, 2020 | U.S. Championships | Championship | Greensboro, North Carolina | Details |
In the senior division, all competitors that qualify through their placement at a Sectional Singles Final, the U.S. Pairs Final, or the U.S. Dance Final, must have met a minimum combined Technical Elements Score (TES) during the season to compete at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.[2]
| Minimum technical scores (TES)[4] | |
| Discipline | Combined |
|---|---|
| Men | 92 |
| Ladies | 75 |
| Pairs | 68 |
| Ice dance | 65 |
| May be attained at any official NQS event, a Regional or Sectional Challenge, a Sectional or U.S. Final, or any international competition | |
Entries
A list of qualified skaters was published on November 26, 2019.[5]
Seniors
Several qualified skaters were unable to compete due to failure to achieve the minimum TES: Andrew Austin, Ben Jalovick, Tony Lu, and Jun Hong Chen in men's singles, Megan Wessenberg in ladies' singles, and Brynne McIsaac / Mark Sadusky in pairs.[6]
Juniors
Names with an asterisk (*) denote novice skaters.
| Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas Altieri | Lara Annunziata | Sarah Burden / Jake Pagano | Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik |
| Goku Endo | Elsa Cheng* | Sydney Cooke / Timmy Chapman | Hilary Asher / Kyle Pearson |
| Chase Finster | Calista Choi | Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson | Oona Brown / Gage Brown |
| Nicolas Hsieh | Hazel Collier* | Kate Finster / Balázs Nagy | Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov |
| Joseph Kang | Mia Eckels | Sydney Flaum / Alex Wellman | Katarina DelCamp / Ian Somerville |
| Liam Kapeikis | Hannah Herrera* | Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell | Isabella Flores / Adam Bouaziz |
| Joseph Klein* | Tamnhi Huynh* | Analise Gonzalez / Franz-Peter Jerosch | Layla Karnes / Kenan Slevira |
| Kai Kovar* | Isabelle Inthisone | Angela Ling / Caleb Wein | |
| Seth Kurogi | Mia Kalin | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | |
| Michelle Lee* | Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard | ||
| Daniel Martynov* | Isabeau Levito* | Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia | Cordelia Pride / Benjamin Lawless |
| Samuel Mindra* | Jessica Lin | Arianna Varvoutis / Derrick Griffin | Samantha Ritter / Jim Wang |
| Maxim Naumov | Maryn Pierce | Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer | |
| Matthew Nielsen | Noelle Rosa | Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov | |
| Jacob Sanchez* | Ellen Slavicek | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen | |
| David Shapiro | Lindsay Thorngren | ||
| Eric Sjoberg | Mauryn Tyack | ||
| Daniel Turchin | Kate Wang | ||
| Robert Yampolsky* |
Novice
The top two novice finishers at each Sectional in men's and ladies' singles were added to the junior event at U.S. Championships.[2][7]
| Sectional | Men | Ladies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern | 1 | Robert Yampolsky | Isabeau Levito |
| 2 | Jacob Sanchez | Hazel Collier | |
| Midwestern | 1 | Joseph Klein | Elsa Cheng |
| 2 | Daniel Martynov | Tamnhi Huynh | |
| Pacific Coast | 1 | Samuel Mindra | Michelle Lee |
| 2 | Kai Kovar | Hannah Herrera |
Changes to preliminary entries
| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 22 | Senior ladies | Ting Cui | N/A | Injury (right ankle) | [8] |
| January 4 | Junior ice dance | Anna Nicklas / Max Ryan | Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer | [9] | |
| January 13 | Senior ladies | Hanna Harrell | N/A | Injury recovery | [10] |
| Junior pairs | Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach | N/A | |||
| January 16 | Senior ladies | Emilia Murdock | N/A | [11] | |
| Senior pairs | Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe | N/A | |||
| Junior men | Ilia Malinin | N/A | |||
| Junior pairs | Evelyn Grace Hanns / Jim Garbutt | N/A |
Medal summary
Senior
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Pewter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Nathan Chen | Jason Brown | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Vincent Zhou |
| Ladies | Alysa Liu | Mariah Bell | Bradie Tennell | Karen Chen |
| Pairs | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc |
| Ice dance | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
Junior
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Pewter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Maxim Naumov | Eric Sjoberg | Liam Kapeikis | Lucas Altieri |
| Ladies | Lindsay Thorngren | Isabeau Levito | Calista Choi | Isabelle Inthisone |
| Pairs | Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy | Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia | Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson | Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell |
| Ice dance | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen | Oona Brown / Gage Brown | Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov |
Senior results
Senior men
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Chen | 330.17 | 1 | 114.13 | 1 | 216.04 |
| 2 | Jason Brown | 292.88 | 2 | 100.99 | 2 | 191.89 |
| 3 | Tomoki Hiwatashi | 278.08 | 5 | 94.21 | 3 | 183.87 |
| 4 | Vincent Zhou | 275.23 | 4 | 94.82 | 4 | 180.41 |
| 5 | Andrew Torgashev | 260.64 | 3 | 97.87 | 5 | 162.77 |
| 6 | Alexei Krasnozhon | 241.32 | 6 | 80.71 | 6 | 160.61 |
| 7 | Camden Pulkinen | 236.08 | 7 | 79.19 | 7 | 156.89 |
| 8 | Dinh Tran | 220.88 | 11 | 71.86 | 8 | 149.02 |
| 9 | Sean Rabbitt | 213.46 | 8 | 77.71 | 9 | 135.75 |
| 10 | Yaroslav Paniot | 209.79 | 9 | 77.10 | 10 | 132.69 |
| 11 | Ryan Dunk | 199.45 | 14 | 67.15 | 11 | 132.30 |
| 12 | William Hubbart | 195.87 | 13 | 69.11 | 12 | 126.76 |
| 13 | Jimmy Ma | 193.85 | 12 | 71.54 | 13 | 122.31 |
| 14 | Jordan Moeller | 191.25 | 10 | 71.87 | 14 | 119.38 |
| 15 | Joonsoo Kim | 177.03 | 15 | 60.13 | 15 | 116.90 |
Senior women
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alysa Liu | 235.52 | 2 | 75.40 | 1 | 160.12 |
| 2 | Mariah Bell | 225.21 | 3 | 73.22 | 2 | 151.99 |
| 3 | Bradie Tennell | 220.86 | 1 | 78.96 | 3 | 141.90 |
| 4 | Karen Chen | 193.65 | 5 | 70.41 | 4 | 123.24 |
| 5 | Amber Glenn | 186.57 | 4 | 73.16 | 9 | 113.42 |
| 6 | Starr Andrews | 181.78 | 7 | 65.86 | 6 | 115.92 |
| 7 | Sierra Venetta | 176.37 | 11 | 57.98 | 5 | 118.39 |
| 8 | Courtney Hicks | 175.28 | 9 | 60.25 | 7 | 115.03 |
| 9 | Gabriella Izzo | 174.41 | 6 | 65.94 | 11 | 108.47 |
| 10 | Rena Ikenishi | 171.81 | 12 | 57.47 | 8 | 114.34 |
| 11 | Maxine Marie Bautista | 171.46 | 10 | 59.47 | 10 | 111.99 |
| 12 | Gracie Gold | 161.75 | 13 | 54.51 | 12 | 107.24 |
| 13 | Emily Zhang | 158.36 | 15 | 52.48 | 13 | 105.88 |
| 14 | Paige Rydberg | 150.12 | 8 | 60.82 | 16 | 89.30 |
| 15 | Sarah Jung | 149.38 | 17 | 51.09 | 14 | 98.29 |
| 16 | Alex Evans | 142.70 | 14 | 53.53 | 17 | 89.17 |
| 17 | Caitlin Ha | 139.37 | 16 | 51.48 | 18 | 87.89 |
| 18 | Alyssa Rich | 138.54 | 18 | 45.25 | 15 | 93.29 |
Senior pairs
| Rank | Team | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | 216.15 | 1 | 77.06 | 2 | 139.09 |
| 2 | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | 213.57 | 3 | 68.86 | 1 | 146.01 |
| 3 | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | 204.07 | 2 | 70.35 | 3 | 133.72 |
| 4 | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | 197.12 | 4 | 67.56 | 4 | 128.26 |
| 5 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | 186.25 | 6 | 61.33 | 5 | 124.92 |
| 6 | Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov | 181.49 | 5 | 65.06 | 6 | 116.43 |
| 7 | Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran | 171.21 | 7 | 61.08 | 7 | 110.13 |
| 8 | Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan | 165.93 | 8 | 58.48 | 8 | 107.45 |
| 9 | Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker | 164.12 | 9 | 57.95 | 9 | 106.17 |
| 10 | Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow | 147.07 | 12 | 50.86 | 10 | 96.21 |
| 11 | Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov | 143.29 | 11 | 51.50 | 11 | 91.79 |
| 12 | Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman | 135.10 | 10 | 55.60 | 12 | 79.50 |
Senior ice dance
| Rank | Team | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 221.86 | 1 | 87.63 | 1 | 134.23 |
| 2 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | 217.19 | 2 | 86.31 | 2 | 130.88 |
| 3 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | 201.16 | 3 | 82.59 | 3 | 118.57 |
| 4 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | 194.16 | 4 | 78.02 | 4 | 116.14 |
| 5 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | 180.25 | 5 | 77.42 | 5 | 102.83 |
| 6 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | 173.67 | 6 | 75.79 | 6 | 97.88 |
| 7 | Eva Pate / Logan Bye | 155.82 | 7 | 60.07 | 7 | 95.75 |
| 8 | Livvy Shilling / Alexander Petrov | 133.93 | 8 | 56.24 | 8 | 77.69 |
| 9 | Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell | 96.02 | 9 | 39.47 | 9 | 56.55 |
Junior results
Junior men
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxim Naumov | 206.92 | 1 | 70.75 | 2 | 136.17 |
| 2 | Eric Sjoberg | 202.38 | 6 | 62.97 | 1 | 139.41 |
| 3 | Liam Kapeikis | 189.15 | 2 | 68.12 | 4 | 121.03 |
| 4 | Lucas Altieri | 187.94 | 4 | 65.55 | 3 | 122.39 |
| 5 | Nicholas Hsieh | 183.54 | 5 | 65.20 | 5 | 118.34 |
| 6 | Joseph Kang | 177.80 | 3 | 67.84 | 7 | 109.96 |
| 7 | Chase Finster | 171.98 | 8 | 61.73 | 6 | 110.25 |
| 8 | Matthew Nielsen | 165.59 | 9 | 61.51 | 9 | 104.08 |
| 9 | David Shapiro | 165.39 | 12 | 58.69 | 8 | 106.70 |
| 10 | Samuel Mindra | 164.51 | 7 | 62.48 | 11 | 102.03 |
| 11 | Kai Kovar | 162.26 | 11 | 58.90 | 10 | 103.36 |
| 12 | Daniel Martynov | 158.54 | 13 | 56.63 | 12 | 101.91 |
| 13 | Joseph Klein | 155.98 | 15 | 55.83 | 13 | 100.15 |
| 14 | Robert Yampolsky | 147.62 | 16 | 50.48 | 14 | 97.14 |
| 15 | Goku Endo | 146.94 | 10 | 60.08 | 18 | 86.86 |
| 16 | Daniel Turchin | 145.09 | 14 | 55.93 | 17 | 89.16 |
| 17 | Jacob Sanchez | 142.19 | 17 | 49.21 | 15 | 92.98 |
| 18 | Seth Kurogi | 139.75 | 18 | 47.60 | 16 | 92.15 |
Junior women
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lindsay Thorngren | 183.76 | 2 | 59.66 | 1 | 124.10 |
| 2 | Isabeau Levito | 179.47 | 3 | 59.18 | 2 | 120.29 |
| 3 | Calista Choi | 177.05 | 1 | 61.82 | 3 | 115.23 |
| 4 | Isabelle Inthisone | 165.34 | 4 | 58.80 | 4 | 106.54 |
| 5 | Kate Wang | 160.88 | 6 | 54.85 | 5 | 106.03 |
| 6 | Tamnhi Huynh | 155.44 | 12 | 50.15 | 6 | 105.29 |
| 7 | Elsa Cheng | 151.68 | 5 | 55.26 | 7 | 96.42 |
| 8 | Maryn Pierce | 144.32 | 8 | 52.17 | 9 | 92.15 |
| 9 | Ellen Slavicek | 143.58 | 10 | 50.91 | 8 | 92.67 |
| 10 | Jessica Lin | 137.95 | 15 | 47.15 | 10 | 90.80 |
| 11 | Lara Annunziata | 137.36 | 9 | 51.40 | 13 | 85.96 |
| 12 | Noelle Rosa | 137.24 | 11 | 50.29 | 12 | 86.95 |
| 13 | Mia Kalin | 131.80 | 7 | 52.19 | 17 | 79.61 |
| 14 | Mauryn Tyack | 128.70 | 14 | 47.18 | 16 | 81.52 |
| 15 | Hannah Herrera | 126.60 | 16 | 44.32 | 15 | 82.28 |
| 16 | Hazel Collier | 125.90 | 17 | 43.47 | 14 | 82.43 |
| 17 | Mia Eckels | 123.52 | 18 | 34.32 | 11 | 89.20 |
| 18 | Michelle Lee | 120.80 | 13 | 48.33 | 18 | 72.47 |
Junior pairs
| Rank | Team | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy | 169.37 | 1 | 63.89 | 2 | 105.48 |
| 2 | Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia | 163.04 | 3 | 54.56 | 1 | 108.48 |
| 3 | Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson | 149.47 | 2 | 56.60 | 3 | 92.87 |
| 4 | Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell | 131.58 | 4 | 48.56 | 4 | 83.02 |
| 5 | Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard | 119.94 | 9 | 38.05 | 5 | 81.89 |
| 6 | Sydney Cooke / Timmy Chapman | 115.58 | 5 | 41.98 | 6 | 73.60 |
| 7 | Sydney Flaum / Alex Wellman | 111.84 | 7 | 38.38 | 7 | 73.46 |
| 8 | Sarah Burden / Jake Pagano | 109.04 | 6 | 40.26 | 8 | 68.78 |
| 9 | Analise Gonzalez / Franz-Peter Jerosch | 104.20 | 8 | 38.26 | 9 | 65.94 |
| 10 | Arianna Varvoutis / Derrick Griffin | 97.72 | 10 | 33.11 | 10 | 64.61 |
Junior ice dance
| Rank | Team | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | 184.38 | 1 | 74.49 | 1 | 109.89 |
| 2 | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen | 161.39 | 4 | 60.93 | 2 | 100.46 |
| 3 | Oona Brown / Gage Brown | 160.54 | 3 | 64.91 | 3 | 95.63 |
| 4 | Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov | 159.09 | 2 | 66.13 | 4 | 92.96 |
| 5 | Katarina DelCamp / Ian Somerville | 148.59 | 5 | 60.75 | 5 | 87.84 |
| 6 | Angela Ling / Caleb Wein | 135.76 | 6 | 56.90 | 7 | 78.86 |
| 7 | Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov | 134.06 | 7 | 54.91 | 6 | 79.15 |
| 8 | Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik | 131.09 | 8 | 54.31 | 8 | 76.78 |
| 9 | Layla Karnes / Kenan Slevira | 127.78 | 9 | 53.33 | 9 | 74.45 |
| 10 | Samantha Ritter / Jim Wang | 114.94 | 10 | 46.47 | 10 | 68.47 |
| 11 | Cordelia Pride / Benjamin Lawless | 104.44 | 11 | 44.56 | 11 | 59.88 |
| 12 | Hilary Asher / Kyle Pearson | 98.15 | 13 | 38.40 | 12 | 59.75 |
| 13 | Isabella Flores / Adam Bouaziz | 93.33 | 12 | 41.04 | 13 | 52.29 |
| 14 | Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer | 83.31 | 14 | 34.93 | 14 | 48.38 |