2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

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U.S. Figure Skating announced that due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Championship Series announced the previous year would be used again.

The Championship Series consisted of eight events held in October and November 2021. Skaters selected up to two competitions and then advanced to Nationals or the High Performance Development Team based on their highest score, rather than their placement.

The Championship Series consisted of the following competitions:

Date	Disc.	Location	Results
October 4–10, 2021	M/W/D	Blaine, Minnesota	Details
October 12–16, 2021	M/W/P	Henderson, Nevada	Details
October 13–17, 2021	M/W	Allen, Texas	Details
October 27–30, 2021	M/W	Leesburg, Virginia	Details
November 2–5, 2021	M/W	Fort Wayne, Indiana	Details
November 9–13, 2021	M/W/P	Norwood, Massachusetts	Details
November 16–20, 2021	M/W/D	Alpharetta, Georgia	Details
November 17–20, 2021	M/W	Spokane, Washington	Details

More information on advancement to Nationals was announced after a webinar on June 30.^[3]

If the maximum number of competitors isn't reached through byes, additional spots will be available at the Championship Series. Competitors from the Championship Series will be selected on the next best total combined score. If the number of athletes with three international competitions from the approved competition list exceeds the number of available byes (4 for senior singles, 3 for senior pairs, and 5 for senior ice dance, 3 for all junior disciplines), byes will be awarded based on highest to lowest total score in the following order of importance:

• ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
• ISU Junior Grand Prix
• ISU Challenger Series

There will be a minimum required score for all athletes to compete to be decided in fall of 2021. Approved international competitions applicable for byes are the Grand Prix Series, Junior Grand Prix Series, Challenger Series, and Junior and Senior Grand Prix Final.^[4]

Singles skaters can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final or the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Top 5 finish at the 2021 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships
• 2021 U.S. Figure Skating World Team Members (not including alternates)
• Medalists in the singles event at the most recent Olympic Winter Games
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Grand Prix, ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top two total combined scores from each section in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series
• The next best top three scores from the nation in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series.

There will be a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final or the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Top 5 finish at the 2021 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating
• 2021 U.S. Figure Skating World Team Members (not including alternates)
• Medalists in the pairs event at the most recent Olympic Winter Games
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Grand Prix, ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top four total combined scores from the nation in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships Series

There will be a maximum of 12 spots.

Ice dance teams can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final or the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Top 5 finish at the 2021 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating
• 2021 U.S. Figure Skating World Team Members (not including alternates)
• Medalists in the ice dance event at the most recent Olympic Winter Games
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Grand Prix, ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top five total combined scores from the nation in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships Series

There will be a maximum of 15 spots.

Singles skaters can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top three total combined scores from each section in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series
• The next best top three scores from the nation in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series
• The top three total combined novice scores from the nation in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series

There will be a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top nine total combined scores from each section in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series

There will be a maximum of 12 spots.

Ice dance teams can advance to Nationals in the following ways:

• Qualifying for the same event at the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Athletes who are assigned to and compete at three international assignments classified as an ISU Junior Grand Prix, and or ISU Challenger Series event
• The top twelve total combined scores from each section in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship Series

There will be a maximum of 15 spots.

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U.S. Figure Skating published the official list of preliminary entries on November 29, 2021.^[5]

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Jason Brown	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	Emily Bratti Ian Somerville
Nathan Chen	Mariah Bell	Jessica Calalang Brian Johnson	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko
Artur Dmitriev	Karen Chen	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Molly Cesanek Yehor Yehorov
Ryan Dunk	Amber Glenn	Sydney Cooke Keyton Bearinger	Madison Chock Evan Bates
Mitchell Friess	Gracie Gold	Kate Finster Matej Silecky	Cayla Cottrell Uladzislau Palkhouski
William Hubbart	Hanna Harrell	Alexa Knierim Brandon Frazier	Caroline Green Michael Parsons
Liam Kapeikis	Jill Heiner	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker
Jimmy Ma	Rena Ikenishi	Katie McBeath Nathan Bartholomay	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue
Ilia Malinin	Gabriella Izzo	Valentina Plazas Maximiliano Fernandez	Raffaella Koncius Alexey Shchepetov
Yaroslav Paniot	Isabeau Levito	—N/a	Lorraine McNamara Anton Spiridonov
Sebastien Payannet	Alysa Liu		Cara Murphy Joshau Levitt
Camden Pulkinen	Audrey Shin		Avonley Nguyen Grigory Smirnov
Dinh Tran	Lindsay Thorngren		Eva Pate Logan Bye
Paul Yeung	Sierra Venetta		Livvy Shilling Ryan O'Donnell
Vincent Zhou	Kate Wang		Katarina Wolfkostin Jeffrey Chen
—N/a	Wren Warne-Jacobsen		—N/a

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Will Annis	Sonia Baram	Sonia Baram Daniel Tioumentsev	Kristina Bland Matthew Sperry
Philip Baker	Gwen Bloesch	Brooke Barret Levon Davis	Helena Carhart Volodymyr Horovyi
Goku Endo	Elsa Cheng	Winter Deardorff Jake Pagano	Olivia Dietrich Eduard Pylypenko
Allan Fisher	Hazel Collier	Cate Fleming Chase Finster	Madeline Freeman Christian Bennett
Jonathan Hildebrandt	Sarah Everhardt	Ellie Kam Ian Meyh	Madeleine Gans Jim Wang
Joseph Klein	Hannah Herrera	Isabelle Martins Ryan Bedard	Jenna Hauer Benjamin Starr
Kai Kovar	Mia Kalin	Lilianna Murray Jordan Gillette	Romy Malcom Noah Lafornara
Lake Liao	Katie Krafchik	Catherine Rivers Timmy Chapman	Angela Ling Caleb Wein
Antonio Monaco	Josephine Lee	Mandy Romero Kristofer Ogren	Leah Neset Artem Markelov
Nhat-Viet Nguyen	Elyce Lin-Gracey	Cayla Smith Andy Deng	Caroline Mullen Brendan Mullen
Jacob Sanchez	Hannah Lofton	Megan Wessenberg Blake Eisenach	Elliana Peal Ethan Peal
Taira Shinohara	Rinako Oya	Sylvia Wong Skylar Weirens	Vanessa Pham Jonathan Rogers
Beck Strommer	Abigail Ross	—N/a
Michael Xie	Clare Seo
Robert Yampolsky	Katie Shen
Maxim Zharkov	Adele Zheng
—N/a	Ava Marie Ziegler

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Notes	Ref.
December 9, 2021	Senior men	Maxim Naumov	—N/a	Injury
	Junior ice dance	Anabelle Larson Lucas Appel	Madeline Freeman Christian Bennett	Split
December 27, 2021	Senior pairs	Chelsea Liu Daniel O'Shea	—N/a	Injury
	Junior pairs	Ashley Fletcher Aiden Brown	Lilianna Murray Jordan Gillette
December 28, 2021	Junior women	Ashley Leahy	Rinako Oya
December 31, 2021	Senior women	Bradie Tennell	—N/a	Injury	[6]
January 1, 2022	Senior pairs	Maria Mokhova Ivan Mokhov
		Anastasiia Smirnova Danil Siianytsia		Positive COVID-19 test	[7]
	Junior men	Lucas Broussard	Philip Baker
	Junior ice dance	Isabella Flores Dimitry Tsarevski	—N/a	Personal reasons (Tsarevski)	[8]
January 2, 2022		Oona Brown Gage Brown		Positive COVID-19 test	[9]
January 3, 2022	Junior men	Samuel Mindra
		Matthew Nielsen
	Junior ice dance	Rebecca Kerscher Davis Ortonward
January 4, 2022	Senior women	Finley Hawk
	Junior women	Soho Lee
January 5, 2022	Senior men	Tomoki Hiwatashi		Positive COVID-19 test	[10]
January 7, 2022		Eric Sjoberg

Date	Discipline	Time	Segment
January 4	Junior pairs	12:00	Short program
	Junior men
	Junior ice dance	20:15	Rhythm dance
January 5	Junior women	09:00	Short program
	Junior men	12:00	Free skate
	Junior pairs
	Junior ice dance	20:30	Free dance
January 6	Junior women	11:45	Free skate
	Senior pairs	15:45	Short program
	Senior women	18:30
January 7	Senior ice dance	14:00	Rhythm dance
	Senior women	18:30	Free skate
January 8	Senior men	14:00	Short program
	Senior pairs	17:45	Free skate
	Senior ice dance	19:25	Free dance
January 9	Senior men	11:15	Free skate
	—N/a	18:30	Skating Spectacular

• All times are listed in local time (UTC-06:00).^[1]

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Nathan Chen	Ilia Malinin	Vincent Zhou	Jason Brown
Women	Mariah Bell	Karen Chen	Isabeau Levito	Gabriella Izzo
Pairs	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	Jessica Calalang Brian Johnson	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe
Ice dance	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Caroline Green Michael Parsons

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Kai Kovar	Will Annis	Maxim Zharkov	Joseph Klein
Women	Clare Seo	Ava Marie Ziegler	Josephine Lee	Katie Shen
Pairs	Sonia Baram Daniel Tioumentsev	Isabelle Martins Ryan Bedard	Catherine Rivers Timmy Chapman	Megan Wessenberg Blake Eisenach
Ice dance	Leah Neset Artem Markelov	Angela Ling Caleb Wein	Elliana Peal Ethan Peal	Vanessa Pham Jonathan Rogers

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William Hubbart withdrew prior to the event due to testing positive for COVID-19. Yaroslav Paniot withdrew during the free skate due to boot issues.

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	328.01	1	115.39	1	212.62
2	Ilia Malinin	302.48	3	103.46	2	199.02
3	Vincent Zhou	290.16	2	112.78	4	177.38
4	Jason Brown	289.78	4	100.84	3	188.94
5	Camden Pulkinen	260.41	6	90.16	5	170.25
6	Jimmy Ma	226.98	5	91.62	8	135.36
7	Liam Kapeikis	221.31	8	73.77	6	147.54
8	Dinh Tran	215.72	9	71.18	7	144.54
9	Ryan Dunk	191.36	11	65.66	9	125.70
10	Paul Yeung	183.74	13	60.01	10	123.73
11	Artur Dmitriev	183.01	12	62.40	11	120.61
12	Mitchell Friess	171.19	10	66.07	13	105.12
13	Sebastian Payannet	162.28	14	48.52	12	113.76
WD	Yaroslav Paniot	withdrew	7	88.68	withdrew from competition
	William Hubbart	withdrew from competition

Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn withdrew after the short program due to testing positive for COVID-19.^[11][12]

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Mariah Bell	216.25	1	75.55	1	140.70
2	Karen Chen	213.85	2	74.55	3	139.30
3	Isabeau Levito	210.75	4	71.00	2	139.75
4	Gabriella Izzo	188.11	7	67.51	4	120.60
5	Lindsay Thorngren	186.38	5	70.22	7	116.16
6	Audrey Shin	180.58	9	61.77	5	118.81
7	Kate Wang	178.20	8	64.27	8	113.93
8	Hanna Harrell	175.66	12	56.99	6	118.67
9	Starr Andrews	173.04	11	59.43	9	113.61
10	Gracie Gold	171.92	6	67.61	12	104.31
11	Jill Heiner	171.54	10	60.30	10	111.24
12	Sierra Venetta	164.24	15	53.88	11	110.36
13	Rena Ikenishi	158.69	13	55.32	13	103.37
14	Wren Warne-Jacobsen	143.39	16	48.45	14	94.94
WD	Alysa Liu	withdrew	3	71.42	withdrew from competition
	Amber Glenn	withdrew	14	54.80	withdrew from competition

Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier withdrew prior to the event after Frazier tested positive for COVID-19.^[13]

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	225.23	1	79.39	1	145.84
2	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	209.87	2	77.48	2	132.39
3	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	191.54	3	68.11	3	123.43
4	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	177.25	4	61.94	5	115.31
5	Katie McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay	167.10	6	50.11	4	116.99
6	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	148.37	7	49.80	6	98.57
7	Kate Finster / Matej Silecky	144.14	5	54.68	8	89.46
8	Sydney Cooke / Keyton Bearinger	136.31	8	44.28	7	92.03
WD	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	withdrew from competition

Avonley Nguyen & Grigory Smirnov withdrew prior to the event due to Smirnov's hip injury.^[14] Raffaella Koncius & Alexey Shchepetov withdrew before the free dance due to testing positive for COVID-19.

Rank	Name	Total points	RD		FD
1	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	227.37	1	91.94	2	135.43
2	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	225.59	2	89.39	1	136.20
3	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	205.68	4	79.39	3	126.29
4	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	203.27	3	80.85	4	122.42
5	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville	187.98	6	76.70	6	111.28
6	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen	187.27	7	75.28	5	111.99
7	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	185.82	5	77.90	7	107.92
8	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	180.72	8	73.06	8	107.66
9	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov	179.35	9	73.04	9	106.31
10	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov	172.11	10	70.07	10	102.04
11	Cayla Cottrell / Uladzislau Palkhouski	118.80	13	49.82	11	68.98
12	Livvy Shilling / Ryan O'Donnell	115.43	12	50.90	13	64.53
13	Cara Murphy / Joshua Levitt	106.01	14	40.49	12	65.52
WD	Raffaella Koncius / Alexey Shchepetov	withdrew	11	52.63	withdrew from competition
	Avonley Nguyen / Grigory Smirnov	withdrew from competition

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kai Kovar	204.68	2	68.70	1	135.98
2	Will Annis	202.87	1	75.81	2	127.06
3	Maxim Zharkov	188.15	3	67.07	3	121.08
4	Joseph Klein	176.97	5	63.71	4	113.26
5	Robert Yampolsky	173.78	8	61.45	5	112.33
6	Beck Strommer	173.13	4	64.44	7	108.69
7	Taira Shinohara	172.64	6	61.85	6	110.79
8	Jonathan Hildebrandt	158.35	7	61.65	12	96.70
9	Jacob Sanchez	155.03	13	48.41	8	106.62
10	Antonio Monaco	154.07	11	53.63	9	100.44
11	Goku Endo	152.56	10	54.37	11	98.19
12	Philip Baker	151.14	9	59.84	13	91.30
13	Michael Xie	149.69	12	49.26	10	100.43
14	Nhat-Viet Nguyen	138.14	14	47.59	14	90.55
15	Lake Liao	131.58	16	44.00	15	87.58
16	Allan Fisher	125.50	15	45.37	16	80.13

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Clare Seo	185.53	1	67.38	2	118.15
2	Ava Ziegler	175.50	4	60.24	3	115.26
3	Josephine Lee	172.08	3	60.61	4	111.47
4	Katie Shen	170.77	8	51.20	1	119.57
5	Elyce Lin-Gracey	166.96	2	62.53	6	104.43
6	Mia Kalin	155.58	5	57.13	7	98.45
7	Adele Zheng	153.76	6	55.57	8	98.19
8	Elsa Cheng	147.62	7	53.61	9	94.01
9	Hannah Herrera	147.32	16	40.80	5	106.52
10	Abigail Ross	138.34	9	50.72	11	87.62
11	Sarah Everhardt	136.79	11	48.47	10	88.32
12	Gwen Bloesch	128.09	14	41.18	12	86.91
13	Sonia Baram	123.96	17	40.45	13	83.51
14	Katie Krafchik	121.20	10	49.44	17	71.76
15	Hannah Lofton	118.74	13	42.08	14	76.66
16	Rinako Oya	117.55	12	43.62	16	73.93
17	Hazel Collier	116.13	15	40.97	15	75.16

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sonia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	171.36	1	62.26	1	109.10
2	Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard	144.71	2	54.89	2	89.82
3	Catherine Rivers / Timmy Chapman	130.75	5	45.70	3	85.05
4	Megan Wessenberg / Blake Eisenach	129.09	7	44.82	4	84.27
5	Cayla Smith / Andy Deng	126.11	3	48.70	6	77.41
6	Cate Fleming / Chase Finster	125.43	6	45.30	5	80.13
7	Winter Deardorff / Jake Pagano	117.28	8	44.14	7	73.14
8	Brooke Barrett / Levon Davis	106.36	12	33.43	8	72.93
9	Mandy Romero / Kristofer Ogren	105.53	11	33.61	9	71.92
10	Sylvia Wong / Skylar Weirens	104.28	9	37.68	10	66.60
11	Lilianna Murray / Jordan Gillette	100.18	10	37.09	11	63.09
WD	Ellie Kam / Ian Meyh	withdrew	4	46.16	withdrew from competition

Rank	Name	Total points	RD		FD
1	Leah Neset / Artem Markelov	155.84	2	64.31	1	91.53
2	Angela Ling / Caleb Wein	153.58	1	64.99	2	88.59
3	Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal	140.67	5	54.94	3	85.73
4	Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers	140.08	3	55.36	4	84.72
5	Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi	136.20	4	54.97	5	81.23
6	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr	128.92	6	50.85	7	78.07
7	Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen	127.35	8	47.90	6	79.45
8	Kristina Bland / Matthew Sperry	123.63	7	49.57	8	74.06
9	Romy Malcolm / Noah Lafornara	108.18	9	44.27	9	63.91
10	Madeleine Gans / Jim Wang	100.92	10	43.74	11	57.18
11	Madeline Freeman / Christian Bennett	99.69	12	38.39	10	61.30
12	Olivia Dietrich / Eduard Pylypenko	95.93	11	39.44	12	56.49