2024 US Figure Skating Championships - Columbus, OH - 22-28 Jan. 2024

[Elizabeth]

Detailed colour schedule: https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/d ... hedule.pdf

SCHEDULE [All times are listed in Eastern Time]

Tuesday, January 23
12:00 p.m. – Novice Pairs Short Program
12:50 p.m. – Junior Pairs Short Program
2:20 p.m. – Junior Men's Short Program
5:15 p.m. – Novice Pattern Dance
6:40 p.m. – Junior Rhythm Dance

Wednesday, January 24
8:30 a.m. – Junior Women's Short Program
11:10 a.m. – Junior Men's Free Skate
2:35 p.m. – Novice Pairs Free Skate
3:25 p.m. – Junior Pairs Free Skate
5:35 p.m. – Novice Free Dance
6:30 p.m. – Junior Free Dance

Thursday, January 25
10:25 a.m. – Junior Women's Free Skate
2:00 p.m. – Championship Pairs Short Program
4:30 p.m. – Championship Rhythm Dance
7:15 p.m. – Championship Women's Short Program

Friday, January 26
3:15 p.m. – Championship Men's Short Program
7:45 p.m. – Championship Women's Free Skate

Saturday, January 27
1:50 p.m. – Championship Free Dance
7:35 p.m. – Championship Pairs Free Skate

Sunday, January 28
2:45 p.m. – Championship Men's Free Skate
7:30 p.m. – Prevagen Skating Spectacular

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Streaming on Peacock - available only to subscribers.

US TV schedule - NBC (check local TV schedule)
January 26 - 8 p.m.
January 27 - 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
January 28 - 3 p.m.
February 4 - Gala

[Elizabeth]

Press release on the Entries and how they qualified: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/pr ... -announced

SENIOR [the only level available on TV in Canada]
Senior Women
Starr Andrews (bye)
Alex Evans (senior sectionals)
Sarah Everhardt (senior sectionals)
Amber Glenn (bye)
Sonja Hilmer (senior sectionals)
Mia Kalin (senior sectionals)
Josephine Lee (bye)
Michelle Lee (senior sectionals)
Soho Lee (senior sectionals)
Isabeau Levito (bye)
Elyce Lin-Gracey (bye)
Clare Seo (senior sectionals)
Katie Shen (senior sectionals)
Audrey Shin (bye)
Lindsay Thorngren (bye)
Lindsay Wang (senior sectionals)
Wren Warne-Jacobsen (senior sectionals)
Ava Ziegler (bye)

Senior Men
Will Annis (senior sectionals)
Lucas Broussard (bye)
Jason Brown (bye)
Goku Endo (senior sectionals)
Tomoki Hiwatashi (senior sectionals)
Liam Kapeikis (bye)
Joseph Klein (senior sectionals)
Kai Kovar (senior sectionals)
Jimmy Ma (bye)
Ilia Malinin (bye)
Daniel Martynov (bye)
Samuel Mindra (senior sectionals)
Maxim Naumov (bye)
Yaroslav Paniot (senior sectionals)
Camden Pulkinen (bye)
Daniel Samohin (senior sectionals)
Andrew Torgashev (bye)
Michael Xie (senior sectionals)

Senior Pairs
Emily Chan and Spencer Howe (bye)
Nica Digerness and Mark Sadusky (U.S. Pairs Final)
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov (U.S. Pairs Final)
Linzy Fitzpatrick and Keyton Bearinger (U.S. Pairs Final)
Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea (bye)
Ellie Korytek and Timothy Chapman (U.S. Pairs Final)
Chelsea Liu and Balazs Nagy (bye)
Isabelle Martins and Ryan Bedard (U.S. Pairs Final)
Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman (U.S. Pairs Final)
Maria Mokhova and Ivan Mokhov (bye)
Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez (bye)
Megan Wessenberg and Edoardo Caputo (U.S. Pairs Final)

Senior Ice Dance
Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville (bye)
Oona Brown and Gage Brown (bye)
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko (bye)
Madison Chock and Evan Bates (bye)
Isabella Flores and Ivan Desyatov (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons (bye)
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker (bye) - withdrew 15 January
Raffaella Koncius and Alexey Shchepetov (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Klara Kowar and Thomas Schwappach (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Angela Ling and Caleb Wein (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov (bye) - withdrew 18 December
Cara Murphy and Joshua Levitt (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Eva Pate and Logan Bye (bye)
Katarina Wolfkostin and Dimitry Tsarevski (U.S. Ice Dance Final)
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik (bye)

[Elizabeth]

From USFS regarding the entries for Sr Women:

Ava Marie Ziegler has withdrawn from U.S. Nationals. She is replaced by Brooke Gewalt.

A further post indicated that Ava's withdrawal was to allow her time to prepare for the 4CC as she had already been named to the US team for that competition.

[Elizabeth]

"Blasts from the past" - people from the skating world with connections to Ohio ("Buckeye beginnings"), as the national championships are being held in Columbus: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/ar ... beginnings

[Elizabeth]

Details on competition times with conversion to locales around the world:

[Elizabeth]

The Starting Orders/Results will appear here: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.asp

The USFS YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@USFigureSkating will stream the novice championships and the Sr. press conferences.

Subscribers in the USA can watch the junior and senior competitions live with Peacock Premium. Replays will be available for 72 hours after each event. Peacock will also livestream the senior practice sessions.

As posted earlier in this thread, although there will be some TV coverage in the USA, for those in Canada the only TV coverage available will be on NBC TV:
NBC (check local TV schedule)
January 26 - 8 -11 p.m. [part of Women FS]
January 27 - 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. [part of Free Dance]
January 28 - 3 - 6 p.m. [part of Men FS]
February 4 - Gala

[Elizabeth]

The start orders/results pages is now "populated": https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.asp

[Elizabeth]

A fan has posted a number of the individual Junior competition performances on YouTube:

• Junior Pairs: https://t.co/hUt1VchxrJ
• Junior Men: https://t.co/yzjJnelLF9
• Junior Ice Dance: [url]https://t.co/E3er5oaiCm[/url]

Jackie Wong and Polina Edmunds livestreamed and commented on the Sr. Women's practice yesterday afternoon - it played live on Peacock but is now available on the USFS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmUx4kNt6A&t=6671s
They have now added the Sr. Pairs practice with Jackie & Tim Goebel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSDYwqgbL6k

[Elizabeth]

UPDATE - streaming of the Sr. events is available (at least today) here: https://thetvapp.to/tv/usa-network-live-stream/

It links to the USA TV live broadcast, there is a slight delay, and it is live only.

[Elizabeth]

Senior results so far:

Pairs SP


NOTE - the leaders withdrew from the remainder of the competition for Spencer to continue healing and rehabilitation from his shoulder surgery.

Top 3




Rhythm Dance




Top 3




Women SP


Top 3

[Elizabeth]

The Entries/Start Orders/Results (live) link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.asp

[Elizabeth]

The Sr Men SP results:


The Top 3




The top 3 at press conference

[kittykins]

I was looking forward to watching skating tonight, but I'm having trouble with the reception on NBC. It keeps starting and stopping. No one can watch skating when it keeps freezing. We'll see how it goes!

[Elizabeth]

I was looking forward to watching skating tonight, but I'm having trouble with the reception on NBC. It keeps starting and stopping. No one can watch skating when it keeps freezing. We'll see how it goes!

They spent the first hour rehashing things from the Men SP and yesterday's Women SP and only actually started the live coverage when the 2nd group took the ice after the resurfacing.

[kittykins]

Thank you. I heard it at least. I have found another way to watch through a friend, so am happily watching the live coverage.

[Elizabeth]

In rather a shocking turn of events in the Sr. Women FS, the defending champion fell 3 times in her free skate and fell to 3rd place overall!

The results:


Amber Glenn landed her triple axel but under-delivered on other parts of her program - she left the ice crestfallen but Isabeau's troubles left Amber in 1st place. She won the Gold medal at the Junior Nationals 10 years ago.

The medal ceremony


The medalists, including the pewter medalist, at the press conference



In other news
Mia Kalin landed the first-ever clean quad performed in the senior women’s event at the U.S. Championships, a quad toe.


More history


Announced by Amber Glenn today

[Elizabeth]

The Free Dance event this afternoon was a real roller coaster -


Despite being sick with the flu, Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their 5th U.S. title; Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko took the silver (and won the free dance portion); Emily Bratti & Ian Somerville won their 1st senior medal - the bronze, Caroline Green & Michael Parsons finished 4th. For a time it was uncertain if Maddie & Evan would even skate; they had skipped practices earlier. Apparently Evan was convinced by Maddie to compete as "it might be the last Nationals". I was unimpressed seeing them maskless around other skaters and coaches as well as during an interview afterward; they finally donned them for the press conference. In theory, they are to fly out tomorrow morning to compete at the 4CC!

Medal ceremony


The "huddle" on the podium - I would have avoided this with the illness in the air...


Press conference photo

[Elizabeth]

Well the Pairs FS was "interesting" - as in the Ice Dance, the gold medalists were 2nd in the free program.



The 2nd and 5th place finishers can not yet compete for the US internationally as both Efimova and Parkman are awaiting releases from their previous federations.

It is Danny O'Shea's 2nd US Pairs championship - he won in 2016 with his previous partner Tarah Kayne.

Pairs podium


The medalists (press conference)

[Elizabeth]

First announcement by USFS regarding Worlds Team: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/pr ... eam-roster



World Juniors team announced February 2

[Elizabeth]

In the final event of @024 US Nationals, it was the Sr Men - to no one's surprise, Ilia Malinin finished on top - he opened with a quad axel but his overall skate was below his usual standard. The veteran, Jason Brown, finished in 2nd spot this year in his first competition of the season. Camden Pulkinen won his very first Senior medal with the bronze.

The results


The podium


Press conference photo

[Elizabeth]

This evening the "gala" will be taking place - some of those who would normally perform are already on their way to Shanghai for 4CC.



NBC will broadcast the "Skating Spectacular" on February 4th. I understand that the line-up will include Jason Brown skating to a live orchestra.

[Elizabeth]

The remainder of the US team for Worlds 2024 in Montreal: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/pr ... eam-roster



Alternates in all disciplines will be named on February 8th.

[Elizabeth]

After being named to the Worlds team, Camden Pulkinen has withdrawn from the 4CC.

“With the recent announcement of my selection to the 2024 Worlds Team, I have decided to withdraw from Four Continents. I will be prioritizing my recovery & training heading into Montreal. I am thankful for all the support throughout this year’s U.S. Championships and I’m looking forward to representing Team USA at Worlds.”