2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2017 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 14–22 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri and Silverstein Eye Centers Arena in Independence, Missouri.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2017 Four Continents, 2017 World Junior Championships, and the 2017 World Championships.

2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National Championship
Date:	January 14 – 22
Season:	2016–17
Location:	Kansas City, Missouri
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	Sprint Center Silverstein Eye Centers Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen (S) Alexei Krasnozhon (J)
Ladies' singles: Karen Chen (S) Kaitlyn Nguyen (J)
Pairs: Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier (S) Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker (J)
Ice dance: Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (S) Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (J)
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Kansas City was announced as the host in December 2015.^[2][3]

Qualifying

Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2016 or earned a bye.

Date	Event	Type	Location[4]	Results
Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2016	North Atlantic	Regional	Williamsville, New York	Details
Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2016	Eastern Great Lakes	Regional	Lansing, Michigan	Details
Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2016	Southwest Pacific	Regional	Scottsdale, Arizona	Details
October 5–9, 2016	Central Pacific	Regional	Ogden, Utah	Details
October 5–9, 2016	South Atlantic	Regional	Ashburn, Virginia	Details
October 5–9, 2016	Southwestern	Regional	Plano, Texas	Details
October 19–23, 2016	New England	Regional	Burlington, Vermont	Details
October 19–23, 2016	Northwest Pacific	Regional	Wenatchee, Washington	Details
October 19–23, 2016	Upper Great Lakes	Regional	Rochester, Minnesota	Details
November 16–20, 2016	Eastern	Sectional	Indian Trail, North Carolina	Details
November 16–20, 2016	Midwestern	Sectional	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Details
November 16–20, 2016	Pacific Coast	Sectional	Salt Lake City, Utah	Details
January 14–22, 2017	U.S. Championship	Final	Kansas City, Missouri	Details

In November 2016, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye to the 2017 U.S. Championships.^[5] A number of skaters later withdrew, including Adam Rippon, Polina Edmunds,^[6] Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim,^[7] Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens, and Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu.^[8]

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Nathan Chen	Vincent Zhou	Jason Brown	Grant Hochstein
Ladies	Karen Chen	Ashley Wagner	Mariah Bell	Mirai Nagasu
Pairs	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay
Ice dancing	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Alexei Krasnozhon	Camden Pulkinen	Ryan Dunk	Eric Sjoberg
Ladies	Kaitlyn Nguyen	Starr Andrews	Ashley Lin	Emmy Ma
Pairs	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett	Alexandria Yao / Austin Hale	Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon
Ice dancing	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye

Novice

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Maxim Naumov	Joseph Kang	Dinh Tran	Joonsoo Kim
Ladies	Angelina Huang	Ting Cui	Pooja Kalyan	Alysa Liu
Pairs	Erin Coleman / Derrick Griffin	Ainsley Peterson / Kristofer Ogren	Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord	Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach
Ice dancing	Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta	Katerina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart	Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder	Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov

Intermediate

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Ilia Malinin	Nicholas Hsieh	Philip Baker	Daniel Argueta
Ladies	Stephanie Ciarochi	Emilia Murdock	Ariela Masarsky	Emily Zhang
Pairs	Masha Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov	Jade Esposito / Franz-Peter Jerosch	Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard	Altice Sollazo / Paul Yeung
Ice dancing	Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao	Layla Karnes / Jeffrey Chen	Paulina Brykalova / Daniel Brykalov	Maria Soldatova / Faddey Soldatov

Juvenile

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	William Annis	Robert Yampolsky	Kai Kovar	Liam Kapeikis
Ladies	Madison Nguyen	Tamnhi Hyunh	Haley Scott	Elise Freezer
Pairs	Sydney Flaum / Chase Finster	Josephine Hagan / Evan Whitlow	Jasmine Wong / Danylo Siianytsia	Ashley Fletcher / Cayden McKenzie-Cook
Ice dancing	Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao	Alice Serbin / Kenan Slevira	Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal	Sarah Dutton / Emmett King

Senior results

Senior men

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	318.47	1	106.39	1	212.08
2	Vincent Zhou	263.03	3	87.85	2	175.18
3	Jason Brown	254.23	4	79.23	3	175.00
4	Grant Hochstein	248.31	5	79.10	4	169.21
5	Ross Miner	240.34	2	88.67	8	151.67
6	Alexander Johnson	233.39	9	75.19	5	158.20
7	Timothy Dolensky	228.76	6	78.86	9	149.90
8	Sean Rabbitt	228.02	11	73.41	7	154.61
9	Max Aaron	227.80	12	72.54	6	155.26
10	Jordan Moeller	225.85	8	76.24	10	149.61
11	Andrew Torgashev	225.35	7	77.82	11	147.53
12	Kevin Shum	205.69	14	71.77	12	133.92
13	Emmanuel Savary	200.73	10	73.75	16	126.98
14	Scott Dyer	199.47	16	69.90	14	129.57
15	Tomoki Hiwatashi	196.09	13	71.79	18	124.30
16	Daniel Kulenkamp	193.74	17	65.08	15	128.66
17	Shotaro Omori	191.53	20	58.81	13	132.72
18	Oleksiy Melnyk	184.31	19	59.86	17	124.45
19	Dennis Phan	181.14	18	60.78	19	120.36
20	Jimmy Ma	181.07	15	70.41	21	110.66
21	Sebastien Payannet	170.56	21	57.07	20	113.49

Senior ladies

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Karen Chen	214.22	1	72.82	1	141.40
2	Ashley Wagner	211.78	3	70.94	2	140.84
3	Mariah Bell	197.92	6	63.33	3	134.59
4	Mirai Nagasu	194.90	2	71.95	4	122.95
5	Caroline Zhang	182.82	7	62.55	5	120.27
6	Gracie Gold	179.62	5	64.85	9	114.77
7	Angela Wang	175.13	11	58.16	7	116.97
8	Amber Glenn	172.63	12	56.34	8	116.29
9	Bradie Tennell	169.98	9	59.77	11	110.21
10	Tessa Hong	168.74	4	65.02	14	103.72
11	Paige Rydberg	166.92	8	61.60	12	105.32
12	Courtney Hicks	165.19	18	46.02	6	119.17
13	Livvy Shilling	161.90	10	59.73	15	102.17
14	Megan Wessenberg	161.77	16	48.96	12	112.81
15	Franchesca Chiera	158.41	13	53.97	13	104.44
16	Katie McBeath	141.20	15	49.33	17	91.87
17	Rebecca Peng	134.36	19	41.08	16	93.28
18	Hannah Miller	134.24	17	48.73	18	85.51
19	Ashley Shin	127.87	14	49.86	19	78.01

Senior pairs

Kayne/O'Shea withdrew due to a concussion. She hit her head while attempting a throw triple flip during the short program on January 19.^[9]

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	188.32	2	65.39	1	122.93
2	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	186.28	4	64.29	2	121.99
3	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	184.41	1	69.33	3	115.08
4	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	173.50	3	65.04	5	108.46
5	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	168.90	7	58.05	4	110.85
6	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	159.96	8	57.02	6	102.94
7	Erika Smith / AJ Reiss	159.59	6	59.30	7	100.29
8	Cali Fujimoto / Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne	138.90	10	44.84	8	94.06
9	Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez	132.57	11	42.71	9	89.86
WD	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	61.80	5	61.80	withdrew from competition
WD	Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan	48.64	9	48.64	withdrew from competition
WD	Jacquelyn Green / Rique Newby-Estrella	withdrew from competition

Senior ice dance

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	200.05	1	82.42	2	117.63
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	199.04	2	79.96	1	119.08
3	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	191.42	3	79.72	3	111.70
4	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit	170.29	5	67.17	4	103.12
5	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	160.06	4	72.60	8	87.46
6	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	153.35	8	56.94	5	96.41
7	Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge	152.19	6	59.15	6	93.04
8	Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson	147.15	7	57.96	7	89.19
9	Charlotte Maxwell / Ryan Devereaux	139.20	9	56.88	9	82.32
10	Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds	103.57	10	40.83	10	62.74
11	Kseniya Ponomaryova / Oleg Altukhov	93.29	11	38.89	11	54.40

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Junior results

Junior men

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Alexei Krasnozhon	211.05	2	66.89	1	144.16
2	Camden Pulkinen	197.65	1	73.41	2	124.24
3	Ryan Dunk	172.22	4	57.78	3	114.44
4	Eric Sjoberg	170.61	3	60.73	4	109.88
5	Sasha Lunin	161.39	5	56.60	5	104.79
6	Mathew Graham	158.39	6	54.57	6	104.39
7	Peter Liu	154.82	8	52.47	7	102.35
8	Derek Wagner	153.25	7	52.85	8	100.40
9	Kelvin Li	147.69	9	50.39	9	97.30
10	Daniil Shamis	135.55	11	40.93	10	94.62
11	TJ Nyman	130.53	10	41.51	11	89.02
WD	Kendrick Weston	withdrew from competition

Junior ladies

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Kaitlyn Nguyen	170.16	3	57.80	1	112.36
2	Starr Andrews	155.14	2	57.83	3	97.31
3	Ashley Lin	153.34	5	52.38	2	100.96
4	Emmy Ma	149.88	1	60.31	5	89.57
5	Alexia Paganini	147.60	4	52.90	4	94.70
6	Nina Ouellette	136.25	7	49.65	6	86.60
7	Maxine Marie Bautista	133.97	6	52.37	9	81.60
8	Elizaveta Kulik	132.51	8	48.36	7	84.15
9	Brynne McIsaac	127.51	9	44.84	8	82.67
10	Madalyn Moree	108.89	11	42.76	10	66.13
11	Haley Beavers	108.72	10	44.29	12	64.43
12	Shannon Porter	107.94	12	42.60	11	65.34

Junior pairs

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	153.35	1	54.66	1	98.69
2	Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett	147.90	2	54.01	2	93.89
3	Alexandria Yao / Austin Hale	144.64	3	53.55	3	91.09
4	Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon	137.22	4	52.48	5	84.74
5	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	135.67	8	47.45	4	88.22
6	Vanessa Chen / Eric Hartley	131.46	5	49.22	7	82.24
7	Gabriella Marvaldi / Daniel Villeneuve	130.25	6	48.81	8	81.44
8	Emma Coppess / Robert Hennings	128.74	9	46.42	6	82.32
9	Isabella Gamez / Griffin Schwab	126.73	7	47.94	9	78.79
10	Kate Finster / Brandon Kozlowski	117.80	10	44.10	10	73.70
11	Jillian Smart / Matthew Rounis	105.52	11	39.82	12	65.70
12	Hannah Klopstock / Daniel Arsenault	101.79	12	34.47	11	67.32

Junior ice dance

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	176.33	1	72.42	1	103.91
2	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	165.06	3	66.77	2	98.29
3	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	163.63	2	70.44	3	93.19
4	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye	148.43	4	60.60	4	87.83
5	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	129.82	6	50.54	5	79.28
6	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville	127.90	5	52.95	6	74.95
7	Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov	118.90	7	50.27	7	68.63
8	Diana Avaz / Val Katsman	117.56	8	50.18	8	67.38
9	Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein	115.90	9	49.37	9	66.53
10	Elizabeth Addas / Michael Valdez	108.02	11	45.62	10	62.40
11	Lydia Erdman / Alexey Shchepetov	106.31	10	46.51	11	59.80
12	Cassidy Klopstock / Jacob Schedl	96.20	12	38.97	12	57.23
WD	Heidi Washburn / Ilya Yukhimuk	withdrew from competition

Novice results

Novice men

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Maxim Naumov	177.85	1	55.82	1	122.03
2	Joseph Kang	166.59	2	52.04	2	114.55
3	Dinh Tran	149.41	3	51.98	6	97.43
4	Joonsoo Kim	147.95	5	47.60	4	100.35
5	Lucas Altieri	146.26	6	47.50	5	98.76
6	Paul Yeung	144.38	9	43.77	3	100.61
7	Jordan Evans	139.38	4	48.35	9	91.03
8	Patrick Frohling	135.76	12	42.28	7	93.48
9	Jonathan Yang	135,62	11	42,81	8	92,81
10	Alan Wong	129.03	10	43.15	10	85.88
11	Alex Wellman	127,24	7	47.36	12	79.88
12	Max Wang	124.61	8	44.53	11	80.08

Novice ladies

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Angelina Huang	143.19	2	48.66	2	94.53
2	Ting Cui	142.68	3	47.63	1	95.05
3	Pooja Kalyan	131.77	5	47.35	4	84.42
4	Alysa Liu	131.68	1	48.89	6	82.79
5	Alyssa Rich	130.89	4	47.47	5	83.42
6	Hanna Harrell	126.69	10	39.24	3	87.45
7	Isabella Miller	121.45	8	43.26	7	78.19
8	Ilana Sherman	117.72	6	45.16	9	72.56
9	Audrey Shin	115.92	9	40.12	8	75.80
10	Emma Coppess	110.79	7	43.44	10	67.35
11	Lily Sun	102.37	12	36.48	11	65.89
12	Analise Gonzalez	97.45	11	37.71	12	59.74

Novice pairs

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Erin Coleman / Derrick Griffin	134.44	1	45.58	1	88.86
2	Ainsley Peterson / Kristofer Ogren	120.86	2	39.67	2	81.19
3	Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord	112.03	3	39.14	3	72.89
4	Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach	104.47	4	36.04	5	68.43
5	Katherina Frantz / Nicolas Frantz	103.08	7	32.63	4	70.45
6	Jasmine Fendi / Joshua Fendi	101.56	5	34.82	6	66.74
7	Isabelle Goldstein / Keyton Bearinger	98.97	6	34.11	7	64.86
8	Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle	88.54	8	27.56	8	60.98
9	Lauren Ball / Scott Dudley	80.19	9	25.94	10	54.25
10	Ashley Haywood / Alec Schmitt	79.43	11	23.90	9	55.53
11	Hilary Asher / Nathan Rensing	73.65	10	24.06	11	49.59

Novice ice dance

Rank	Name	Total	PD1		PD2		FD
1	Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta	114.66	1	25.63	4	21.48	1	67.55
2	Katerina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart	108.97	3	21.95	6	20.24	2	66.78
3	Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder	108.79	2	22.88	1	23.05	3	62.86
4	Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov	100.41	4	20.94	2	23.04	5	56.43
5	Isabella Amoia / Cory Fraiman	95.84	6	20.14	8	18.86	4	56.84
6	Allie Rose / Spencer Emerson	91.07	8	16.93	3	22.42	8	51.72
7	Molly Cesanek / Nikolay Usanov	88.18	5	20.34	11	13.70	6	54.14
8	Isabel Blahunka / Will Shawver	87.15	10	14.37	5	20.35	7	52.43
9	Cherri Chen / YuanShi Jin	83.54	7	17.69	7	19.82	10	46.03
10	Leah Krauskopf / Caleb Niva	80.35	11	13.87	9	18.31	9	48.17
11	Claire Purnell / Lucas Purnell	75.18	9	15.13	10	15.32	11	44.73
12	Susan Talbot / Ryan O'Donnell	60.41	12	9.61	12	10.42	12	40.38

International team selections

According to a rule change made by U.S. Figure Skating in autumn 2016 and approved in December, champions at the 2017 U.S. Championships no longer automatically qualify to the World Championships.^[11][12]

Four Continents

The team for the 2017 Four Continents Championships was announced on January 21 and 22, 2017.^[13]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
	Grant Hochstein	Mirai Nagasu	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt.	Ross Miner	Gracie Gold	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt.	Max Aaron	Courtney Hicks	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
3rd alt.	Alexander Johnson	Angela Wang	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus

World Junior Championships

The team for the 2017 World Junior Championships was announced on January 21 and 22, 2017.^[13]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Alexei Krasnozhon	Amber Glenn	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
	Andrew Torgashev	Bradie Tennell	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
	Vincent Zhou			Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
1st alt.	Camden Pulkinen	Starr Andrews	Alexandria Yao / Austin Hale	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye
2nd alt.	Kevin Shum	Ashley Lin	Gabriella Marvaldi / Daniel Villeneuve	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville
3rd alt.	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Tessa Hong	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein

World Championships

The team for the 2017 World Championships was announced on January 21 and 22, 2017.^[13]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
		Ashley Wagner		Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt.	Vincent Zhou	Mirai Nagasu	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt.	Grant Hochstein	Gracie Gold	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
3rd alt.	Max Aaron	Caroline Zhang	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge