2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships, 2018 World Junior Championships, and the 2018 World Championships.

2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National Championship
Date:	December 29 – January 8
Season:	2017–18
Location:	San Jose, California
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	SAP Center
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen (S) Camden Pulkinen (J)
Ladies' singles: Bradie Tennell (S) Alysa Liu (J)
Pairs: Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim (S) Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov (J)
Ice dance: Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (S) Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko (J)
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San Jose was announced as the host in August 2016.^[1]

Qualifying

Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2017 or earned a bye. Skaters must place in the top 4 in order to earn a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.

Date	Event	Type	Location	Results
October 4–8, 2017	North Atlantic	Regional	Hackensack, New Jersey	[2]
October 4–8, 2017	Upper Great Lakes	Regional	Blaine, Minnesota	[3]
October 11–15, 2017	Northwest Pacific	Regional	Eugene, Oregon	[4]
October 11–15, 2017	South Atlantic	Regional	Aston, Pennsylvania	[5]
October 11–15, 2017	Southwestern	Regional	Fort Collins, Colorado	[6]
October 11–15, 2017	Southwest Pacific	Regional	Ontario, California	[7]
October 18–22, 2017	New England	Regional	Westborough, Massachusetts	[8]
October 18–22, 2017	Eastern Great Lakes	Regional	Antioch, Tennessee	[9]
October 18–22, 2017	Central Pacific	Regional	Salt Lake City, Utah	[10]
November 15–19, 2017	Eastern	Sectional	Boxborough, Massachusetts	[11]
November 15–19, 2017	Midwestern	Sectional	Bloomington, Minnesota	[12]
November 15–19, 2017	Pacific Coast	Sectional	Spokane, Washington	[13]
December 29, 2017 – January 7, 2018	U.S. Championships	Final	San Jose, California	[14]

In late December 2017, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye.^[15]

Schedule

The competition took place over ten days. All times are in PST.^[14][16]

Date	Time	Event	Segment
December 29	9:10 AM	Juvenile girls	Free skate
	10:45 AM	Juvenile boys
	12:30 PM	Juvenile pairs
	3:00 PM	Intermediate pairs	Short program
	4:45 PM	Intermediate ladies
	6:30 PM	Intermediate men
December 30	2:45 PM	Intermediate pairs	Free skate
	4:45 PM	Intermediate ladies
	6:30 PM	Intermediate men
December 31	10:30 AM	Juvenile dance	Pattern dance 1 (Foxtrot)
	11:45 AM		Pattern dance 2 (Cha Cha)
	7:00 PM	Junior pairs	Short program
	8:55 PM	Junior ladies
January 1	9:30 AM	Intermediate dance	Pattern dance 1 (Tango)
	10:45 AM		Pattern dance 2 (Fourteenstep)
	12:10 PM	Junior men	Short program
	2:15 PM	Juvenile dance	Free dance
	4:05 PM	Novice dance	Pattern dance 1 (Argentine tango)
	5:20 PM		Pattern dance 2 (Quickstep)
	6:45 PM	Novice pairs	Short program
January 2	8:50 AM	Novice ladies	Short program
	10:30 AM	Novice men
	12:10 PM	Intermediate dance	Free dance
	12:30 PM	Junior pairs	Free skate
	3:30 PM	Novice pairs
	6:15 PM	Novice dance	Free dance
	7:50 PM	Junior ladies	Free skate
January 3	8:15 AM	Novice ladies	Free skate
	10:15 AM	Junior men
	1:00 PM	Junior dance	Short dance
	3:15 PM	Novice men	Free skate
	6:35 PM	Senior ladies	Short program
January 4	9:50 AM	Junior dance	Free dance
	1:00 PM	Senior pairs	Short program
	5:40 PM	Senior men
January 5	1:10 PM	Senior dance	Short dance
	3:45 PM	Senior ladies	Free skate
January 6	11:45 AM	Senior pairs	Free skate
	3:45 PM	Senior men
January 7	12:30 PM	Senior dance	Free dance

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Nathan Chen	Ross Miner	Vincent Zhou	Adam Rippon
Ladies	Bradie Tennell	Mirai Nagasu	Karen Chen	Ashley Wagner
Pairs	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc
Ice dance	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Camden Pulkinen	Dinh Tran	Maxim Naumov	Ryan Dunk
Ladies	Alysa Liu	Pooja Kalyan	Ting Cui	Hanna Harrell
Pairs	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe
Ice dance	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville

Novice

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Goku Endo	Max Lake	Nicholas Hsieh	Lucas Altieri
Ladies	Beverly Zhu	Emilea Zingas	Violeta Ushakova	Calista Choi
Pairs	Jade Hom / Franz-Peter Jerosch	Joanna Hubbart / William Hubbart	Masha Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov	Ellie McClellan / Jim Garbutt
Ice dance	Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao	Gianna Buckley / Jeffrey Chen	Caroline Liu / Kenan Slevira	Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov

Intermediate

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Maxim Zharkov	Matthew Nielsen	Liam Kapeikis	William Annis
Ladies	Indi Cha	Alyssa Chan	Arianna Concepcion	Alena Budko
Pairs	Zoe Larson / Nick Hubbart	Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell	Katie Luong / Nathan Luong	Sydney Flaum / Cayden McKenzie-Cook
Ice dance	Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal	Claire Cain / Andrei Davydov	Anna Gissibl / Alexander Colucci	Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao

Juvenile

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Keita Horiko	Jacob Sanchez	Nhat-Viet Nguyen	Andriy Kratyuk
Ladies	Isabeau Levito	Clara Kim	Macie Rolf	Madeleine Park
Pairs	Natasha Mishkutionok / Daniel Tioumentsev	Nadia Wang / Jaden Schwab	Dalila DeLaura / Ryan Xie	Megan Voigt / Levon Davis
Ice dance	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr	Zoe Sensenbrenner / Matthew Sperry	Kristina Bland / Gabriel Francis	Emma L'Esperance / Mika Amdour

Senior results

Men

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	315.23	1	104.45	1	210.78
2	Ross Miner	274.51	6	88.91	2	185.60
3	Vincent Zhou	273.83	5	89.02	3	184.81
4	Adam Rippon	268.34	2	96.52	4	171.82
5	Grant Hochstein	255.31	4	92.18	5	163.13
6	Jason Brown	253.68	3	93.23	6	160.45
7	Timothy Dolensky	236.33	7	85.06	9	151.27
8	Alexander Johnson	232.62	10	79.60	8	153.02
9	Max Aaron	224.20	12	74.95	10	149.25
10	Alexei Krasnozhon	223.58	8	82.58	13	141.00
11	Jimmy Ma	222.41	11	75.28	11	147.13
12	Tomoki Hiwatashi	217.53	15	63.48	7	154.05
13	Andrew Torgashev	217.01	9	81.32	14	135.69
14	Sean Rabbitt	214.53	13	73.29	12	141.24
15	Jordan Moeller	180.21	20	55.35	15	124.86
16	Ben Jalovick	178.33	19	56.12	16	122.21
17	Daniel Kulenkamp	177.95	18	60.15	17	117.80
18	Emmanuel Savary	177.13	14	64.65	18	112.48
19	Sebastien Payannet	172.89	16	61.29	20	111.60
20	Scott Dyer	172.04	17	60.17	19	111.87
21	Kevin Shum	163.33	21	52.04	21	111.29

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Bradie Tennell	219.51	1	73.79	1	145.72
2	Mirai Nagasu	213.84	2	73.09	2	140.75
3	Karen Chen	198.59	3	69.48	4	129.11
4	Ashley Wagner	196.19	5	65.94	3	130.25
5	Mariah Bell	192.34	6	65.18	6	127.16
6	Starr Andrews	189.91	8	62.55	5	127.36
7	Angela Wang	188.01	4	67.00	7	121.01
8	Amber Glenn	168.06	9	61.62	9	106.44
9	Courtney Hicks	165.48	11	57.81	8	107.67
10	Tessa Hong	156.86	13	55.82	11	101.04
11	Caroline Zhang	156.38	10	60.29	14	96.09
12	Franchesca Chiera	150.99	14	53.85	13	97.14
13	Hannah Miller	149.14	12	57.57	16	91.57
14	Kaitlyn Nguyen	146.20	17	46.30	12	99.90
15	Brynne McIsaac	145.54	20	43.97	10	101.57
16	Emmy Ma	138.02	18	45.55	15	92.47
17	Megan Wessenberg	131.73	22	40.90	17	90.83
18	Katie McBeath	124.64	15	48.53	18	76.11
19	Vivian Le	122.60	16	46.65	19	75.95
20	Emily Chan	104.43	19	44.79	20	59.64
WD	Polina Edmunds	63.78	7	63.78	withdrew from competition
WD	Ashley Lin	42.33	21	42.33	withdrew from competition

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	206.60	1	71.10	1	135.50
2	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	200.80	2	68.93	2	131.87
3	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	197.65	3	67.84	3	129.81
4	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	187.14	8	60.03	4	127.11
5	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	186.32	4	63.63	5	122.69
6	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	182.38	6	60.75	6	121.63
7	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	167.47	5	62.35	9	105.12
8	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	163.62	7	60.52	10	103.10
9	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	162.23	12	50.43	7	111.80
10	Erika Smith / AJ Reiss	159.03	11	50.95	8	108.08
11	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	154.10	9	53.78	11	100.32
12	Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage	145.66	10	51.15	13	94.51
13	Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens	142.12	13	45.49	12	96.63
14	Alexandria Yao / Jacob Simon	128.12	15	40.97	14	87.15
15	Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman	126.05	14	41.70	15	84.35

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Total	SD		FD
1	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	197.12	2	79.10	2	118.02
2	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	196.93	1	82.33	3	114.60
3	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	196.60	3	77.61	1	118.99
4	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	187.61	4	73.18	4	114.43
5	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	176.07	5	72.69	6	103.38
6	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	175.19	6	69.16	5	106.03
7	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit	167.98	7	66.41	7	101.57
8	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton	153.93	8	61.21	8	92.72
9	Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson	151.00	9	58.29	9	92.71
10	Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge	136.37	10	54.53	10	81.84
11	Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds	110.92	11	40.92	11	70.00
12	Cassidy Klopstock / Jacob Schedl	89.28	12	37.16	12	52.12
13	Ashley Bain / Oleg Altukhov	79.42	13	31.17	13	48.25

Junior results

Men

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Camden Pulkinen	219.29	1	67.88	1	151.41
2	Dinh Tran	199.95	2	67.28	2	132.67
3	Maxim Naumov	179.00	3	64.07	4	114.93
4	Ryan Dunk	172.68	10	53.43	3	119.25
5	Tony Lu	166.57	4	62.43	7	104.14
6	Alex Wellman	160.69	8	56.23	6	104.46
7	Paul Yeung	158.71	11	53.30	5	105.41
8	Sasha Lunin	148.67	9	54.86	8	93.81
9	Peter Liu	143.63	5	58.33	11	85.30
10	Patrick Frohling	138.43	12	52.22	10	86.21
11	Kendrick Weston	136.83	6	58.10	12	78.73
12	Justin Wichmann	135.95	13	48.05	9	87.90
13	Luke Ferrante	129.58	7	56.48	13	73.10

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Alysa Liu	184.16	1	63.83	1	120.33
2	Pooja Kalyan	166.53	4	54.55	3	111.98
3	Ting Cui	165.51	11	45.55	2	119.96
4	Hanna Harrell	154.36	5	52.10	4	102.26
5	Emily Zhang	149.83	2	56.97	8	92.86
6	Gabriella Izzo	148.04	3	55.19	7	93.05
7	Angelina Huang	143.84	6	51.27	9	92.57
8	Akari Nakahara	143.41	7	49.12	6	94.29
9	Audrey Shin	140.50	10	46.05	5	94.45
10	Emma Coppess	139.30	8	48.08	10	91.22
11	Lily Sun	137.75	9	47.38	11	90.37
12	Jenna Shi	114.50	12	44.20	12	70.30

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total	SP		FS
1	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	173.31	1	60.80	1	112.51
2	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	155.57	3	58.37	2	97.20
3	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	153.04	2	58.67	3	94.37
4	Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe	135.96	5	46.58	4	89.38
5	Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett	132.90	4	52.18	5	80.72
6	Ainsley Peterson / Griffin Schwab	124.21	6	45.86	6	78.35
7	Sarah Rose / Ian Meyh	115.54	9	39.48	7	76.06
8	Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogren	114.62	7	43.85	9	70.77
9	Meiryla Findley / Matthew Rounis	113.82	8	40.74	8	73.08
10	Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach	100.74	10	37.14	10	63.60
11	Sapphire Jaeckel / Matthew Scoralle	88.92	11	35.35	12	53.57
12	Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle	85.44	12	27.56	11	57.88
13	Juliette Erickson / Nathan Grundhofer	64.86	13	24.67	13	40.19

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Total	SD		FD
1	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	159.18	1	68.70	1	90.48
2	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	146.72	2	63.14	2	83.58
3	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye	143.21	3	62.14	3	81.07
4	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville	138.90	4	61.13	5	77.77
5	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	134.31	7	54.02	4	80.29
6	Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein	132.89	5	56.31	6	76.58
7	Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta	126.59	6	55.69	7	70.90
8	Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov	120.92	8	52.06	8	68.86
9	Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart	116.65	9	50.26	10	66.39
10	Isabelle Amoia / Luca Becker	116.08	10	49.50	9	66.58
11	Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder	111.02	11	49.14	12	61.88
12	Molly Cesanek / Nikolay Usanov	106.60	13	44.04	11	62.56
13	Allie Rose / JT Michel	103.55	12	45.11	13	58.44

International team selections

Winter Olympics

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics on January 6, 2018.

	Men[17]	Ladies[18]	Pairs[19]	Ice dance[20]
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Adam Rippon	Mirai Nagasu		Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
	Vincent Zhou	Bradie Tennell		Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt.	Jason Brown	Ashley Wagner	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt.	Ross Miner	Mariah Bell	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
3rd alt.	Max Aaron	Angela Wang	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

The selections for the team event at the Olympics were as follows:

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
SP/SD	Nathan Chen	Bradie Tennell	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
FS/FD	Adam Rippon	Mirai Nagasu

World Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Championships on January 6, 2018.

	Men[21]	Ladies[22]	Pairs[23]	Ice dance[24]
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen (withdrew)	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Adam Rippon (withdrew)	Mirai Nagasu	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
	Vincent Zhou	Bradie Tennell		Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alt.	Jason Brown	Ashley Wagner (withdrew)	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
2nd alt.	Ross Miner	Mariah Bell (called up)	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
3rd alt.	Max Aaron (called up)	Angela Wang	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

Four Continents

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Four Continents Championships on January 6, 2018.

	Men[21]	Ladies[22]	Pairs[23]	Ice dance[24]
	Max Aaron	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
	Ross Miner (withdrew)	Ashley Wagner (withdrew)	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
1st alt.	Grant Hochstein (called up)	Angela Wang (called up)	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
2nd alt.	Timothy Dolensky	Amber Glenn	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson
3rd alt.	Alexander Johnson	Courtney Hicks	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge

World Junior Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Junior Championships on January 6, 2018.

	Men[21]	Ladies[22]	Pairs[23]	Ice dance[24]
	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Starr Andrews (withdrew)	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
	Alexei Krasnozhon	Ting Cui	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	Caroline Green / Gordon Green
	Camden Pulkinen			Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye
Alt.	Maxim Naumov	Hanna Harrell	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville
Alt.	Andrew Torgashev	Tessa Hong	Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
Alt.	Dinh Tran	Emmy Ma (called up)	Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett	Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein