2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 18–27, 2019, at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's 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 2019 Four Continents Championships, 2019 World Junior Championships, and the 2019 World Championships.

2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National Championship
Date:	January 19 – January 27
Season:	2018–19
Location:	Detroit, Michigan
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	Little Caesars Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen (Senior) & Ryan Dunk (Junior)
Women's singles: Alysa Liu (Senior) & Gabriella Izzo (Junior)
Pairs: Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc (Senior) & Laiken Lockley and Keenan Prochnow (Junior)
Ice dance: Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue (Senior) & Caroline Green and Gordon Green (Junior)
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Detroit was announced as the host in November 2017.^[1]

Qualifying

Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from October to November 2018, or earned a bye. The top four finishers in each discipline at sectionals earned a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships. A list of qualified skaters was published on December 13, 2018.^[2]

Date	Event	Type	Location	Results
October 3–7, 2018	Upper Great Lakes	Regional	Peoria, Illinois	[3]
October 3–7, 2018	Northwest Pacific	Regional	Sherwood, Oregon	[4]
October 3–7, 2018	South Atlantic	Regional	Coral Springs, Florida	[5]
October 10–14, 2018	Central Pacific	Regional	Vacaville, California	[6]
October 10–14, 2018	Southwestern	Regional	Plano, Texas	[7]
October 10–14, 2018	New England	Regional	Boston, Massachusetts	[8]
October 17–21, 2018	Southwest Pacific	Regional	Anaheim, California	[9]
October 17–21, 2018	North Atlantic	Regional	Lake Placid, New York	[10]
October 17–21, 2018	Eastern Great Lakes	Regional	Ann Arbor, Michigan	[11]
November 13–17, 2018	Eastern	Sectional	Wake Forest, North Carolina	[12]
November 13–17, 2018	Midwestern	Sectional	Fort Wayne, Indiana	[13]
November 13–17, 2018	Pacific Coast	Sectional	Salt Lake City, Utah	[14]
January 18–27, 2019	U.S. Championships	Final	Detroit, Michigan	[15]

Entries

Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
Andrew Austin	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Alannah Binotto / Shiloh Judd
Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Nathan Chen	Julia Biechler	Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Timothy Dolensky	Ting Cui	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Lydia Erdman / Yuri Vlasenko
Tomoki Hiwatashi	Amber Glenn	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
William Hubbart	Hanna Harrell	Tarah Kayne / Danny O’Shea	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Ben Jalovick	Courtney Hicks	Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh	Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson
Alexander Johnson	Rena Ikenishi	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
Alexei Krasnozhon	Pooja Kalyan	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell
Daniel Kulenkamp	Alysa Liu	Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
Tony Lu	Emmy Ma	Erika Smith / AJ Reiss	Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds
Jimmy Ma	Brynne McIsaac	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay	Nicole Takahashi / Oleg Altukhov
Jordan Moeller	Hannah Miller	Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman
Sebastien Payannet	Heidi Munger
Camden Pulkinen	Akari Nakahara
Sean Rabbitt	Bradie Tennell
Emmanuel Savary	Sierra Venetta
Kevin Shum	Megan Wessenberg
Andrew Torgashev
Vincent Zhou

Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Reason/Other notes	Refs
January 2	Pairs	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	Injury	[16]
January 4	Ladies	Karen Chen	Injury recovery	[17]
January 9	Ladies	Gracie Gold	Personal	[18]
January 13	Ladies	Angela Wang	Illness & injury	[19]
January 14	Ladies	Ashley Lin		[20]
	Pairs	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman

Schedule

The Little Caesars Arena, the home of the Detroit Red Wings which opened in September 2017, will host all junior and senior (Championship) level practices and competitions. The Detroit Skating Club will host all Juvenile, Intermediate and Novice practice sessions and competitions from January 18 – 22, 2019.^[21]

Date	Time	Event
January 22	5:30 PM	Junior Ladies and Junior Men Short Program
January 23	10:30 AM	Junior Pairs Short Program
	3:00 PM	Junior Rhythm Dance
	5:30 PM	Junior Ladies and Junior Men Free Skate
January 24	12:00 PM	Junior Pairs Free Skate
	4:00 PM	Senior Pairs Short Program
	7:45 PM	Senior Ladies Short Program
January 25	12:00 PM	Junior Free Dance
	3:45 PM	Senior Rhythm Dance
	6:30 PM	Senior Ladies Free Skate
January 26	9:15 AM	Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program
	1:15 PM	Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program
	6:00 PM	Senior Free Dance
January 27	2:00 PM	Senior Men Free Skate
	8:00 PM	Skating Spectacular

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Nathan Chen	Vincent Zhou	Jason Brown	Tomoki Hiwatashi
Women	Alysa Liu	Bradie Tennell	Mariah Bell	Hanna Harrell
Pairs	Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	Deanna Stellato-Dudek Nathan Bartholomay	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea
Ice dance	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Ryan Dunk	Dinh Tran	Joonsoo Kim	Peter Liu
Women	Gabriella Izzo	Audrey Shin	Emilia Murdock	Sarah Jung
Pairs	Laiken Lockley Keenan Prochnow	Kate Finster Balázs Nagy	Isabelle Martins Ryan Bedard	Maria Mokhova Ivan Mokhov
Ice dance	Caroline Green Gordon Green	Avonley Nguyen Vadym Kolesnik	Eliana Gropman Ian Somerville	Oona Brown Gage Brown

Senior results

Men's singles

Rank	Skater	Total	SP		FS
	Nathan Chen	342.22	1	113.42	1	228.80
	Vincent Zhou	284.01	3	100.25	2	183.76
	Jason Brown	273.08	2	100.52	3	172.56
4	Tomoki Hiwatashi	253.28	4	84.05	4	169.23
5	Alexei Krasnozhon	234.52	5	82.53	5	151.99
6	Timothy Dolensky	228.94	6	81.10	7	147.84
7	Andrew Torgashev	225.97	9	76.95	6	149.02
8	Sean Rabbitt	217.84	7	79.66	9	138.18
9	Alexander Johnson	216.48	11	74.07	8	142.41
10	Jimmy Ma	206.92	10	74.84	11	132.08
11	Emmanuel Savary	202.45	13	69.89	10	132.56
12	Camden Pulkinen	199.87	8	78.39	15	121.48
13	Jordan Moeller	197.82	14	66.15	12	131.67
14	Kevin Shum	196.11	12	71.13	13	124.98
15	Daniel Kulenkamp	188.93	16	64.64	14	124.29
16	William Hubbart	186.02	15	65.34	16	120.68
17	Sebastien Payannet	169.14	17	61.55	18	107.59
18	Ben Jalovick	167.51	19	58.51	17	109.00
19	Tony Lu	144.99	18	59.81	20	85.18
20	Andrew Austin	131.39	20	45.68	19	85.71

Women's singles

Rank	Skater	Total	SP		FS
	Alysa Liu	217.51	2	73.89	1	143.62
	Bradie Tennell	213.59	1	76.60	4	136.99
	Mariah Bell	212.40	3	70.30	2	142.10
4	Hanna Harrell	203.11	5	68.16	5	134.95
5	Ting Cui	194.30	12	54.64	3	139.66
6	Megan Wessenberg	182.55	7	60.37	6	122.18
7	Amber Glenn	180.73	4	69.86	8	110.87
8	Starr Andrews	175.70	8	58.66	7	117.04
9	Emmy Ma	174.82	6	65.13	9	109.69
10	Akari Nakahara	166.76	10	57.72	10	109.04
11	Brynne McIsaac	157.34	11	56.46	13	100.88
12	Sierra Venetta	152.93	18	47.77	11	105.16
13	Rena Ikenishi	152.70	16	51.01	12	101.69
14	Heidi Munger	151.85	15	52.37	14	99.48
15	Hannah Miller	148.38	14	52.75	15	95.63
16	Courtney Hicks	145.95	13	53.04	16	92.91
17	Julia Biechler	133.88	17	50.98	17	82.90
WD	Pooja Kalyan	Withdrew	9	58.64	Withdrew from competition

Pairs

Rank	Team	Total	SP		FS
	Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc	212.36	2	70.47	1	141.89
	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	201.64	3	68.32	2	133.32
	Deanna Stellato-Dudek Nathan Bartholomay	199.92	4	68.18	3	131.74
4	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	198.64	1	71.83	4	126.81
5	Jessica Calalang Brian Johnson	183.36	6	62.94	5	120.42
6	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	182.42	5	66.21	6	116.21
7	Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim	171.42	7	61.56	7	109.86
8	Nica Digerness Danny Neudecker	163.63	9	58.84	9	104.79
9	Erika Smith A.J. Reiss	162.52	10	56.25	8	106.27
10	Winter Deardorff Max Settlage	154.80	12	53.14	10	101.66
11	Chelsea Liu Ian Meyh	154.69	8	59.44	12	95.25
12	Allison Timlen Justin Highgate-Brutman	153.12	11	55.27	11	97.85
13	Olivia Serafini Mervin Tran	137.95	13	51.32	13	86.63

Ice dance

Rank	Team	Total	RD		FD
	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	215.88	1	84.56	1	131.32
	Madison Chock Evan Bates	211.52	2	82.33	2	129.19
	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	196.95	3	76.77	3	120.18
4	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	191.10	5	74.42	4	116.68
5	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	190.01	4	75.23	5	114.78
6	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	170.26	6	72.52	7	97.74
7	Karina Manta Joseph Johnson	159.97	7	55.16	6	104.81
8	Lydia Erdman Yuri Vlasenko	124.92	8	45.99	8	78.93
9	Elicia Reynolds Stephen Reynolds	111.69	9	39.16	9	72.53
10	Nicole Takahashi Oleg Altukhov	91.31	12	31.93	10	59.38
11	Alannah Binotto Shiloh Judd	90.64	11	34.87	11	55.77
12	Bailey Melton Ryan O'Donnell	88.53	10	36.60	12	51.93

Junior results

Junior men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Ryan Dunk	201.43	2	68.58	1	132.85
2	Dinh Tran	196.03	4	64.84	2	131.19
3	Joonsoo Kim	187.95	1	70.72	4	117.23
4	Peter Liu	182.32	5	64.33	3	117.99
5	Lucas Altieri	172.87	6	60.94	7	111.93
6	Joseph Kang	170.98	11	54.42	5	116.56
7	David Shapiro	166.85	7	57.30	8	109.55
8	Max Lake	165.69	12	52.43	6	113.26
9	Alex Wellman	163.20	9	55.70	9	107.50
10	Eric Sjoberg	161.99	10	55.54	10	106.45
11	Luke Ferrante	161.89	3	65.08	11	96.81
12	Chase Finster	132.25	8	56.27	12	75.98

Junior women

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Gabriella Izzo	172.42	1	60.97	2	111.45
2	Audrey Shin	165.61	6	53.03	1	112.58
3	Emilia Murdock	154.48	2	58.15	4	96.33
4	Sarah Jung	150.88	4	56.07	5	94.81
5	Wren Warne-Jacobsen	150.13	7	51.50	3	98.63
6	Emily Zhang	146.64	5	55.46	7	91.18
7	Noelle Rosa	144.91	8	51.33	6	93.58
8	Amie Miyagi	133.58	3	56.25	10	77.33
9	Caitlin Ha	132.68	9	49.31	8	83.37
10	Alyssa Rich	128.02	10	46.53	9	81.49
11	Akane Eguchi	118.56	12	43.36	11	75.20
12	Stephanie Ciarochi	116.53	11	44.47	12	72.06

Junior pairs

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	163.35	1	61.52	1	101.83
2	Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy	149.48	2	59.65	2	89.83
3	Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard	141.97	3	52.16	3	89.81
4	Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov	136.61	4	48.47	4	88.14
5	Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach	128.87	5	47.31	5	81.56
6	Ainsley Peterson / Matthew Rounis	124.35	6	44.46	6	79.89
7	Sarah Rose / Jim Garbutt	119.76	8	44.14	7	75.62
8	Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogrens	116.15	7	44.23	8	71.92
9	Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle	103.61	9	35.74	9	67.87

Junior ice dance

Rank	Name	Total points	RD		FD
1	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	172.54	1	70.82	2	101.72
2	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	171.06	2	65.92	1	105.14
3	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville	155.46	4	62.60	3	92.86
4	Oona Brown / Gage Brown	153.67	3	63.34	4	90.33
5	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov	144.23	5	58.57	5	85.66
6	Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta	136.64	7	54.67	6	81.97
7	Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik	132.24	6	56.99	9	75.25
8	Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder	131.94	8	52.10	7	79.84
9	Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao	127.63	9	50.07	8	77.56
10	Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart	121.52	11	48.22	10	73.30
11	Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov	119.73	10	48.89	11	70.84
12	Claire Purnell / Lucas Purnell	108.10	12	41.87	12	66.23
13	Samantha Udell / Garrett Udell	53.96	13	22.37	13	31.59

International team selections

World Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 World Championships on January 26.^[22][23][24]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Nathan Chen	Bradie Tennell		Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
	Vincent Zhou			Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
1st alt.	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Ting Cui	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
2nd alt.	Alexei Krasnozhon	Megan Wessenberg	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
3rd alt.	Timothy Dolensky	Starr Andrews	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

Four Continents Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 Four Continents Championships on January 26.^[22][23][24]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Ting Cui	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
	Vincent Zhou	Bradie Tennell	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
1st alt.	Alexei Krasnozhon	Megan Wessenberg	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
2nd alt.	Timothy Dolensky	Starr Andrews	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
3rd alt.	Andrew Torgashev	Amber Glenn	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

World Junior Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing entries for the 2019 World Junior Championships team on January 26. The men and ladies will be selected after a training camp.^[22][23][24] The men and ladies were announced on February 5.^[25]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Ting Cui	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	Caroline Green / Gordon Green
	Alexei Krasnozhon	Hanna Harrell	Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy	Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville
	Camden Pulkinen		Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
1st alt.	Andrew Torgashev	Starr Andrews	Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh	Oona Brown / Gage Brown
2nd alt.	Ryan Dunk	Gabriella Izzo	Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach	Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta
3rd alt.	Dinh Tran	Audrey Shin		Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik