2021 Skate Milwaukee & Junior Cup, July 7-11

[sk9tingfan]

Josephine Lee's music brought me back to the 1960's!

 

[Debbie S]

Yikes, Lindsay must have had some URs. Not a big fan of the voiceovers in her music.

Impressive jumping by Mia. I enjoyed her more in the SP. Wish she and her team weren't trying to package her as Trusova II.

 

[Wyliefan]

Unfortunately (long story), I had to watch the last few girls on my phone, and couldn't get sound. Hopefully I can go back and catch them again with sound!

 

[love skating]

I love this entire final six! I love Isabeau's posture and line, Kanon's spins and personality, Mia's quads, Lindsay's consistency, Clare's speed, and Josephine's lightness. Wishing the best for their future! I thought Lindsay, Kanon and Elsa scores were low, looking now at protocols I see that Lindsay got two downgrades and an edge call, Elsa got no points for a spin and Kanon got two edge calls so that explains that I guess.

 

[Sylvia]

Junior Cup Ladies final standings:
1 Isabeau Levito, SC Of Southern New Jersey 199.12 1 2
2 Mia Kalin, St. Moritz ISC 195.50 5 1 (135.54 FS)
3 Clare Seo, Broadmoor SC 184.76 3 3
4 Lindsay Thorngren, SC of New York 181.69 2 4
5 Josephine Lee, All Year FSC 174.74 4 5
6 Kanon Smith, All Year FSC 161.84 6 7
7 Maryn Pierce, Broadmoor SC 159.09 7 6
8 Elsa Cheng, Skokie Valley SC 147.70 8 8
9 Ava Ziegler, SC of New York 137.29 10 10
10 Adele Zheng, DuPage FSC 136.09 11 9
11 Violeta Ushakova, The Skating Club of Boston 123.54 9 11
WD Jessica Lin, Dallas FSC
WD Kate Wang, SC of San Francisco

FS protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/SEGM031.html

I saw Mia Kalin land a good 4T+2T at the beginning then my stream froze so I missed seeing her second 4T; her 6 triples were called clean, including her 2nd half 3Lz+3T & 3F+1Eu+3S. She kept last season's FS music to "Light of the Seven" from GoT.

Thorngren went for 3A (downgraded << & step out?) and was credited with 6 clean triples in her FS, including second half 3Lo+3T & 3Lz+1Eu+3S, to music from The Queen's Gambit with voiceovers.

Josephine Lee was credited with landing 5 clean triples out of 7 attempts & skated well to the Don Quixote ballet.

ETA:

FS scores: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/SEG031.html

TES top 5:
Kalin 81.14
Levito 70.14
Seo 64.22
Lee 59.37
Thorngren 58.06

PCS top 6:
Levito 58.88
Thorngren 56.72
Seo 55.76
Kalin 54.40
Lee & Smith 54.16

 

[Coco]

Lindsay wuz robbed of more PCs points

 

[Spikefan]

I was only able to watch the Junior Ladies FS but was impressed with what I saw. Very happy to see a Queen’s Gambit program but the voiceovers need to go.

 

[annie720]

I was only able to watch the Junior Ladies FS but was impressed with what I saw. Very happy to see a Queen’s Gambit program but the voiceovers need to go.

I didn't care for the voiceovers at all, but I ended up loving the program. I found it mesmerizing.

 

[natsulian]

In the regular junior women’s division, Soho Lee, 12 years old, won with a total score of 164.01; Lee attempted an ambitious 7 triple layout and 5 of them were called clean albeit with a fall on her opening 3Lz3T. Lee will be eligible for the Junior Grand Prix next season.

 

[Sylvia]

In the regular junior women’s division, Soho Lee, 12 years old, won with a total score of 164.01; Lee attempted an ambitious 7 triple layout and 5 of them were called clean albeit with a fall on her opening 3Lz3T.

Lee's FS protocol: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/SEGM032.html
In the drop down menu of the Skate Milwaukee livestream page, the Saturday part 2 video is 4 hours 25 mins. long (video #8) and starts with the Junior Cup Ladies free skate, followed by the regular Junior Ladies FS. Soho Lee's FS starts before the 4:13 mark near the end (she was the second to last skater of the event).
Top 4 in Junior Ladies:
1 Soho Lee, Glacier Falls FSC 164.01 2 1 (106.39 in FS)
2 Sarah Everhardt, Washington FSC 152.99 1 2 (James Bond-themed FS, incl. "Skyfall"; SP was to ballet music)
3 Sofia Frank, Pasadena FSC 144.71 3 3 (FS music from Abel Korzeniowski's Romeo & Juliet & W.E. soundtracks)
4 Abigail Ross, Wasatch FSC 142.07 4 4 - opened with 3Lz+3Lo(-0.35 GOE=10.45 points) in FS

Skate Milwaukee results/protocols:

Skate Milwaukee 2021

Event Results for Skate Milwaukee 2021

ijs.usfigureskating.org

 

[Frau Muller]

Maxine Marie Bautista closed out Senior Ladies with a good performance to the Alice in Wonderland OST - 100.87 3rd in FS and 3rd overall (155.44) behind Izzo (167.82) and Lin (157.01).

I missed seeing most of Finley Hawk's 4th place FS to Middle Eastern? music (151.76).
Jill Heiner finished 5th (142.65), just ahead of Emily Zhang (142.51) who skated to a new program to the well-known Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption) by Muse.

FS protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/SEGM030.html
Emily Zhang went for the 3A again and stood up on it/2-footed - was called <<.

FS scores: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/SEG030.html
Final standings: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/nonqual_results/2021/29848/CAT018.html

Seventh place for Ting Cui?! At least she tried. As I said elsewhere, we need to resurrect John Curry-style shows for skaters like Ting.

Also - Interesting that the winner of SrLadies, Izzo, earned a total score that would have given her no higher than 6th place in the Jr Cup event...would’ve ended up just ahead of Kanon Smith & behind Josephine LEE. Jr Cup women are that far ahead of Srs, even though Sr programs are longer than Jrs, with time for more elements.