2021 US Nationals Junior Pairs

[clairecloutier]

Nice lifts, strong skating skills, some promise here from Cooke/Bearinger.

 

[PRlady]

They are new? Pretty good despite the two splats. Look much more advanced than earlier pairs.

 

[Sayana_mnk]

Serguei Zaitsev (coached Caitlin Fields/Ernie Utah Stevens) is listed as Cooke/Bearinger's coach in the event program - I haven't seen his name at Nationals in a while (still based in Indiana?). Their choreographers are based in Michigan.

Zaitsev coaches at the Detroit Skating Club now.

 

[Wyliefan]

Great twist!

 

[just tuned in]

Wow, terrific. They made pair skating look like fun.

 

[Rukia]

Great job! Easily the best so far.

 

[clairecloutier]

Wow, terrific. They made pair skating look like fun.

Isn’t that unusual these days!

 

[PRlady]

If they don’t split up or go back to Ukraine, they are The Future. Such polished presentation at such a young age.

 

[mjb52]

I don't have the skills to know myself if this announcer is getting things right pronunciation wise but it feels like he is really trying, which I think is cool.

 

[Karen-W]

That was beautiful! Not perfect but this team has so much potential. I can't believe Ukraine let them go.

 

[Wyliefan]

This yellow and blue dress is really cute!

 

[Rukia]

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of in love with this look

 

[mjb52]

Who are Ukraine's top skaters now? Nazarova/Nikitin in dance is the only one I know.

 

[Karen-W]

Oh, this yellow Belle dress is not good. Too yellow, not enough gold.

 

[mjb52]

Oh, this yellow Belle dress is not good. Too yellow, not enough gold.

 

[Karen-W]

Way too many music cuts. And ending with the Ariana Grande/Jon Legend version of B&tB? No. No. No.

 

[sk8nlizard]

If they don’t split up or go back to Ukraine, they are The Future. Such polished presentation at such a young age.

They are great pair skaters however, her jumps concern me...her double axel in the short wasn’t even close and this program had a double sal and a double toe. I worry it’s going to be another typical US Pair...beautiful elements and can’t jump...I hope I’m wrong!

 

[Wyliefan]

Nice program. They went mostly orchestral and didn't go for all the most obvious music cuts from Beauty and the Beast.

 

[Karen-W]

Nice program. They went mostly orchestral and didn't go for all the most obvious music cuts from Beauty and the Beast.

Yeah, but Ariana Grande/Jon Legend cover of the original Celine Dion/Peabody Bryson song? That's just all sorts of wrong, lol.

 

[Rukia]

I think these two show a lot of promise too. There were some good elements in there.

 

[Wyliefan]

Whole lotta Disney going on.

 

[Rukia]

The last lift was simultaneously cool and scary. Still, I liked them. They had good flow, especially once then settled into the program.

 

[Karen-W]

I really love her dress. His is a little too on point for Aladdin but I can overlook it given how pretty her dress is.

 

[Sylvia]

FS protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2021/27989/SEGM014.html

GOLD Anastasiia Smirnova, Yarmouth Ice Club / Danil Siianytsia, All Year FSC 1 59.07 1 110.78 169.85
SILVER Isabelle Martins, Chicago FSC / Ryan Bedard, Northern Ice SC 2 52.14 2 95.88 148.02
BRONZE Valentina Plazas, Panthers FSC / Maximiliano Fernandez, Arctic FSC 4 47.04 3 90.22 137.26
PEWTER Catherine Rivers, Knoxville FSC / Timmy Chapman, Central Florida FSC 5 45.97 4 88.04 134.01
5 Sydney Cooke, Elite Edge SC / Keyton Bearinger, Detroit SC 3 48.61 5 82.78 131.39
6 Aleksandra Prudsky, SC of Houston / Daniel Tioumentsev, Dallas FSC 6 43.31 6 76.07 119.38
7 Haley Conrad, Dallas FSC / Kristofer Ogren, Kansas City FSC 8 34.54 7 62.78 97.32
8 Juliette Reed, Skokie Valley SC / Jordan Gillette, Skokie Valley SC 7 35.17 8 59.57 94.74