2025-26 USFS International Assignments

[Karen-W]

JGP Riga assignments are also out!

Men - Lorenzo Elano*
Women - Angela Shao* & Sherry Zhang
Pairs - Naomi Williams/Lachlan Lewer* & Addyson McDanold/Aaron Felberbaum
Ice Dance - Michelle Deych/Ryan Hu & Jasmine Robertson/Chase Rohner*

* = JGP debut

Amazingly, WilLew are making their JGP debut AFTER they made their GP debut (Finlandia 2024) and also after their 2nd Jr Worlds (2024 & 2025) appearance.

These align with what I was told privately earlier today for Men, Pairs & 1 of the Dance teams, so I presume the Women & other Dance team are also not placeholders.

 

[her grace]

Also, we have the Cranberry Cup senior entries up!

Sr Men - Tomoki Hiwatashi, Liam Kapeikis, Kai Kovar, Jimmy Ma, Daniel Martynov, Jacob Sanchez, Jared Sedlis
Sr Women - Brooke Gewalt, Sonja Hilmer, Josephine Lee, Isabeau Levito, Katie Shen

Adding national placements in brackets to the entries:

Sr Men
Hiwatashi [S6]
Kapeikis [S8]
Kovar [S15]
Ma [S5]
Martynov [S11]
Sanchez [S7]
Sedlis [J9]

So, it looks like this will be a good battle between Senior 5th-8th. Of the men, Ma has 2 GPs, Sanchez has 1 GP, and the rest have none. There's still a TBD at Skate America and the results here could factor into that selection. It's also a chance for newer seniors Kovar and Martynov to try to make a statement. Sedlis's inclusion after only finishing 9th in Juniors is a bit odd, but it helps to be local!

Sr Women
Gewalt [S14]
Hilmer [S9]
Lee, J. [S7]
Levito [S-WD]
Shen [DNQ]

Interesting that they chose a lot fewer women. And no battle for GP consideration since USFS already used up the host spots. I will be very interested to see how SA-bound Lee skates in comparison to the rest of the Americans. Of the other athletes, I'm not as familiar with Katie Shen, and she wasn't at nationals last season. She was the 2022 U.S. jr pewter medalist and she won Cranberry in Juniors in 2023. I would've liked to see Gasparotto [S13] get an invite as well, but maybe she'll be assigned somewhere else as the season progresses.

 

[Karen-W]

Cranberry and JGP Riga assignments are confirmed on the USFS website -

2025-26 International Assignments and Results

2025-26 International Assignments and Results

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