2025 U.S. Sectional Singles & Pairs/Ice Dance Finals - Ogden UT; Norwood MA; Plano TX

[Sylvia]

Jessica Jurka (Opening Title and Three Card Switch by David Arnold): 3Lz+2T, 3T, 3S, 3F, 3Lo? (screen blurred), 3Lz+2A+2A & 3Lo+2T - 117.26 2nd in FS, 170.56 2nd overall!

Jurka's 2nd place FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbLtPkd9ETg

Johnson's jumps in her 1st place FS were 3S, 3Lz+3T<, 3F+2T, 3Lo, 3F, 3Lz+2A+2T+SEQ, 2A; all level 4 spins.

Jiaying Ellyse's FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI0tsAMvUwo

 

[Sylvia]

Mids Juvenile Girls FS is starting: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT015SEG031.html

Livestream (World rink): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqT4eRUo5E4

Top 5 NQS scores in this section:
Tera Gropp 59.85 (IIRC she can land 3Lz) - skates last at #23
Annika Roloff 56.15 - #16
Sonoka Matsumoto 53.21 - #8
Brooklyn Wybo 52.30 - #13
Xintong Zhou 50.33 - #12

Link to USFS' 2024-25 BONUS CHART for those interested: https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/2024-25 Domestic Bonus Chart.pdf
At Juvenile, skaters get 1 bonus point for either a double Axel or a triple.

Juvenile & Intermediate: To be eligible for any bonus, jumps must be fully rotated, landed on the quarter (q) or under-rotated (<). Jumps with an edge attention (!) are eligible. Jump elements that include a wrong edge (e) or downgrade (<<) are not eligible for a bonus.

Juvenile & Intermediate: If ANY jump in a jump combo/sequence has a wrong edge or downgrade, the element is not eligible for a Combination/Sequence Bonus

 

[Sylvia]

Mids Intermediate Men FS starting order/live results: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT005SEG018.html

Livestream (U.S. rink): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3npDWrLUg

 

[AnnMJensen]

Both of my YouTube streams just died…. But my Internet seems to be working - Is it just me???

 

[Flip Jump]

Both of my YouTube streams just died…. But my Internet seems to be working - Is it just me???

Both of my feeds have stopped too

 

[Sylvia]

Internet went down in Plano rink but has been restored for the end of the Juvenile Girls & Intermediate Men FS!

ETA:

Final Juvenile girl Tera Gropp skated to "Howl's Moving Castle" and looks to be the winner! Yes, a whopping 62.71 (she landed 2 big 2A and expressed her music well)

 

[Sylvia]

Mids Intermediate Men final standings: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT005SEG018.html
FS protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/SEGM018.html
GOLD 12 Daniel Liu, Broadmoor SC 2 33.64 1 70.44 104.08
SILVER 11 Antonio De Luna, DuPage FSC 1 35.35 2 60.64 95.99
BRONZE 14 Kimito Miyagawa, Winterhurst FSC 5 30.92 3 56.22 (FS to a Bruno Mars medley & he was thrilled about medaling) 87.14
PEWTER 13 Brandon Gunawan, Rocky Mountain FSC 3 32.42 5 54.26 (Beauty & the Beast FS) 86.68
5 10 Eugene Gardiner, St. Paul FSC 4 30.98 4 55.24 86.22
6 7 Ethan Lee, Dallas FSC 9 25.40 6 54.13 79.53
7 9 Eric Shen, Broadmoor SC 6 30.03 8 48.10 78.13
8 8 David Kadar, Detroit SC 7 28.11 7 48.21 76.32
9 5 Rex Herrera, Memorial FSC Of Houston 8 27.89 9 47.79 75.68
10 6 Egor Ananenko, Go4Gold Shakopee Skating Academy 10 23.97 10 47.11 71.08
11 1 Kaede Kawaguchi, Detroit SC 11 23.70 12 41.55 65.25
12 2 Ryan Shaffer, Southport SC 14 19.32 11 43.23 62.55
13 4 Quinn Lambert-Moskowitz, Queen City FSC 13 20.14 13 38.58 58.72
14 3 Caleb Probst, Denver Colorado FSC 12 20.89 14 37.49 58.38

Mids Juvenile Girls FS final standings: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT015SEG031.html
Protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/SEGM031.html
GOLD 23 Tera Gropp, Denver Colorado FSC 62.71 (Howl's Moving Castle music by Joe Hisaishi)
SILVER 16 Annika Roloff, Braemar-City of Lakes FSC 58.54
BRONZE 4 Karina Minson, Alpine SC 53.44
PEWTER 15 Callan Rahardja, Broadmoor SC 51.92
5 18 Christina Hu, DuPage FSC 50.99
6 13 Brooklyn Wybo, Ann Arbor FSC 48.92
7 7 April Duan, Alpine SC 48.08
8 6 Mari Flores, Heart Of Illinois SC 47.77
9 2 Angela Dai, Detroit SC 47.51
10 11 Madeleine Langevin, Austin FSC 47.38
11 10 Sophia Hu, Detroit SC 47.22
12 1 Lily Tawrel, Skokie Valley SC 44.14
13 12 Xintong Zhou, Denver Colorado FSC 44.13
14 20 Marie Gonzalez Salles, Skokie Valley SC 43.37
15 3 Silvie Panneck, Cutting Edge FSC 42.76
16 21 Calista McLeod, Chicago FSC 42.09
17 22 Adrienne Kan, SC of Houston 41.60
18 17 Giuliana Gariti, Northern Ice SC 38.25
19 19 Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Ivanchenko, Go4Gold Shakopee Skating Academy 36.32
20 9 Brooklynne Brown, Northern Ice SC 35.66
21 5 Zoey Ding, SC of Houston 35.26
22 14 Shanaya Farishta, Dallas FSC 33.57
23 8 Sonoka Matsumoto, Skokie Valley SC 33.52 (had a rough skate to Miss Saigon; her coaches - Denise Myers, Jeremy Allen & Tommy Steenberg - were very supportive of her in the kiss & cry)

 

[Sylvia]

Top 9 NQS scores in this section:
Angela Shao 153.07 (as a Novice placed 7th of 18 at 2024 Junior Nationals in Columbus)
Annabelle Wilkins 147.24
Chloe Levine 130.28
Janelle Reynolds 127.27
Erika Gerstenslager 124.07
Carol McKinnis 121.46
Jolena Grohne 118.49 (was #9 of 9 in NQS Junior pairs standings but did not compete with Reede Lunt in last week's Final)
Emma Chao 117.44
Cayla Smith 116.42 (still looking for a pair partner?)

Mids Novice Women SP protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/SEGM019.html

Angela Shao was 1st with 50.33 (Shazam says her SP music was "Under Giant Trees" by Agnes Obel) and had ambitious jumps: 3S+3Lo (called 'q') had a turnout? 3Lz & 2A. Tammy Gambill was with her in the k&c.

The final skater, Cayla Smith, performed very energetically - I expected nothing less of her! - to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" and landed 3S, 3T+2T & 2A. She finished 2nd with 46.73 and was very happy in the k&c.

Tamaki Shinohara, Taira's younger sister, also competed in this event.

Top 7:
1 16 Angela Shao, Ann Arbor FSC 50.33
2 24 Cayla Smith, Fort Wayne ISC 46.73
3 23 Chloe Levine, Chicago FSC 45.33 - 3Lo+2T, 3F< fall, 2A
4 13 Janelle Reynolds, Ann Arbor FSC 42.81 - 3S+2T, 3T, 2A
5 5 Jolena Grohne, Broadmoor SC 42.18 - 3S+2T, 2F, 2A
6 4 Rebecca Sun, Ann Arbor FSC 41.14 - 3Lze< fall, 3S+2T, 2A
7 1 Annabelle Wilkins, Ann Arbor FSC 40.11 - 3Lz fall, 3Lo+combo+1T*, 2A

Mids Novice Women FS starting order/results: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT006SEG020.html

Livestream (U.S. rink): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5-6xQRABM

Top 2 will qualify to compete in the Junior event at Nationals.

 

[Sylvia]

Taira Shinohara's younger sister Tamaki is competing in the first group of Novice Women's FS, along with Rebecca Lichtman who competed in Intermediate Dance.

 

[Sylvia]

MY PET PEEVE re. Shazam - Tamaki Shinohara's lovely classical FS music was by Chopin and the individual piano pieces and pianists were identified as:
Étude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-Flat Major (Lang Lang)
Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 9 No. 2 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
Impromptu No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66, "Fantaisie-Impromptu" (YUNDI)
But the composer is not listed at all?!?!

 

[Sylvia]

Mids Senior Men FS should be starting on Peacock soon - SP starting order/live results: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34290/CAT013SEG028.html

FS starting order:

1 Max Lake, Detroit SC 7 59.88 - full-time at Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison & also an accomplished pianist; Jonathan Cassar from where Max used to train in Cali is with him in Plano
2 Gabriel Martinez, Skokie Valley SC 9 53.48 - no coach with him
3 Alexander Liu, Dallas FSC 8 53.51 - his Dallas coaches are Cambria Jones & Ashley Fitzpatrick
4 Nathan Chapple, Winterhurst FSC 6 61.11 - relocated to CO Springs this summer; Tom Z. & Stephanie Kuban are with him

5 Joseph Klein, Skokie Valley SC 2 74.74 - Scotland by The Lumineers / Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan, Hozier, program is self choreo. & Silvia Fontana also listed in his ISU bio; attending Northwestern Univ. & is back with his Chicago coaches, Agata Czyzewski & Valeria Masarsky: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108087.htm
6 Antonio Monaco, Scott Hamilton SC 5 64.74 - still coached by Kori Ade in Nashville
7 Taira Shinohara, Chicago FSC 3 73.20 - The Boy and the Heron OST by Joe Hisaishi/Spinning Gloibe by Kenshi Yonezu; with him are Hov Mkrtchian (from Team Raf in Irvine, CA) & Scott Brown who is listed as one of his choreographers: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00113180.htm
8 Tomoki Hiwatashi, DuPage FSC 1 79.79 - Jimmy's Tux by John Debney/Fight or Flight by Ryan Shore, choreo. by Cathy Reed; Hiroaki Sato is with him from Japan: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014495.htm
9 Beck Strommer, Alpine SC 4 68.13 - Violin Concerto No. 2 in C Major by Camille Saint-Saens, arr by Hugo Chouinard (self-choreo. and presumably with help from one or more of the choreographers listed in his ISU bio https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00113882.htm; Jonathan Cassar is with him from his training rink in Lakewood, CA

 

[Sylvia]

Happy 36th birthday today (Nov. 23) to Tommy Steenberg who has been in the Mids kiss & cry a LOT this week!

 

[YukiNieve]

I have many favorite skaters in the Mids senior men- this will not be easy to watch...

 

[Sylvia]

I feel the same way. And I imagine the Pacific Coast Senior men's alternates are watching and anxiously waiting as well...

 

[Sylvia]

Not bad for a college guy - Lake skated to The White Crow OST and had a good opening 4T attempt (fall) and landed both his 3As & a few other triples. Julie Berlin (from Detroit SC) is with him & Cassar.

ETA: 122.90 in FS, 182.78 total

 

[YukiNieve]

Martinez does not have a coach in K&C for SP and FS.

 

[Sylvia]

I assume he was saving money by not bringing a coach with him?

Gabriel Martinez skated to Rondinella, Mariachi Caballeros de Mexico for his FS today and Con La Brisa (Film Version) for his SP yesterday. He spoke Spanish to the kiss & cry camera yesterday at first before switching to English.
108.38 in FS, 161.86 total.

 

[YukiNieve]

I assume he was saving money by not bringing a coach with him?

The feed is having hiccups. Please

 

[Sylvia]

Alexander Liu (Sign of the Times by Harry Styles) opened with a big 3F+2A+2T and had more good moments today compared to yesterday.
108.70 in FS,162.21 2nd

 

[YukiNieve]

Who choreographed Nathan Chapple's FS?

 

[Sylvia]

Nathan Chapple skated to the blues song “I Love You More You'll Ever Know” by Oli Brown - I’ll see if I can find out who choreographed it.

ETA: 102.13 in FS, 163.24 2nd

 

[Debbie S]

Happy 36th birthday today (Nov. 23) to Tommy Steenberg who has been in the Mids kiss & cry a LOT this week!

Well, if I didn't already feel old enough....

 

[YukiNieve]

Is your live stream OK? Mine stops briefly quite often.

 

[Debbie S]

Is your feed OK? Mine stops briefly quite often.

Mine has been too. Hope it stays on!

 

[Sylvia]

Klein (Scotland by The Lumineers / Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan, Hozier) - jumps: 3A step, 2A+3T, 3F+2T+2Lo, 3F, trademark cool cantilever to spread eagle sequence, 3Lo+2A, 3Lo, 3S.

ETA: 141.09 in FS, 215.83 in 1st!

 

[YukiNieve]

Who are Joseph's new coaches?
He did well except 3A turnout!

 

[YukiNieve]

Antonio

 

[Sylvia]

Who are Joseph's new coaches?

They're his coaches before he moved to CO Springs: Agata Czyzewski & Valeria Masarsky. He's attending Northwestern University in Chicago now.

 

[AnnMJensen]

The men are menning and the stream is buffering. Is it too early to drink????

 

[Sylvia]

Tough skate for Antonio Monaco - 98.39 in FS, 163.13 4th.
Shazam identified his music (1st & 3rd pieces) as Journey of Discovery & Belief by Elephant Music.

Taira Shinohara (The Boy and the Heron OST by Joe Hisaishi/Spinning Gloibe by Kenshi Yonezu): 3A fall, 1A, 3Lz fall, 3Lo, 3F+1Eu+3S 2fted, 3F+1A, 3S.

ETA: 118.94 in FS, 192.14 2nd.

For the record, I dislike the term "menning" that many are using now.