Entries & Skater info - 2025 US Nationals

[Sylvia]

"More than 180 athletes have qualified for the 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which will take place Jan. 20-26 in Wichita, Kansas." USFS' press release (Monday, November 25, 2024):

2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

(I've included the placements of the skaters/teams that competed at Eastern/Midwestern/Pacific Coast Sectionals & U.S. Ice Dance/Pairs Finals below):

Senior Men (18):

• Jason Brown (bye)
• Goku Endo (senior sectionals, P-1)
• Tomoki Hiwatashi (senior sectionals, M-1)
• Liam Kapeikis (senior sectionals, P-3)
• Lucius Kazanecki (senior sectionals, E-2)
• Joseph Klein (senior sectionals, M-3)
• Kai Kovar (senior sectionals, P-2)
• Jimmy Ma (bye)
• Ilia Malinin (bye)
• Samuel Mindra (senior sectionals, P-4)
• Daniel Martynov (bye)
• Maxim Naumov (bye)
• Camden Pulkinen (bye)
• Jacob Sanchez (bye - JGPF)
• Beck Strommer (senior sectionals, M-2)
• Emmanuel Savary (senior sectionals, E-1)
• Andrew Torgashev (bye)
• Michael Xie (senior sectionals, P-3)

Senior Women (18):

• Starr Andrews (senior sectionals, P-2)
• Alina Bonillo (senior sectionals, M-1)
• Ting Cui (senior sectionals, E-1)
• Alex Evans (senior sectionals, E-2)
• Sarah Everhardt (bye)
• Amber Glenn (bye)
• Logan Higase-Chen (senior sectionals, M-2)
• Sonja Hilmer (senior sectionals, M-3)
• Mia Kalin (bye)
• Josephine Lee (bye)
• Isabeau Levito (bye)
• Elyce Lin-Gracey (bye)
• Alysa Liu (bye)
• Clare Seo (bye)
• Bradie Tennell (bye)
• Lindsay Thorngren (bye)
• Sherry Zhang (senior sectionals, P-1)
• Ava Ziegler (bye)

Senior Ice Dance (15):

• Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville (bye)
• Oona Brown and Gage Brown (bye)
• Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko (bye)
• Madison Chock and Evan Bates (bye)
• Amy Cui and Jonathan Rogers (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 3rd)
• Caroline Green and Michael Parsons (bye)
• Raffaella Koncius and Alexey Shchepetov (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 2nd)
• Michela Melillo and Karl Schapfel (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 6th)
• Anabelle Morozov and Jeffrey Chen (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 1st)
• Leah Neset and Artem Markelov (bye)
• Eva Pate and Logan Bye (bye)
• Vanessa Pham and Anton Spiridonov (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 4th)
• Katarina Wolfkostin and Dimitry Tsarevski (bye - JGPF)
• Grace Yi and Danila Savelev (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 5th)
• Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik (bye)

Senior Pairs (12):

• Emily Chan and Spencer Howe (bye)
• Sydney Cooke and Matthew Kennedy (U.S. Pairs Final, 2nd)
• Nica Digerness and Mark Sadusky (bye)
• Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov (bye)
• Linzy Fitzpatrick and Keyton Bearinger (bye)
• Grace Hanns and Danny Neudecker (U.S. Pairs Final, 3rd) - made it in
• Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea (bye)
• Ellie Korytek and Timmy Chapman (U.S. Pairs Final, 1st)
• Isabelle Martins and Ryan Bedard (bye)
• Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman (bye)
• Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy (bye)
• Naomi Williams and Lachlan Lewer (bye)

Junior Men (18):

• Ryan William Azadpour (junior sectionals, P-2)
• Patrick Blackwell (junior sectionals, E-3)
• Thomas Chen (junior sectionals, M-3)
• Lorenzo Elano (junior sectionals, M-1)
• Sergei Evseev (junior sectionals, P-4)
• Aleksandr Fegan (junior sectionals, E-1)
• Isaac Fulton (junior sectionals, M-2)
• Kirk Haugeto (junior sectionals, E-4)
• Michael Jin (novice sectionals, P-2)
• Louis Mallane (novice sectionals, M-1)
• Brendan Man (novice sectionals, E-1)
• Arsen Meghavoryan (junior sectionals, P-3)
• Evan Neuhaus (novice sectionals, M-2)
• Jared Sedlis (junior sectionals, E-2)
• Alek Tankovic (junior sectionals, M-4)
• Vaclav Vasquez (junior sectionals, P-1)
• Ethan Yan (novice sectionals, P-1)
• David Zhao (novice sectionals, E-2)

Junior Women (18):

• Sofia Bezkorovainaya (junior sectionals, E-2)
• Annika Chao (junior sectionals, P-2)
• Alayna Coats (junior sectionals, P-4)
• Ela Cui (junior sectionals, M-4)
• Mia Iwase (novice sectionals, E-2)
• Jiaying Ellyse Johnson (junior sectionals, M-3)
• Jessica Jurka (junior sectionals, M-2)
• Hannah Kim (novice sectionals, P-1)
• Teryn Kim (junior sectionals, P-3)
• Skylar Lautowa-Peguero (junior sectionals, E-3)
• Emilia Nemirovsky (junior sectionals, M-1)
• Cleo Park (junior sectionals, P-1)
• Maria Platonova (junior sectionals, E-4)
• Angela Shao (novice sectionals, M-1)
• Carina Tanabe (novice sectionals, P-2)
• Kaya Tiernan (novice sectionals, E-1)
• Sophie Joline von Felten (junior sectionals, E-1)
• Annabelle Wilkins (novice sectionals, M-2)

Junior Ice Dance (12):

• Hana Maria Aboian and Daniil Veselukhin (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 1st)
• Effie Chen and Kenny Eckert (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 8th)
• Michelle Deych and Ryan Hu (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 9th)
• Julia Epps and Blake Gilman (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 7th)
• Olivia Ilin and Dylan Cain (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 3rd)
• Ja Yi Kirwan and Rowan Le Coq (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 11th)
• Anaelle Kouevi and Yann Homawoo (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 10th)
• Caroline Mullen and Brendan Mullen (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 2nd)
• Elliana Peal and Ethan Peal (bye - JGPF)
• Yahli Pedersen and Benjamin Starr (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 6th)
• Emily Renzi and William Lissauer (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 5th)
• Annelise Stapert and Maxim Korotcov (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 4th)

Junior Pairs (10):

• Saya Carpenter and Jon Maravilla (U.S. Pairs Final, 9th [skated injured])
• Olivia Flores and Luke Wang (bye - JGPF)
• Graceann Gottschalk and Sam Herbert (U.S. Pairs Final, 5th)
• Elizabeth Hansen and William Church (U.S. Pairs Final, 1st)
• Sofia Jarmoc and Luke Witkowski (U.S. Pairs Final, 4th)
• Milada Kovar and Jared McPike (U.S. Pairs Final, 7th)
• Addyson McDanold and Aaron Felberbaum (U.S. Pairs Final, 3rd)
• Mazie McFarland and Samir Andjorin (U.S. Pairs Final, 8th)
• Reagan Moss and Jakub Galbavy (U.S. Pairs Final, 2nd)
• Taisiya Shapovalova and Carter Griffin (U.S. Pairs Final, 6th)

Novice Ice Dance (5):

• Marian Carhart and Denis Bledsoe (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 1st)
• Sophia Feige and Wiles Middlekauff (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 3rd)
• Grace Fischer and Luke Fischer (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 2nd)
• Clara Fugate and Warren Fugate (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 4th)
• Annie Huang and Simon Mintz (U.S. Ice Dance Final, 5th)

Novice Pairs (4):

• Giuliana Gariti and Matthew Curtis (U.S. Pairs Final, 3rd)
• Alena Kerr and Mitchell Castelletti (U.S. Pairs Final, 2nd)
• Juliet Meek and Devin Meek (U.S. Pairs Final, 1st)
• Tallulah Tanner and Nickolai Apter (U.S. Pairs Final, 4th)

 

[Sylvia]

Just noticed my 2 placement typos in Senior Men - should read:

Michael Xie (senior sectionals, P-4)
Samuel Mindra (senior sectionals, P-5) - final spot

1st Senior Men's alternate: Taira Shinohara M-4

1st 2 alternates in Senior Women:
Alexa Gasparotto M-4
Brooke Gewalt M-5

 

[Rukia]

Ava is out and Alexa is in as of 1/2/25 (per USFS's webpage)

 

[Sylvia]

^^^ Thank you. Also listed as WD today (Jan. 2) in Junior Ice Dance: Yahli Pedersen and Benjamin Starr

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Ava is out and Alexa is in as of 1/2/25 (per USFS's webpage)

Sad for Ava but not surprised. Good for Alexa, though.

 

[Wyliefan]

Ava is out and Alexa is in as of 1/2/25 (per USFS's webpage)

Well, crap.

Good for Alexa, though.

 

[Sylvia]

"Devin and Juliet Meek are sibling figure skaters, champions from Jacksonville and currently the top novice [pair] team in the United States." Video (Dec. 28, 2024):

Youth sibling figure skaters join GMJ to talk recent tournament win

Devin and Juliet Meek are figure skaters who joined Good Morning Jacksonville to talk about their next tournament on the national stage.

www.firstcoastnews.com

On Saturday morning they stopped by Good Morning Jacksonville to describe how they started in the sport, the training they go through to succeed in figure skating and the challenges they have to overcome by competing in a winter sport with limited ice availability in Northeast Florida.

 

[Rukia]

Clare Seo out, Brooke Gewalt in

 

[Sylvia]

Clare Seo out, Brooke Gewalt in

Thanks for the heads up. I've just replied in the U.S. Women's thread: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/u-s-women-7-make-me-a-believer.112409/page-2#post-6710272

Michelle Lee is the 3rd alternate (160.19, 6th at Mids), coached by Damon Allen, Eddie Shipstad, Sandy Straub: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/sports/figure-skating/roster/michelle-lee/1076
(Note: Seo's coach as listed Eddie Shipstad: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00111283.htm).

ETA: Katie Shen is the 4th alternate (158.74, 3rd at Pacific Coasts).

 

[Sylvia]

"Devin and Juliet Meek are sibling figure skaters, champions from Jacksonville and currently the top novice [pair] team in the United States." Video (Dec. 28, 2024):

Youth sibling figure skaters join GMJ to talk recent tournament win

Devin and Juliet Meek are figure skaters who joined Good Morning Jacksonville to talk about their next tournament on the national stage.

www.firstcoastnews.com

Cross-posting here from the U.S. Pairs news thread in GSD [I watched to the end of this video only yesterday] - For a fun moment watch until the end of the video segment!

TV anchor/reporter at First Coast News Rich Donnelly after watching the sibling Novice pair team of Devin & Juliet Meek demonstrate a lasso lift [to one arm, including set down] on the studio floor: "Holy smokes! Juliet, you're like 10 feet in the air! And you guys do this on skates too... that's very impressive!" (Donnelly initially sounded surprised/taken aback and his reaction made me )

 

[Sylvia]

Continuing to post pre-Nationals articles on the "lesser-known skaters" in this thread (ETA - also linked in U.S. Pairs news thread):

Sydney Cooke and Matthew Kennedy prepare for senior [pairs] Nationals debut in Wichita (Jan. 8): https://figureskatersonline.com/new...repare-for-senior-nationals-debut-in-wichita/

“I do like the amount of time we have in our program as seniors,” the 22-year-old Cooke said. “In juniors, I always felt like we were rushed. The quality of skating in general – everybody skates as a team. In juniors, sometimes you really had two singles skaters skating at once. We really had to work to skate as one.”
The team is in the midst of a comeback. Cooke sprained her ankle on one of her attempts on a triple twist, and they lost the entire summer. Although they continued to skate during the injury, Cooke could not put weight on her landing foot. In the fall, they competed in two national qualifying series events — Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships and Boston Open, where they finished first and second respectively. They won the silver medal at the Pairs Final in November.
“I feel as prepared as possible for how much time we have had,” the 23-year-old Kennedy said. “We’ve definitely grown as skaters. Neither of us are where we want to be right now, and we are excited to show fans what we have when we have a full year as seniors.”

 

[Sylvia]

Evanston, Illinois RoundTable (Jan. 9) - photo by Richard Cahan:

At This Time: Stars on ice - Evanston RoundTable

Take a walk around the track of the Robert Crown Community Center most every afternoon and you might see singles skaters Lorenzo Elano and Alina Bonillo

evanstonroundtable.com

Take a walk around the track of the Robert Crown Community Center most every afternoon and you might see singles skaters Lorenzo Elano and Alina Bonillo practicing for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas. Elano qualified for the junior men’s competition and Bonillo for the [Senior] women’s event. Both 17, they each train about 20 hours a week — mostly at Crown — and teach skating.

 

[Debbie S]

Isabeau is out of Nats due to a foot injury.

Isabeau Levito on Instagram: "Hi everyone, I am heartbroken to say that I won’t be able to compete at Nationals this year due to a foot injury. This is not at all how I envisioned my season but I want to make sure I recover and come back fully witho

20K likes, 378 comments - isabeau.levito on January 14, 2025: "Hi everyone, I am heartbroken to say that I won’t be able to compete at Nationals this year due to a foot injury. This is not at all how I envisioned my season but I want to make sure I recover and come back fully without pain or...

www.instagram.com

 

[Sylvia]

Michelle Lee (3rd alternate behind Gasparotto & Gewalt at Mids) replaces Levito: https://www.usfigureskating.org/new...figure-skating-championships-lineup-announced

Isabeau's WD is being discussed in GSD (post #93 onwards): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/u-s-women-7-make-me-a-believer.112409/page-4#post-6712931

 

[Debbie S]

Cross-posted from U.S. Women thread.

Local article on Ting Cui: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/...nal-championships-V6QMJUL5M5BHBMDWMD4L2B6ROU/

 

[skipaway]

Cross posted from TV thread.
Peacock has some Junior and Practice tiles up under the ”Olympic Sports” catalog. No sign yet of Senior tiles.

 

[Karen-W]

Skater Bios are up - https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/2025 US Championships bios.pdf

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Copying over my post from the US Men's thread:

Jason has withdrawn from US Nats

Jason Brown on Instagram: "After careful consideration and conversations with my team, I’ve made the tough decision to withdraw from this week’s US Figure Skating Championships. I’ve been facing a series of challenges adjusting to an equipment chang

19K likes, 540 comments - jasonbskates on January 20, 2025: "After careful consideration and conversations with my team, I’ve made the tough decision to withdraw from this week’s US Figure Skating Championships. I’ve been facing a series of challenges adjusting to an equipment change, and I...

www.instagram.com

For those who can't access IG, Jason wrote that he has been facing a series of challenges adjusting to an equipment change and has been unable to train and compete at a level he expects of himself. He's working with his team to resolve this and return to competition soon.

 

[Debbie S]

Who is the next alternate? I wonder if there is time for a replacement. Men SP isn't until Sat.

 

[Karen-W]

Who is the next alternate? I wonder if there is time for a replacement. Men SP isn't until Sat.

Taira Shinohara.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Taira Shinohara.

Here's hoping he can make it in. It's going to be frustrating if Jason withdrew too late to give him a chance.

 

[Karen-W]

Taira's been added to the list of Sr Men's entries!

2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

 

[Sylvia]

Here's hoping he can make it in. It's going to be frustrating if Jason withdrew too late to give him a chance.

Taira is coming, I’ve heard!

Jason choreographed Taira’s SP so I’m sure he gave him a heads up before he announced his WD.

 

[Rukia]

Very happy for Taira!!

 

[slicekw]

So glad Taira can make it. So sad that my autocorrect wants it to be “tiara” every damn time I type it.

I like the idea of Nats without Jason - let’s see how the men can do this year. Could be nice to see them skating knowing there’s a better chance to get on the world team.

 

[tangerine dream]

I'm very happy for Taira! He is too good of a skater to be missing nationals.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

1	Ellie Korytek, SC of New York Timmy Chapman, SC of New York
	2	Sydney Cooke, Elite Edge SC Matthew Kennedy, Patriot FSC
	3	Grace Hanns, Broadmoor SC Danny Neudecker, Seattle SC
	4	Linzy Fitzpatrick, SC of New York Keyton Bearinger, SC of New York
	5	Nica Digerness, Broadmoor SC Mark Sadusky, St. Moritz ISC
	6	Audrey Shin, SC of New York Balazs Nagy, SC of New York
	7	Isabelle Martins, Chicago FSC Ryan Bedard, Northern Ice SC
	8	Katie McBeath, Winterhurst FSC Daniil Parkman, SC of New York
	9	Naomi Williams, SC of Boston Lachlan Lewer, Broadmoor SC
	10	Alisa Efimova, SC of Boston Misha Mitrofanov, SC of Boston
	11	Emily Chan, SC of Boston Spencer Howe, SC of Boston
	12	Ellie Kam, Thunderbirds FSC

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Women

I don’t like the start orders, I like them when they are more mixed up.

1	Ting Cui, Baltimore FSC
	2	Alina Bonillo, DuPage FSC
	3	Alexa Gasparotto, Arctic FSC
	4	Michelle Lee, Broadmoor SC
	5	Alex Evans, SC of New York
	6	Brooke Gewalt, Wagon Wheel FSC
	7	Logan Higase-Chen, Broadmoor SC
	8	Mia Kalin, St. Moritz ISC
	9	Sonja Hilmer, Centennial SC
	10	Sherry Zhang, Glacier Falls FSC
	11	Josephine Lee, All Year FSC
	12	Alysa Liu, St. Moritz ISC
	13	Sarah Everhardt, Washington FSC
	14	Starr Andrews, Los Angeles FSC
	15	Bradie Tennell, SC of New York
	16	Lindsay Thorngren, SC of New York
	17	Elyce Lin-Gracey, Pasadena FSC
	18	Amber Glenn, Dallas FSC

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Ice dance

1	Raffaella Koncius, Los Angeles FSC Alexey Shchepetov, FSC of Southern California
	2	Grace Yi, Boise FSC Danila Savelev, Thunderbirds FSC
	3	Michela Melillo, Connecticut Skating Academy Karl Schapfel, Hayden Recreation Centre FSC
	4	Vanessa Pham, SC of Houston Anton Spiridonov, SC of New York
	5	Amy Cui, SC of Boston Jonathan Rogers, Texas Gulf Coast FSC
	6	Annabelle Morozov, SC of New York Jeffrey Chen, Peninsula SC
	7	Katarina Wolfkostin, Peninsula SC Dimitry Tsarevski, Peninsula SC
	8	Oona Brown, SC of New York Gage Brown, SC of New York
	9	Eva Pate, Cleveland SC Logan Bye, SC of New York
	10	Emily Bratti, Washington FSC Ian Somerville, Washington FSC
	11	Leah Neset, Magic City FSC Artem Markelov, Magic City FSC
	12	Emilea Zingas, St. Clair Shores FSC Vadym Kolesnik, SC of New York
	13	Caroline Green, Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights Michael Parsons, Washington FSC
	14	Christina Carreira, SC of New York Anthony Ponomarenko, SC of San Francisco
	15	Madison Chock, All Year FSC Evan Bates, Ann Arbor FSC

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Do we know were there start orders draws? Not even a draw amongst groups? They just look like they are in reverse order of world standings.