Junior Pairs SP & FS

[Rukia]

f/w didn't get the death spiral sigh

 

[Karen-W]

Flores/Wang - no value for their DS and their SBS spins were a L3V; Moss/Galbavy had a L3 on the DS and their SBS spins were called L4... That explains it.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I just rewound and watched the final group, I’m very familiar with flores and Wang. I’ve seen them many times, but Moss and Galbavy I thought that was really great, he’s going to be a star.

Even though I did not know who this team was, I’m very pleased they are in first, I hope this team shakes things up in the standings.

 

[Karen-W]

f/w didn't get the death spiral sigh

The BODS this season has been a real score-killer for sooooo many teams, junior & senior, but especially junior.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I just watched the program a second time, I could watch it again. Love their lines, their ice coverage their expression. They are two skating as one already.

 

[BrightSkates]

His outside edge foot was not smooth on the DS, as soon as I saw it I thought it was sketchy but I thought that they would give it. His foot was cranking out the last revs which is probably why they didn't count it.

 

[her grace]

Did some quick math and it looks like every team will be eligible for JGP next year except McFarland/Andjordin.

@Karen-W do you have the list of teams with Jr. Worlds CTES? I would assume they’ll choose the team from these four: Moss/Galbavy, Flores/Wang, Carpenter/Maravilla, and Williams/Lewer (competing in senior division).

 

[Karen-W]

Did some quick math and it looks like every team will be eligible for JGP next year except McFarland/Andjordin.

@Karen-W do you have the list of teams with Jr. Worlds CTES? I would assume they’ll choose the team from these four: Moss/Galbavy, Flores/Wang, Carpenter/Maravilla, and Williams/Lewer (competing in senior division).

There are 6 teams with Jr Worlds CTES mins -

Flores/Wang
Moss/Galbavy
Carpenter/Maravilla
Hansen/Church
McDanold/Felberbaum
Williams/Lewer

100% positive Flores/Wang will be on the JWC team, so it's really a fight for the other two spots. WilLew have struggled all season and I wouldn't send them over any of the other teams, but if they're looking good here, they may get the nod, especially if the rest of the teams behind FlorWang wind up a mess in the FS.

 

[mtnskater]

I was pleasantly surprised at how many quite good junior pair teams we saw. Many of them quite young too. Hope most stay together.

A little surprised about Flores & Wang. They still have a bit of a rag tag appearance….really need to get that clean unison down. They need consistent expression throughout too. Little errors eating away the score. But they really do skate with heart and always draw me in.

Moss/Galbavy really have improved! Very clean skating, nice unison. Nice expression. Also really like Carpenter/Maravilla. Yuka working some magic.

 

[gkelly]

Question for the experts: Does the Novice short have the same elements as the Junior short? Is it accurate to compare Novice scores to Jr scores?

Juniors have required elements

All short programs have required elements.

Pairs have some more specific requirements than singles. Juniors have some more specified requirements than other levels.

So junior pairs have the most specified requirements.

https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/2024-25%20Pairs%20SP%20Chart.pdf

 

[Karen-W]

Jr Pairs FS live results - https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2025/35539/CAT005SEG011.html

Peacock Livestream - https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/ass...ee-skate/2446e1c4-67bc-3a24-b630-a6bcd7fb3af1

1 Taisiya Shapovalova, Los Angeles FSC / Carter Griffin, All Year FSC 10 36.14
2 Mazie McFarland, Oklahoma City FSC / Samir Andjorin, Oklahoma City FSC 9 36.49
3 Milada Kovar, Wasatch FSC / Jared McPike, Broadmoor SC 8 38.62

4 Elizabeth Hansen, Skokie Valley SC / William Church, Heart Of Illinois SC 7 41.06
5 Graceann Gottschalk, Arctic FSC / Sam Herbert, FSC of Charleston 6 42.67
6 Addyson McDanold, DuPage FSC / Aaron Felberbaum, DuPage FSC 5 42.75

7 Sofia Jarmoc, SC of Boston / Luke Witkowski, SC of Boston 4 50.20
8 Saya Carpenter, Detroit SC / Jon Maravilla, Detroit SC 3 52.00
9 Olivia Flores, Thunderbirds FSC / Luke Wang, Los Angeles FSC 2 55.78
10 Reagan Moss, SC of New York / Jakub Galbavy, SC of New York 1 55.89

 

[Karen-W]

Peacock just went live!

 

[Lizziebeth]

any one remember where the live scoring screen was?

 

[tangerine dream]

any one remember where the live scoring screen was?

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

www.usfigureskating.org

 

[Lizziebeth]

I feel silly. I opened that page and did not scroll far enough down the page

 

[Karen-W]

I feel silly. I opened that page and did not scroll far enough down the page

I feel ya! They could really do with a better page design - make the boxes with the schedule/lineup/venue hot links smaller and get rid of the introductory paragraph. It's just a really bad design.

 

[Karen-W]

Shapovalova/Griffin - small & crashy 2tw; SBS mirror 3s; these costumes are bizarre for a GOT program. Good throw 3s! Missed their combo; throw 2lo was two-footed and landed forward. Felt messy & labored.

 

[Rukia]

I thought they looked better than in the short at least. So that's a step up.

 

[Aceon6]

ShaGri… I didn’t hate that. Given the theme, I would have preferred that she was a bit less smiley, but they did their elements and I never feared for her life. Good job, kids.

 

[Rukia]

the rhythm of Andjorin's crossovers makes me wonder if he played hockey for some significant amount of time. A lot of times they have this sort of syncopated rhythm to their crossovers that he has lol this is so random i know

 

[Karen-W]

McFarland/Andjorin - The Mission - nice bit of opening choreo with her draped over his back arms outstretched looking like a cross. 2tw - decent; SBS 2a - he fell; SBS 2t+2t+1a - messy from both; nice lift; throw 2s - also good; doing a BODS for the FS too is a choice (no value - she didn't get her head low enough, I think); eeeek, big miss on the pairs spin - gonna wind up with no value b/c they restarted it; another nice throw 2lo - plenty of space to add a 3rd rotation; lifts are solid; this ending was terrible though - just stopped moving and the music cut off in the middle of "ahhhh!"

 

[Aceon6]

I think we have a candidate for Grumpy Cat Jr.

 

[Lizziebeth]

I know the spin did not count but what happened on the death spiral?

 

[Aceon6]

Disastah! Only on decent element out of 6 so far. But a counting DS, so there’s that.

 

[Karen-W]

Kovar/McPike - The Tenors singing "Who Wants to Live Forever" - good 2tw; SBS 3s - she fell; I like these deep red costumes; oooooo lift fail - got her down safely though! Eeek - throw 3s fall; hope they can get back on track - SBS 2a+1a+1a - he landed badly on the 2a but they both kept going; lovely FIDS; throw 2lo - she heeeeeeeeld onto that! Second lift is much stronger - beautiful extension for her; not a lot of commitment from him in that choreo sequence, lol; bit clunky exit on the pairs spin. Hmmmm... there is potential here, just not fully baked yet, but give them 6 months & they could be an entirely different team.

 

[Karen-W]

I know the spin did not count but what happened on the death spiral?

Pretty sure her head wasn't lower than her knee.

 

[tangerine dream]

the rhythm of Andjorin's crossovers makes me wonder if he played hockey for some significant amount of time. A lot of times they have this sort of syncopated rhythm to their crossovers that he has lol this is so random i know

He's Canadian so it's pretty likely that he did.

 

[Carolla5501]

That was a spectacular death spiral fall in warm up

 

[her grace]

Hansen/Church

Graceful exit to their pairs spin, they do classic well, twist still a work in progress

 

[AnnMJensen]

Hansen & Church have quite a lovelyFS going here. Very enjoyable!!!