U.S. Ice Dance 2017/18 season news & updates

[Sylvia]

The first major club competition of the new season for U.S. ice dancers is the Chesapeake Open, Wednesday to Friday, June 21-23, 2017, hosted by the Baltimore FSC at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Maryland. Link to the competition thread in Kiss & Cry (includes the U.S. & international teams and the event schedule): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/in...chesapeake-open-june-21-24-incl-dance.101391/
(Note: The Kiss & Cry section normally is open to all until July 1st; after that a FSU season pass or subscription will be required.)

Here are all the registered U.S. dance team entries [2017 Nationals (and Sectionals dance) placements added in brackets below]:

SENIOR
Elicia & Stephen Reynolds [S10] - coached by Jamie Loper
??? partner not listed online & Jacob Schedl [J12 with Cassidy Klopstock] - Christie Moxley-Hutson/UDel

JUNIOR (* = currently listed in ISP & eligible for JGP selection)
*Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko [J2/JW3] - Shpilband & Co.
*Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye [J4] - Shpilband & Co.
*Caroline & Gordon Green [J5] - Wheaton/WISA
*Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville [J6] - WISA; listed for FD only at Chesapeake
*Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov [J7] - Nathan Truesdell
*Emma Gunter & Caleb Wein [J9] - WISA
Jocelyn Haines & James Koszuta [N1] - Bianka Szijgyarto
Sophia & Christopher Elder [N3] - Louisville
Molly Cesanek & Nikolay Usanov [N5] - WISA
Cherri Chen & Yuanshi Jin [N7] - Vasiliy Serkov/Nataliya Tymoshenko
Isabella Amoia [N5] & Luca Becker (NEW) - WISA
Allie Rose & J.T. Michel [P-N5] (NEW) - Michelle Marvin/Robbie Kaine
Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci (NEW) - Slava Uchitel
(Note: I believe this is the UKR Daria: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054602.htm )
Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva [N11] (NEW) - Angelika Krylova/Natalia Deller
Amanda Miller & ??? partner not listed online (NEW)
Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik (NEW) - Shpilband & Co.; re-posting from the 2016/17 U.S. Dance news thread:

He [Kolesnik] used to skate for Ukraine with Zlata Iefymenko as a novice.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QE3MZeM5V70

NOVICE
Elizabeth Tkachenko & Alexei Kiliakov [N4] - WISA
Isabel Blahunka & William Shawver [N10] - Louisville
Jordan Lin & Morgan Sletten [E-N5] - WISA
Susan Talbot & Ryan O'Donnell [N12] - Mark Poole
Katarina Wolfkostin & Howard Zhao [Int1] - Krylova/Deller
Paulina Brykalova & Daniel Brykalov [Int3] - Shpilband & Co.
Cordelia Pride & Benjamin Lawless [Int5] - Marvin/R. Kaine
Anna Nicklas & Max Ryan [Int7] - Nechaeva/Chesnichenko
Olivia Sebastiani & Dillon Berry [Int8] - Yovanny Durango
Anna Pettersson & TJ Carey [Int10] - Dmitri Boundoukin
Oona & Gage Brown [Int12] - Andrew Lavrik
Mary-Evelina Cordova & Evan Ruze Walter (NEW) - Suzy Semanick-Schurman
Katerina Cristo & Bogdan Borovlev (NEW)

INTERMEDIATE
Maria Soldatova & Faddey Soldatov [Int4] - WISA
Claire Cain & Andrei Davydov [Int6] - WISA
Maria Brown & Marius Driscoll [Int11] - Jackie Miles
Nastia Efimova & Jonathan Zhao [Juv1] - Truesdell
Elliana & Ethan Peal [Juv3] - Robert Peal
Hope Noelle Lassiter & Luke Anderson [Juv10] - Traxler/Nardozzi/Panayi
Sabrina Foti & Christian Bennett [Juv5] - Gary Shortland
Annya Gissibl & Alexander Colucci (NEW) - Uchitel
Bella Alexis & Ethan Alday (NEW)
Kelsey Schaub & Anthony Haddad [Juv6] (NEW)

JUVENILE
Veronica Chunikhin & Maxim Korotcov - WISA
Olivia Ilin & Dylan Cain - WISA
Julia Epps & Blake Gilman - Uchitel
Emma L'Esperance & Mika Amdour [E-Juv7]
Anna Sophia O'Brien & Steven Wei
Caroline & Brian Mullen - Ruslan Goncharov
Meryl Shackett & Kenny Eckert
Rhiannon & Rogue Rodriguez-Avellan (trivia note: youngest daughter & son of film director Robert Rodriguez and his ex-wife Elizabeth Avellan)

The U.S. Figure Skating National Dance Camp takes place here during the Chesapeake Open, June 23-25, 2017: "Teams will receive on ice technical feedback, one on one sport performance sessions and on ice performance sessions."

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The Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships and ISU International (for Senior/Junior/Adv. Novice teams) are scheduled for July 26-29, 2017, in Lake Placid, NY. The LP camp is "Offered to all ISP and AHPDP [Athlete High Performance Development Pool] dance teams. Teams will receive on ice technical feedback."

 

[Dobre]

Vroom! And the novices moved up (7 teams/partial teams).

Glad to see Avonley Nguyen, Luca Becker, and Cameron Collucci "back in the dance."

Best wishes to everybody. Thank you for posting the list, Sylvia.

 

[chameleonster]

Thank you for the list!

Will seniors be sparsely attended this year, or are the entries just not up? Pogrebinsky/Benoit said on instagram recently that they're going, and I assumed Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter would be as well.

Regardless, I'm really excited about these teams. Looking forward to the reports from juniors, interested to see who takes a big step forward this season. I am also interested in the new teams(Amoia/Becker, Popova/Colucci, Nguyen/Kolesnik) and, in the case of the latter two, curious as to which country they'll represent.

 

[Sylvia]

Will seniors be sparsely attended this year, or are the entries just not up? Pogrebinsky/Benoit said on instagram recently that they're going, and I assumed Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter would be as well.

I assume the bigger names will compete in Lake Placid next month. Click on the Chesapeake competition thread link I provided above for the full list of dance entries (only 3 teams are entered in Senior SD).

ETA:

Oleg Altukhov has partnered with Laura Whipple, coached by Leif Gislason in Aston, PA: https://www.gofundme.com/OlegSeason2017
Whipple once skated with Deividas Stagniunas in his early years (in Illinois): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deividas_Stagniūnas#Early_years

ETA #2:

I forgot to include in my original post the 2017 Nationals placement of Allie Rose [N6] - new Junior team with J.T. Michel, training in the Philadelphia area.

 

[Stephanie]

Thank you for the list!

Will seniors be sparsely attended this year, or are the entries just not up? Pogrebinsky/Benoit said on instagram recently that they're going, and I assumed Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter would be as well.

Some teams might be going to participate in monitoring and/or off-ice USFS activities but not actually competing. I remember Hawayek/Baker did this at this competition a couple of years back.

 

[Debbie S]

Will seniors be sparsely attended this year, or are the entries just not up? Pogrebinsky/Benoit said on instagram recently that they're going, and I assumed Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter would be as well.

I assume P/B and the other top teams will be there for the dance camp (run by USFS) but not competing. There are always plenty of teams that attend only the camp and don't also enter the comp.

 

[Lara111]

Thank you for the list!

Will seniors be sparsely attended this year, or are the entries just not up? Pogrebinsky/Benoit said on instagram recently that they're going, and I assumed Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter would be as well.

Regardless, I'm really excited about these teams. Looking forward to the reports from juniors, interested to see who takes a big step forward this season. I am also interested in the new teams(Amoia/Becker, Popova/Colucci, Nguyen/Kolesnik) and, in the case of the latter two, curious as to which country they'll represent.

It makes sense to go for Ukraine. US does not have much room

 

[Sylvia]

Senior teams currently listed in ISP; Grand Prix assignments (with 1 TBD slot at Skate America) included below:

Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani: Russia (GP #1), America (#6)
Madison Chock & Evan Bates: China (#3), France (#5)
Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue: Canada (#2), Japan (#4)
Elliana Pogrebinsky & Alex Benoit: China, France
Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker: Canada, America
Rachel Parsons & Michael Parsons: Russia (debut)
Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter: China (debut)
Julia Biechler & Damian Dodge
Karina Manta & Joseph Johnson

Junior teams currently listed in ISP:

Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko J2/JW3
Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye J4
Caroline Green & Gordon Green J5
Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville J6
Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov J7
Diana Avaz & Val Katsman J8
Emma Gunter & Caleb Wein J9

 

[her grace]

What a great list of athletes! Let's hope we use all our JGP spots this time.

 

[FSFan24]

The first major club competition of the new season for U.S. ice dancers is the Chesapeake Open, Wednesday to Friday, June 21-23, 2017, hosted by the Baltimore FSC at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Maryland. Link to the competition thread in Kiss & Cry (includes the U.S. & international teams and the event schedule): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/in...chesapeake-open-june-21-24-incl-dance.101391/
(Note: The Kiss & Cry section normally is open to all until July 1st; after that a FSU season pass or subscription will be required.)

Here are all the registered U.S. dance team entries [2017 Nationals (and Sectionals dance) placements added in brackets below]:

SENIOR
Elicia & Stephen Reynolds [S10] - coached by Jamie Loper
??? partner not listed online & Jacob Schedl [J12 with Cassidy Klopstock] - Christie Moxley-Hutson/UDel

JUNIOR (* = currently listed in ISP & eligible for JGP selection)
*Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko [J2/JW3] - Shpilband & Co.
*Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye [J4] - Shpilband & Co.
*Caroline & Gordon Green [J5] - Wheaton/WISA
*Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville [J6] - WISA; listed for FD only at Chesapeake
*Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov [J7] - Nathan Truesdell
*Emma Gunter & Caleb Wein [J9] - WISA
Jocelyn Haines & James Koszuta [N1] - Bianka Szijgyarto
Sophia & Christopher Elder [N3] - Louisville
Molly Cesanek & Nikolay Usanov [N5] - WISA
Cherri Chen & Yuanshi Jin [N7] - Vasiliy Serkov/Nataliya Tymoshenko
Isabella Amoia [N5] & Luca Becker (NEW) - WISA
Allie Rose & J.T. Michel [P-N5] (NEW) - Michelle Marvin/Robbie Kaine
Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci (NEW) - Slava Uchitel
(Note: I believe this is the UKR Daria: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054602.htm )
Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva [N11] (NEW) - Angelika Krylova/Natalia Deller
Amanda Miller & ??? partner not listed online (NEW)
Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik (NEW) - Shpilband & Co.; re-posting from the 2016/17 U.S. Dance news thread:


NOVICE
Elizabeth Tkachenko & Alexei Kiliakov [N4] - WISA
Isabel Blahunka & William Shawver [N10] - Louisville
Jordan Lin & Morgan Sletten [E-N5] - WISA
Susan Talbot & Ryan O'Donnell [N12] - Mark Poole
Katarina Wolfkostin & Howard Zhao [Int1] - Krylova/Deller
Paulina Brykalova & Daniel Brykalov [Int3] - Shpilband & Co.
Cordelia Pride & Benjamin Lawless [Int5] - Marvin/R. Kaine
Anna Nicklas & Max Ryan [Int7] - Nechaeva/Chesnichenko
Olivia Sebastiani & Dillon Berry [Int8] - Yovanny Durango
Anna Pettersson & TJ Carey [Int10] - Dmitri Boundoukin
Oona & Gage Brown [Int12] - Andrew Lavrik
Mary-Evelina Cordova & Evan Ruze Walter (NEW) - Suzy Semanick-Schurman
Katerina Cristo & Bogdan Borovlev (NEW)

INTERMEDIATE
Maria Soldatova & Faddey Soldatov [Int4] - WISA
Claire Cain & Andrei Davydov [Int6] - WISA
Maria Brown & Marius Driscoll [Int11] - Jackie Miles
Nastia Efimova & Jonathan Zhao [Juv1] - Truesdell
Elliana & Ethan Peal [Juv3] - Robert Peal
Hope Noelle Lassiter & Luke Anderson [Juv10] - Traxler/Nardozzi/Panayi
Sabrina Foti & Christian Bennett [Juv5] - Gary Shortland
Annya Gissibl & Alexander Colucci (NEW) - Uchitel
Bella Alexis & Ethan Alday (NEW)
Kelsey Schaub & Anthony Haddad [Juv6] (NEW)

JUVENILE
Veronica Chunikhin & Maxim Korotcov - WISA
Olivia Ilin & Dylan Cain - WISA
Julia Epps & Blake Gilman - Uchitel
Emma L'Esperance & Mika Amdour [E-Juv7]
Anna Sophia O'Brien & Steven Wei
Caroline & Brian Mullen - Ruslan Goncharov
Meryl Shackett & Kenny Eckert
Rhiannon & Rogue Rodriguez-Avellan (trivia note: youngest daughter & son of film director Robert Rodriguez and his ex-wife Elizabeth Avellan)

The U.S. Figure Skating National Dance Camp takes place here during the Chesapeake Open, June 23-25, 2017: "Teams will receive on ice technical feedback, one on one sport performance sessions and on ice performance sessions."

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The Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships and ISU International (for Senior/Junior/Adv. Novice teams) are scheduled for July 26-29, 2017, in Lake Placid, NY. The LP camp is "Offered to all ISP and AHPDP [Athlete High Performance Development Pool] dance teams. Teams will receive on ice technical feedback."

The Canadian Juniors will be crushed by this USA Junior team!!!!

 

[Sylvia]

@FSFan24, you might be interested to read @Dobre's post about next season's North American international junior field in the general ice dance discussion thread here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/in...king-rhumba-magic.101001/page-14#post-5068213

For those who may have missed reading Madison Hubbell's blog series "chronicling the upcoming Olympic season" (3 entries so far, starting on May 23): http://www.hubbell-donohue.com

 

[Jun Y]

What a great list of athletes! Let's hope we use all our JGP spots this time.

Indeed. Glad to see the number of junior teams bounce back after some splits and retirements last season. I'm especially excited to see Cameron Colucci and Luca Becker back with new partners.

 

[Sylvia]

Following up on two Chesapeake Open entries:

SENIOR
...
??? partner not listed online & Jacob Schedl [J12 with Cassidy Klopstock]

Klopstock is listed now.

JUNIOR (* = currently listed in ISP & eligible for JGP selection)
...
Amanda Miller & ??? partner not listed online (NEW)

Daniel Tsarik is listed in the Short Dance event now, so I presume he is Miller's new partner? I did a quick search online and he used to compete in DanceSport, national level.

 

[Lutzlvr]

Vroom! And the novices moved up (7 teams/partial teams).

Glad to see Avonley Nguyen, Luca Becker, and Cameron Collucci "back in the dance."

Best wishes to everybody. Thank you for posting the list, Sylvia.

Looking forward to seeing Avonley, Luca, and Cameron too- they were the standouts of their age and level. Does Chesapeake have live streaming?

 

[Dobre]

Looking forward to seeing Avonley, Luca, and Cameron too- they were the standouts of their age and level. Does Chesapeake have live streaming?

It hasn't in the past, but Lake Placid did last season so we may get to see them there.

 

[Debbie S]

Does Chesapeake have live streaming?

No.

 

[Dobre]

Shibs had their first monitoring session in MD where they're holding the Chesapeake Open and seem happy with the feedback:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVo4hNqAavm/?taken-by=shibsibs

Just wanted to repost AYS's link to this picture here because, IMO, it's pretty cool. The U.S. senior ice dance gold medalists with the U.S. juvenile ice dance gold medalists. Across the generations.

 

[chapis]

Just wanted to repost AYS's link to this picture here because, IMO, it's pretty cool. The U.S. senior ice dance gold medalists with the U.S. juvenile ice dance gold medalists. Across the generations.

Oh, they are!. The boy looked familiar to me, but I did not was sure. Really cool picture.

 

[chapis]

I just saw that Christina and Anthony will be competing. I think SD is today, I guess they will be debuting programs. I hope someone upload a video. Do the Greens plan to participate in this competition?

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I just saw that Christina and Anthony will be competing. I think SD is today, I guess they will be debuting programs. I hope someone upload a video. Do the Greens plan to participate in this competition?

C/P are doing the FD only, which is today. The Greens are doing both (SD was last night).

 

[platniumangel]

Does anyone know Junior results from Chesapeake.... or where to find it? Thanks

 

[Debbie S]

Does anyone know Junior results from Chesapeake.... or where to find it? Thanks

Ice Dance (dot) com is posting pics of results sheets on their FB page. They don't have Junior SD yet, likely b/c they left the rink last night before the results were posted. Perhaps they will post later today.

 

[chapis]

no videos? Is it forbidden to record in those competitions? Or none of the attendees thought it was relevant enough to record and post it on YouTube? It's the off season, we need anything!

 

[Jun Y]

no videos? Is it forbidden to record in those competitions? Or none of the attendees thought it was relevant enough to record and post it on YouTube? It's the off season, we need anything!

While I understand the wish to see early videos, the problem with Chesapeake Open is that the rink has no seating whatsoever. Spectators are forced to stand the whole time with their noses pressed against the hockey barrier glass. During more popular events (junior dances), one can barely find a good spot to get the whole view of the ice. Filming could be done (barely) but would not be worth it for either the person doing the recording and the persons watching the video.

 

[wickedwitch]

While I understand the wish to see early videos, the problem with Chesapeake Open is that the rink has no seating whatsoever. Spectators are forced to stand the whole time with their noses pressed against the hockey barrier glass. During more popular events (junior dances), one can barely find a good spot to get the whole view of the ice. Filming could be done (barely) but would not be worth it for either the person doing the recording and the persons watching the video.

They used to hold it in the other ink in the complex which does have seating. I don't know why they moved it.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I wish we could just find out the music the top junior skaters are using. I would've been satisfied with audio recordings of their performances lol.

 

[Sylvia]

IDC's 2017 Dance Camp photos: http://photos.ice-dance.com/2017-18/17USFSDanceCamp/

ETA that were at least 6 Senior teams in attendance in the photos I saw -- Hawayek/Baker, Pogrebinsky/Benoit, Biechler/Dodge, Manta/Johnson, Parsons/Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter.

 

[Debbie S]

They used to hold it in the other ink in the complex which does have seating. I don't know why they moved it.

It was held in the NHL rink the first year the comp was at The Gardens, in 2007. Since that year, the NHL rink has been melted down after May Day Open and used as a gym for their summer camps (and I imagine that it saves the rink money), then converted back to a rink in Sept. From the dance camp pics, it looks like that rink/gym was used for some off-ice classes. The only rinks available for Chessie are the Oly rink and the back rink, which has a small amount of bleacher seating but the layout/construction does not provide enough room for the IJS equipment and additional judges/officials. So IJS events are on the Oly rink (Resor) and the 6.0 events are on the back rink (Logsdon).

 

[Dobre]

IDC's 2017 Dance Camp photos: http://photos.ice-dance.com/2017-18/17USFSDanceCamp/

ETA that were at least 6 Senior teams in attendance in the photos I saw -- Hawayek/Baker, Pogrebinsky/Benoit, Biechler/Dodge, Manta/Johnson, Parsons/Parsons and McNamara/Carpenter.

Thank you for all the photos! I believe this one--currently on the homepage--is probably of all the senior teams that stayed for the camp. There are 8 teams in it.
http://www.ice-dance.com/site/
The Reynolds and Klopstock & Schedl are also there.

 

[mollymgr]

Dance news- Charlotte Maxwell/Ryan Devereaux announced their retirement today.
http://www.ice-dance.com/site/maxwell-devereaux-announce-retirement/