U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

[haribobo]

SENIOR WOMEN Top Scores 25-26

Confirmed or Likely Byes to Nationals
Amber Glenn 214 (Nebelhorn)**
Isabeau Levito 207 (Cranberry)
Sarah Everhardt 199 (Lombardia)**
Alysa Liu 197 (Lombardia)**
Bradie Tennell 187 (Kinoshita Cup)**/221 (Boston)
Starr Andrews 167 (Nepela)/176 (GolWes)
Sherry Zhang 163 (JGP Latvia)/(190 Jr Cup)**
Josephine Lee 160 (Cranberry)
Elyce Lin-Gracey 154 (Nepela)
** = Confirmed bye for top 5 in 2025

Currently Top 2 per Section
Emilia Nemirovsky (M) 195 (Dupage)
Alina Bonillo (M) 185 (Chicagoland)
Jasmine Clarke (E) 180 (Boston)
Erica Machida (E) 170 (LA Open)
Katie Shen (P) 160 (Glacier Falls)
Annabel Wallace (P) 154 (Glacier Falls)

3 More Spots by score
Sonja Hilmer (M) 165 (Broadmoor)
Alexa Gasparotto (M) 165 (Cleveland)
Logan Higase-Chen (M) 164 (Philadelphia)
Ava Ziegler (E) 161 (Trialeti)
Kendall Erne (M) 160 (Cleveland)
Chloe Levine (M) 160 (Texas Trophy)
Brooke Gewalt (M) 159 (Cleveland)

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

So Ava needs to have one more competition somewhere to score a smidge higher to get in?

 

[Karen-W]

SENIOR WOMEN Top Scores 25-26

Confirmed or Likely Byes to Nationals
Amber Glenn 214 (Nebelhorn)**
Isabeau Levito 207 (Cranberry)
Sarah Everhardt 199 (Lombardia)**
Alysa Liu 197 (Lombardia)**
Bradie Tennell 187 (Kinoshita Cup)**/221 (Boston)
Starr Andrews 167 (Nepela)/176 (GolWes)
Sherry Zhang 163 (JGP Latvia)/(190 Jr Cup)**
Josephine Lee 160 (Cranberry)
Elyce Lin-Gracey 154 (Nepela)
** = Confirmed bye for top 5 in 2025

Currently Top 2 per Section
Emilia Nemirovsky (M) 195 (Dupage)
Alina Bonillo (M) 185 (Chicagoland)
Jasmine Clarke (E) 180 (Boston)
Erica Machida (E) 170 (LA Open)
Katie Shen (P) 160 (Glacier Falls)
Annabel Wallace (P) 154 (Glacier Falls)

3 More Spots by score
Sonja Hilmer (M) 165 (Broadmoor)
Alexa Gasparotto (M) 165 (Cleveland)
Logan Higase-Chen (M) 164 (Philadelphia)
Ava Ziegler (E) 161 (Trialeti)
Kendall Erne (M) 160 (Cleveland)
Chloe Levine (M) 160 (Texas Trophy)
Brooke Gewalt (M) 159 (Cleveland)

FYI - Worlds 2025 Team members also have an automatic bye to Nats, so Isabeau has a guaranteed bye too.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Currently, Ava has scored higher than Josephine, Elyce, Katie and Annabel. fingers crossed she can get one more competition somewhere to qualify.

 

[haribobo]

Well, Sectionals will be the decider for all the skaters who don't have byes to nationals. I just wanted to show the current top scoring skaters. Their summer scores don't mean anything really for getting to Nationals. They could be somewhat predictive of who makes it though

 

[olympic]

Encouraged by Ava's LP at Trialeti! -> 5 triples (one UR) and ending w/ LV 4 spins, quite better than her first outing. I hope she's at another level by Nationals and can at least be part of the conversation.

 

[jägerbomb]

Encouraged by Ava's LP at Trialeti! -> 5 triples (one UR) and ending w/ LV 4 spins, quite better than her first outing. I hope she's at another level by Nationals and can at least be part of the conversation.

Indeed. It would be terrific if she can build momentum this season and set herself up well for the next quadrennial.

 

[Private Citizen]

I respect Ziegler's progress . It can't be easy to go out while not at full strength and without the tech content she knows she needs. But at every competition she's adding more content, and the jumps are looking better and better. Even when she was doing well, her jumps did not look as secure as they looked at Trialeti. She was always teetering on being out of control. The first four jumps in the free skate are probably the four best jumps I've ever seen her do. She's still giving away too many points on spins, but one thing at a time.

Her basic skating is sublime. She has that rare combination of being a power skater while also being elegant. I hope she can have a solid season and then really put it together in the next quadrennial.

 

[Karen-W]

Well, well, well... Alina Bonillo just laid down a 177.87 to win Tayside Trophy (by nearly 30 points). Can't say that the early selections for the two SkAm TBD spots are looking great in retrospect.

 

[Private Citizen]

Well, well, well... Alina Bonillo just laid down a 177.87 to win Tayside Trophy (by nearly 30 points). Can't say that the early selections for the two SkAm TBD spots are looking great in retrospect.

Curious to see the protocols. The short program was 3Z+3T but only 2F. 117 in the free with one deduction isn't exactly lighting the world on fire. Not sure it's strong enough to justify a Skate America spot for someone who was 15th at Nationals unless she has done well in other competitions that I've missed?

 

[haribobo]

Alina Bonillo has pretty much been tearing up the summer comps this year, scoring 185 at Chicagoland which is 2nd only to (senior ineligible) Emilia Nemirovsky 195 at Dupage for the non-GP US skaters. I'm surprised its taken USFS this long to get her an event, and a little disappointing to have a non-CS event. Congrats to her on this win and I hope that can springboard her to more assignments. She seems to be wildly outcompeting both Starr and Josephine at this point in the season.

Alina's 177 at Tayside puts her into 7th place of the US women internationally so far behind Amber, Isabeau, Sarah, Alysa, SJVF, and Bradie.

FS protocols are here-

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Alina landed 3loop, 3z-2t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3s clean with positive GOE. 3f was q with a fall and 3z-2axq-1t had negative GOE. Spins and steps mostly level 4 with one level 3.

For reference, Alina's FS from Chicagoland had 3loop, 3z-3t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3z-2ax-2t with positive GEO, and problems on the 3f and 2s.

She has also scored 175 and 168 at some other summer comps.

 

[Evgeniafan]

Alina Bonillo has pretty much been tearing up the summer comps this year, scoring 185 at Chicagoland which is 2nd only to (senior ineligible) Emilia Nemirovsky 195 at Dupage for the non-GP US skaters. I'm surprised its taken USFS this long to get her an event, and a little disappointing to have a non-CS event. Congrats to her on this win and I hope that can springboard her to more assignments. She seems to be wildly outcompeting both Starr and Josephine at this point in the season.

Alina's 177 at Tayside puts her into 7th place of the US women internationally so far behind Amber, Isabeau, Sarah, Alysa, SJVF, and Bradie.

FS protocols are here-

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Alina landed 3loop, 3z-2t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3s clean with positive GOE. 3f was q with a fall and 3z-2axq-1t had negative GOE. Spins and steps mostly level 4 with one level 3.

For reference, Alina's FS from Chicagoland had 3loop, 3z-3t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3z-2ax-2t with positive GEO, and problems on the 3f and 2s.

She has also scored 175 and 168 at some other summer comps.

If she won't get at least 4CC, she should be sent to a junior competition to get her TES for junior worlds.

 

[Jammers]

Alina Bonillo has pretty much been tearing up the summer comps this year, scoring 185 at Chicagoland which is 2nd only to (senior ineligible) Emilia Nemirovsky 195 at Dupage for the non-GP US skaters. I'm surprised its taken USFS this long to get her an event, and a little disappointing to have a non-CS event. Congrats to her on this win and I hope that can springboard her to more assignments. She seems to be wildly outcompeting both Starr and Josephine at this point in the season.

Alina's 177 at Tayside puts her into 7th place of the US women internationally so far behind Amber, Isabeau, Sarah, Alysa, SJVF, and Bradie.

FS protocols are here-

Skating Scores: Latest Figure Skating Results, Scores, Rankings & Statistics

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Alina landed 3loop, 3z-2t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3s clean with positive GOE. 3f was q with a fall and 3z-2axq-1t had negative GOE. Spins and steps mostly level 4 with one level 3.

For reference, Alina's FS from Chicagoland had 3loop, 3z-3t, 3f-2t, 2ax, and 3z-2ax-2t with positive GEO, and problems on the 3f and 2s.

She has also scored 175 and 168 at some other summer comps.

Who knows why Starr continues to get all of these assignments despite not doing much in terms of results and Josephine has not exactly set the world on fire internationally either.

 

[BittyBug]

Starr may lack the tech content to compete with the top guns but she represents U.S. Figure Skating well. She has a mature presence on the ice, is fairly consistent, doesn't give up on a program if she makes a mistake, and has lovely presentation skills.

 

[her grace]

I think a lot of the sourness (mine included!) is that USFS didn't even wait to see how the big summer competitions and early fall ones went. No one had a chance to even try to prove themselves to USFS.

 

[Coco]

I think a lot of the sourness (mine included!) is that USFS didn't even wait to see how the big summer competitions and early fall ones went. No one had a chance to even try to prove themselves to USFS.

True...but they do this almost every year going back to before IJS, whether it benefits Starr or someone else. And yes, it's tough as a fan.

Starr usually delivers at Nationals, at least performance wise if not rotation wise. I feel like that goes maybe farther than it should sometimes.

 

[Joubabe]

I was quite impressed with Rachel Samiri at the last junior Grand Prix but I don’t see her listed for sectionals. Did she not compete or not qualify?

 

[tangerine dream]

I was quite impressed with Rachel Samiri at the last junior Grand Prix but I don’t see her listed for sectionals. Did she not compete or not qualify?

She qualified in novice.

 

[her grace]

True...but they do this almost every year going back to before IJS, whether it benefits Starr or someone else. And yes, it's tough as a fan.

I think it’s more common that they leave one TBD instead of announcing the complete SA field in the initial GP announcement.

 

[Vagabond]

Who knows why Starr continues to get all of these assignments despite not doing much in terms of results and Josephine has not exactly set the world on fire internationally either.

Starr may lack the tech content to compete with the top guns but she represents U.S. Figure Skating well. She has a mature presence on the ice, is fairly consistent, doesn't give up on a program if she makes a mistake, and has lovely presentation skills.

These are qualities that help sell tickets and advertising. No wonder why USFS invited her to compete at Skate America.

Josephine Lee is a former National Silver Medalist. While she may not be as marketable as Starr Andrews, she has got to be more of an attraction for prospective attendees and viewers than some of other American skaters that USFS might have invited.

 

[Jarrett]

These are qualities that help sell tickets and advertising. No wonder why USFS invited her to compete at Skate America.

Josephine Lee is a former National Silver Medalist. While she may not be as marketable as Starr Andrews, she has got to be more of an attraction for prospective attendees and viewers than some of other American skaters that USFS might have invited.

Josephine has ubers going to Lake Placid? I guess anything is possible. She was 4 points behind Schizas at Denis Ten Memorial who has 2 GP assignments. I think that is explanation enough at this point.

 

[Vagabond]

Josephine has ubers going to Lake Placid? I guess anything is possible. She was 4 points behind Schizas at Denis Ten Memorial who has 2 GP assignments. I think that is explanation enough at this point.

I don't think Josephine Lee could persuade  anyone to go to Lake Placid except maybe her mother. She might, however, be more likely to prompt some casual fans who remember her from 2024 Nationals to tune in than some obskur U.S. skater who did well in summer competitions this season.