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2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

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2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:National championships
Date:January 20 – 26
Season:2024–25
Location:Wichita, Kansas
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Intrust Bank Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
Lorenzo Elano (Junior)
Women's singles:
Sophie Jolie Von Felton (Junior)
Pairs:
Reagan Moss
and Jakub Galbavy (Junior)
Ice dance:
Hana Maria Aboian
and Daniil Veselukhin (Junior)
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The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will be held January 20–26, 2025, at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas.[1] Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results will be part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2025 Four Continents Championships, 2025 World Championships, and 2025 World Junior Championships.

Qualifying

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Skaters qualified for the U.S. Championships by competing in the National Qualifying Series, a series of competitions that allowed skaters to qualify for Sectionals, U.S. Pairs Final, and U.S. Ice Dance Final in November.[2] Skaters received a bye to the finals by competing in at least one Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix, or Challenger competition. Additional junior competitors qualified by winning the 2024 U.S. Championships at the junior level. Additional senior competitors could qualified by winning the 2024 sectional singles final at the senior level.

Advancement to U.S. Championships

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Skaters advanced by either having a bye or competing at Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals.

Senior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:[3]

Junior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:[3]

If the number of athletes with three international competitions from the approved competition list exceeded the number of available byes, byes were awarded based on the highest to lowest total score in the following order of importance:

There was a minimum required Technical Element Score for all athletes to compete.

After accounting for all byes, the top placements from Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals were then used until the maximum number of competitors for each event was met.

Seniors

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Singles

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Singles skaters can advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top two total combined scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final
  • Having the next-best score nationwide in the Sectional Singles Final until the maximum was met

There are a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

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Pairs can advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top placements at the U.S. Pairs Final until the maximum was met

There are a maximum of 12 spots.

Ice dance

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Ice dance teams can advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top placements at the U.S. Ice Dance Final until the maximum was met

There are a maximum of 15 spots.

Juniors

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Singles

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Singles skaters could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top four total combined scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final
  • Having one of the top two total combined novice scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final

There were a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

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Pairs teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top eight total combined scores in the U.S. Pairs Final

There were a maximum of 8 spots.

Ice dance

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Ice dance teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

  • Receiving a bye
  • Having one of the top ten total combined scores in the U.S. Ice Dance Final

There were a maximum of 10 spots.

Entries

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U.S. Figure Skating published the official list of preliminary entries on November 25, 2024.[2][4]

Senior

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Men Women Pairs Ice dance
Goku Endo Starr Andrews
Tomoki Hiwatashi Alina Bonillo
Liam Kapeikis Ting Cui
Lucius Kazanecki Alex Evans
Joseph Klein Sarah Everhardt
Kai Kovar Alexa Gasparotto
Jimmy Ma Brooke Gewalt
Ilia Malinin Amber Glenn
Daniel Martynov Logan Higase-Chen
Samuel Mindra Sonja Hilmer
Maxim Naumov Mia Kalin
Camden Pulkinen Josephine Lee
Jacob Sanchez Michelle Lee
Beck Strommer Elyce Lin-Gracey
Emmanuel Savary Alysa Liu
Taira Shinohara Bradie Tennell
Andrew Torgashev Lindsay Thorngren
Michael Xie Sherry Zhang

Junior

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Men Women Pairs Ice dance
Ryan William Azadpour Sofia Bezkorovainaya
  • Saya Carpenter
  • Jon Maravilla
  • Hana Maria Aboian
  • Daniil Veselukhin
Patrick Blackwell Annika Chao
  • Effie Chen
  • Kenny Eckert
Thomas Chen Alayna Coats
  • Graceann Gottschalk
  • Sam Herbert
  • Michelle Deych
  • Ryan Hu
Lorenzo Elano Ela Cui
  • Elizabeth Hansen
  • William Church
  • Julia Epps
  • Blake Gilman
Sergei Evseev Mia Iwase
  • Sofia Jarmoc
  • Luke Witkowski
  • Olivia Ilin
  • Dylan Cain
Aleksandr Fegan Jiaying Ellyse Johnson
  • Milada Kovar
  • Jared McPike
  • Ja Yi Kirwan
  • Rowan Le Coq
Isaac Fulton Jessica Jurka
  • Addyson McDanold
  • Aaron Felderbaum
  • Anaelle Kouevi
  • Yann Homawoo
Kirk Haugeto Hannah Kim
  • Mazie McFarland
  • Samir Andjorin
  • Caroline Mullen
  • Brendan Mullen
Michael Jin Teryn Kim
  • Reagan Moss
  • Jakub Galbavy
  • Elianna Peal
  • Ethan Peal
Louis Mallane Skylar Lautowa-Peguero
  • Taisiya Shapovalova
  • Carter Griffin
  • Emily Renzi
  • William Lissauer
Brendan Man Emilia Nemirovsky
  • Annelise Stapert
  • Maxim Korotcov
Arsen Meghavoryan Cleo Park
Evan Neuhaus Maria Platonova
Jared Sedlis Angela Shao
Alek Tankovic Carina Tanabe
Vaclav Vasquez Kaya Tiernan
Ethan Yan Sophie Joline von Felten
David Zhao Annabelle Wilkins

Changes to preliminary assignments

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Date Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
January 2 Senior women Ava Marie Ziegler Alexa Gasparotto [5]
Junior ice dance
  • Yahli Pedersen
  • Benjamin Starr
January 6 Senior women Claire Seo Brooke Gewalt [6]
January 14 Isabeau Levito Michelle Lee Foot injury [7][8]
January 20 Senior men Jason Brown Taira Shinohara Equipment issues [9][10]

Schedule

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Date Discipline Time[11] Segment
January 21 Novice pairs 9:30 am Short program
Junior pairs 10:20 am
Junior men 2:40 pm
Novice & junior
ice dance
7:55 pm Pattern dance (novice)
& rhythm dance (junior)
January 22 Junior women 7:45 am Short program
Junior men 10:30 am Free skate
Novice pairs 4:35 pm
Junior pairs 5:30 pm
Novice ice dance 7:20 pm Free dance
Junior ice dance 8:22 pm
January 23 Junior women 10:17 am Free skate
Senior pairs 5:10 pm Short program
Senior women 7:20 pm
January 24 Senior ice dance 4:19 pm Rhythm dance
Senior women 6:47 pm Free skate
January 25 Senior men
(Groups 1 & 2)
9:58 am Short program
Senior ice dance
(Groups 1 & 2)
11:50 am Free dance
Senior men
(Group 3)
1:36 pm Short program
Senior ice dance
(Group 3)
2:38 pm Free dance
Senior pairs 6:35 pm Free skate
January 26 Senior men 1:47 pm
7:00 pm Skating Spectacular

Medal summary

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Senior

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Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice dance

Junior

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Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Lorenzo Elano Aleksandr Fegan Patrick Blackwell Kirk Haugeto
Women Sophie Joline von Felten Skylar Lautowa-Peguero Jessica Jurka Emilia Nemirovsky
Pairs
  • Reagan Moss
  • Jakub Galbavy
  • Saya Carpenter
  • Jon Maravilla
  • Sofia Jarmoc
  • Luke Witkowski
Ice dance
  • Hana Maria Aboian
  • Daniil Veselukhin
  • Elianna Peal
  • Ethan Peal
  • Caroline Mullen
  • Brendan Mullen
  • Michelle Deych
  • Ryan Hu

Senior results

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Men's singles

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Men's results[12]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

Women's singles

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Women's results[13]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

Pair skating

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Pairs' results[14]
Rank Team Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) 1 77.19
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2 69.10
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 69.03
4 4 62.92
5 5 62.06
6 6 61.83
7 7 58.90
8 8 57.54
9 9 57.02
10 10 55.43
11 11 45.74
12 12 44.25

Ice dance

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Ice dance results[15]
Rank Team Total RD FD
1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Junior results

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Men's singles

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Men's results[16]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lorenzo Elano 202.65 2 71.60 2 131.05
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aleksandr Fegan 201.64 3 70.29 1 131.35
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Patrick Blackwell 195.77 1 77.73 4 118.04
4 Kirk Haugeto 184.29 5 62.43 3 121.86
5 Vaclav Vasquez 180.54 4 62.73 5 117.81
6 Ryan William Azadpour 169.37 10 53.76 6 115.61
7 Alek Tankovic 164.06 6 60.70 9 103.36
8 Brendan Man 161.11 7 56.74 8 104.37
9 Jared Sedlis 159.05 11 53.35 7 105.70
10 Sergei Evseev 152.43 12 50.00 10 102.43
11 David Zhao 150.20 8 56.71 15 93.49
12 Arsen Meghavoryan 148.37 9 55.27 16 93.10
13 Evan Neuhaus 145.36 15 48.61 11 96.75
14 Isaac Fulton 145.32 13 49.60 13 95.72
15 Thomas Chen 143.03 14 49.49 14 93.54
16 Louis Mallane 139.93 18 43.79 12 96.14
17 Michael Jin 128.59 17 44.72 17 83.87
18 Ethan Yan 127.32 16 45.67 18 81.65

Women's singles

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Women's results[17]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sophie Jolie Von Felton 188.84 7 57.02 1 131.82
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Skylar Lautowa-Peguero 188.00 1 63.94 2 124.06
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jessica Jurka 176.23 5 58.49 3 117.74
4 Emilia Nemirovsky 175.30 2 62.89 5 112.41
5 Annika Chao 175.05 4 58.71 4 116.34
6 Angela Shao 167.04 9 54.91 6 112.13
7 Jiaying Ellyse Johnson 165.82 3 61.68 9 104.14
8 Sophia Bezkorovainaya 163.68 8 54.92 8 108.76
9 Hannah Kim 161.88 6 58.34 10 103.54
10 Alayna Coats 153.46 15 44.40 7 109.06
11 Teryn Kim 148.63 12 49.44 11 99.19
12 Cleo Park 147.75 10 54.20 14 93.55
13 Kaya Tiernan 147.32 11 50.54 13 96.78
14 Annabelle Wilkins 139.02 13 48.00 15 91.02
15 Mia Iwase 138.69 17 39.70 12 98.99
16 Ela Cui 123.36 14 46.41 17 76.95
17 Carina Tanabe 123.05 16 40.51 16 82.54
18 Maria Platonova 102.58 18 32.77 18 69.81

Pair skating

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Pairs' results[18]
Rank Team Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s)
  • Reagan Moss
  • Jakub Galbavy
154.68 1 55.89 1 98.79
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 152.20 2 55.78 2 96.42
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
  • Saya Carpenter
  • Jon Maravilla
137.78 3 52.00 6 85.78
4
  • Sofia Jarmoc
  • Luke Witkowski
136.70 4 50.20 4 86.50
5
  • Addyson McDanold
  • Aaron Felderbaum
134.18 5 42.75 3 91.43
6
  • Elizabeth Hansen
  • William Church
127.11 7 41.06 5 86.05
7
  • Graceann Gottschalk
  • Sam Herbert
125.87 6 42.67 7 83.20
8
  • Taisiya Shapovalova
  • Carter Griffin
109.05 10 36.14 8 72.91
9
  • Milada Kovar
  • Jared McPike
100.93 8 38.62 10 62.31
10
  • Mazie McFarland
  • Samir Andjorin
100.52 9 36.49 9 64.03

Ice dance

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Ice dance results[19]
Rank Team Total RD FD
1st place, gold medalist(s)
  • Hana Maria Aboian
  • Daniil Veselukhin
162.40 1 65.00 1 97.40
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
  • Elianna Peal
  • Ethan Peal
153.00 2 64.23 3 88.77
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
  • Caroline Mullen
  • Brendan Mullen
148.51 5 56.41 2 92.10
4
  • Michelle Deych
  • Ryan Hu
135.45 6 55.49 4 79.96
5
  • Olivia Ilin
  • Dylan Cain
134.51 3 57.54 6 76.97
6
  • Effie Chen
  • Kenny Eckert
131.78 8 52.88 5 78.90
7
  • Annelise Stapert
  • Maxim Korotcov
124.74 7 54.75 10 69.99
8
  • Emily Renzi
  • William Lissauer
123.04 4 56.67 11 66.37
9
  • Anaelle Kouevi
  • Yann Homawoo
120.17 9 49.75 9 70.42
10
  • Ja Yi Kirwan
  • Rowan Le Coq
118.62 10 48.03 7 70.59
11
  • Julia Epps
  • Blake Gilman
115.32 11 44.75 8 70.57

References

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  1. ^ "2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". U.S. Figure Skating.
  2. ^ a b "2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced". U.S. Figure Skating. November 25, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "2025 SINGLES, PAIRS AND ICE DANCE QUALIFYING SEASON ATHLETE BYE & ADVANCEMENT CRITERIA Lineup Announced" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.
  4. ^ "2025 US Championships Bios.pdf" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.
  5. ^ "🇺🇸 Ava Marie Ziegler has withdrawn from U.S. Nationals, she is replaced by Alexa Gasparotto". Bluesky. January 2, 2025.
  6. ^ "🇺🇸 Clare Seo has withdrawn from U.S. Nationals". Bluesky. January 6, 2025.
  7. ^ "🇺🇸 Michelle Lee replaces Isabeau Levito at U.S. Nationals". Bluesky. January 14, 2025.
  8. ^ "Isabeau Levito to miss Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships, still hopes for world spot". NBC Sports. January 14, 2025.
  9. ^ @jasonbskates (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" – via Instagram.
  10. ^ "🇺🇸 Taira Shinohara replaces Jason Brown at U.S. Nationals". Bluesky. January 20, 2025.
  11. ^ "U.S. Figure Skating Championships". Intrust Bank Arena. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  12. ^ "2025 US Nationals Mens Final Results". Skating Scores.
  13. ^ "2025 US Nationals Womens Final Results". Skating Scores.
  14. ^ "2025 US Nationals Pairs Final Results". Skating Scores.
  15. ^ "2025 US Nationals Ice Dance Final Results". Skating Scores.
  16. ^ "2025 US Nationals Junior Mens Final Results". Skating Scores. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  17. ^ "2025 US Nationals Junior Womens Final Results". Skating Scores. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  18. ^ "2025 US Nationals Junior Pairs Final Results". Skating Scores. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  19. ^ "2025 US Nationals Junior Ice Dance Final Results". Skating Scores. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
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