2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Novice Compulsory Dance, Pairs, Ladies, and Men's Short Programs and Junior Ladies Short Program - Highlights

2008 U.S. Nationals

Jan 20-27, 2008
St. Paul, Minn. (USA)

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The 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships continued with the Novice Pairs, Ladies, and Men's Long Programs, Free Dance, and the Junior Compulsory Dance.

Junior Ice Dance (Compulsory Dance)

The Compulsory Dance (CD) of the event was the Viennese Waltz, which was created by the Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats. It was first performed in 1934 at the Streatham Ice Rink in London.

The brother-sister team of Madison Hubbell and Keiffer Hubbell (Ann Arbor FSC) placed first in the CD with 34.61 points.

"Since we train in an Olympic-sized rink at home, it's always harder to fit our (compulsory) patterns into an NHL-sized rink," explained Keiffer. "But we handled it more gracefully than in previous years."

Piper Gilles and Timothy McKernan (Broadmoor SC) finished second with 30.97 points, followed by Pilar Bosley (Peninsula SC) and John Corona (Philadelphia SC & HS) with 30.07 points.

Madison Chock (All Year FSC) and Greg Zuerlein (Arctic FSC) are currently fourth (29.92 points).

Novice Division (Standings)

In Ice Dance, the Novice teams were required to perform two Compulsory Dances (CD) and a Free Dance (FD) for the event.

Chloe Wolf (Univ of Delaware FSC) and Rhys Ainsworth (North Atlantic FSC) defended their overnight lead to win the Novice Ice Dance title after placing first in the FD. Megan Evans (Washington FSC) and Nathan Truesdell (Arctic FSC) placed third in the FD, but their total score allowed them to maintain second place overall to win the silver.

Una Donegan and Andrew Korda (SC of Boston), who stood in fifth after the CDs, placed second in the FD and third overall to claim the bronze, while Anastasia Olson (Ann Arbor FSC) and Jordan Cowan (All Year FSC) placed fourth in the FD and overall.

Katie Wyble (Center I&B of Western PA) and Justin Morrow (SC of New York) slipped to fifth.

In Pairs, Brynn Carman and Christopher Knierim (Broadmoor SC) placed first in the long program, moving up from second place to first overall to win the title. Brittany Chase and Andrew Speroff (Broadmoor SC) placed third in the long and slipped to second place overall, while Marissa Castelli (Smithfield FSC) and Simon Shnapir (Colonial FSC) placed second in the long and moved up to third overall to claim the bronze.

Kloe Bautista (All Year FSC) and Galvani Hopson (Los Angeles FSC), who stood in third after the short, placed fourth in the long and overall.

In men's, Daniel O'Shea (Skokie Valley SC) maintained his overnight lead to with the title with over 10 points to spare. Ross Miner (SC of Boston), who stood in fourth after the short, placed third in the long and moved up to second overall to win the silver.

David Wang (All Year FSC), who placed fourth in the long, maintained third overall to win the bronze.

Alexander Zahradnicek (Georgia FSC), who stood in second after the short, placed fifth in the long and fourth overall.

Marissa Secundy (Broadmoor SC), who stood in second after the short, won the ladies title after placing first in the long. Overnight leader Sophia Lamay (Texas Gulf Coast FSC) slipped to second after placing fourth in the long.

Felicia Zhang (SC of New York) moved up to third overall to claim the bronze after placing second in the long.

Agnes Zawadzki (DuPage FSC) finished fourth overall, followed by Song King (All Year FSC).

Gretchen Donlan (SC of Boston) fell from third to seventh overall after placing ninth in the long.

2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Highlights

Novice Compulsory Dance, Pairs, Ladies, and Men's Short Programs and Junior Ladies Short Program

Junior Ice Dance (Compulsory Dance)

Novice Division (Standings)

Novice Compulsory Dance, Pairs, Ladies, and Men's Short Programs
and Junior Ladies Short Program