Lauren Ellison is one of Kori Ade's skaters, if I am not mistaken.
The high score she's ever gotten is 118. She's gotten 110 for this season.
Lauren Ellison is one of Kori Ade's skaters, if I am not mistaken.
Place | Name | Score | SD | FD |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chloe Lewis, All Year FSC Logan Bye, SC of New York | 130.22 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Eliana Gropman, Washington FSC Ian Somerville, Washington FSC | 116.96 | 3 | 2 |
3 | Lydia Erdman, Philadelphia SC & HS Alexey Shchepetov, Philadelphia SC & HS | 112.09 | 4 | 3 |
4 | Alina Efimova, Peninsula SC Kyle MacMillan, Washington FSC | 110.90 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Elizabeth Addas, All Year FSC Jonathan Schultz, FSC of Southern CA | 101.14 | 5 | 5 |
6 | Heidi Washburn, Detroit SC Val Katsman, Broadmoor SC | 88.62 | 6 | 6 |
Shin, Riley Dallas FSC
Didn't Sarah Feng compete in dance with Anthony Ponomarenko when they were in Novice?
Where was/will be the YOG qualifier for pairs?
Rose and Goodpaster were second in US Novice Pairs last season.
scores
SP. 6 32.60
FS. 2 77.06
Total.2. 109.66
Cranberry is a totally bonkers place for a pairs qualifier.
Why not Skate Detroit?
Or Liberty/Philadelphia?
Or Broadmoor?
Just noticing two things from the 2012 YOG:
- USFS had no men's entry.
- Skate Canada had no entries in any discipline.
http://www.isuresults.com/results/yog2012/
Is it safe to assume that USFS and Skate Canada were eligible to send entries in those disciplines, but chose not to?
So would seem that the North America feds are not so sure of the value of YOG experience?
I'm just making an observation. Don't have an opinion of my own.
Why use this and not Nationals? (OK, I know Nationals aren't strictly used, but they're obviously heavily influential...)
I don't know the thought processes at USFS.
I can guess part of why they don't use Nationals: The age limits for this event are very strict, much tighter than the ISU's limits for junior internationals. Therefore it's possible that some of the best age-eligible skaters will not be at Nationals at all, for instance if they come in 5th or 6th at sectionals behind competitors who are too old or too young to be considered for this event.
Also, depending on the discipline, the best skaters of that age group might be competing as novice, junior, or senior in US qualifying competitions. So holding a separate USOG qualifying event allows them all to compete against each other directly.
Back when Junior Worlds used to be held in December, it was almost a year since the previous Nationals, so it didn't make sense to use a competition back the previous winter to make the selections. So often USFSA invited skaters who were age eligible and who had impressed at the previous Nationals in either novice, junior, or senior to a competition in the summer to determine the junior world team. I don't know how they decided in years when they didn't have a selection competition -- maybe individual monitoring?
I know that the previous Youth Olympics in 2012 were the week before US Nationals, so all of the athletes has to be selected beforehand, not sure why they wouldn't use Nationals as a qualifier this time around though.
I don't think that USFS doesn't care about the YOG. The window of age where an athlete is eligible is quite tight. I don't think that any US men were age eligible last time either, and only one lower level pairs team was the right age.
Also in 2012 a few of the eligible skaters declined the invitation to compete because they would have to fly right from there to nationals.
I know that the previous Youth Olympics in 2012 were the week before US Nationals, so all of the athletes has to be selected beforehand, not sure why they wouldn't use Nationals as a qualifier this time around though.
I don't think that USFS doesn't care about the YOG. The window of age where an athlete is eligible is quite tight. I don't think that any US men were age eligible last time either, and only one lower level pairs team was the right age.
Also in 2012 a few of the eligible skaters declined the invitation to compete because they would have to fly right from there to nationals.