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US PSA Awards for the Men through the years

dorispulaski

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I thought it would be fun to go back through the years and rewatch these amazing programs, when they could be found. So here are the Men's award winning programs.

Which of these programs did you love and remember?

Which choice made no sense to you?

I would love to know!

The PSA awatds are interesting awards since they are awarded for the best program at US Nationals. Quite often, the winner was not the winner of the event. One year, a junior skater even won! They have been awarded every year since 1999.


Here are the formal criteria:
https://skatepsa.com/best-performance-awards

One winner is chosen from each category in men’s, ladies, pairs, dance, and synchronized skating. Selection will be based on performance, not placement and will not necessarily reflect the best technical skater. Elements considered include artistry, charisma/appeal, balance, originality, drama/emotion, music, costuming, humor, showmanship, quality, theme, and technical ability. Votes are tabulated by the executive director’s office and determined by a majority vote.

They were recently announced for this season on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/135977363114767/posts/2885778941467915/?substory_index=0

2020 - Jason Brown – Championship Men’s Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naEncCHKeLc
PSA Coaches – Tracy Wilson, Karen Preston
Choreographer – Rohene Ward
Music Selection – “I Can’t Go On Without You” by Kaleo
Costume Designer – Elena Pollack

The step sequence is just everything, followed by the 3Lz3T where not one, but both jumps land on the beat :love:

2019 Nathan Chen – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q9GFtiSrYc
PSA Coach – Rafael Arutunian
Support Coaches – Nadia Kanaeva, Vera Arutunian
Choreographer – Marie-France Dubreuil
Music Selection – “Land of All” by Woodkid
Costume Designer – Vera Wang

My favorite Nathan Chen performance ever. I even like the costume.​

2018 - Ross Miner – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUm0_BdJ7U
PSA Coaches – Mark Mitchell, Peter Johansson
Choreographer – Jamie Isley
Music Selection – Queen
Costume Designer – Alicia Jackson

It still hurts that Ross did not get to go to the Olympics based on this performance and an almost equally as good a performance in the SP. At least the PSA gave Ross credit for this great program!

2017 - Nathan Chen – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0W5XCWvYBA
PSA Coach – Rafael Arutyunyan
Choreographer – Nadezda Kanaeva
Music Selection – “The Polovtsian Dances” by Aleksandr Borodin
Costume Designers – Ladu Designs– Elena Pollack and Jamie Dollhopf

It is nice to see Nathan in the top notch costume this music demands! He skated brilliantly, too.​

2016 - Nathan Chen – Championship Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToSaEPNJLM0
PSA Coaches – Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, Nadezda Kanaeva
Choreographer – Nikolai Morozov
Music selection – "Symphony No.3" by Camille Saint–Saens
Costume designer – Elena Pollack

I would maybe have give the EDI to Grant Hochstein this year. He did a very good Les Miserables to pull up to finish fourth. Unfortunately NBC lost a chunk of the video, but the stream comes back later. Nathan had an outstanding skate, but not much choreo. He finished third here. Adam won, Max was second.
https://youtu.be/sv6Uu0JC6J4

2015 - Adam Rippon – Championship Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQdnYpdBcE
PSA Coaches – Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, Denys Petrov
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music selection – Piano concerto No. 1 by Franz List
Costume designer – Braden Overett

I wish there were not so many butt eagles in this program, but the "use of the power of stillness" is excellent. Adam pulled up from fifth place to win the silver based on this performance.
I presume this SP by Jason won second most votes. Not everyone loves "Juke' but I do.
https://youtu.be/LeVixnx5D5E

2014 - Jason Brown – Championship Free Skating Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vib4fl8N9jY
Coach – Kori Ade
Choreographer – Rohene Ward
Music – “Reel Around the Sun” from River Dance by Bill Whelan
Costume Design – Rohene Ward

I was there in Boston. I will never forget this performance, and the audience standing before it was finished.​

2013 - Max Aaron – Championship Men’s Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCCjgMG9LI
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Pasquale Camerlengo
Music – “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein
It may surprise you all that Max won an EDI, but he did for this program. He deserved it, too. :clap:

2012 - Jeremy Abbott – Championship Men’s Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHbADOamI3s
Coach – Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen
Choreographer – Yuka Sato, Jeremy Abbott, Roberto Campanella, Buddy & Benji Schwimmer
Music – “Exogenesis Symphony Part 3”

Jeremy skated very well and deservedly won the event, but I found this program choreographically lacking, especially because the music is all at one level, no "light and shade" as the British Eurosport guys used to say. OTOH it was not a great season for memorable US men's choreography, other than maybe Keegan Messing's Robin Hood SP. He skated it perfectly at US Nationals, but there is no video up any more. The steps were one of the best representations of a fight and flight scene ever. Plus great spins. He was just up from Juniors at the time. Here it is from Liberty at the beginning of the season. Picture it with the jumps landed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2YYESMS6Gc

2011 - Ryan Bradley – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-FiufTjd8
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Tom Dickson, Catarina Lindgren
Music – “Dark Eyes” performed by Nika Leoni and Sergei Trofanov?

Ryan skated to an instrumental version of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 2011. Dark Eyes was his SP music in 2010, but apparently his bio did not get updated correctly.
Even the TV had it wrong, but you would think the PSA would have corrected it :laugh: .​

2010 - Jeremy Abbott – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jljuph8ISAQ
Coaches – Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” performed by Jeff Beck

Dickson was not the original choreographer for this piece. It was Shae-Lynn Bourne, as the TV commentators say. The step sequence has that ice dancer's touch and is wonderful. This is my favorite Jeremy Abbott program ever. I just love it.​

2009 - Brandon Mroz – Short Program
4cc version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM4old6JqE
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Lori Nichol and Tom Dickson
Music – “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”

A unique choice of music for this one, in a not great year for US men's choreo.​

2008 - Adam Rippon – Junior Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NhRaAPv-e4
Coaches – Yelena Sergeeva
Choreographer – Yelena Sergeeva
Music – “Moonlight Sonata” by Beethoven

A junior won the EDI! Adam won junior Worlds with this program.

2007 - Evan Lysacek – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI9JR3UWlSY
Coaches – Frank Carroll, Ken Congemi
Choreographer – Lori Nichol
Music – “Carmen Suite” by Bizet and “Carmen” by Rodion Shedrin

Yes, it's Carmen. But he did a great job with it. Still. Carmen? For the EDI?

More fun was Ryan Bradley's SP as a hapless clown at a kid's birthday party, skated to "The Happy Birthday Variations." Ryan finished second to Lysacek at US Nationals.
His Skate America performance of his SP still exists:
https://youtu.be/cw98myVGjNU

2006 - Matt Savoie – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hJx65KiuDc
Coaches – Linda Branon, Gene Heffron
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Journey of Man,” “The Mission,” “Once Upon a Time in America”

This is a great and interesting program. Matt got too little credit for his transitions. He was third at US Nationals in this season.

But Johnny Weir had his "The Swan" SP this season...I could go either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lnWNgXkKgw
His Olympic performance of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3frkW4f7ok

2005 - Performance– Jordan Wilson
No video available
Coaches – Russ Scott
Choreographer – Russ Scott
Music – "Phantom of the Opera"

I have no idea what this program looked like. Jordan was 12th at this competition. There are no youtube videos of him. I would love to know!
Here is a photo of Jordan in 2006.
https://images.app.goo.gl/rszMntSLLsaSvRDK6

2004 - Ryan Jahnke – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzfIXTm0Mw
Coaches – Diana Ronayne, Hoon Kim
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Danse Brazil”

I liked Johnny Weir's SP to "Valse Triste" better, but as he had won the EDI the last year, perhaps they wanted someone else to win.
https://youtu.be/k2x9RfuxLsQ

2003 - Johnny Weir – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jLgPIv4pI
Coach – Priscilla Hill
Choreographer – Michelle Poley
Music – “Innocence & Zydeko” from Quidam

Johnny was second in the SP but WD from the LP due to injury.

2002 - Matt Savoie - Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr39_MaZ6v4
Coaches – Linda Branon, Gene Heffron
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Reveil” by Cirque du Soleil

Matt is always a good choice.

2001 - Michael Weiss
Four Continents version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmIyPZm-r1w
Coaches – Audrey Weisiger
Choreographer – Lisa Weiss, Matthew Gates
Music – “William Tell Overture”

2000 - Michael Weiss – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykHutVwFSMQ
Coaches – Audrey Weisiger
Choreographer – Brian Wright, Lisa Thornton–Weiss
Music – “Carmen”

1999 - Trifun Zivanovic - Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHR876GEwr8
Coaches – Gary Visconti
Choreographer – Scott Williams
Music – “West Side Story”

from k9henrydog, why we should be interested in this program:
Ordinarily, when I hear "West Side Story" at a skating event, I roll my eyes, and dig out reading material from my support bag. But, with an exotic sounding name like Trifon Zivanovic, I thought I should invest a few minutes of my time.....and I am sure glad I did.

Trifon focused on the character of George, the most emotional and troubled member of the Sharks, and the resulting portrayal was quite interesting and fascinating. The program contained lots of varied connecting moves, and he really seemed to listen to the music. The crowd was quite captivated, and audiences would continue to be so for Trifon throughout his career. Injuries hurt his chances at a 2002 Olympic bid, and he faded from competitive view in the US.
 
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dorispulaski

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I like it best when they gave the award to programs that were SPs or were to someone who did not win the gold!
 

el henry

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Thank you for all the work Doris, it is very interesting, and I learned things I did not know and appreciated your comments.

I definitely have thoughts on the winners in years when I began following, but I will limit myself now to saying I'm glad to see the "Juke Appreciation Society" has more than one member;)
 
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Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

Ryan Bradley's Bugle Boy was super -- the only thing that could have made it better is if it was the Andrews Sisters.

I agree with an honorable mention for Grant Hochstein's Les Miz.
 

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I definitely have thoughts on the winners in years when I began following, but I will limit myself now to saying I'm glad to see the "Juke Appreciation Society" has more than one member;)

There's at least one more. *raises hand*
 

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How in the heck did Josh's Schindler's List not win in 2015?! Were the judges blind?
 

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Thank you Doris! Especially for Trifun Zivanovic's program, that was really interesting. :clap:
 

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How in the heck did Josh's Schindler's List not win in 2015?! Were the judges blind?

I seem to remember that the best showing of that program was at Four Continents. I remember the camera panning the audience as he finished and showing most of the Canadian team—Josh’s competitors!—on their feet applauding.

Somebody find that—if possible—and link it so that we can see if my memory is playing tricks on me!
 

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I seem to remember that the best showing of that program was at Four Continents. I remember the camera panning the audience as he finished and showing most of the Canadian team—Josh’s competitors!—on their feet applauding.

Somebody find that—if possible—and link it so that we can see if my memory is playing tricks on me!

But he had already had a superb showing of it at US Nationals that year and could have won if he could count. Barring his little Zayak oops and a turn-out on the quad it was perfect - and almost identical to the 4CC version.
 

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I am fascinated by Jordan Wilson. An African American skater in 2005? Who came nowhere near the podium but won this award? And we have no videos? That was during my break from skating, but until this time I have never heard of him. And Google is very little help.

I want to know more:)
 

dorispulaski

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It makes me wonder whether he was related (or maybe just inspired) by Atoy Wilson.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoy_Wilson

The only thing I know about Jordan is that he competed in Pacific Sectionals in 2006, so that is the general area of the country he came from, and competed for the Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club. He also competed in 2004, because there is another photo:
https://figureskatingcostumes.tumbl...dan-wilson-competing-in-the-2004-us-nationals

That was the first year the US used IJS, and he completed in the FS:
http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/events/200506/uschamps/senior-details.pdf
3A3T, fell on 4T, and also completed 3Lz, 3F, 3A, 2A, and 3S

In 2005, it was the last year of 6.0, so there are no details.

However, coming from Santa Rosa, means his main rink was Snoopy's Home Ice!

https://www.srfsc.org/clubinfo
 
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I thought it would be fun to go back through the years and rewatch these amazing programs, when they could be found. So here are the Men's award winning programs.

Which of these programs did you love and remember?

Which choice made no sense to you?

I would love to know!

The PSA awatds are interesting awards since they are awarded for the best program at US Nationals. Quite often, the winner was not the winner of the event. One year, a junior skater even won! They have been awarded every year since 1999.


Here are the formal criteria:
https://skatepsa.com/best-performance-awards



They were recently announced for this season on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/135977363114767/posts/2885778941467915/?substory_index=0

2020 - Jason Brown – Championship Men’s Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naEncCHKeLc
PSA Coaches – Tracy Wilson, Karen Preston
Choreographer – Rohene Ward
Music Selection – “I Can’t Go On Without You” by Kaleo
Costume Designer – Elena Pollack

The step sequence is just everything, followed by the 3Lz3T where not one, but both jumps land on the beat :love:

2019 Nathan Chen – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q9GFtiSrYc
PSA Coach – Rafael Arutunian
Support Coaches – Nadia Kanaeva, Vera Arutunian
Choreographer – Marie-France Dubreuil
Music Selection – “Land of All” by Woodkid
Costume Designer – Vera Wang

My favorite Nathan Chen performance ever. I even like the costume.​

2018 - Ross Miner – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUm0_BdJ7U
PSA Coaches – Mark Mitchell, Peter Johansson
Choreographer – Jamie Isley
Music Selection – Queen
Costume Designer – Alicia Jackson

It still hurts that Ross did not get to go to the Olympics based on this performance and an almost equally as good a performance in the SP. At least the PSA gave Ross credit for this great program!

2017 - Nathan Chen – Championship Men Free Skate Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0W5XCWvYBA
PSA Coach – Rafael Arutyunyan
Choreographer – Nadezda Kanaeva
Music Selection – “The Polovtsian Dances” by Aleksandr Borodin
Costume Designers – Ladu Designs– Elena Pollack and Jamie Dollhopf

It is nice to see Nathan in the top notch costume this music demands! He skated brilliantly, too.​

2016 - Nathan Chen – Championship Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToSaEPNJLM0
PSA Coaches – Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, Nadezda Kanaeva
Choreographer – Nikolai Morozov
Music selection – "Symphony No.3" by Camille Saint–Saens
Costume designer – Elena Pollack

I would maybe have give the EDI to Grant Hochstein this year. He did a very good Les Miserables to pull up to finish fourth. Unfortunately NBC lost a chunk of the video, but the stream comes back later. Nathan had an outstanding skate, but not much choreo. He finished third here. Adam won, Max was second.
https://youtu.be/sv6Uu0JC6J4

2015 - Adam Rippon – Championship Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQdnYpdBcE
PSA Coaches – Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, Denys Petrov
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music selection – Piano concerto No. 1 by Franz List
Costume designer – Braden Overett

I wish there were not so many butt eagles in this program, but the "use of the power of stillness" is excellent. Adam pulled up from fifth place to win the silver based on this performance.
I presume this SP by Jason won second most votes. Not everyone loves "Juke' but I do.
https://youtu.be/LeVixnx5D5E

2014 - Jason Brown – Championship Free Skating Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vib4fl8N9jY
Coach – Kori Ade
Choreographer – Rohene Ward
Music – “Reel Around the Sun” from River Dance by Bill Whelan
Costume Design – Rohene Ward

I was there in Boston. I will never forget this performance, and the audience standing before it was finished.​

2013 - Max Aaron – Championship Men’s Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCCjgMG9LI
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Pasquale Camerlengo
Music – “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein
It may surprise you all that Max won an EDI, but he did for this program. He deserved it, too. :clap:

2012 - Jeremy Abbott – Championship Men’s Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHbADOamI3s
Coach – Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen
Choreographer – Yuka Sato, Jeremy Abbott, Roberto Campanella, Buddy & Benji Schwimmer
Music – “Exogenesis Symphony Part 3”

Jeremy skated very well and deservedly won the event, but I found this program choreographically lacking, especially because the music is all at one level, no "light and shade" as the British Eurosport guys used to say. OTOH it was not a great season for memorable US men's choreography, other than maybe Keegan Messing's Robin Hood SP. He skated it perfectly at US Nationals, but there is no video up any more. The steps were one of the best representations of a fight and flight scene ever. Plus great spins. He was just up from Juniors at the time. Here it is from Liberty at the beginning of the season. Picture it with the jumps landed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2YYESMS6Gc

2011 - Ryan Bradley – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-FiufTjd8
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Tom Dickson, Catarina Lindgren
Music – “Dark Eyes” performed by Nika Leoni and Sergei Trofanov?

Ryan skated to an instrumental version of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 2011. Dark Eyes was his SP music in 2010, but apparently his bio did not get updated correctly.
Even the TV had it wrong, but you would think the PSA would have corrected it :laugh: .​

2010 - Jeremy Abbott – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jljuph8ISAQ
Coaches – Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” performed by Jeff Beck

Dickson was not the original choreographer for this piece. It was Shae-Lynn Bourne, as the TV commentators say. The step sequence has that ice dancer's touch and is wonderful. This is my favorite Jeremy Abbott program ever. I just love it.​

2009 - Brandon Mroz – Short Program
4cc version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM4old6JqE
Coach – Tom Zakrajsek
Choreographer – Lori Nichol and Tom Dickson
Music – “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”

A unique choice of music for this one, in a not great year for US men's choreo.​

2008 - Adam Rippon – Junior Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NhRaAPv-e4
Coaches – Yelena Sergeeva
Choreographer – Yelena Sergeeva
Music – “Moonlight Sonata” by Beethoven

A junior won the EDI! Adam won junior Worlds with this program.

2007 - Evan Lysacek – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI9JR3UWlSY
Coaches – Frank Carroll, Ken Congemi
Choreographer – Lori Nichol
Music – “Carmen Suite” by Bizet and “Carmen” by Rodion Shedrin

Yes, it's Carmen. But he did a great job with it. Still. Carmen? For the EDI?

More fun was Ryan Bradley's SP as a hapless clown at a kid's birthday party, skated to "The Happy Birthday Variations." Ryan finished second to Lysacek at US Nationals.
His Skate America performance of his SP still exists:
https://youtu.be/cw98myVGjNU

2006 - Matt Savoie – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hJx65KiuDc
Coaches – Linda Branon, Gene Heffron
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Journey of Man,” “The Mission,” “Once Upon a Time in America”

This is a great and interesting program. Matt got too little credit for his transitions. He was third at US Nationals in this season.

But Johnny Weir had his "The Swan" SP this season...I could go either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lnWNgXkKgw
His Olympic performance of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3frkW4f7ok

2005 - Performance– Jordan Wilson
No video available
Coaches – Russ Scott
Choreographer – Russ Scott
Music – "Phantom of the Opera"

I have no idea what this program looked like. Jordan was 12th at this competition. There are no youtube videos of him. I would love to know!
Here is a photo of Jordan in 2006.
https://images.app.goo.gl/rszMntSLLsaSvRDK6

2004 - Ryan Jahnke – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzfIXTm0Mw
Coaches – Diana Ronayne, Hoon Kim
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Danse Brazil”

I liked Johnny Weir's SP to "Valse Triste" better, but as he had won the EDI the last year, perhaps they wanted someone else to win.
https://youtu.be/k2x9RfuxLsQ

2003 - Johnny Weir – Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jLgPIv4pI
Coach – Priscilla Hill
Choreographer – Michelle Poley
Music – “Innocence & Zydeko” from Quidam

Johnny was second in the SP but WD from the LP due to injury.

2002 - Matt Savoie - Short Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr39_MaZ6v4
Coaches – Linda Branon, Gene Heffron
Choreographer – Tom Dickson
Music – “Reveil” by Cirque du Soleil

Matt is always a good choice.

2001 - Michael Weiss
Four Continents version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmIyPZm-r1w
Coaches – Audrey Weisiger
Choreographer – Lisa Weiss, Matthew Gates
Music – “William Tell Overture”

2000 - Michael Weiss – Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykHutVwFSMQ
Coaches – Audrey Weisiger
Choreographer – Brian Wright, Lisa Thornton–Weiss
Music – “Carmen”

1999 - Trifun Zivanovic - Long Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHR876GEwr8
Coaches – Gary Visconti
Choreographer – Scott Williams
Music – “West Side Story”

from k9henrydog, why we should be interested in this program:


There are so many things they have wrong in there.

You mentioned Bradley's SP was BWBB, which it was in 2011. IIRC, Tom Dickson and Catarina Lindgren weren't the choreographers of it, pretty sure it was Renee Roca.

2010 SP Abbott-was choreographed only by Shae-Lynn Bourne.
2011-12 choreography to Exogenesis Pt III was done by Abbott himself with help from Yuka Sato. IDK why they have others listed there; the Schwimmers' choreographed his "Sing Sing Sing" SP that season. Exogenesis Pt III was one of Jeremy's best ever programs, from an artistic skaters perspective(mine) it is the cream of the crop, especially in it's first season skated. The choreography was changed when he brought the program back for the 2014 Olympic season.
 

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There is only one line on an ISU bio for choreographer (s). It is not uncommon for all the choreographers for a season to be listed without saying who worked on which program. And so I do not blame PSA so much for that kind of error.

However, I do think the PSA should fix their file, since this award honors the choreographers, and in later years, the costumers, they should be listing the correct honorees. As a professional skater, and I presume a PSA member, perhaps you could bring this to their attention? It is more likely they would listen to you than to me.

The worst error I found so far was in Pairs, where Keauna McLaughlin's first name was spelled Keanu :bang:

The second worst is the misidentification of Ryan's SP music . Heck, even you turned the sound off, you should realize that he is not skating to Dark Eyes. .Military Gypsies??? :laugh2:

If the PSA sends a letter to each of the honorees, asking for corrected information, they might get it.
 

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... In 2005, it was the last year of 6.0, so there are no details. ...

Details re Jordan Wilson's 2005 Nats FS (from coverage of the whole field):

Jordan Wilson (12): "Phantom of the Opera" in a blue vest over a white shirt with a big ruffly jabot. 3x/3t, 3f/3t, 3z, circular steps, spin combination, ina, 3r, upright spin forward and back, spread eagle into 3x, death drop, straight-line steps, 3s, eagle, butterfly upright spin. Wow, this must be the best he's ever skated! He had a huge smile on his face by the end of the program and got a partial standing ovation from the crowd.

http://www.frogsonice.com/skateweb/reports/2005-nationals/

Photo of Jordan's Phantom costume at Nats: http://www.jayadeff.com/US2005/IMG_1636.jpg (from http://www.jayadeff.com/US2005/US2005.htm)

Other sets of detailed notes re Jordan and the whole field:


Per 2004 Golden West results, Jordan placed third in the FS ... likely with an early version of his Phantom program that later won the PSA award??

Jordan competed at Nationals many times.
Novice 1998.
Junior 1999, 2000, 2002.
Senior 2003 thru 2006 at least.

Jordan was included in the following two productions:

Supermen on Ice (2006 video) -- the likes of Eldredge, Orser, Stojko, Petrenko also are listed among cast members

eta: VIDEO link for Supermen on Ice https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ar55w (43:30 -- I have not attempted to watch the full video ... guessing that Jordan might be the last skater b/c he is listed last in the description?)​

Holiday on Ice : Lake Las Vegas Style (2004) -- hosted by Nancy Kerrigan
TV Special 25 December 2004

eta: VIDEO link for Holiday on Ice Las Vegas https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ar76n (43:34 -- I have not attempted to watch the full video ... perhaps(??) Jordan had a smaller role? He is not listed in DM description)​

(BTW, even in 2004 and 2006, Nathan Chen also is listed as a cast member for both.)​

I like Jordan's SP costume at 2003 Nats, as seen in this photo:

 
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