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Very strong team. I wonder if Nathan has to defer some exams?
2018-19 U.S. Ladies' figure skating
- Thread starter Spirals for Miles
- Start date
Also note (although this is the Ladies thread): Robert Yampolsky, US 2019 Intermediate Champion, won the Advanced Novice Men's gold medal by 17.67 points over the silver medalist.
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Egna Spring Trophy Senior Ladies
1. Starr Andrews, 64.83 (35.49+29.34) - 3T3T, 3Lo, 2A
2. Gabriella Izzo, 61.45 (33.67+27.78) - 3F3Lo<, 3Lz, 2A
Izzo performed a new Short to "I'm Here" from The Color Purple. Andrews has improved quite considerably compared to her debut during the beginning of the season. Now let's work on the 3Lz, under-rotations, and harder combos.
1. Starr Andrews, 64.83 (35.49+29.34) - 3T3T, 3Lo, 2A
2. Gabriella Izzo, 61.45 (33.67+27.78) - 3F3Lo<, 3Lz, 2A
Izzo performed a new Short to "I'm Here" from The Color Purple. Andrews has improved quite considerably compared to her debut during the beginning of the season. Now let's work on the 3Lz, under-rotations, and harder combos.
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Thank you, w_darling. Precise wording truly makes a difference- thank you.
It would be very beneficial if these changes in her wording wold be corrected on the instanogram, too.
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- Feb 27, 2012
Team USA's entry in Advanced Novice Ladies ("Girls") also won gold at Egna.
Ting Cui and Julia Biechler will perform in next weekend's club show in Wilmington, Delaware.
And among others from other disciplines:
Lu/Mitrofanov
Johnny Weir (Saturday night only)
Also (if I am not mistaken): junior man David Shapiro :luv17:, who is a wonderful performer.
Johnny Weir (Saturday night only)
Also (if I am not mistaken): junior man David Shapiro :luv17:, who is a wonderful performer.
Kristi Yamaguchi's tweet today made me smile, but I also found it fascinating that even after all these years, the Olympic/World champion is not immune from her subconscious playing tricks on her:
Couldn’t find the locker room, got there-no benches to sit on, late for practice ice, my teammate was getting on the ice already, we were on after Zagitova and Tursynbaeva. I open my bag-NO SKATES...panic! Woke up. When will these skating nightmares end?!
https://twitter.com/kristiyamaguchi/status/1112108757058797568 (Mar 30)
https://twitter.com/kristiyamaguchi/status/1112108757058797568 (Mar 30)
(Sorry, either my computer and/or GS software won't let me copy and paste Kristi's emojis.)
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- Oct 14, 2018
Calista Choi's Free - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsNpX7SWx10
Only 14... but she has elegance and poise. Hopefully she upgrades to a 3Lz-3T and 3S-3T come next season. Very well rounded for such a young skater and has such great interpretive skills. I hope she gets a JGP assignment next season.
Only 14... but she has elegance and poise. Hopefully she upgrades to a 3Lz-3T and 3S-3T come next season. Very well rounded for such a young skater and has such great interpretive skills. I hope she gets a JGP assignment next season.
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- Feb 27, 2012
On Friday, Karen Chen was in a local TV news story about living/training at the OTC.
Among other things, she talks about getting physical therapy there for her stress fracture.
The first part of the story features Karen's OTC roommate Sophia Herzog, a Paralympic medalist in swimming.
In the video, the part with Karen starts at approx. 1:50.
Among other things, she talks about getting physical therapy there for her stress fracture.
https://youtu.be/74wrL4zfZw0?t=110 (Mar 29)
https://koaa.com/sports/2019/03/29/...our-the-otc-with-an-olympian-and-paralympian/
https://koaa.com/sports/2019/03/29/...our-the-otc-with-an-olympian-and-paralympian/
The first part of the story features Karen's OTC roommate Sophia Herzog, a Paralympic medalist in swimming.
In the video, the part with Karen starts at approx. 1:50.
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- Oct 14, 2018
Let the Quad Games begin...
Alysa Liu’s 4Lz (under-rotated, but bear in mind that she’s only worked on this for a few months) -https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqSVtXHzbl/
Alysa Liu’s 4Lz (under-rotated, but bear in mind that she’s only worked on this for a few months) -https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqSVtXHzbl/
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- Dec 27, 2014
Between winning novice nationals and this competition on junior, and considering the US has 14 JGP slots next year, I'm 99.9% sure she will get one, if not two assignments.
Calista has a lot of potential. It's worth noting she trains with Bradie Tennell.
This is how it started with her 3A last year. Did it in a charity show in front of Scott Hamilton. Month later she did then in her first comp. Nine months later, she became US champ.
It's 4F!
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Gabriella Izzo won the Egna Spring Trophy with 182.00 points (120.55 in the free), and Starr Andrews was 2nd with 170.79 points (105.96 in the free).
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- Feb 20, 2018
While her best qualities right now are obviously her high tech + consistency, it's obvious Alysa works on other things as well. While she is very "juniorish" in a lot of ways (which is not a bad thing, she's not even a junior yet!), I give her a lot of credit for being so determined to not fall behind her Russian & Japanese peers. She's setting a high bar for American ladies. So while she may not be the best at doing 3A or Quads, she's opening the door for others who will be better + getting better herself in the process. Bravo Alysa. Really hope her packaging for next season is done well.
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Nope, definitely a Lz. It’s hard to see the edge but you can clearly see her do a typical Lz setup (Mohawk into cross step), rather than a F entry (3-turn or Mohawk).
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- Jul 3, 2018
Agree! Also Alysa really knows how to perform. Her SP this season was so fun to watch for me, because she had so much fun! No one should expect her SS to be perfect at this young age. This comes with time and training
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Does Amber Glenn have a chance to get a GP next season? Or at least a senior B ?
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Amber’s not in the Top 24, so unless she gets a host pick, it’s not a big possibility. Mariah and Bradie are guaranteed 2, Ting 1, and Lin maybe 1.
For the Junior Grand Prix, we have Alysa, Hanna, Calista, Lindsay, Kate, and a few others (maybe Pooja Kalyan).
For the Junior Grand Prix, we have Alysa, Hanna, Calista, Lindsay, Kate, and a few others (maybe Pooja Kalyan).
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- Feb 27, 2012
Brian Boitano was at yesterday's SF show and witnessed Alysa's jump -- which he referred to as "quad lutz."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvreMs8FTMe/ (posted Mar 31)
Congratulations to the senior ladies.
p.s. I love wombats.
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Brian Boitano was at yesterday's SF show and witnessed Alysa's jump -- which he referred to as "quad lutz."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvreMs8FTMe/ (posted Mar 31)
Congratulations to the senior ladies.
p.s. I love wombats.
Izzo attempted 3flip-3loop in the short which was <, and 2a-1/2-3sal in the long which was <. The last and first time she tried a 3-3 was at nats, where she did 3ltz-3loop, again <. It's nice to see her landing backend triple combos consistently, and good that they aren't <<, but they are consistently <. I wonder how she can get that extra little bit of rotation. It reminds me a bit of Karen Chen, whom I love, that can't do a clean 3-3, but can land it cheated. I hope Izzo can resolve this issue. Encouraging to see her go for 3-3's though.
