# 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place between January 20 and 27th at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels of competition – senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).
The event was used to determine the U.S. teams for the 2008 World Championships, 2008 Four Continents Championships, and 2008 World Junior Championships.

## Competition notes

* Reigning four-time ice dancing silver medalists Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov withdrew before the event due to injury.
* Reigning silver medalist single skater Emily Hughes withdrew before the event due to injury.
* Ladies gold medalist Mirai Nagasu, silver medalist Rachael Flatt, and pewter medalist Caroline Zhang were not placed on the World or Four Continents team because they were not age-eligible.
* Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir tied in the overall score, with Weir winning the short program and Lysacek winning the free skating. Lysacek won the title on the first tiebreak under International Skating Union rules, which was the free skating score.

## Qualifying

Qualification for the U.S. Championships begins at one of nine regional competitions. The regions are New England, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Upper Great Lakes, Eastern Great Lakes, Southwestern, Northwest Pacific, Central Pacific, and Southwest Pacific. The top four finishers in each regional advance to one of three sectional competitions (Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast). Skaters who place in the top four at sectionals advance to the U.S. Championships.
The top five finishers in each discipline from the previous year are given byes to the U.S. Championships, as are any skaters who qualify for the Junior or the Senior Grand Prix Final. Skaters are also given byes through a qualifying competition if they are assigned to an international event during the time that qualifying event is to take place. For example, if a skater is competing at an event at the same time as his or her regional competition, that skater would receive a bye to sectionals. If a skater is competing at an event at the same time as his or her sectional competition, that skater would qualify for the national event without having had to compete at a sectional championship.

## Senior results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evan Lysacek | 244.77 | 2 | 82.05 | 1 | 162.72 |
| 2 | Johnny Weir | 244.77 | 1 | 83.40 | 2 | 161.37 |
| 3 | Stephen Carriere | 228.06 | 3 | 76.66 | 3 | 151.40 |
| 4 | Jeremy Abbott | 221.85 | 5 | 73.28 | 4 | 148.57 |
| 5 | Ryan Bradley | 221.31 | 4 | 74.20 | 5 | 147.11 |
| 6 | Scott Smith | 210.55 | 6 | 66.34 | 6 | 144.21 |
| 7 | Wesley Campbell | 200.10 | 8 | 65.53 | 7 | 134.57 |
| 8 | Shaun Rogers | 195.96 | 13 | 64.11 | 9 | 131.85 |
| 9 | Tommy Steenberg | 195.32 | 12 | 64.22 | 10 | 131.10 |
| 10 | Dennis Phan | 193.75 | 15 | 59.27 | 8 | 134.48 |
| 11 | Parker Pennington | 188.82 | 10 | 65.32 | 13 | 123.50 |
| 12 | Geoffry Varner | 184.52 | 9 | 65.40 | 14 | 119.12 |
| 13 | Eliot Halverson | 183.67 | 17 | 56.03 | 11 | 127.64 |
| 14 | Braden Overett | 182.86 | 16 | 57.18 | 12 | 125.68 |
| 15 | Derrick Delmore | 180.83 | 7 | 65.67 | 16 | 115.16 |
| 16 | Douglas Razzano | 180.21 | 11 | 64.83 | 15 | 115.38 |
| 17 | Michael Villarreal | 164.35 | 14 | 61.66 | 18 | 102.69 |
| 18 | Rohene Ward | 160.45 | 18 | 54.83 | 17 | 105.62 |
* 1 2 Weir and Lysacek tied in the overall score. Lysacek won the title on the tiebreaker, which was the free skating placement.

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mirai Nagasu | 190.41 | 1 | 70.23 | 3 | 120.18 |
| 2 | Rachael Flatt | 188.73 | 3 | 62.91 | 1 | 125.82 |
| 3 | Ashley Wagner | 188.56 | 2 | 65.15 | 2 | 123.41 |
| 4 | Caroline Zhang | 173.16 | 7 | 53.49 | 4 | 119.67 |
| 5 | Bebe Liang | 164.87 | 6 | 55.10 | 5 | 109.77 |
| 6 | Katrina Hacker | 158.28 | 5 | 56.87 | 6 | 101.41 |
| 7 | Kimmie Meissner | 157.56 | 4 | 57.58 | 7 | 99.98 |
| 8 | Melissa Bulanhagui | 149.22 | 8 | 52.77 | 8 | 96.45 |
| 9 | Alissa Czisny | 146.38 | 9 | 50.58 | 9 | 95.80 |
| 10 | Becky Bereswill | 137.65 | 14 | 46.52 | 10 | 91.13 |
| 11 | Tenile Victorsen | 132.80 | 15 | 44.86 | 11 | 87.94 |
| 12 | Danielle Kahle | 132.22 | 10 | 50.46 | 13 | 81.76 |
| 13 | Megan Williams-Stewart | 130.40 | 12 | 49.23 | 14 | 81.17 |
| 14 | Chrissy Hughes | 126.84 | 16 | 43.36 | 12 | 83.48 |
| 15 | Molly Oberstar | 125.13 | 11 | 49.47 | 15 | 75.66 |
| 16 | Karen Zhou | 116.30 | 17 | 42.62 | 16 | 73.68 |
| 17 | Angie Lien | 112.25 | 13 | 47.42 | 20 | 64.83 |
| 18 | Megan Hyatt | 108.69 | 19 | 35.32 | 17 | 73.37 |
| 19 | Stephanie Roth | 107.49 | 18 | 40.76 | 18 | 66.73 |
| 20 | Laney Diggs | 99.20 | 20 | 33.22 | 19 | 65.98 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | 190.74 | 1 | 66.54 | 1 | 124.20 |
| 2 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | 183.17 | 2 | 65.24 | 2 | 117.93 |
| 3 | Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski | 175.07 | 3 | 58.95 | 3 | 116.12 |
| 4 | Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent | 161.20 | 5 | 53.97 | 4 | 107.23 |
| 5 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | 158.94 | 4 | 57.10 | 5 | 101.84 |
| 6 | Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin | 153.80 | 6 | 52.09 | 6 | 101.71 |
| 7 | Naomi Nari Nam / Themistocles Leftheris | 145.89 | 8 | 48.51 | 7 | 97.38 |
| 8 | Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch | 142.29 | 7 | 50.62 | 8 | 91.67 |
| 9 | Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen | 136.65 | 11 | 45.33 | 9 | 91.32 |
| 10 | MeeRan Trombley / Laureano Ibarra | 130.29 | 12 | 44.39 | 10 | 85.90 |
| 11 | Kaela Pflumm / Christopher Pottenger | 127.27 | 10 | 46.73 | 12 | 80.54 |
| 12 | Katie Beriau / Alexander Merritt | 125.52 | 9 | 47.09 | 14 | 78.43 |
| 13 | Amber Wehrle / Nicholas Kole | 125.17 | 13 | 43.64 | 11 | 81.53 |
| 14 | Laura Lepzinski / Ethan Burgess | 119.40 | 14 | 42.89 | 15 | 76.51 |
| 15 | Kendra Moyle / Steven Pottenger | 117.98 | 15 | 38.03 | 13 | 79.95 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto | 216.07 | 1 | 41.86 | 1 | 64.29 | 1 | 109.92 |
| 2 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | 206.82 | 2 | 40.59 | 2 | 62.69 | 2 | 103.54 |
| 3 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | 187.94 | 3 | 35.38 | 3 | 58.71 | 3 | 93.85 |
| 4 | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates | 175.16 | 4 | 34.00 | 4 | 57.62 | 6 | 83.54 |
| 5 | Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev | 169.37 | 5 | 30.46 | 6 | 53.26 | 5 | 85.65 |
| 6 | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles | 166.86 | 10 | 26.31 | 5 | 53.35 | 4 | 87.20 |
| 7 | Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler | 161.17 | 7 | 28.53 | 7 | 51.20 | 7 | 81.44 |
| 8 | Mimi Whetstone / Chris Obzansky | 157.10 | 6 | 28.69 | 8 | 48.72 | 8 | 79.69 |
| 9 | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt | 151.50 | 8 | 27.76 | 9 | 46.33 | 9 | 77.41 |
| 10 | Mauri Gustafson / Joel Dear | 138.20 | 9 | 26.83 | 10 | 44.97 | 10 | 66.40 |
| 11 | Clare Farrell / Charles Fishpaw | 130.90 | 11 | 23.84 | 11 | 42.71 | 11 | 64.35 |
| 12 | Marsha Snyder / Peter Fischl | 120.51 | 12 | 21.09 | 12 | 38.42 | 12 | 61.00 |
| 13 | Stacy Kim / Jonathan Harris | 105.71 | 13 | 20.84 | 13 | 30.75 | 13 | 54.12 |

## Junior results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Adam Rippon | 213.76 | 1 | 71.33 | 1 | 142.43 |
| 2 | Brandon Mroz | 203.63 | 3 | 65.89 | 2 | 137.74 |
| 3 | Andrew Gonzales | 182.27 | 4 | 60.01 | 4 | 122.26 |
| 4 | Richard Dornbush | 179.27 | 12 | 52.46 | 3 | 126.81 |
| 5 | Keegan Messing | 176.63 | 6 | 57.11 | 5 | 119.52 |
| 6 | Curran Oi | 176.44 | 2 | 68.15 | 10 | 108.29 |
| 7 | Alexander Johnson | 169.19 | 5 | 59.12 | 9 | 110.07 |
| 8 | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | 167.76 | 9 | 53.29 | 6 | 114.47 |
| 9 | William Brewster | 167.70 | 7 | 56.43 | 8 | 111.27 |
| 10 | Austin Kanallakan | 165.06 | 10 | 53.02 | 7 | 112.04 |
| 11 | Grant Hochstein | 162.12 | 8 | 53.84 | 11 | 108.28 |
| 12 | Zachary DeWulf | 152.68 | 11 | 52.89 | 13 | 99.79 |
| 13 | Max Aaron | 146.98 | 13 | 49.52 | 14 | 97.46 |
| 14 | Daniel Raad | 145.30 | 16 | 43.20 | 12 | 102.10 |
| 15 | Osadolo Irowa | 141.46 | 14 | 45.32 | 15 | 96.14 |
| 16 | Theron James | 116.52 | 15 | 43.71 | 16 | 72.81 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alexe Gilles | 156.17 | 3 | 52.63 | 1 | 103.54 |
| 2 | Angela Maxwell | 150.11 | 1 | 54.91 | 3 | 95.20 |
| 3 | Brittney Rizo | 149.60 | 2 | 54.59 | 4 | 95.01 |
| 4 | Kristine Musademba | 143.86 | 5 | 49.10 | 5 | 94.76 |
| 5 | Amanda Dobbs | 142.76 | 6 | 47.36 | 2 | 95.40 |
| 6 | Victoria Rackohn | 137.70 | 4 | 49.50 | 6 | 88.20 |
| 7 | Kirsten Olson | 130.21 | 7 | 46.56 | 7 | 83.65 |
| 8 | Ellie Kawamura | 122.74 | 8 | 45.53 | 8 | 77.21 |
| 9 | Rebecca Stern | 110.76 | 11 | 40.17 | 9 | 70.59 |
| 10 | Jane Ruan | 110.72 | 9 | 44.97 | 11 | 65.75 |
| 11 | Carolyn-Ann Alba | 108.68 | 12 | 40.16 | 10 | 68.52 |
| 12 | Alexa Scimeca | 104.20 | 10 | 43.74 | 12 | 60.46 |
| 13 | Masha Leonov | 97.54 | 13 | 39.70 | 13 | 57.84 |
| 14 | Victoria Fairchild | 91.40 | 14 | 39.47 | 14 | 51.93 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss | 143.19 | 2 | 52.13 | 1 | 91.06 |
| 2 | Tracy Tanovich / Michael Chau | 137.36 | 3 | 50.83 | 2 | 86.53 |
| 3 | Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon | 134.58 | 1 | 53.65 | 4 | 80.93 |
| 4 | Andrea Best / Trevor Young | 129.75 | 5 | 47.04 | 3 | 82.71 |
| 5 | Meg Byrne / Nathan Bartholomay | 124.71 | 6 | 45.56 | 5 | 79.15 |
| 6 | Lisa Moore / Justin Gaumond | 123.69 | 4 | 47.14 | 6 | 76.55 |
| 7 | Jaylyn Kelly / Gabe Woodruff | 113.90 | 10 | 38.99 | 7 | 74.91 |
| 8 | Janyce Okamoto / Ryan Berning | 113.42 | 9 | 41.63 | 8 | 71.79 |
| 9 | Megan Gueli / Grant Marron | 107.41 | 8 | 42.53 | 10 | 64.88 |
| 10 | Arielle Trujillo / Daniyel Cohen | 104.02 | 12 | 35.70 | 9 | 68.32 |
| 11 | Rachel DeRita / Brandon Accardi | 101.50 | 11 | 38.41 | 11 | 63.09 |
| 12 | Claire Davis / Nathan Miller | 100.70 | 7 | 43.34 | 13 | 57.36 |
| 13 | Molly Schleicher / Christopher Schleicher | 95.64 | 13 | 34.15 | 12 | 61.49 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell | 167.48 | 1 | 34.61 | 3 | 50.66 | 1 | 82.21 |
| 2 | Piper Gilles / Timothy McKernan | 161.66 | 2 | 30.97 | 4 | 50.24 | 2 | 80.45 |
| 3 | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | 161.40 | 4 | 29.92 | 1 | 53.03 | 3 | 78.45 |
| 4 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | 157.80 | 7 | 27.66 | 2 | 52.32 | 4 | 77.82 |
| 5 | Shannon Wingle / Ryan Devereaux | 154.09 | 8 | 27.42 | 5 | 49.17 | 5 | 77.50 |
| 6 | Pilar Bosley / John Corona | 144.37 | 3 | 30.07 | 6 | 48.35 | 9 | 65.95 |
| 7 | Sara Bailey / Kyle Herring | 141.62 | 5 | 29.29 | 11 | 42.25 | 6 | 70.08 |
| 8 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Dean Copely | 140.14 | 6 | 28.50 | 7 | 45.51 | 8 | 66.13 |
| 9 | Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello | 139.14 | 9 | 26.37 | 8 | 44.88 | 7 | 67.89 |
| 10 | Rachel Tibbetts / Collin Brubaker | 131.72 | 11 | 24.61 | 9 | 44.56 | 10 | 62.55 |
| 11 | Rachael Richardson / Brad Coulter | 127.62 | 12 | 24.06 | 10 | 43.70 | 12 | 59.86 |
| 12 | Kaylyn Patitucci / Karl Edelmann | 127.12 | 13 | 23.41 | 12 | 41.91 | 11 | 61.80 |
| 13 | Michelle Pennington / Andrew Skillington | 124.74 | 10 | 25.42 | 13 | 40.21 | 13 | 59.11 |

## International team selections
### World Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Evan Lysacek | Ashley Wagner | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto |
| 2 | Johnny Weir | Bebe Liang | Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 3 | Stephen Carriere | Kimmie Meissner | | Kim Navarro / Brent Bommentre |
| 1st alternate | Jeremy Abbott | Katrina Hacker | Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent | Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev |
| 2nd alternate | Ryan Bradley | Melissa Bulanhagui | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles |
| 3rd alternate | Scott Smith | Alissa Czisny | Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin | Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler |

### Four Continents Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Evan Lysacek | Ashley Wagner | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 2 | Johnny Weir | Bebe Liang | Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski | Kim Navarro / Brent Bommentre |
| 3 | Stephen Carriere | Katrina Hacker | Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent | Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev |
| 1st alternate | Jeremy Abbott | Alexe Gilles | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles |
| 2nd alternate | Ryan Bradley | Melissa Bulanhagui | Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin | Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler |
| 3rd alternate | Scott Smith | Alissa Czisny | Naomi Nari Nam / Themi Leftheris | Mimi Whetstone / Chris Obzansky |

### World Junior Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Adam Rippon | Mirai Nagasu | Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates |
| 2 | Brandon Mroz | Rachael Flatt | Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell |
| 3 | Tommy Steenberg | Caroline Zhang | Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon | |
| 1st alternate | Eliot Halverson | Alexe Gilles | Kaela Pflumm / Christopher Pottenger | Piper Gilles / Timothy McKernan |
| 2nd alternate | Douglas Razzano | Angela Maxwell | Meg Byrne / Nathan Bartholomay | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein |
| 3rd alternate | Andrew Gonzales | Melissa Bulanhagui | Arielle Trujillo / Daniyel Cohen | Shannon Wingle / Ryan Devereaux |