# 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place from January 18 to 25th 2009 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – and across three levels: 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 2009 World Championships, 2009 Four Continents Championships, and 2009 World Junior Championships.

## Qualifying

Qualification for the U.S. Championships began 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 placed in the top four at sectionals advanced to the U.S. Championships.
The top five finishers in each discipline from the previous year were given byes to the U.S. Championships, as were any skaters who qualify for the Junior or the Senior Grand Prix Final. Skaters were also given byes through a qualifying competition if they are assigned to an international event during the time that qualifying event was to take place. For example, if a skater competed at an event at the same time as his or her regional competition, that skater would receive a bye to sectionals. If a skater competed 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.

## Competition notes

* Reigning ice dancing champions Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto withdrew before the event began due to injury to Agosto.
* 2007 ladies' champion Kimberly Meissner withdrew before the event due to injury.
* Senior ladies Katrina Hacker and Mirai Nagasu both earned an overall score of 54.79 in the short program. The tie was broken by the technical elements mark, by which Hacker had beaten Nagasu by 2.05 points. Hacker therefore placed 5th while Nagasu placed 6th in that segment of the competition.
* Senior ladies Laney Diggs and Kristine Musademba tied for 10th place in the overall score. The tie was broken by the free skating segment and so Diggs placed ahead of Musademba overall.

## Senior results
### Men's singles

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | 241.89 | 1 | 86.40 | 1 | 155.49 |
| 2 | Brandon Mroz | 229.70 | 4 | 74.88 | 2 | 154.82 |
| 3 | Evan Lysacek | 229.10 | 2 | 83.59 | 4 | 145.51 |
| 4 | Ryan Bradley | 221.40 | 5 | 74.05 | 3 | 147.35 |
| 5 | Johnny Weir | 203.99 | 7 | 70.76 | 5 | 133.23 |
| 6 | Curran Oi | 194.03 | 6 | 72.76 | 8 | 121.27 |
| 7 | Adam Rippon | 193.76 | 12 | 62.22 | 6 | 131.54 |
| 8 | Parker Pennington | 192.48 | 3 | 76.17 | 10 | 116.31 |
| 9 | Stephen Carriere | 185.31 | 8 | 69.36 | 11 | 115.95 |
| 10 | Tommy Steenberg | 184.99 | 14 | 59.77 | 7 | 125.22 |
| 11 | Dennis Phan | 183.25 | 9 | 69.11 | 12 | 114.14 |
| 12 | Shaun Rogers | 175.72 | 10 | 64.13 | 13 | 111.59 |
| 13 | Eliot Halverson | 171.14 | 18 | 51.09 | 9 | 120.05 |
| 14 | Douglas Razzano | 164.14 | 16 | 57.00 | 14 | 107.14 |
| 15 | William Brewster | 152.80 | 13 | 60.23 | 16 | 92.57 |
| 16 | Jonathan Cassar | 151.10 | 17 | 55.72 | 15 | 95.38 |
| 17 | Jason Wong | 140.73 | 11 | 63.40 | 17 | 77.33 |
| WD | Nicholas LaRoche | | 15 | 58.01 | | |
| WD | Scott Smith | | | | | |

### Ladies' singles

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alissa Czisny | 178.06 | 1 | 65.75 | 3 | 112.31 |
| 2 | Rachael Flatt | 173.78 | 2 | 60.19 | 2 | 113.59 |
| 3 | Caroline Zhang | 171.08 | 3 | 58.91 | 4 | 112.17 |
| 4 | Ashley Wagner | 165.33 | 12 | 50.28 | 1 | 115.05 |
| 5 | Mirai Nagasu | 159.99 | 6 | 54.79 | 5 | 105.20 |
| 6 | Katrina Hacker | 156.28 | 5 | 54.79 | 6 | 101.49 |
| 7 | Brittney Rizo | 151.23 | 4 | 55.43 | 9 | 95.80 |
| 8 | Angela Maxwell | 151.22 | 13 | 50.02 | 7 | 101.20 |
| 9 | Alexe Gilles | 151.20 | 11 | 50.30 | 8 | 100.90 |
| 10 | Laney Diggs | 147.48 | 9 | 52.30 | 10 | 95.18 |
| 11 | Kristine Musademba | 147.48 | 7 | 53.48 | 11 | 94.00 |
| 12 | Joelle Forte | 145.33 | 8 | 53.13 | 13 | 92.20 |
| 13 | Taylor Firth | 139.49 | 16 | 46.29 | 12 | 93.20 |
| 14 | Beatrisa Liang | 135.15 | 10 | 51.49 | 16 | 83.66 |
| 15 | Molly Oberstar | 130.71 | 15 | 46.73 | 15 | 83.98 |
| 16 | Chrissy Hughes | 128.32 | 21 | 37.86 | 14 | 90.46 |
| 17 | Tenile Victorsen | 126.74 | 14 | 46.84 | 17 | 79.90 |
| 18 | Becky Bereswill | 124.57 | 17 | 46.25 | 18 | 78.32 |
| 19 | Karen Zhou | 120.05 | 18 | 44.96 | 19 | 75.09 |
| 20 | Melissa Telecky | 106.96 | 20 | 40.70 | 20 | 66.26 |
| 21 | Blake Rosenthal | 101.39 | 19 | 43.48 | 21 | 57.91 |
| 22 | Brittney Westdorp | 88.70 | 23 | 33.99 | 22 | 54.71 |
| 23 | Tatyana Khazova | 86.03 | 22 | 34.97 | 23 | 51.06 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | 178.76 | 2 | 61.12 | 1 | 117.64 |
| 2 | Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett | 176.27 | 1 | 61.51 | 2 | 114.76 |
| 3 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | 171.08 | 3 | 61.11 | 3 | 109.97 |
| 4 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | 159.95 | 6 | 52.98 | 4 | 106.97 |
| 5 | Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski | 157.01 | 5 | 54.46 | 6 | 102.55 |
| 6 | Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch | 156.15 | 7 | 52.06 | 5 | 104.09 |
| 7 | Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin | 153.67 | 4 | 56.09 | 8 | 97.58 |
| 8 | Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent | 148.91 | 8 | 51.16 | 7 | 97.75 |
| 9 | Laura Lepzinski / Ethan Burgess | 141.21 | 12 | 45.09 | 9 | 96.12 |
| 10 | Jessica Rose Paetsch / Drew Meekins | 130.87 | 10 | 47.67 | 10 | 83.20 |
| 11 | MeeRan Trombley / Laureano Ibarra | 129.61 | 9 | 48.63 | 12 | 80.98 |
| 12 | Lindsay Davis / Alexander Merritt | 125.33 | 11 | 45.87 | 14 | 79.46 |
| 13 | Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen | 124.46 | 15 | 42.73 | 11 | 81.73 |
| 14 | Stephanie Kuban / Steven Elefante | 123.21 | 16 | 42.25 | 13 | 80.96 |
| 15 | Lisa Moore / Justin Gaumond | 112.57 | 17 | 38.60 | 16 | 73.97 |
| 16 | Andrea Best / Trevor Young | 112.15 | 19 | 36.64 | 15 | 75.51 |
| 17 | Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon | 108.06 | 13 | 44.63 | 18 | 63.43 |
| 18 | Jennifer Brunn / Don Baldwin | 105.99 | 14 | 43.35 | 19 | 62.64 |
| 19 | Kendra Moyle / Steven Pottenger | 105.43 | 18 | 38.31 | 17 | 67.12 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | 201.68 | 1 | 39.93 | 1 | 61.93 | 1 | 99.82 |
| 2 | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates | 181.64 | 2 | 36.28 | 2 | 56.97 | 2 | 88.39 |
| 3 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | 176.30 | 3 | 35.22 | 6 | 54.30 | 3 | 86.78 |
| 4 | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell | 171.51 | 4 | 32.52 | 4 | 54.51 | 4 | 84.48 |
| 5 | Morgan Matthews / Leif Gislason | 169.62 | 6 | 31.59 | 3 | 55.03 | 5 | 83.00 |
| 6 | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles | 169.35 | 5 | 32.48 | 5 | 54.43 | 6 | 82.44 |
| 7 | Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky | 165.71 | 7 | 31.18 | 7 | 52.83 | 7 | 81.70 |
| 8 | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt | 151.59 | 9 | 27.81 | 8 | 48.92 | 8 | 74.86 |
| 9 | Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler | 143.60 | 11 | 26.74 | 10 | 45.10 | 9 | 71.76 |
| 10 | Clare Farrell / Charles Fishpaw | 135.30 | 12 | 25.78 | 11 | 41.11 | 10 | 68.41 |
| 11 | Jessica Perino / William Avila | 127.35 | 10 | 26.74 | 13 | 38.84 | 11 | 61.77 |
| 12 | Lauren Corry / Alexander Lorello | 121.62 | 14 | 21.59 | 12 | 39.50 | 12 | 60.53 |
| 13 | Kellene Ratko / Jonathan Harris | 107.58 | 13 | 21.74 | 15 | 31.37 | 13 | 54.47 |
| 14 | Emma Cyders / Ievgenii Krasniak | 107.29 | 15 | 20.11 | 14 | 36.31 | 14 | 50.87 |
| WD | Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev | | 8 | 29.66 | 9 | 47.65 | | |

## Junior results
### Men's singles

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Ross Miner | 183.80 | 1 | 66.62 | 2 | 117.18 |
| 2 | Keegan Messing | 176.94 | 2 | 59.80 | 3 | 117.14 |
| 3 | Alexander Johnson | 171.08 | 7 | 51.68 | 1 | 119.40 |
| 4 | Grant Hochstein | 162.15 | 9 | 51.24 | 4 | 110.91 |
| 5 | Austin Kanallakan | 160.30 | 8 | 51.38 | 5 | 108.92 |
| 6 | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | 159.12 | 3 | 59.29 | 8 | 99.83 |
| 7 | Alexander Aiken | 157.99 | 10 | 51.16 | 6 | 106.83 |
| 8 | Andrew Gonzales | 153.19 | 4 | 58.76 | 10 | 94.43 |
| 9 | Michael Chau | 145.78 | 12 | 42.87 | 7 | 102.91 |
| 10 | Daniel O'Shea | 145.04 | 11 | 50.57 | 9 | 94.47 |
| 11 | Juran Yang | 142.75 | 5 | 58.37 | 12 | 84.38 |
| 12 | Peter Max Dion | 141.22 | 6 | 52.58 | 11 | 88.64 |
| 13 | David Wang | 117.34 | 13 | 41.16 | 13 | 76.18 |
| 14 | Pine Kopka-Ross | 99.98 | 14 | 33.35 | 14 | 66.63 |
| WD | Richard Dornbush | | | | | |

### Ladies' singles

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | DeeDee Leng | 132.49 | 1 | 53.57 | 3 | 78.92 |
| 2 | Ellie Kawamura | 131.25 | 2 | 51.82 | 1 | 79.43 |
| 3 | Christina Gao | 128.69 | 3 | 49.45 | 2 | 79.24 |
| 4 | Kristiene Gong | 126.17 | 4 | 49.21 | 5 | 76.96 |
| 5 | Kendall Wyckoff | 123.88 | 5 | 47.12 | 6 | 76.76 |
| 6 | Samantha Cesario | 120.90 | 6 | 43.47 | 4 | 77.43 |
| 7 | Amanda Dobbs | 116.52 | 7 | 43.21 | 8 | 73.31 |
| 8 | Carolyn-Ann Alba | 112.35 | 12 | 37.96 | 7 | 74.39 |
| 9 | Vanessa Lam | 111.68 | 11 | 39.25 | 9 | 72.43 |
| 10 | Keli Zhou | 110.87 | 8 | 42.96 | 10 | 67.91 |
| 11 | Gretchen Donlan | 106.60 | 10 | 39.65 | 11 | 66.95 |
| 12 | Marissa Secundy | 105.16 | 9 | 42.28 | 12 | 62.88 |
| 13 | Kirsten Olson | 95.57 | 13 | 33.85 | 13 | 61.72 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Tracy Tanovich / Michael Chau | 135.50 | 3 | 46.84 | 1 | 88.66 |
| 2 | Brynn Carman / Christopher Knierim | 134.92 | 1 | 48.31 | 2 | 86.61 |
| 3 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | 129.87 | 2 | 47.57 | 3 | 82.30 |
| 4 | Britney Simpson / Nathan Miller | 122.44 | 4 | 46.39 | 5 | 76.05 |
| 5 | Molly Aaron / Daniyel Cohen | 118.16 | 7 | 42.04 | 4 | 76.12 |
| 6 | Brittany Chase / Andrew Speroff | 115.82 | 8 | 41.86 | 6 | 73.96 |
| 7 | Lauren Farr / Mac Kern | 115.79 | 5 | 43.41 | 7 | 72.38 |
| 8 | Ameena Sheikh / Aaron VanCleave | 113.44 | 9 | 41.74 | 8 | 71.70 |
| 9 | Kloe Bautista / Galvani Hopson | 109.70 | 6 | 42.81 | 10 | 66.89 |
| 10 | Megan Gueli / Grant Marron | 108.42 | 10 | 40.05 | 9 | 68.37 |
| 11 | Erika Smith / Nathan Bartholomay | 101.00 | 12 | 35.79 | 11 | 65.21 |
| 12 | Rachel DeRita / Brandon Accardi | 97.98 | 11 | 37.34 | 12 | 60.64 |
| 13 | Emily Glassberg / Gabe Woodruff | 89.05 | 13 | 29.52 | 13 | 59.53 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | 167.81 | 1 | 32.90 | 1 | 52.89 | 1 | 82.02 |
| 2 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | 161.03 | 2 | 31.98 | 2 | 52.70 | 2 | 76.35 |
| 3 | Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue | 151.10 | 3 | 29.50 | 3 | 47.33 | 3 | 74.27 |
| 4 | Shannon Wingle / Timothy McKernan | 145.05 | 4 | 28.92 | 6 | 45.49 | 5 | 70.64 |
| 5 | Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello | 144.80 | 8 | 27.58 | 5 | 45.90 | 4 | 71.32 |
| 6 | Rachel Tibbetts / Collin Brubaker | 143.20 | 5 | 28.54 | 4 | 47.19 | 7 | 67.47 |
| 7 | Sara Bailey / Kyle Herring | 136.18 | 12 | 24.86 | 9 | 43.63 | 6 | 67.69 |
| 8 | Chloe Wolf / Rhys Ainsworth | 134.19 | 7 | 27.67 | 11 | 41.45 | 8 | 65.07 |
| 9 | Charlotte Lichtman / Dean Copely | 133.27 | 10 | 26.06 | 8 | 44.20 | 10 | 63.01 |
| 10 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | 132.52 | 11 | 25.49 | 10 | 42.11 | 9 | 64.92 |
| 11 | Elyse Matsumoto / Patrick Mays | 128.74 | 9 | 26.68 | 7 | 45.40 | 11 | 56.66 |
| 12 | Katie Wyble / Justin Morrow | 116.82 | 6 | 28.14 | 12 | 35.37 | 12 | 53.31 |
| 13 | Alison Carey / Daniel Donigan | 102.58 | 14 | 17.51 | 13 | 33.59 | 13 | 51.48 |
| WD | Brittany Marshall / Ashley Deavers | | 13 | 23.11 | 14 | 29.64 | | |

## International team selections
### World Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | Alissa Czisny | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 2 | Evan Lysacek | Rachael Flatt | Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates |
| 3 | Brandon Mroz | | | Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto |
| 1st alternate | Johnny Weir | Caroline Zhang | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre |
| 2nd alternate | Ryan Bradley | Ashley Wagner | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell |
| 3rd alternate | Stephen Carriere | Mirai Nagasu | Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles |
| 4th alternate | | | | Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky |

### Four Continents Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | Alissa Czisny | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 2 | Brandon Mroz | Rachael Flatt | Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates |
| 3 | Evan Lysacek | Caroline Zhang | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre |
| 1st alternate | Ryan Bradley | Ashley Wagner | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles |
| 2nd alternate | Johnny Weir | Mirai Nagasu | Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski | Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky |
| 3rd alternate | Curran Oi | Katrina Hacker | Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |

### World Junior Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Curran Oi | Mirai Nagasu | Brynn Carman / Chris Knierim | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein |
| 2 | Adam Rippon | Ashley Wagner | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell |
| 3 | Ross Miner | Caroline Zhang | | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 1st alternate | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | Katrina Hacker | Molly Aaron / Daniyel Cohen | Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue |
| 2nd alternate | Alexander Johnson | Alexe Gilles | Brittany Chase / Andrew Speroff | Shannon Wingle / Timothy McKernan |
| 3rd alternate | Richard Dornbush | Brittney Rizo | Kloe Bautista / Galvani Hopson | Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello |
| 4th alternate | | Angela Maxwell | | |