# 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were the national figure skating championships of the United States for the 2013–14 season.
The event was held in Boston, Massachusetts on January 5–12, 2014. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 World Championships, 2014 World Junior Championships, and 2014 Four Continents Championships.

## Overview

The 2014 event was the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Championships and the seventh time that Boston had hosted the competition. Competitors qualified at the Eastern, Midwestern, or Pacific Coast Sectional Championships or earned a bye.

## Senior results
### Senior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | 274.27 | 1 | 99.86 | 2 | 174.41 |
| 2 | Jason Brown | 270.08 | 3 | 87.47 | 1 | 182.61 |
| 3 | Max Aaron | 260.44 | 4 | 86.95 | 3 | 173.49 |
| 4 | Joshua Farris | 248.06 | 5 | 78.37 | 4 | 169.69 |
| 5 | Richard Dornbush | 236.38 | 2 | 92.04 | 8 | 144.34 |
| 6 | Douglas Razzano | 232.43 | 7 | 75.18 | 5 | 157.25 |
| 7 | Ross Miner | 224.81 | 8 | 71.94 | 6 | 152.87 |
| 8 | Adam Rippon | 222.19 | 6 | 77.58 | 7 | 144.61 |
| 9 | Brandon Mroz | 208.69 | 9 | 70.57 | 10 | 138.12 |
| 10 | Stephen Carriere | 203.25 | 12 | 64.42 | 9 | 138.83 |
| 11 | Grant Hochstein | 198.50 | 10 | 64.62 | 12 | 133.88 |
| 12 | Keegan Messing | 197.45 | 14 | 61.15 | 11 | 136.30 |
| 13 | Timothy Dolensky | 184.84 | 13 | 61.76 | 13 | 123.08 |
| 14 | Sean Rabbitt | 183.34 | 15 | 60.58 | 14 | 122.76 |
| 15 | Lukas Kaugars | 179.32 | 11 | 64.57 | 15 | 114.75 |
| 16 | Philip Warren | 169.04 | 16 | 55.80 | 16 | 113.24 |
| 17 | Daniel Raad | 161.01 | 18 | 52.98 | 17 | 108.03 |
| 18 | Scott Dyer | 156.75 | 17 | 55.78 | 18 | 100.97 |
| 19 | Robert Przepioski | 147.34 | 19 | 47.00 | 19 | 100.34 |

### Senior ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Gracie Gold | 211.69 | 1 | 72.12 | 1 | 139.57 |
| 2 | Polina Edmunds | 193.63 | 2 | 66.75 | 2 | 126.88 |
| 3 | Mirai Nagasu | 190.74 | 3 | 65.44 | 3 | 125.30 |
| 4 | Ashley Wagner | 182.74 | 4 | 64.71 | 5 | 118.03 |
| 5 | Samantha Cesario | 173.97 | 11 | 54.88 | 4 | 119.09 |
| 6 | Courtney Hicks | 168.68 | 16 | 51.69 | 6 | 116.99 |
| 7 | Barbie Long | 163.79 | 10 | 55.55 | 7 | 108.24 |
| 8 | Christina Gao | 163.03 | 6 | 60.91 | 10 | 102.12 |
| 9 | Hannah Miller | 161.41 | 7 | 57.49 | 8 | 103.92 |
| 10 | Leah Keiser | 160.33 | 8 | 57.41 | 9 | 102.92 |
| 11 | Agnes Zawadzki | 153.16 | 13 | 54.18 | 11 | 98.98 |
| 12 | Ashley Cain | 151.64 | 5 | 61.45 | 16 | 90.19 |
| 13 | Mariah Bell | 149.44 | 9 | 56.72 | 15 | 92.72 |
| 14 | Kiri Baga | 149.17 | 14 | 54.02 | 13 | 95.15 |
| 15 | Angela Wang | 148.93 | 12 | 54.40 | 14 | 94.53 |
| 16 | Yasmin Siraj | 139.73 | 21 | 44.67 | 13 | 95.06 |
| 17 | Franchesca Chiera | 135.72 | 15 | 52.81 | 20 | 82.91 |
| 18 | Rachael Flatt | 135.14 | 20 | 46.57 | 17 | 88.57 |
| 19 | Caroline Zhang | 133.06 | 19 | 47.87 | 18 | 85.19 |
| 20 | Vanessa Lam | 132.21 | 18 | 48.98 | 19 | 83.23 |
| 21 | Joelle Forte | 123.60 | 17 | 50.53 | 21 | 73.07 |

### Senior pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | 205.71 | 1 | 73.13 | 3 | 132.58 |
| 2 | Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay | 201.72 | 2 | 66.50 | 2 | 135.22 |
| 3 | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | 201.43 | 4 | 65.40 | 1 | 136.03 |
| 4 | Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim | 189.67 | 5 | 64.68 | 4 | 124.99 |
| 5 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | 181.59 | 8 | 59.52 | 5 | 122.07 |
| 6 | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | 173.89 | 7 | 61.48 | 6 | 112.41 |
| 7 | DeeDee Leng / Timothy Leduc | 171.94 | 3 | 66.40 | 9 | 105.54 |
| 8 | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | 170.73 | 6 | 61.70 | 8 | 109.03 |
| 9 | Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker | 163.81 | 10 | 54.14 | 7 | 109.67 |
| 10 | Jessica Pfund / AJ Reiss | 156.04 | 9 | 55.16 | 10 | 100.88 |
| 11 | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | 151.65 | 11 | 51.19 | 11 | 100.46 |
| 12 | Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan | 140.73 | 12 | 48.45 | 12 | 92.28 |

### Senior ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | 200.19 | 1 | 80.69 | 1 | 119.50 |
| 2 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 181.44 | 2 | 73.41 | 2 | 108.03 |
| 3 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | 170.44 | 3 | 68.00 | 3 | 102.44 |
| 4 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | 168.27 | 4 | 66.69 | 4 | 101.58 |
| 5 | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton | 160.26 | 5 | 63.71 | 5 | 96.55 |
| 6 | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt | 155.98 | 6 | 61.22 | 6 | 94.76 |
| 7 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | 140.96 | 7 | 54.63 | 7 | 86.33 |
| 8 | Anastasia Olson / Ian Lorello | 128.77 | 10 | 47.86 | 8 | 80.91 |
| 9 | Alissandra Aronow / Collin Brubaker | 127.14 | 8 | 53.19 | 9 | 73.95 |
| 10 | Ginna Hoptman / Pavel Filchenkov | 122.83 | 9 | 52.68 | 12 | 70.15 |
| 11 | Isabella Cannuscio / Michael Bramante | 118.92 | 11 | 46.21 | 11 | 72.71 |
| 12 | Danielle Gamelin / Alexander Gamelin | 112.97 | 13 | 39.87 | 10 | 73.10 |
| 13 | Madeline Heritage / Nathaniel Fast | 104.05 | 12 | 41.63 | 14 | 62.42 |
| 14 | Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds | 101.00 | 15 | 36.52 | 13 | 64.48 |
| 15 | Kristen Nardozzi / Nick Traxler | 98.40 | 14 | 38.14 | 15 | 60.26 |
| 16 | Kseniya Ponomaryova / Oleg Altukhov | 73.77 | 16 | 27.05 | 16 | 46.72 |
| 17 | Gabriela Morrell Zucker / Andrejs Sitiks | 72.30 | 17 | 25.58 | 17 | 46.72 |
| 18 | Pauline Bynum / Jason Deveikis | 64.82 | 18 | 23.68 | 18 | 41.14 |

## Junior results
### Junior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | 223.92 | 1 | 79.61 | 1 | 144.32 |
| 2 | Jordan Moeller | 191.66 | 6 | 57.41 | 2 | 134.25 |
| 3 | Jimmy Ma | 182.73 | 2 | 63.46 | 3 | 119.27 |
| 4 | Chase Belmontes | 177.19 | 4 | 61.07 | 5 | 116.12 |
| 5 | Nicholas Vrdoljak | 174.99 | 3 | 63.44 | 7 | 111.55 |
| 6 | Kevin Shum | 172.63 | 7 | 56.08 | 4 | 116.55 |
| 7 | Tony Lu | 170.83 | 5 | 58.19 | 6 | 112.64 |
| 8 | Spencer Howe | 157.41 | 8 | 53.91 | 8 | 103.50 |
| 9 | James Schetelich | 154.37 | 9 | 51.19 | 9 | 103.18 |
| 10 | Nix Phengsy | 150.74 | 10 | 49.27 | 10 | 101.47 |
| 11 | Ben Jalovick | 135.80 | 11 | 45.54 | 11 | 90.36 |
| 12 | Evan Bender | 133.11 | 12 | 45.35 | 13 | 87.76 |
| 13 | Daniel Kulenkamp | 124.78 | 13 | 36.91 | 12 | 87.87 |

### Junior ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Amber Glenn | 186.51 | 1 | 63.99 | 1 | 122.52 |
| 2 | Tyler Pierce | 175.07 | 2 | 62.38 | 2 | 112.69 |
| 3 | Ashley Shin | 155.18 | 3 | 57.91 | 3 | 97.27 |
| 4 | Bradie Tennell | 141.99 | 4 | 55.34 | 6 | 86.65 |
| 5 | Elena Taylor | 141.62 | 6 | 50.30 | 5 | 91.32 |
| 6 | Amy Lin | 137.87 | 12 | 42.80 | 4 | 95.07 |
| 7 | Maria Yang | 135.74 | 7 | 49.61 | 8 | 86.13 |
| 8 | Olivia Serafini | 132.34 | 10 | 46.17 | 7 | 86.17 |
| 9 | Elizabeth Nguyen | 130.92 | 8 | 47.22 | 9 | 83.70 |
| 10 | Megan Wessenburg | 129.72 | 9 | 46.75 | 10 | 82.97 |
| 11 | Lyra Katzman | 118.83 | 11 | 43.55 | 11 | 75.28 |
| 12 | Xylina Rusit | 100.76 | 13 | 34.68 | 12 | 66.08 |
| WD | Karen Chen | | 5 | 51.78 | | |

### Junior pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage | 160.67 | 1 | 58.77 | 1 | 101.90 |
| 2 | Chelsea Liu / David Perini | 144.82 | 2 | 53.93 | 2 | 90.89 |
| 3 | AnnaMarie Pearce / Jason Pacini | 139.92 | 3 | 52.28 | 5 | 87.04 |
| 4 | Elise Middleton / Anthony Evans | 136.64 | 4 | 49.20 | 4 | 87.44 |
| 5 | Brianna de la Mora / Taylor Wilson | 131.64 | 5 | 45.32 | 6 | 86.32 |
| 6 | Olivia Oltmanns / Joshua Santillan | 128.82 | 9 | 40.94 | 3 | 87.88 |
| 7 | Aya Takai / Brian Johnson | 124.02 | 8 | 42.20 | 7 | 81.82 |
| 8 | Kaitlin Budd / Nikita Cheban | 123.89 | 6 | 43.58 | 8 | 80.31 |
| 9 | Cali Fujimoto / Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne | 116.80 | 10 | 40.69 | 9 | 76.11 |
| 10 | Alyssa McDougal / Paul Schatz | 114.95 | 7 | 42.23 | 10 | 72.72 |

### Junior ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | 152.26 | 1 | 65.30 | 1 | 86.96 |
| 2 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | 147.50 | 2 | 62.28 | 3 | 85.22 |
| 3 | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | 145.78 | 3 | 59.32 | 2 | 86.46 |
| 4 | Holly Moore / Daniel Klaber | 136.66 | 4 | 56.71 | 4 | 79.95 |
| 5 | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Ross Gudis | 129.50 | 5 | 53.62 | 5 | 75.88 |
| 6 | Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye | 122.14 | 6 | 46.35 | 6 | 75.79 |
| 7 | Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge | 110.28 | 7 | 41.08 | 7 | 69.20 |
| 8 | Rachel Brozina / Nicholas Taylor | 102.38 | 11 | 37.67 | 8 | 64.71 |
| 9 | Sammi Wren / Alexey Shchepetov | 98.45 | 9 | 38.12 | 9 | 60.33 |
| 10 | Emily Day / Kevin Leahy | 95.97 | 8 | 38.39 | 10 | 57.58 |
| 11 | Olivia Di Iorio / Alex Benoit | 91.62 | 10 | 38.01 | 14 | 53.61 |
| 12 | Tori Patsis / Joseph Johnson | 91.13 | 13 | 37.44 | 11 | 53.69 |
| 13 | Marcha Kiatrungrit / Bradley Lawrence | 90.73 | 12 | 37.47 | 13 | 53.62 |
| 14 | Kelsey Barnes / Douglas Stevenson | 84.07 | 14 | 30.42 | 12 | 53.65 |

## International team selections

The international teams were announced at two press conferences on January 12, 2014.

### Olympic team

The nominations to the Olympic team were announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | Gracie Gold | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 2 | Jason Brown | Polina Edmunds | Felicia Zhang /Nathan Bartholomay | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| 3 | | Ashley Wagner | | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 1st alt. | Max Aaron | Mirai Nagasu | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | Madison Hubbell / Zach Donohue |
| 2nd alt. | Joshua Farris | Samantha Cesario | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton |
| 3rd alt. | Richard Dornbush | Courtney Hicks | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Team Trophy | Jeremy Abbott / Jason Brown | Gracie Gold / Ashley Wagner | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |

### World team

The team to the 2014 World Championships was announced as follows in January 2014 and amended in March:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Max Aaron | Polina Edmunds | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| 2 | Jeremy Abbott | Gracie Gold | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 3 | | Ashley Wagner | | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 1st alt. | Jason Brown | Mirai Nagasu | Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay (added) | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donahue |
| 2nd alt. | Joshua Farris | Samantha Cesario | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton (added) |
| 3rd alt. | Richard Dornbush | Courtney Hicks | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |

### Four Continents team

The team to the 2014 Four Continents Championships was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Richard Dornbush | Samantha Cesario | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton |
| 2 | Joshua Farris | Courtney Hicks | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donahue |
| 3 | Adam Rippon | Mirai Nagasu | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |
| 1st alt. | Douglas Razzano | Barbie Long | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus |
| 2nd alt. | Ross Miner | Christina Gao | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | |
| 3rd alt. | Brandon Mroz | Agnes Zawadzki | DeeDee Leng / Timothy LeDuc | |

### World Junior team

The team to the 2014 World Junior Championships was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | Karen Chen | Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| 2 | Jordan Moeller | Amber Glenn | Kaitlin Budd / Nikita Cheban | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 3 | Shotaro Omori | Tyler Pierce | Chelsea Liu / David Perini | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |
| 1st alt. | Jimmy Ma | Hannah Miller | Aya Takai / Brian Johnson (added) | Holly Moore / Daniel Klaber |
| 2nd alt. | Jason Belmontes | Leah Keiser | | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Ross Gudis |
| 3rd alt. | Nicholas Vrdoljak | Ashley Cain | | Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye |