# 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 18–27, 2019, at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2019 Four Continents Championships, 2019 World Junior Championships, and the 2019 World Championships.
Detroit was announced as the host in November 2017.

## Qualifying

Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from October to November 2018, or earned a bye. The top four finishers in each discipline at sectionals earned a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships. A list of qualified skaters was published on December 13, 2018.
| Date | Event | Type | Location |
| October 3–7, 2018 | Upper Great Lakes | Regional | Peoria, Illinois |
| October 3–7, 2018 | Northwest Pacific | Regional | Sherwood, Oregon |
| October 3–7, 2018 | South Atlantic | Regional | Coral Springs, Florida |
| October 10–14, 2018 | Central Pacific | Regional | Vacaville, California |
| October 10–14, 2018 | Southwestern | Regional | Plano, Texas |
| October 10–14, 2018 | New England | Regional | Boston, Massachusetts |
| October 17–21, 2018 | Southwest Pacific | Regional | Anaheim, California |
| October 17–21, 2018 | North Atlantic | Regional | Lake Placid, New York |
| October 17–21, 2018 | Eastern Great Lakes | Regional | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| November 13–17, 2018 | Eastern | Sectional | Wake Forest, North Carolina |
| November 13–17, 2018 | Midwestern | Sectional | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| November 13–17, 2018 | Pacific Coast | Sectional | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| January 18–27, 2019 | U.S. Championships | Final | Detroit, Michigan |

## Entries

| Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Andrew Austin | Starr Andrews | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | Alannah Binotto / Shiloh Judd |
| Jason Brown | Mariah Bell | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
| Nathan Chen | Julia Biechler | Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| Timothy Dolensky | Ting Cui | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Lydia Erdman / Yuri Vlasenko |
| Tomoki Hiwatashi | Amber Glenn | Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| William Hubbart | Hanna Harrell | Tarah Kayne / Danny O’Shea | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| Ben Jalovick | Courtney Hicks | Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh | Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson |
| Alexander Johnson | Rena Ikenishi | Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| Alexei Krasnozhon | Pooja Kalyan | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell |
| Daniel Kulenkamp | Alysa Liu | Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |
| Tony Lu | Emmy Ma | Erika Smith / AJ Reiss | Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds |
| Jimmy Ma | Brynne McIsaac | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay | Nicole Takahashi / Oleg Altukhov |
| Jordan Moeller | Hannah Miller | Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman | |
| Sebastien Payannet | Heidi Munger | | |
| Camden Pulkinen | Akari Nakahara | | |
| Sean Rabbitt | Bradie Tennell | | |
| Emmanuel Savary | Sierra Venetta | | |
| Kevin Shum | Megan Wessenberg | | |
| Andrew Torgashev | | | |
| Vincent Zhou | | | |

### Changes to preliminary entries

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Reason/Other notes |
| January 2 | Pairs | Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan | Injury |
| January 4 | Ladies | Karen Chen | Injury recovery |
| January 9 | Ladies | Gracie Gold | Personal |
| January 13 | Ladies | Angela Wang | Illness & injury |
| January 14 | Ladies | Ashley Lin | |
| January 14 | Pairs | Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman | |

## Schedule

The Little Caesars Arena, the home of the Detroit Red Wings which opened in September 2017, will host all junior and senior (Championship) level practices and competitions. The Detroit Skating Club will host all Juvenile, Intermediate and Novice practice sessions and competitions from January 18 – 22, 2019.
| Date | Time | Event |
| January 22 | 5:30 PM | Junior Ladies and Junior Men Short Program |
| January 23 | 10:30 AM | Junior Pairs Short Program |
| January 23 | 3:00 PM | Junior Rhythm Dance |
| January 23 | 5:30 PM | Junior Ladies and Junior Men Free Skate |
| January 24 | 12:00 PM | Junior Pairs Free Skate |
| January 24 | 4:00 PM | Senior Pairs Short Program |
| January 24 | 7:45 PM | Senior Ladies Short Program |
| January 25 | 12:00 PM | Junior Free Dance |
| January 25 | 3:45 PM | Senior Rhythm Dance |
| January 25 | 6:30 PM | Senior Ladies Free Skate |
| January 26 | 9:15 AM | Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program |
| January 26 | 1:15 PM | Senior Pairs Free Skate and Senior Men Short Program |
| January 26 | 6:00 PM | Senior Free Dance |
| January 27 | 2:00 PM | Senior Men Free Skate |
| January 27 | 8:00 PM | Skating Spectacular |

## Medal summary
### Senior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Pewter |
| Men | Nathan Chen | Vincent Zhou | Jason Brown | Tomoki Hiwatashi |
| Women | Alysa Liu | Bradie Tennell | Mariah Bell | Hanna Harrell |
| Pairs | Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc | Haven Denney Brandon Frazier | Deanna Stellato-Dudek Nathan Bartholomay | Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea |
| Ice dance | Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue | Madison Chock Evan Bates | Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker | Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter |

### Junior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Pewter |
| Men | Ryan Dunk | Dinh Tran | Joonsoo Kim | Peter Liu |
| Women | Gabriella Izzo | Audrey Shin | Emilia Murdock | Sarah Jung |
| Pairs | Laiken LockleyKeenan Prochnow | Kate Finster Balázs Nagy | Isabelle MartinsRyan Bedard | Maria MokhovaIvan Mokhov |
| Ice dance | Caroline Green Gordon Green | Avonley Nguyen Vadym Kolesnik | Eliana Gropman Ian Somerville | Oona Brown Gage Brown |

## Senior results
### Men's singles

| Rank | Skater | Total | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Nathan Chen | 342.22 | 1 | 113.42 | 1 | 228.80 |
| | Vincent Zhou | 284.01 | 3 | 100.25 | 2 | 183.76 |
| | Jason Brown | 273.08 | 2 | 100.52 | 3 | 172.56 |
| 4 | Tomoki Hiwatashi | 253.28 | 4 | 84.05 | 4 | 169.23 |
| 5 | Alexei Krasnozhon | 234.52 | 5 | 82.53 | 5 | 151.99 |
| 6 | Timothy Dolensky | 228.94 | 6 | 81.10 | 7 | 147.84 |
| 7 | Andrew Torgashev | 225.97 | 9 | 76.95 | 6 | 149.02 |
| 8 | Sean Rabbitt | 217.84 | 7 | 79.66 | 9 | 138.18 |
| 9 | Alexander Johnson | 216.48 | 11 | 74.07 | 8 | 142.41 |
| 10 | Jimmy Ma | 206.92 | 10 | 74.84 | 11 | 132.08 |
| 11 | Emmanuel Savary | 202.45 | 13 | 69.89 | 10 | 132.56 |
| 12 | Camden Pulkinen | 199.87 | 8 | 78.39 | 15 | 121.48 |
| 13 | Jordan Moeller | 197.82 | 14 | 66.15 | 12 | 131.67 |
| 14 | Kevin Shum | 196.11 | 12 | 71.13 | 13 | 124.98 |
| 15 | Daniel Kulenkamp | 188.93 | 16 | 64.64 | 14 | 124.29 |
| 16 | William Hubbart | 186.02 | 15 | 65.34 | 16 | 120.68 |
| 17 | Sebastien Payannet | 169.14 | 17 | 61.55 | 18 | 107.59 |
| 18 | Ben Jalovick | 167.51 | 19 | 58.51 | 17 | 109.00 |
| 19 | Tony Lu | 144.99 | 18 | 59.81 | 20 | 85.18 |
| 20 | Andrew Austin | 131.39 | 20 | 45.68 | 19 | 85.71 |

### Women's singles

| Rank | Skater | Total | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Alysa Liu | 217.51 | 2 | 73.89 | 1 | 143.62 |
| | Bradie Tennell | 213.59 | 1 | 76.60 | 4 | 136.99 |
| | Mariah Bell | 212.40 | 3 | 70.30 | 2 | 142.10 |
| 4 | Hanna Harrell | 203.11 | 5 | 68.16 | 5 | 134.95 |
| 5 | Ting Cui | 194.30 | 12 | 54.64 | 3 | 139.66 |
| 6 | Megan Wessenberg | 182.55 | 7 | 60.37 | 6 | 122.18 |
| 7 | Amber Glenn | 180.73 | 4 | 69.86 | 8 | 110.87 |
| 8 | Starr Andrews | 175.70 | 8 | 58.66 | 7 | 117.04 |
| 9 | Emmy Ma | 174.82 | 6 | 65.13 | 9 | 109.69 |
| 10 | Akari Nakahara | 166.76 | 10 | 57.72 | 10 | 109.04 |
| 11 | Brynne McIsaac | 157.34 | 11 | 56.46 | 13 | 100.88 |
| 12 | Sierra Venetta | 152.93 | 18 | 47.77 | 11 | 105.16 |
| 13 | Rena Ikenishi | 152.70 | 16 | 51.01 | 12 | 101.69 |
| 14 | Heidi Munger | 151.85 | 15 | 52.37 | 14 | 99.48 |
| 15 | Hannah Miller | 148.38 | 14 | 52.75 | 15 | 95.63 |
| 16 | Courtney Hicks | 145.95 | 13 | 53.04 | 16 | 92.91 |
| 17 | Julia Biechler | 133.88 | 17 | 50.98 | 17 | 82.90 |
| WD | Pooja Kalyan | Withdrew | 9 | 58.64 | Withdrew from competition | Withdrew from competition |

### Pairs

| Rank | Team | Total | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc | 212.36 | 2 | 70.47 | 1 | 141.89 |
| | Haven Denney Brandon Frazier | 201.64 | 3 | 68.32 | 2 | 133.32 |
| | Deanna Stellato-Dudek Nathan Bartholomay | 199.92 | 4 | 68.18 | 3 | 131.74 |
| 4 | Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea | 198.64 | 1 | 71.83 | 4 | 126.81 |
| 5 | Jessica Calalang Brian Johnson | 183.36 | 6 | 62.94 | 5 | 120.42 |
| 6 | Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov | 182.42 | 5 | 66.21 | 6 | 116.21 |
| 7 | Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim | 171.42 | 7 | 61.56 | 7 | 109.86 |
| 8 | Nica DigernessDanny Neudecker | 163.63 | 9 | 58.84 | 9 | 104.79 |
| 9 | Erika SmithA.J. Reiss | 162.52 | 10 | 56.25 | 8 | 106.27 |
| 10 | Winter Deardorff Max Settlage | 154.80 | 12 | 53.14 | 10 | 101.66 |
| 11 | Chelsea Liu Ian Meyh | 154.69 | 8 | 59.44 | 12 | 95.25 |
| 12 | Allison TimlenJustin Highgate-Brutman | 153.12 | 11 | 55.27 | 11 | 97.85 |
| 13 | Olivia Serafini Mervin Tran | 137.95 | 13 | 51.32 | 13 | 86.63 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Team | Total | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| | Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue | 215.88 | 1 | 84.56 | 1 | 131.32 |
| | Madison Chock Evan Bates | 211.52 | 2 | 82.33 | 2 | 129.19 |
| | Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker | 196.95 | 3 | 76.77 | 3 | 120.18 |
| 4 | Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter | 191.10 | 5 | 74.42 | 4 | 116.68 |
| 5 | Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko | 190.01 | 4 | 75.23 | 5 | 114.78 |
| 6 | Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons | 170.26 | 6 | 72.52 | 7 | 97.74 |
| 7 | Karina Manta Joseph Johnson | 159.97 | 7 | 55.16 | 6 | 104.81 |
| 8 | Lydia Erdman Yuri Vlasenko | 124.92 | 8 | 45.99 | 8 | 78.93 |
| 9 | Elicia ReynoldsStephen Reynolds | 111.69 | 9 | 39.16 | 9 | 72.53 |
| 10 | Nicole TakahashiOleg Altukhov | 91.31 | 12 | 31.93 | 10 | 59.38 |
| 11 | Alannah BinottoShiloh Judd | 90.64 | 11 | 34.87 | 11 | 55.77 |
| 12 | Bailey MeltonRyan O'Donnell | 88.53 | 10 | 36.60 | 12 | 51.93 |

## Junior results
### Junior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Ryan Dunk | 201.43 | 2 | 68.58 | 1 | 132.85 |
| 2 | Dinh Tran | 196.03 | 4 | 64.84 | 2 | 131.19 |
| 3 | Joonsoo Kim | 187.95 | 1 | 70.72 | 4 | 117.23 |
| 4 | Peter Liu | 182.32 | 5 | 64.33 | 3 | 117.99 |
| 5 | Lucas Altieri | 172.87 | 6 | 60.94 | 7 | 111.93 |
| 6 | Joseph Kang | 170.98 | 11 | 54.42 | 5 | 116.56 |
| 7 | David Shapiro | 166.85 | 7 | 57.30 | 8 | 109.55 |
| 8 | Max Lake | 165.69 | 12 | 52.43 | 6 | 113.26 |
| 9 | Alex Wellman | 163.20 | 9 | 55.70 | 9 | 107.50 |
| 10 | Eric Sjoberg | 161.99 | 10 | 55.54 | 10 | 106.45 |
| 11 | Luke Ferrante | 161.89 | 3 | 65.08 | 11 | 96.81 |
| 12 | Chase Finster | 132.25 | 8 | 56.27 | 12 | 75.98 |

### Junior women

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Gabriella Izzo | 172.42 | 1 | 60.97 | 2 | 111.45 |
| 2 | Audrey Shin | 165.61 | 6 | 53.03 | 1 | 112.58 |
| 3 | Emilia Murdock | 154.48 | 2 | 58.15 | 4 | 96.33 |
| 4 | Sarah Jung | 150.88 | 4 | 56.07 | 5 | 94.81 |
| 5 | Wren Warne-Jacobsen | 150.13 | 7 | 51.50 | 3 | 98.63 |
| 6 | Emily Zhang | 146.64 | 5 | 55.46 | 7 | 91.18 |
| 7 | Noelle Rosa | 144.91 | 8 | 51.33 | 6 | 93.58 |
| 8 | Amie Miyagi | 133.58 | 3 | 56.25 | 10 | 77.33 |
| 9 | Caitlin Ha | 132.68 | 9 | 49.31 | 8 | 83.37 |
| 10 | Alyssa Rich | 128.02 | 10 | 46.53 | 9 | 81.49 |
| 11 | Akane Eguchi | 118.56 | 12 | 43.36 | 11 | 75.20 |
| 12 | Stephanie Ciarochi | 116.53 | 11 | 44.47 | 12 | 72.06 |

### Junior pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow | 163.35 | 1 | 61.52 | 1 | 101.83 |
| 2 | Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy | 149.48 | 2 | 59.65 | 2 | 89.83 |
| 3 | Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard | 141.97 | 3 | 52.16 | 3 | 89.81 |
| 4 | Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov | 136.61 | 4 | 48.47 | 4 | 88.14 |
| 5 | Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach | 128.87 | 5 | 47.31 | 5 | 81.56 |
| 6 | Ainsley Peterson / Matthew Rounis | 124.35 | 6 | 44.46 | 6 | 79.89 |
| 7 | Sarah Rose / Jim Garbutt | 119.76 | 8 | 44.14 | 7 | 75.62 |
| 8 | Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogrens | 116.15 | 7 | 44.23 | 8 | 71.92 |
| 9 | Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle | 103.61 | 9 | 35.74 | 9 | 67.87 |

### Junior ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Caroline Green / Gordon Green | 172.54 | 1 | 70.82 | 2 | 101.72 |
| 2 | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | 171.06 | 2 | 65.92 | 1 | 105.14 |
| 3 | Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville | 155.46 | 4 | 62.60 | 3 | 92.86 |
| 4 | Oona Brown / Gage Brown | 153.67 | 3 | 63.34 | 4 | 90.33 |
| 5 | Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov | 144.23 | 5 | 58.57 | 5 | 85.66 |
| 6 | Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta | 136.64 | 7 | 54.67 | 6 | 81.97 |
| 7 | Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik | 132.24 | 6 | 56.99 | 9 | 75.25 |
| 8 | Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder | 131.94 | 8 | 52.10 | 7 | 79.84 |
| 9 | Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao | 127.63 | 9 | 50.07 | 8 | 77.56 |
| 10 | Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart | 121.52 | 11 | 48.22 | 10 | 73.30 |
| 11 | Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov | 119.73 | 10 | 48.89 | 11 | 70.84 |
| 12 | Claire Purnell / Lucas Purnell | 108.10 | 12 | 41.87 | 12 | 66.23 |
| 13 | Samantha Udell / Garrett Udell | 53.96 | 13 | 22.37 | 13 | 31.59 |

## International team selections
### World Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 World Championships on January 26.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| | Jason Brown | Mariah Bell | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| | Nathan Chen | Bradie Tennell | | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| | Vincent Zhou | | | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| 1st alt. | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Ting Cui | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 2nd alt. | Alexei Krasnozhon | Megan Wessenberg | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
| 3rd alt. | Timothy Dolensky | Starr Andrews | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |

### Four Continents Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2019 Four Continents Championships on January 26.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| | Jason Brown | Mariah Bell | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Ting Cui | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| | Vincent Zhou | Bradie Tennell | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| 1st alt. | Alexei Krasnozhon | Megan Wessenberg | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 2nd alt. | Timothy Dolensky | Starr Andrews | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
| 3rd alt. | Andrew Torgashev | Amber Glenn | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |

### World Junior Championships

U.S. Figure Skating began announcing entries for the 2019 World Junior Championships team on January 26. The men and ladies will be selected after a training camp. The men and ladies were announced on February 5.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Ting Cui | Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman | Caroline Green / Gordon Green |
| | Alexei Krasnozhon | Hanna Harrell | Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy | Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville |
| | Camden Pulkinen | | Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik |
| 1st alt. | Andrew Torgashev | Starr Andrews | Chelsea Liu / Ian Meyh | Oona Brown / Gage Brown |
| 2nd alt. | Ryan Dunk | Gabriella Izzo | Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach | Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta |
| 3rd alt. | Dinh Tran | Audrey Shin | | Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik |