# 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was the national figure skating championships of the United States for the 2012–13 season.
The event was held at the CenturyLink Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska on January 19–27, 2013. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing at the senior, junior and novice levels. For the first time, the event was expanded to include juvenile and intermediate level competitions, previously held at a separate event. The results are part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2013 World Junior Championships, 2013 Four Continents Championships and 2013 World Championships.

## Overview

The 2013 event was the second time that Omaha hosted the U.S. Championships. Competitors qualified at the Eastern, Midwestern, or Pacific Coast Sectional Championships or earned a bye.
Defending champion Jeremy Abbott won the men's short program, with Ross Miner in second and Joshua Farris in third. Max Aaron placed first in the free skate, Miner was second, and Abbott third. Aaron won gold, his first senior national medal, Miner took silver, Abbott the bronze, and Farris the pewter medal.
Defending champion Ashley Wagner was first in the ladies' short program, followed by Agnes Zawadzki and Mirai Nagasu. Gracie Gold won the long program and rose from 9th to claim the silver medal, while Wagner was second in the segment but first overall and won her second national title. Bronze medalist Zawadzki's combined score kept her on the podium and Courtney Hicks took the pewter medal.
None of the top three partnerships from 2012 competed in the pairs event, Denney / Coughlin being absent due to Coughlin's surgery and the other two pairs having split. Longtime pair Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir won the short program ahead of relatively new teams Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay and Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim. Castelli / Shnapir were third in the free skate but remained first in the overall standings and took their first national title, while silver went to Scimeca / Knierim and bronze to Zhang / Bartholomay.
Defending champions Meryl Davis / Charlie White were first in the short dance ahead of Madison Chock / Evan Bates and Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani. The standings were the same in the free dance. Davis / White won their fifth national title, Chock / Bates took silver, their first time on the podium as a team, the Shibutanis settled for bronze, and Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue took the pewter medal.
Vincent Zhou, Shotaro Omori, Nathan Chen, and Jimmy Ma were the medalists in the junior men's event. Polina Edmunds, Mariah Bell, Barbie Long, and Karen Chen were the junior ladies' medalists. Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer, Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu, Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage, and Chelsea Liu / Devin Perini were the junior pairs' medalists. Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton, Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter, and Holly Moore / Daniel Klaber were the medalists in the junior ice dancing event.
Attendance was 90,760.

## Senior results
### Senior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Max Aaron | 255.00 | 4 | 79.13 | 1 | 175.87 |
| 2 | Ross Miner | 251.29 | 2 | 80.99 | 2 | 170.30 |
| 3 | Jeremy Abbott | 249.33 | 1 | 84.10 | 3 | 165.23 |
| 4 | Joshua Farris | 244.82 | 3 | 79.78 | 4 | 165.04 |
| 5 | Adam Rippon | 229.87 | 6 | 76.65 | 6 | 153.22 |
| 6 | Richard Dornbush | 228.81 | 5 | 77.66 | 7 | 151.15 |
| 7 | Alexander Johnson | 224.49 | 12 | 65.20 | 5 | 159.29 |
| 8 | Jason Brown | 223.29 | 7 | 74.05 | 8 | 149.24 |
| 9 | Brandon Mroz | 202.42 | 10 | 66.06 | 10 | 136.36 |
| 10 | Stephen Carriere | 201.30 | 17 | 62.77 | 9 | 138.53 |
| 11 | Jonathan Cassar | 196.49 | 8 | 67.03 | 14 | 129.46 |
| 12 | Douglas Razzano | 192.99 | 14 | 63.31 | 13 | 129.68 |
| 13 | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | 192.77 | 16 | 62.85 | 12 | 129.92 |
| 14 | Wesley Campbell | 191.75 | 20 | 57.24 | 11 | 134.51 |
| 15 | Grant Hochstein | 188.57 | 11 | 65.68 | 17 | 122.89 |
| 16 | Keegan Messing | 187.34 | 13 | 64.06 | 16 | 123.28 |
| 17 | Harrison Choate | 187.11 | 19 | 57.66 | 15 | 129.45 |
| 18 | Philip Warren | 183.27 | 9 | 66.48 | 19 | 116.79 |
| 19 | Sean Rabbitt | 181.66 | 15 | 62.87 | 18 | 118.79 |
| 20 | William Brewster | 170.13 | 18 | 58.62 | 20 | 111.51 |

### Senior ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Ashley Wagner | 188.84 | 1 | 67.57 | 2 | 121.27 |
| 2 | Gracie Gold | 186.57 | 9 | 54.08 | 1 | 132.49 |
| 3 | Agnes Zawadzki | 179.63 | 2 | 65.31 | 7 | 114.32 |
| 4 | Courtney Hicks | 177.92 | 4 | 59.72 | 3 | 118.20 |
| 5 | Christina Gao | 176.28 | 5 | 58.74 | 4 | 117.54 |
| 6 | Yasmin Siraj | 175.07 | 6 | 57.88 | 5 | 117.19 |
| 7 | Mirai Nagasu | 173.75 | 3 | 64.39 | 11 | 109.36 |
| 8 | Samantha Cesario | 170.15 | 7 | 55.74 | 6 | 114.41 |
| 9 | Angela Wang | 164.76 | 10 | 52.06 | 8 | 112.70 |
| 10 | Hannah Miller | 164.68 | 8 | 54.47 | 10 | 110.21 |
| 11 | Caroline Zhang | 161.89 | 12 | 49.99 | 9 | 111.90 |
| 12 | Ashley Cain | 150.79 | 11 | 50.83 | 12 | 99.96 |
| 13 | Kiri Baga | 138.14 | 13 | 46.66 | 13 | 91.48 |
| 14 | Haley Dunne | 127.73 | 15 | 44.96 | 15 | 82.77 |
| 15 | Joelle Forte | 124.95 | 14 | 45.82 | 16 | 79.13 |
| 16 | Becky Bereswill | 123.57 | 17 | 38.46 | 14 | 85.11 |
| 17 | Amanda Hofmann | 119.14 | 16 | 42.25 | 17 | 76.89 |
| 18 | Morgan Bell | 107.65 | 18 | 37.78 | 20 | 69.87 |
| 19 | Sophia Adams | 107.50 | 19 | 37.54 | 19 | 69.96 |
| 20 | Laney Diggs | 102.80 | 20 | 28.57 | 18 | 74.23 |

### Senior pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | 180.61 | 1 | 62.27 | 3 | 118.34 |
| 2 | Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim | 172.75 | 3 | 52.79 | 1 | 119.96 |
| 3 | Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay | 172.02 | 2 | 53.19 | 2 | 118.83 |
| 4 | Lindsay Davis / Mark Ladwig | 165.08 | 5 | 51.65 | 4 | 113.43 |
| 5 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | 162.27 | 4 | 52.48 | 6 | 109.79 |
| 6 | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | 159.67 | 7 | 49.81 | 5 | 109.86 |
| 7 | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | 148.32 | 9 | 47.74 | 7 | 100.58 |
| 8 | Kiri Baga / Taylor Toth | 148.08 | 8 | 48.13 | 8 | 99.95 |
| 9 | DeeDee Leng / Timothy LeDuc | 143.71 | 6 | 50.84 | 10 | 92.87 |
| 10 | Tiffany Vise / Don Baldwin | 143.35 | 10 | 44.41 | 9 | 98.94 |

### Senior ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | 197.44 | 1 | 79.02 | 1 | 118.42 |
| 2 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 175.91 | 2 | 70.80 | 2 | 105.11 |
| 3 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | 174.21 | 3 | 69.63 | 3 | 104.58 |
| 4 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | 167.86 | 4 | 67.75 | 4 | 100.11 |
| 5 | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt | 160.01 | 5 | 64.69 | 5 | 95.32 |
| 6 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | 142.32 | 6 | 56.33 | 6 | 85.99 |
| 7 | Anastasia Olson / Keiffer Hubbell | 130.67 | 7 | 54.68 | 9 | 75.99 |
| 8 | Alissandra Aronow / Collin Brubaker | 130.55 | 9 | 50.35 | 7 | 80.20 |
| 9 | Isabella Cannuscio / Michael Bramante | 129.08 | 8 | 52.51 | 8 | 76.57 |
| 10 | Ginna Hoptman / Pavel Filchenkov | 119.77 | 10 | 47.03 | 10 | 72.74 |
| 11 | Danielle Gamelin / Alexander Gamelin | 113.34 | 11 | 45.76 | 12 | 67.58 |
| 12 | Kristen Nardozzi / Nick Traxler | 113.18 | 12 | 41.87 | 11 | 71.31 |
| 13 | Taylor Tran / Sam Kaplun | 106.09 | 13 | 39.51 | 13 | 66.58 |
| 14 | Kseniya Ponomaryova / Oleg Altukhov | 78.03 | 14 | 30.06 | 14 | 47.97 |
| 15 | Katie Donaldson / Brock Jacobs | 62.34 | 15 | 23.72 | 15 | 38.62 |

## Junior results
### Junior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Vincent Zhou | 205.26 | 2 | 66.31 | 1 | 138.95 |
| 2 | Shotaro Omori | 189.25 | 1 | 69.87 | 2 | 119.38 |
| 3 | Nathan Chen | 181.31 | 3 | 63.60 | 4 | 117.71 |
| 4 | Jimmy Ma | 176.09 | 4 | 57.88 | 3 | 118.21 |
| 5 | Jordan Moeller | 161.02 | 5 | 57.21 | 7 | 103.81 |
| 6 | Jay Yostanto | 159.25 | 6 | 55.05 | 6 | 104.20 |
| 7 | Nix Phengsy | 152.73 | 9 | 51.30 | 8 | 101.43 |
| 8 | Brian Krentz | 151.44 | 10 | 50.90 | 9 | 100.54 |
| 9 | Marcus Mimdis | 150.11 | 11 | 45.85 | 5 | 104.26 |
| 10 | Troy Tomasello | 147.11 | 7 | 53.77 | 10 | 93.34 |
| 11 | Lukas Kaugars | 145.20 | 8 | 53.04 | 11 | 92.16 |
| 12 | James Schetelich | 122.64 | 12 | 43.14 | 12 | 79.50 |

### Junior ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Polina Edmunds | 159.87 | 1 | 58.17 | 1 | 101.70 |
| 2 | Mariah Bell | 152.80 | 2 | 56.63 | 3 | 96.17 |
| 3 | Barbie Long | 152.53 | 4 | 51.05 | 2 | 101.48 |
| 4 | Karen Chen | 144.56 | 3 | 54.34 | 4 | 90.22 |
| 5 | Amber Glenn | 131.70 | 7 | 45.28 | 6 | 86.42 |
| 6 | Madison Vinci | 131.64 | 11 | 42.82 | 5 | 88.82 |
| 7 | Dyllan McIntee | 116.03 | 10 | 43.19 | 8 | 72.84 |
| 8 | Brianna Laxson | 115.29 | 12 | 40.89 | 7 | 74.40 |
| 9 | Maria Yang | 115.00 | 5 | 48.75 | 10 | 66.25 |
| 10 | Olivia Serafini | 114.85 | 8 | 44.15 | 9 | 70.70 |
| 11 | Amanda Gelb | 107.04 | 9 | 43.65 | 11 | 63.39 |
| 12 | Katia Shpilband | 102.28 | 6 | 46.04 | 12 | 56.24 |

### Junior pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | 146.44 | 2 | 50.25 | 1 | 96.19 |
| 2 | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | 141.52 | 3 | 48.32 | 2 | 93.20 |
| 3 | Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage | 138.41 | 1 | 52.94 | 4 | 85.47 |
| 4 | Chelsea Liu / Devin Perini | 138.31 | 4 | 47.20 | 3 | 91.11 |
| 5 | Briana de la Mora / Taylor Wilson | 120.84 | 6 | 42.31 | 6 | 78.53 |
| 6 | Jessica Pfund / AJ Reiss | 120.81 | 7 | 40.93 | 5 | 79.88 |
| 7 | Caitlin Fields / Jason Pacini | 116.43 | 5 | 43.79 | 11 | 72.64 |
| 8 | Cali Fujimoto / Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne | 115.49 | 8 | 38.61 | 7 | 76.88 |
| 9 | Caitlin Belt / Michael Johnson | 111.95 | 9 | 38.02 | 9 | 73.93 |
| 10 | Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan | 110.68 | 10 | 37.45 | 10 | 73.23 |
| 11 | Olivia Oltmanns / Joshua Santillan | 110.25 | 11 | 35.19 | 8 | 75.06 |
| 12 | Brenna Doherty / Craig Norris | 95.16 | 12 | 26.40 | 12 | 68.76 |

### Junior ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton | 159.85 | 1 | 66.11 | 1 | 93.74 |
| 2 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | 149.74 | 3 | 60.72 | 2 | 89.02 |
| 3 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | 149.25 | 2 | 63.67 | 3 | 85.58 |
| 4 | Holly Moore / Daniel Klaber | 141.23 | 4 | 58.39 | 4 | 82.94 |
| 5 | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Ross Gudis | 127.77 | 5 | 54.28 | 5 | 73.49 |
| 6 | Whitney Miller / Kyle MacMillian | 112.82 | 6 | 45.72 | 6 | 67.10 |
| 7 | Madeline Heritage / Nathaniel Fast | 106.47 | 8 | 42.98 | 7 | 63.49 |
| 8 | Hannah Rosinski / Jacob Jaffe | 104.86 | 7 | 43.72 | 8 | 61.14 |
| 9 | Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge | 95.90 | 9 | 41.19 | 12 | 54.71 |
| 10 | MacKenzie Reed / Christian Erwin | 94.98 | 10 | 37.14 | 9 | 57.84 |
| 11 | Yura Min / Igor Ogay | 89.63 | 12 | 32.45 | 10 | 57.18 |
| 12 | Stacey Siddon / Jared Weiss | 86.33 | 11 | 34.23 | 11 | 55.10 |

## International assignments

U.S. Figure Skating announced international assignments on January 27, 2013.

### Four Continents Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Max Aaron | Christina Gao | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| 2 | Ross Miner | Gracie Gold | Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 3 | Adam Rippon | Agnes Zawadzki | Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 1st alt. | Richard Dornbush | Mirai Nagasu | Lindsay Davis / Mark Ladwig | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| 2nd alt. | Brandon Mroz | Caroline Zhang | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |
| 3rd alt. | Stephen Carriere | Ashley Cain | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus |

### World Junior Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Jason Brown | Samantha Cesario | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton |
| 2 | Joshua Farris | Courtney Hicks | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| 3 | Shotaro Omori | Yasmin Siraj | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 1st alt. | Harrison Choate | Angela Wang | Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage | Holly Moore / Daniel Klaber |
| 2nd alt. | Jay Yostanto | Hannah Miller | Jessica Pfund / AJ Reiss | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Ross Gudis |
| 3rd alt. | | Leah Keiser | | Whitney Miller / Kyle MacMillan |

### World Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Max Aaron | Gracie Gold | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| 2 | Ross Miner | Ashley Wagner | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 3 | | | | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 1st alt. | Jeremy Abbott | Agnes Zawadzki | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| 2nd alt. | Adam Rippon | Christina Gao | Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay | Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt |
| 3rd alt. | Joshua Farris | Mirai Nagasu | Lindsay Davis / Mark Ladwig | |