# 2015 Skate America

The 2015 Progressive Skate America was the first event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 23–25. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.

## Entries

| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Australia | Brendan Kerry | | | |
| Canada | | Alaine Chartrand | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier |
| China | Yan Han | | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu |
| France | Florent Amodio | | | |
| Israel | Alexei Bychenko | | | |
| Japan | Takahito Mura Shoma Uno | Haruka Imai Satoko Miyahara Miyu Nakashio | | |
| Kazakhstan | Denis Ten | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | | |
| South Korea | | Park So-youn | | |
| Russia | Konstantin Menshov Adian Pitkeev | Yulia Lipnitskaya Evgenia Medvedeva | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov |
| Slovakia | | Nicole Rajičová | | |
| Ukraine | | | | Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin |
| United States | Max Aaron Jason Brown Ross Miner | Mariah Bell Karen Chen Gracie Gold | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

* On August 21, three out of the four host picks were announced as Ross Miner, Karen Chen, and Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay.
* On August 26, the fourth host pick was officially announced as Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.
* On October 21, Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay were replaced by Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan as Donlan / Bartholomay withdrew due to Donlan recovering from an illness.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Max Aaron | United States | 258.95 | 1 | 86.67 | 2 | 172.28 |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Japan | 257.43 | 4 | 80.78 | 1 | 176.65 |
| 3 | Jason Brown | United States | 238.47 | 8 | 78.64 | 3 | 159.83 |
| 4 | Yan Han | China | 236.03 | 2 | 86.53 | 5 | 149.50 |
| 5 | Konstantin Menshov | Russia | 230.79 | 3 | 86.15 | 6 | 144.64 |
| 6 | Adian Pitkeev | Russia | 230.75 | 5 | 79.90 | 4 | 150.85 |
| 7 | Ross Miner | United States | 215.11 | 7 | 78.96 | 8 | 136.15 |
| 8 | Brendan Kerry | Australia | 203.48 | 11 | 65.41 | 7 | 138.07 |
| 9 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 201.52 | 6 | 79.02 | 11 | 122.50 |
| 10 | Takahito Mura | Japan | 200.83 | 10 | 71.66 | 9 | 129.17 |
| 11 | Florent Amodio | France | 197.45 | 9 | 71.96 | 10 | 125.49 |
| 12 | Alexei Bychenko | Israel | 171.83 | 12 | 50.68 | 12 | 121.15 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Medvedeva | Russia | 206.01 | 1 | 70.92 | 2 | 135.09 |
| 2 | Gracie Gold | United States | 202.80 | 2 | 65.39 | 1 | 137.41 |
| 3 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 188.07 | 3 | 65.12 | 3 | 122.95 |
| 4 | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | Kazakhstan | 178.56 | 7 | 59.26 | 4 | 119.30 |
| 5 | Karen Chen | United States | 172.54 | 4 | 62.28 | 6 | 110.26 |
| 6 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 170.63 | 5 | 62.24 | 7 | 108.39 |
| 7 | Nicole Rajičová | Slovakia | 167.32 | 12 | 50.33 | 5 | 116.99 |
| 8 | Mariah Bell | United States | 160.94 | 11 | 52.73 | 8 | 108.21 |
| 9 | Park So-youn | South Korea | 159.66 | 10 | 53.78 | 9 | 105.88 |
| 10 | Haruka Imai | Japan | 158.65 | 9 | 56.52 | 10 | 102.13 |
| 11 | Miyu Nakashio | Japan | 153.29 | 8 | 57.01 | 11 | 96.28 |
| 12 | Alaine Chartrand | Canada | 148.20 | 6 | 59.40 | 12 | 88.80 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China | 202.00 | 2 | 68.28 | 1 | 133.72 |
| 2 | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | United States | 191.97 | 1 | 69.69 | 4 | 122.28 |
| 3 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Canada | 189.49 | 4 | 64.85 | 3 | 124.64 |
| 4 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Russia | 189.06 | 5 | 63.41 | 2 | 125.65 |
| 5 | Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | China | 171.77 | 3 | 64.95 | 6 | 106.82 |
| 6 | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | United States | 165.99 | 6 | 58.38 | 5 | 107.61 |
| 7 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 157.97 | 7 | 58.25 | 8 | 99.72 |
| 8 | Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan | United States | 151.40 | 8 | 50.20 | 7 | 101.20 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 173.22 | 1 | 70.56 | 1 | 102.66 |
| 2 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | Russia | 162.21 | 2 | 62.76 | 2 | 99.45 |
| 3 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 157.58 | 3 | 61.33 | 3 | 96.25 |
| 4 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 150.69 | 4 | 56.54 | 4 | 94.15 |
| 5 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | United States | 143.67 | 6 | 52.92 | 5 | 90.75 |
| 6 | Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov | Russia | 140.92 | 5 | 53.35 | 6 | 87.57 |
| 7 | Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin | Ukraine | 135.60 | 7 | 50.53 | 7 | 85.07 |
| 8 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 129.59 | 8 | 49.37 | 8 | 80.22 |