2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place between January 14 and 24 at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Washington with AT&T as the title sponsor. Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).

The Olympics were to begin 18 days after the end of the U.S. Championships. The senior-level Championship events were therefore spread out over two weekends to allow the skaters approximately four weeks between the end of their event and the start of the corresponding Olympic competition.

The event was among the criteria used to select the U.S. teams for the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010 World Championships, 2010 Four Continents Championships, and 2010 World Junior Championships.

The senior compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.

Olympic team selection The results of the 2010 U.S. Championships were among the criteria used to determine the 2010 Olympic team. The competitions used in the selection process were, in order of priority: 2010 U.S. Championships 2009–10 Grand Prix Final 2009 World Championships 2009 Four Continents Championships 2009 World Junior Championships 2009–10 Junior Grand Prix Final

The United States had qualified 3 Olympic spots in men's singles and ice dancing and 2 Olympic spots in ladies singles and pair skating. The entrants are nominated by U.S. Figure Skating and must be confirmed by the United States Olympic Committee.

The nominees in each discipline were announced following the completion of that discipline's competition. The pairs entrants were nominated on January 16, the men on January 17, and the ladies and ice dancers on January 23.

Qualification Qualification for the U.S. Championships began at one of nine regional competitions: 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 competition advanced to one of three sectional competitions: Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast. Skaters who placed in the top four at the sectional competitions advanced to the U.S. Championships.

Byes to the competition were given to skaters who had won medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics or the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships; to the top five finishers in each senior-level discipline at the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships; to any skaters who qualified for the 2009–10 Junior or Senior Grand Prix Final in the discipline in which they qualified; and to any skater who was assigned to an international event that occurred at the same time as their sectional championship.

Byes The following skaters have been given byes to the 2010 U.S. Championships and did not have to compete at regionals or sectionals.

Men's singles byes Skater Section Level of bye Reason for bye Jeremy Abbott Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Brandon Mroz Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Evan Lysacek Midwestern Section Senior Reigning World medalist & Top 5 placement in 2009 Ryan Bradley Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Johnny Weir Eastern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Richard Dornbush Pacific Coast Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Grant Hochstein Midwestern Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Ross Miner Eastern Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Stephen Carriere Eastern Section Senior Grand Prix assignment (CAN) Armin Mahbanoozadeh Eastern Section Senior Grand Prix assignment (CAN) Adam Rippon Eastern Section Senior Grand Prix Assignment (JPN) Tommy Steenberg Eastern Section Senior Merano Cup assignment

Ladies' singles byes Skater Section Level of bye Reason for bye Sasha Cohen Pacific Coast Section Senior Reigning Olympic medalist Alissa Czisny Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Rachael Flatt Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Caroline Zhang Pacific Coast Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Ashley Wagner Eastern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Mirai Nagasu Pacific Coast Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Angela Maxwell Eastern Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Christina Gao Midwestern Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Ellie Kawamura Pacific Coast Section Senior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Kiri Baga Midwestern Section Junior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Becky Bereswill Midwestern Section Senior Grand Prix assignment (JPN) Alexe Gilles Midwestern Section Senior Grand Prix assignment (USA) Emily Hughes Eastern Section Senior Grand Prix assignment (USA)

Pair skating byes Pair team Section Level of bye Reason for bye Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett Eastern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin Pacific Coast Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig Eastern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Britney Simpson / Nathan Miller Midwestern Section Junior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final

Ice dancing byes Ice dance team Section Level of bye Reason for bye Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto Midwestern Section Senior Reigning Olympic medalist & Reigning World medalist Meryl Davis / Charlie White Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre Eastern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell Midwestern Section Senior Top 5 placement in 2009 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Midwestern Section Junior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello Eastern Section Junior Qualified to Junior Grand Prix Final

Ice dancers Morgan Matthews / Leif Gislason would have received a bye due to their 5th-place finish. However, the team dissolved following the 2008–09 season.

Senior results Men Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Jeremy Abbott 263.66 1 87.85 1 175.81 2 Evan Lysacek 238.63 2 83.69 3 154.94 3 Johnny Weir 232.09 3 83.51 5 148.58 4 Ryan Bradley 225.97 6 70.63 2 155.34 5 Adam Rippon 225.07 4 72.91 4 152.16 6 Brandon Mroz 201.27 10 64.45 6 136.82 7 Grant Hochstein 192.73 8 65.55 7 127.18 8 Armin Mahbanoozadeh 190.98 5 72.56 13 118.42 9 Keegan Messing 190.35 12 63.38 8 126.97 10 Jason Wong 186.46 9 64.56 10 121.90 11 Richard Dornbush 184.28 7 65.79 12 118.49 12 Jonathan Cassar 182.23 20 55.53 9 126.70 13 Tommy Steenberg 179.21 16 59.17 11 120.04 14 Dennis Phan 175.97 13 62.51 15 113.46 15 Douglas Razzano 175.04 11 64.27 17 110.77 16 Parker Pennington 173.03 15 61.58 16 111.45 17 Alexander Johnson 168.29 22 54.29 14 114.00 18 Andrew Gonzales 167.25 14 62.38 19 104.87 19 Shaun Rogers 165.00 18 58.62 18 106.38 20 Michael Solonoski 150.76 21 55.26 20 95.50 21 Wesley Campbell 146.96 19 55.98 21 90.98 22 Daniel Raad 127.38 23 49.32 22 78.06 WD Stephen Carriere 17 58.68

Ladies Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Rachael Flatt 200.11 3 69.35 1 130.76 2 Mirai Nagasu 188.78 1 70.06 3 118.72 3 Ashley Wagner 184.70 4 62.55 2 122.15 4 Sasha Cohen 174.28 2 69.63 4 104.65 5 Christina Gao 156.53 5 56.26 5 100.27 6 Amanda Dobbs 150.72 6 56.11 7 94.61 7 Beatrisa Liang 147.71 10 51.98 6 95.73 8 Alexe Gilles 143.31 9 53.54 8 89.77 9 Emily Hughes 140.60 8 53.75 10 86.85 10 Alissa Czisny 140.37 7 54.18 11 86.19 11 Caroline Zhang 138.27 11 49.94 9 88.33 12 Melissa Bulanhagui 129.21 14 45.60 12 83.61 13 Becky Bereswill 127.96 15 44.60 13 83.36 14 Samantha Cesario 119.20 16 44.33 15 74.87 15 Laney Diggs 114.38 18 42.87 16 71.51 16 Kristiene Gong 112.92 12 48.11 21 64.81 17 Blake Rosenthal 112.42 17 43.43 18 68.99 18 Chelsea Morrow 111.73 13 46.35 20 65.38 19 Christina-Maria Sperduto 109.89 23 31.62 14 78.27 20 Tatyana Khazova 108.89 19 41.63 19 67.26 21 Ellie Kawamura 103.33 21 33.51 17 69.82 22 Rebecca Stern 97.22 22 32.49 22 64.73 WD Kayla Howey 20 35.59

Pairs Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett 190.30 1 63.01 1 127.29 2 Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig 173.78 3 58.76 3 115.02 3 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin 173.18 4 57.77 2 115.41 4 Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski 169.95 5 55.64 4 114.31 5 Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker 165.73 7 52.55 5 113.18 6 Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin 164.83 2 62.09 6 102.74 7 Amanda Dobbs / Joseph Jacobsen 152.66 6 55.32 8 97.34 8 Tiffany Vise / Don Baldwin 149.62 9 51.88 7 97.74 9 Molly Aaron / Daniyel Cohen 146.60 8 52.19 9 94.41 10 Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir 142.53 11 49.28 10 93.25 11 Tracy Tanovich / Michael Chau 136.56 13 49.00 11 85.56 12 Andrea Best / Trevor Young 130.88 14 45.73 12 85.15 13 Kendra Moyle / Steven Pottenger 128.64 12 49.22 14 79.42 14 Ameena Sheikh / Aaron VanCleave 127.73 10 49.87 15 77.86 15 Lisa Moore / Justin Gaumond 126.25 15 44.15 13 82.10 16 Laura Lepzinski / Ethan Burgess 119.85 16 42.47 16 77.38

Ice dance Rank Name Total points CD OD FD 1 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 222.29 1 45.42 1 68.11 1 108.76 2 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto 218.51 2 45.02 2 66.89 2 106.60 3 Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates 190.69 4 37.36 3 59.60 3 93.73 4 Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre 186.42 3 37.60 4 57.60 4 91.22 5 Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein 177.48 6 34.12 5 54.87 5 88.49 6 Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell 173.87 5 34.33 6 54.16 6 85.38 7 Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles 163.08 7 30.72 7 52.48 8 79.88 8 Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt 156.53 9 30.00 9 45.52 7 81.01 9 Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky 156.42 8 30.43 8 48.86 9 77.13 10 Shannon Wingle / Timothy McKernan 132.43 13 21.75 10 44.73 10 65.95 11 Stephanie Zastrow / Michael Lueck 124.71 11 22.58 13 36.73 11 65.40 12 Katie Wyble / Justin Morrow 123.94 10 23.07 12 36.92 12 63.95 13 Grace Cho / Dmitry Ponomarev 115.12 12 22.39 14 33.86 13 58.87 14 Lauren Corry / Alexander Lorello 113.46 14 19.15 11 40.17 14 54.14 15 Elizabeth Chan / Jason Deveikis 88.10 15 14.39 15 28.63 15 45.08

Junior results Men Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Jason Brown 195.22 2 62.10 2 133.12 2 Joshua Farris 195.03 4 58.24 1 136.79 3 Max Aaron 191.86 1 62.17 3 129.69 4 Scott Dyer 178.49 5 57.34 4 121.15 5 Alexander Zahradnicek 168.64 7 55.20 5 113.44 6 Austin Kanallakan 164.98 3 61.90 7 103.08 7 Juran Yang 154.70 8 54.29 8 100.41 8 Christopher Caluza 153.87 9 54.12 9 99.75 9 Peter Max Dion 151.34 6 55.84 11 95.50 10 Alexander Aiken 150.76 12 47.45 6 103.31 11 Sean Rabbitt 148.55 10 50.94 10 97.61 12 Grisha Fournier 142.77 11 47.77 12 95.00

Ladies Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Agnes Zawadzki 171.87 1 63.14 1 108.73 2 Yasmin Siraj 151.05 4 50.72 2 100.33 3 Lindsay Davis 133.97 5 50.22 4 83.75 4 Kiri Baga 127.35 2 55.51 9 71.84 5 Nina Jiang 126.38 11 40.98 3 85.40 6 Felicia Zhang 124.21 8 45.19 5 79.02 7 Angela Wang 123.53 3 52.88 10 70.65 8 Vanessa Lam 121.79 6 48.49 8 73.30 9 McKinzie Daniels 119.69 9 42.91 7 76.78 10 Marissa Secundy 112.71 13 34.09 6 78.62 11 Kendall Wyckoff 110.86 7 46.00 11 64.86 12 Katlynn McNab 99.87 10 42.43 12 57.44 13 Haley Dunne 94.32 12 39.99 13 54.33

Pairs Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Felicia Zhang / Taylor Toth 153.80 1 57.16 1 96.64 2 Britney Simpson / Nathan Miller 147.29 2 56.74 2 90.55 3 Erika Smith / Nathan Bartholomay 133.54 4 49.56 4 83.98 4 Carolyn-Ann Alba / Christopher Knierim 133.19 3 52.43 5 80.76 5 Brynn Carman / AJ Reiss 130.00 7 42.54 3 87.46 6 Brittany Chase / Grant Marron 118.31 6 42.59 7 75.72 7 Haven Denney / Daniel Raad 118.18 8 41.86 6 76.32 8 Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff 118.10 5 44.85 9 73.25 9 Olivia Gibbons / Tyler Harris 110.19 10 36.77 8 73.42 10 Megan Gueli / Gabe Woodruff 99.35 9 40.44 11 58.91 11 Becky Du / Sergey Sidorov 93.83 11 33.06 10 60.77

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