2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies 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 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships, 2018 World Junior Championships, and the 2018 World Championships.

San Jose was announced as the host in August 2016.

Qualifying Competitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2017 or earned a bye. Skaters must place in the top 4 in order to earn a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.

Date Event Type Location Results October 4–8, 2017 North Atlantic Regional Hackensack, New Jersey October 4–8, 2017 Upper Great Lakes Regional Blaine, Minnesota October 11–15, 2017 Northwest Pacific Regional Eugene, Oregon October 11–15, 2017 South Atlantic Regional Aston, Pennsylvania October 11–15, 2017 Southwestern Regional Fort Collins, Colorado October 11–15, 2017 Southwest Pacific Regional Ontario, California October 18–22, 2017 New England Regional Westborough, Massachusetts October 18–22, 2017 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Antioch, Tennessee October 18–22, 2017 Central Pacific Regional Salt Lake City, Utah November 15–19, 2017 Eastern Sectional Boxborough, Massachusetts November 15–19, 2017 Midwestern Sectional Bloomington, Minnesota November 15–19, 2017 Pacific Coast Sectional Spokane, Washington December 29, 2017 – January 7, 2018 U.S. Championships Final San Jose, California

In late December 2017, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye.

Schedule The competition took place over ten days. All times are in PST.

Date Time Event SegmentDecember 29 9:10 AM Juvenile girlsFree skate10:45 AM Juvenile boys 12:30 PM Juvenile pairs 3:00 PM Intermediate pairsShort program 4:45 PM Intermediate ladies 6:30 PM Intermediate menDecember 30 2:45 PM Intermediate pairsFree skate 4:45 PM Intermediate ladies 6:30 PM Intermediate menDecember 31 10:30 AMJuvenile dance Pattern dance 1 (Foxtrot) 11:45 AM Pattern dance 2 (Cha Cha) 7:00 PM Junior pairsShort program 8:55 PM Junior ladiesJanuary 1 9:30 AMIntermediate dance Pattern dance 1 (Tango) 10:45 AM Pattern dance 2 (Fourteenstep) 12:10 PM Junior men Short program 2:15 PM Juvenile dance Free dance 4:05 PMNovice dance Pattern dance 1 (Argentine tango) 5:20 PM Pattern dance 2 (Quickstep) 6:45 PM Novice pairs Short programJanuary 2 8:50 AM Novice ladiesShort program 10:30 AM Novice men 12:10 PM Intermediate dance Free dance 12:30 PM Junior pairsFree skate 3:30 PM Novice pairs 6:15 PM Novice dance Free dance 7:50 PM Junior ladies Free skateJanuary 3 8:15 AM Novice ladiesFree skate 10:15 AM Junior men 1:00 PM Junior dance Short dance 3:15 PM Novice men Free skate 6:35 PM Senior ladies Short programJanuary 4 9:50 AM Junior dance Free dance 1:00 PM Senior pairsShort program 5:40 PM Senior menJanuary 5 1:10 PM Senior dance Short dance 3:45 PM Senior ladies Free skateJanuary 6 11:45 AM Senior pairsFree skate 3:45 PM Senior men January 7 12:30 PM Senior dance Free dance

Medal summary Senior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Nathan Chen Ross Miner Vincent Zhou Adam Rippon Ladies Bradie Tennell Mirai Nagasu Karen Chen Ashley Wagner Pairs Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Ice dance Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

Junior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Camden Pulkinen Dinh Tran Maxim Naumov Ryan Dunk Ladies Alysa Liu Pooja Kalyan Ting Cui Hanna Harrell Pairs Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe Ice dance Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Gordon Green Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville

Novice Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Goku Endo Max Lake Nicholas Hsieh Lucas Altieri Ladies Beverly Zhu Emilea Zingas Violeta Ushakova Calista Choi Pairs Jade Hom / Franz-Peter Jerosch Joanna Hubbart / William Hubbart Masha Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov Ellie McClellan / Jim Garbutt Ice dance Katarina Wolfkostin / Howard Zhao Gianna Buckley / Jeffrey Chen Caroline Liu / Kenan Slevira Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov

Intermediate Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Maxim Zharkov Matthew Nielsen Liam Kapeikis William Annis Ladies Indi Cha Alyssa Chan Arianna Concepcion Alena Budko Pairs Zoe Larson / Nick Hubbart Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell Katie Luong / Nathan Luong Sydney Flaum / Cayden McKenzie-Cook Ice dance Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal Claire Cain / Andrei Davydov Anna Gissibl / Alexander Colucci Nastia Efimova / Jonathan Zhao

Juvenile Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter Men Keita Horiko Jacob Sanchez Nhat-Viet Nguyen Andriy Kratyuk Ladies Isabeau Levito Clara Kim Macie Rolf Madeleine Park Pairs Natasha Mishkutionok / Daniel Tioumentsev Nadia Wang / Jaden Schwab Dalila DeLaura / Ryan Xie Megan Voigt / Levon Davis Ice dance Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr Zoe Sensenbrenner / Matthew Sperry Kristina Bland / Gabriel Francis Emma L'Esperance / Mika Amdour

Senior results Men Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Nathan Chen 315.23 1 104.45 1 210.78 2 Ross Miner 274.51 6 88.91 2 185.60 3 Vincent Zhou 273.83 5 89.02 3 184.81 4 Adam Rippon 268.34 2 96.52 4 171.82 5 Grant Hochstein 255.31 4 92.18 5 163.13 6 Jason Brown 253.68 3 93.23 6 160.45 7 Timothy Dolensky 236.33 7 85.06 9 151.27 8 Alexander Johnson 232.62 10 79.60 8 153.02 9 Max Aaron 224.20 12 74.95 10 149.25 10 Alexei Krasnozhon 223.58 8 82.58 13 141.00 11 Jimmy Ma 222.41 11 75.28 11 147.13 12 Tomoki Hiwatashi 217.53 15 63.48 7 154.05 13 Andrew Torgashev 217.01 9 81.32 14 135.69 14Sean Rabbitt 214.53 13 73.29 12 141.24 15 Jordan Moeller 180.21 20 55.35 15 124.86 16 Ben Jalovick 178.33 19 56.12 16 122.21 17 Daniel Kulenkamp 177.95 18 60.15 17 117.80 18 Emmanuel Savary 177.13 14 64.65 18 112.48 19 Sebastien Payannet 172.89 16 61.29 20 111.60 20 Scott Dyer 172.04 17 60.17 19 111.87 21 Kevin Shum 163.33 21 52.04 21 111.29

Ladies Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Bradie Tennell 219.51 1 73.79 1 145.72 2 Mirai Nagasu 213.84 2 73.09 2 140.75 3 Karen Chen 198.59 3 69.48 4 129.11 4 Ashley Wagner 196.19 5 65.94 3 130.25 5 Mariah Bell 192.34 6 65.18 6 127.16 6 Starr Andrews 189.91 8 62.55 5 127.36 7 Angela Wang 188.01 4 67.00 7 121.01 8 Amber Glenn 168.06 9 61.62 9 106.44 9 Courtney Hicks 165.48 11 57.81 8 107.67 10 Tessa Hong 156.86 13 55.82 11 101.04 11 Caroline Zhang 156.38 10 60.29 14 96.09 12 Franchesca Chiera 150.99 14 53.85 13 97.14 13 Hannah Miller 149.14 12 57.57 16 91.57 14 Kaitlyn Nguyen 146.20 17 46.30 12 99.90 15 Brynne McIsaac 145.54 20 43.97 10 101.57 16 Emmy Ma 138.02 18 45.55 15 92.47 17 Megan Wessenberg 131.73 22 40.90 17 90.83 18 Katie McBeath 124.64 15 48.53 18 76.11 19 Vivian Le 122.60 16 46.65 19 75.95 20 Emily Chan 104.43 19 44.79 20 59.64 Polina Edmunds 63.78 7 63.78 colspan=2 Ashley Lin 42.33 21 42.33 colspan=2

Pairs Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim 206.60 1 71.10 1 135.50 2 Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea 200.80 2 68.93 2 131.87 3 Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay 197.65 3 67.84 3 129.81 4 Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc 187.14 8 60.03 4 127.11 5 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier 186.32 4 63.63 5 122.69 6 Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran 182.38 6 60.75 6 121.63 7 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson 167.47 5 62.35 9 105.12 8 Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan 163.62 7 60.52 10 103.10 9 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu 162.23 12 50.43 7 111.80 10 Erika Smith / AJ Reiss 159.03 11 50.95 8 108.08 11 Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker 154.10 9 53.78 11 100.32 12 Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage 145.66 10 51.15 13 94.51 13 Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens 142.12 13 45.49 12 96.63 14 Alexandria Yao / Jacob Simon 128.12 15 40.97 14 87.15 15 Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman 126.05 14 41.70 15 84.35

Ice dance Rank Name Total SD FD 1 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 197.12 2 79.10 2 118.02 2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 196.93 1 82.33 3 114.60 3 Madison Chock / Evan Bates 196.60 3 77.61 1 118.99 4 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 187.61 4 73.18 4 114.43 5 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 176.07 5 72.69 6 103.38 6 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 175.19 6 69.16 5 106.03 7 Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit 167.98 7 66.41 7 101.57 8 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton 153.93 8 61.21 8 92.72 9Karina Manta / Joseph Johnson 151.00 9 58.29 9 92.71 10 Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge 136.37 10 54.53 10 81.84 11 Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds 110.92 11 40.92 11 70.00 12 Cassidy Klopstock / Jacob Schedl 89.28 12 37.16 12 52.12 13 Ashley Bain / Oleg Altukhov 79.42 13 31.17 13 48.25

Junior results Men Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Camden Pulkinen 219.29 1 67.88 1 151.41 2 Dinh Tran 199.95 2 67.28 2 132.67 3 Maxim Naumov 179.00 3 64.07 4 114.93 4 Ryan Dunk 172.68 10 53.43 3 119.25 5 Tony Lu 166.57 4 62.43 7 104.14 6 Alex Wellman 160.69 8 56.23 6 104.46 7 Paul Yeung 158.71 11 53.30 5 105.41 8 Sasha Lunin 148.67 9 54.86 8 93.81 9 Peter Liu 143.63 5 58.33 11 85.30 10 Patrick Frohling 138.43 12 52.22 10 86.21 11 Kendrick Weston 136.83 6 58.10 12 78.73 12 Justin Wichmann 135.95 13 48.05 9 87.90 13 Luke Ferrante 129.58 7 56.48 13 73.10

Ladies Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Alysa Liu 184.16 1 63.83 1 120.33 2 Pooja Kalyan 166.53 4 54.55 3 111.98 3 Ting Cui 165.51 11 45.55 2 119.96 4 Hanna Harrell 154.36 5 52.10 4 102.26 5 Emily Zhang 149.83 2 56.97 8 92.86 6 Gabriella Izzo 148.04 3 55.19 7 93.05 7 Angelina Huang 143.84 6 51.27 9 92.57 8 Akari Nakahara 143.41 7 49.12 6 94.29 9 Audrey Shin 140.50 10 46.05 5 94.45 10 Emma Coppess 139.30 8 48.08 10 91.22 11 Lily Sun 137.75 9 47.38 11 90.37 12 Jenna Shi 114.50 12 44.20 12 70.30

Pairs Rank Name Total SP FS 1 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov 173.31 1 60.80 1 112.51 2 Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman 155.57 3 58.37 2 97.20 3 Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow 153.04 2 58.67 3 94.37 4 Nadine Wang / Spencer Howe 135.96 5 46.58 4 89.38 5 Elli Kopmar / Jonah Barrett 132.90 4 52.18 5 80.72 6 Ainsley Peterson / Griffin Schwab 124.21 6 45.86 6 78.35 7 Sarah Rose / Ian Meyh 115.54 9 39.48 7 76.06 8 Evelyn Grace Hanns / Kristofer Ogren 114.62 7 43.85 9 70.77 9 Meiryla Findley / Matthew Rounis 113.82 8 40.74 8 73.08 10 Eliana Secunda / Blake Eisenach 100.74 10 37.14 10 63.60 11 Sapphire Jaeckel / Matthew Scoralle 88.92 11 35.35 12 53.57 12 Cora DeWyre / Jacob Nussle 85.44 12 27.56 11 57.88 13 Juliette Erickson / Nathan Grundhofer 64.86 13 24.67 13 40.19

Ice dance Rank Name Total SD FD 1 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 159.18 1 68.70 1 90.48 2 Caroline Green / Gordon Green 146.72 2 63.14 2 83.58 3 Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye 143.21 3 62.14 3 81.07 4 Eliana Gropman / Ian Somerville 138.90 4 61.13 5 77.77 5 Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 134.31 7 54.02 4 80.29 6 Emma Gunter / Caleb Wein 132.89 5 56.31 6 76.58 7 Jocelyn Haines / James Koszuta 126.59 6 55.69 7 70.90 8 Alina Efimova / Alexander Petrov 120.92 8 52.06 8 68.86 9 Katarina DelCamp / Maxwell Gart 116.65 9 50.26 10 66.39 10 Isabelle Amoia / Luca Becker 116.08 10 49.50 9 66.58 11 Sophia Elder / Christopher Elder 111.02 11 49.14 12 61.88 12 Molly Cesanek / Nikolay Usanov 106.60 13 44.04 11 62.56 13 Allie Rose / JT Michel 103.55 12 45.11 13 58.44

International team selections Winter Olympics U.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics on January 6, 2018.