2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place from January 18 to 25th 2009 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – and across three levels: senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).

2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
US Figure Skating Championship
Type:National Championship
Date:January 18 – 25
Season:2008–09
Location:Cleveland, Ohio
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Quicken Loans Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
Jeremy Abbott
Ladies' singles:
Alissa Czisny
Pairs:
Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker
Ice dance:
Meryl Davis / Charlie White
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The event was used to determine the U.S. teams for the 2009 World Championships, 2009 Four Continents Championships, and 2009 World Junior Championships.

Qualifying

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Qualification for the U.S. Championships began at one of nine regional competitions. The regions are 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 advance to one of three sectional competitions (Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast). Skaters who placed in the top four at sectionals advanced to the U.S. Championships.

The top five finishers in each discipline from the previous year were given byes to the U.S. Championships, as were any skaters who qualify for the Junior or the Senior Grand Prix Final. Skaters were also given byes through a qualifying competition if they are assigned to an international event during the time that qualifying event was to take place. For example, if a skater competed at an event at the same time as his or her regional competition, that skater would receive a bye to sectionals. If a skater competed at an event at the same time as his or her sectional competition, that skater would qualify for the national event without having had to compete at a sectional championship.

Competition notes

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  • Reigning ice dancing champions Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto withdrew before the event began due to injury to Agosto.[2]
  • 2007 ladies' champion Kimberly Meissner withdrew before the event due to injury.[3]
  • Senior ladies Katrina Hacker and Mirai Nagasu both earned an overall score of 54.79 in the short program. The tie was broken by the technical elements mark, by which Hacker had beaten Nagasu by 2.05 points. Hacker therefore placed 5th while Nagasu placed 6th in that segment of the competition.
  • Senior ladies Laney Diggs and Kristine Musademba tied for 10th place in the overall score. The tie was broken by the free skating segment and so Diggs placed ahead of Musademba overall.

Senior results

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Men's singles

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Jeremy Abbott 241.89 1 86.40 1 155.49
2 Brandon Mroz 229.70 4 74.88 2 154.82
3 Evan Lysacek 229.10 2 83.59 4 145.51
4 Ryan Bradley 221.40 5 74.05 3 147.35
5 Johnny Weir 203.99 7 70.76 5 133.23
6 Curran Oi 194.03 6 72.76 8 121.27
7 Adam Rippon 193.76 12 62.22 6 131.54
8 Parker Pennington 192.48 3 76.17 10 116.31
9 Stephen Carriere 185.31 8 69.36 11 115.95
10 Tommy Steenberg 184.99 14 59.77 7 125.22
11 Dennis Phan 183.25 9 69.11 12 114.14
12 Shaun Rogers 175.72 10 64.13 13 111.59
13 Eliot Halverson 171.14 18 51.09 9 120.05
14 Douglas Razzano 164.14 16 57.00 14 107.14
15 William Brewster 152.80 13 60.23 16 92.57
16 Jonathan Cassar 151.10 17 55.72 15 95.38
17 Jason Wong 140.73 11 63.40 17 77.33
WD Nicholas LaRoche 15 58.01
WD Scott Smith

Ladies' singles

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Alissa Czisny 178.06 1 65.75 3 112.31
2 Rachael Flatt 173.78 2 60.19 2 113.59
3 Caroline Zhang 171.08 3 58.91 4 112.17
4 Ashley Wagner 165.33 12 50.28 1 115.05
5 Mirai Nagasu 159.99 6 54.79 5 105.20
6 Katrina Hacker 156.28 5 54.79 6 101.49
7 Brittney Rizo 151.23 4 55.43 9 95.80
8 Angela Maxwell 151.22 13 50.02 7 101.20
9 Alexe Gilles 151.20 11 50.30 8 100.90
10 Laney Diggs 147.48 9 52.30 10 95.18
11 Kristine Musademba 147.48 7 53.48 11 94.00
12 Joelle Forte 145.33 8 53.13 13 92.20
13 Taylor Firth 139.49 16 46.29 12 93.20
14 Beatrisa Liang 135.15 10 51.49 16 83.66
15 Molly Oberstar 130.71 15 46.73 15 83.98
16 Chrissy Hughes 128.32 21 37.86 14 90.46
17 Tenile Victorsen 126.74 14 46.84 17 79.90
18 Becky Bereswill 124.57 17 46.25 18 78.32
19 Karen Zhou 120.05 18 44.96 19 75.09
20 Melissa Telecky 106.96 20 40.70 20 66.26
21 Blake Rosenthal 101.39 19 43.48 21 57.91
22 Brittney Westdorp 88.70 23 33.99 22 54.71
23 Tatyana Khazova 86.03 22 34.97 23 51.06

Pairs

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker 178.76 2 61.12 1 117.64
2 Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett 176.27 1 61.51 2 114.76
3 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin 171.08 3 61.11 3 109.97
4 Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig 159.95 6 52.98 4 106.97
5 Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski 157.01 5 54.46 6 102.55
6 Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch 156.15 7 52.06 5 104.09
7 Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin 153.67 4 56.09 8 97.58
8 Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent 148.91 8 51.16 7 97.75
9 Laura Lepzinski / Ethan Burgess 141.21 12 45.09 9 96.12
10 Jessica Rose Paetsch / Drew Meekins 130.87 10 47.67 10 83.20
11 MeeRan Trombley / Laureano Ibarra 129.61 9 48.63 12 80.98
12 Lindsay Davis / Alexander Merritt 125.33 11 45.87 14 79.46
13 Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen 124.46 15 42.73 11 81.73
14 Stephanie Kuban / Steven Elefante 123.21 16 42.25 13 80.96
15 Lisa Moore / Justin Gaumond 112.57 17 38.60 16 73.97
16 Andrea Best / Trevor Young 112.15 19 36.64 15 75.51
17 Chelsi Guillen / Danny Curzon 108.06 13 44.63 18 63.43
18 Jennifer Brunn / Don Baldwin 105.99 14 43.35 19 62.64
19 Kendra Moyle / Steven Pottenger 105.43 18 38.31 17 67.12

Ice dance

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Rank Name Total points CD OD FD
1 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 201.68 1 39.93 1 61.93 1 99.82
2 Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates 181.64 2 36.28 2 56.97 2 88.39
3 Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre 176.30 3 35.22 6 54.30 3 86.78
4 Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell 171.51 4 32.52 4 54.51 4 84.48
5 Morgan Matthews / Leif Gislason 169.62 6 31.59 3 55.03 5 83.00
6 Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles 169.35 5 32.48 5 54.43 6 82.44
7 Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky 165.71 7 31.18 7 52.83 7 81.70
8 Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt 151.59 9 27.81 8 48.92 8 74.86
9 Charlotte Maxwell / Nick Traxler 143.60 11 26.74 10 45.10 9 71.76
10 Clare Farrell / Charles Fishpaw 135.30 12 25.78 11 41.11 10 68.41
11 Jessica Perino / William Avila 127.35 10 26.74 13 38.84 11 61.77
12 Lauren Corry / Alexander Lorello 121.62 14 21.59 12 39.50 12 60.53
13 Kellene Ratko / Jonathan Harris 107.58 13 21.74 15 31.37 13 54.47
14 Emma Cyders / Ievgenii Krasniak 107.29 15 20.11 14 36.31 14 50.87
WD Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev 8 29.66 9 47.65

Junior results

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Men's singles

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Ross Miner 183.80 1 66.62 2 117.18
2 Keegan Messing 176.94 2 59.80 3 117.14
3 Alexander Johnson 171.08 7 51.68 1 119.40
4 Grant Hochstein 162.15 9 51.24 4 110.91
5 Austin Kanallakan 160.30 8 51.38 5 108.92
6 Armin Mahbanoozadeh 159.12 3 59.29 8 99.83
7 Alexander Aiken 157.99 10 51.16 6 106.83
8 Andrew Gonzales 153.19 4 58.76 10 94.43
9 Michael Chau 145.78 12 42.87 7 102.91
10 Daniel O'Shea 145.04 11 50.57 9 94.47
11 Juran Yang 142.75 5 58.37 12 84.38
12 Peter Max Dion 141.22 6 52.58 11 88.64
13 David Wang 117.34 13 41.16 13 76.18
14 Pine Kopka-Ross 99.98 14 33.35 14 66.63
WD Richard Dornbush

Ladies' singles

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 DeeDee Leng 132.49 1 53.57 3 78.92
2 Ellie Kawamura 131.25 2 51.82 1 79.43
3 Christina Gao 128.69 3 49.45 2 79.24
4 Kristiene Gong 126.17 4 49.21 5 76.96
5 Kendall Wyckoff 123.88 5 47.12 6 76.76
6 Samantha Cesario 120.90 6 43.47 4 77.43
7 Amanda Dobbs 116.52 7 43.21 8 73.31
8 Carolyn-Ann Alba 112.35 12 37.96 7 74.39
9 Vanessa Lam 111.68 11 39.25 9 72.43
10 Keli Zhou 110.87 8 42.96 10 67.91
11 Gretchen Donlan 106.60 10 39.65 11 66.95
12 Marissa Secundy 105.16 9 42.28 12 62.88
13 Kirsten Olson 95.57 13 33.85 13 61.72

Pairs

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Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Tracy Tanovich / Michael Chau 135.50 3 46.84 1 88.66
2 Brynn Carman / Christopher Knierim 134.92 1 48.31 2 86.61
3 Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir 129.87 2 47.57 3 82.30
4 Britney Simpson / Nathan Miller 122.44 4 46.39 5 76.05
5 Molly Aaron / Daniyel Cohen 118.16 7 42.04 4 76.12
6 Brittany Chase / Andrew Speroff 115.82 8 41.86 6 73.96
7 Lauren Farr / Mac Kern 115.79 5 43.41 7 72.38
8 Ameena Sheikh / Aaron VanCleave 113.44 9 41.74 8 71.70
9 Kloe Bautista / Galvani Hopson 109.70 6 42.81 10 66.89
10 Megan Gueli / Grant Marron 108.42 10 40.05 9 68.37
11 Erika Smith / Nathan Bartholomay 101.00 12 35.79 11 65.21
12 Rachel DeRita / Brandon Accardi 97.98 11 37.34 12 60.64
13 Emily Glassberg / Gabe Woodruff 89.05 13 29.52 13 59.53

Ice dance

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Rank Name Total points CD OD FD
1 Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein 167.81 1 32.90 1 52.89 1 82.02
2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 161.03 2 31.98 2 52.70 2 76.35
3 Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue 151.10 3 29.50 3 47.33 3 74.27
4 Shannon Wingle / Timothy McKernan 145.05 4 28.92 6 45.49 5 70.64
5 Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello 144.80 8 27.58 5 45.90 4 71.32
6 Rachel Tibbetts / Collin Brubaker 143.20 5 28.54 4 47.19 7 67.47
7 Sara Bailey / Kyle Herring 136.18 12 24.86 9 43.63 6 67.69
8 Chloe Wolf / Rhys Ainsworth 134.19 7 27.67 11 41.45 8 65.07
9 Charlotte Lichtman / Dean Copely 133.27 10 26.06 8 44.20 10 63.01
10 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus 132.52 11 25.49 10 42.11 9 64.92
11 Elyse Matsumoto / Patrick Mays 128.74 9 26.68 7 45.40 11 56.66
12 Katie Wyble / Justin Morrow 116.82 6 28.14 12 35.37 12 53.31
13 Alison Carey / Daniel Donigan 102.58 14 17.51 13 33.59 13 51.48
WD Brittany Marshall / Ashley Deavers 13 23.11 14 29.64

International team selections

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World Championships

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Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
1 Jeremy Abbott Alissa Czisny Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker Meryl Davis / Charlie White
2 Evan Lysacek Rachael Flatt Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates
3 Brandon Mroz Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto
1st alternate Johnny Weir Caroline Zhang Rena Inoue / John Baldwin Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre
2nd alternate Ryan Bradley Ashley Wagner Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell
3rd alternate Stephen Carriere Mirai Nagasu Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles
4th alternate Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky

Four Continents Championships

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Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
1 Jeremy Abbott Alissa Czisny Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker Meryl Davis / Charlie White
2 Brandon Mroz Rachael Flatt Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates
3 Evan Lysacek Caroline Zhang Rena Inoue / John Baldwin Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre
1st alternate Ryan Bradley Ashley Wagner Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles
2nd alternate Johnny Weir Mirai Nagasu Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski Trina Pratt / Chris Obzansky
3rd alternate Curran Oi Katrina Hacker Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt

World Junior Championships

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Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
1 Curran Oi Mirai Nagasu Brynn Carman / Chris Knierim Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein
2 Adam Rippon Ashley Wagner Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell
3 Ross Miner Caroline Zhang Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
1st alternate Armin Mahbanoozadeh Katrina Hacker Molly Aaron / Daniyel Cohen Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue
2nd alternate Alexander Johnson Alexe Gilles Brittany Chase / Andrew Speroff Shannon Wingle / Timothy McKernan
3rd alternate Richard Dornbush Brittney Rizo Kloe Bautista / Galvani Hopson Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello
4th alternate Angela Maxwell

References

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  1. ^ "Quicken Loans Arena - Upcoming Event". Archived from the original on 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
  2. ^ Injury Forces Belbin and Agosto to Withdraw from 2009 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "2007 U.S. Champion Kimmie Meissner Withdraws from 2009 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships". U.S. Figure Skating. 19 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
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