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On the night of Tuesday, ended the first phase of qualifying for the U.S. National Championships, held in Boston in early January. The protagonists of the'' original act, in addition to the athletes of the youth categories, were the skaters in the women.
Wednesday 23 October 2013 10 minutes reading time
In the second round, drop, however, also the senior athletes on the ice dance, pairs of artistic and male sector. Incidentally, Max Aaron, the last winner of the American male, began his climb in imposing their Sectional Championships.
Will also be staged other athletes that due to coincidences with international events were exempted from participation in the Regionals.
The top four finishers in each speciailità of each Sectional Championships will access automatically National Championships, which will be held between 5 and 12 January
Of course, as tradition says, the attention of the experts will be mainly targeted at women's events, once the main source of interest of the nine Regional Championships
In particular, it will be carefully followed Rachel Flatt and Alissa Czisny, winning the national title in the past, engaged in Sectional Championships on paper does not exactly easy.
Also in the men's field, will begin to take the field of high level athletes including Stephen Carriere and Grant Hochstein, engaged in'' Eastern Sectional Championships, Alex Johnson and Brandon Mroz, top athletes of the Midwestern Sectional Championships, Douglas Razzano, Keegan Messing and Shotaro Omori, among the men to beat in the Pacific Coast Sectional Championships.
Less than a month after the next appointment, it is appropriate to summarize what happened in the women senior.Come by regulation, only 36 skaters among the 118 who took part in the Regionals were able to gain the qualification race for the Sectional Championships.
EASTERN SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Ashburn, Virginia, 18-23 November)
01) 153,91 (55,09 | 98,82) Yasmin Siraj (New Engand 1) 02) 150.36 (56.09 | 94.27) Franchesca Chiera (South Atlantic 1) 03) 137.47 ( 46,48 | 90,99) Aimee Buchanan (New Engand 2nd) 04) 136,20 (47,87 | 88,33) Joelle Forte (North Atlantic 1) 05) 130.19 (50.03 | 80, 16) Jessica Hu (South Atlantic 2nd) 06) 119,57 (43,48 | 76,09) Kiri Baga (New Engand 3rd) 07) 118,61 (33,92 | 84,69) Jordan Bauth (North Atlantic 2) 08) 111,39 (40,68 | 70,71) Elise Eng (South Atlantic 3rd) 09) 110,99 (37,13 | 73,86) Ann Marie Mateya (North Atlantic 3rd) 10) 108,67 (35,64 | 73,03) Helen Serafini (North Atlantic 4th) 11) 108,03 (36,82 | 71,21) Morgan Sewall (New England 4th) 12) 106.70 (39, 00 | 67.70) Irina Gonzalez-Sigler (South Atlantic 4th)
MIDWESTERN SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (East Lansing, Michigan, 18-23 November)
01) 160,00 (60,24 | 99,76) Barbie Long (Upper G.Lakes 1) 02) 147,09 (54,15 | 92,94) Mariah Bell (South Western 1) 03) 145, 12 (50,23 | 94,89) Alissa Czisny (Eastern G.Lakes 1) 04) 127.61 (50.02 | 77.59) Ola Czyzewski (Upper G.Lakes 2nd) 05) 125.95 ( 46.68 | 79.27) Amber Walczyk (Eastern G.Lakes 2nd) 06) 124,53 (43,39 | 80,94) Renee Kono (South Western 2nd) 07) 121.73 (42.46 | 79.27) Chelsea Christopher (Eastern G.Lakes 3rd) 08) 120.24 (39.19 | 81.05) Morgan Bell (South Western 3rd) 09) 115.30 (48.46 | 66.84) Lexis Verhulst (Upper G.Lakes 3rd) 10) 111,04 (37,98 | 73,06) Alicia Hsu (Eastern G.Lakes 4th) 11) 109,81 (41,00 | 68,81) Melin Craze (South Western 4th) 12) 109,49 (54,33 | 64,16) Carly Gold (Upper G.Lakes 4th)
Ashley Cain (South Western, permitted as of right to Sectionals) Hannah Miller (Eastern G.Lakes, permitted as of right to Sectionals)
PACIFIC COAST SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Oakland, California, 18-23 November)
01) 161,15 (57,71 | 103,44) Leah Keiser (S.West.Pacific 1) 02) 139.48 (49.82 | 89.66) Rachael Flatt (Central Pacific 1) 03) 131 , 30 (45,34 | 85,96) Laney Diggs (Central Pacific 2nd) 04) 125,95 (45,55 | 80,50) Katarina Kulgeyko (S.West.Pacific 2nd) 05) 123.25 ( 45,33 | 77,92) Camille Davis (Central Pacific 3rd) 06) 121,97 (41,55 | 80,42) Gwendolyn Prescott (Central Pacific 4th) 07) 118.45 (45.81 | 72, 64) Sophia Adams (S.West.Pacific 3rd) 08) 117,43 (46,05 | 71,38) Anna Malkova (S.West.Pacific 4th) 09) 92.62 (28.39 | 64, 23) Samantha Stevens (N.West.Pacific 1) 10) 91,16 (31,27 | 59,89) Alison Jeffers (N.West.Pacific 2nd) 11) 85.48 (27.01 | 58, 47) Amy Nunn (N.West.Pacific 3rd) 12) 85,47 (30,78 | 54,69) Jordan Lee (N.West.Pacific 4th)
Vanessa Lam (S.West.Pacific, permitted as of right to Sectionals) Angela Wang (Cental Pacific, permitted as of right to Sectionals) Caroline Zhang (S.West.Pacific, permitted as of right to Sectionals)
ALREADY ADMITTED TO ATHLETES'' NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ashley WAGNER (top five National Championships, 2013) Gracie GOLD (top five National Championships, 2013) Agnes Zawadzki (top five National Championships, 2013) Courtney HICKS (top five National Champonships, 2013) Christina (GAO top five National Championships, 2013) Polina EDMUNDS (Grand Finalist Prix ​​Junior) Karen CHEN (finalist Junior Grand Prix) Mirai Nagasu (engaged in two stages in a senior GP) Samantha CESARIO (engaged in two stages in a senior GP)
ATHLETES'' ALREADY ADMITTED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS NAZIONALIMax AARON (top five National Championships, 2013) Ross MINER (top five National Championships, 2013) Jeremy Abbott (top five National Championships, 2013) Joshua FARRIS (top five National Championships, 2013) Adam RIPPON (top five National Championships , 2013) Evan Lysacek (Olympic champion) Nathan CHEN (finalist Junior Grand Prix) Richard Dornbush (engaged in two stages GPsenior) Jason BROWN (engaged in two stages GPsenior)
COUPLES DANCE ALREADY ADMITTED TO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS''
DAVIS / WHITE (top five National Championships, 2013) CHOCK / BATES (top five National Championships, 2013) Shibutani / Shibutani (top five National Championships, 2013) HUBBELL / DONOHUE (top five National Championships, 2013) KRIENGKRAIRUT / GIULIETTI-SCHMIDT (top five N. Championships, 2013)
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC'' ALREADY ADMITTED TO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
CASTLES / SHNAPIR (top five National Championships, 2013) SCIMECA / Knierim (top five National Championships, 2013) Zhang / Bartholomay (top five National Championships, 2013) DENNEY / FRAZIER (top five National Championships, 2013) DAVIS / BRUBAKER (engaged in two stages of GP senior) DENNEY / COUGHLIN (engaged in two stages GPsenior)
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