2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National championship
Date:	January 20 – 26
Season:	2024–25
Location:	Wichita, Kansas
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	Intrust Bank Arena
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The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will be held January 20-26, 2025, at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas.^[1] Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results will be part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2025 Four Continents Championships, 2025 World Championships, and 2025 World Junior Championships.

Qualifying

Skaters qualified for the U.S. Championships by competing in the National Qualifying Series, a series of competitions that allowed skaters to qualify for Sectionals, U.S. Pairs Final, and U.S. Ice Dance Final in November.^[2] Skaters could receive a bye to the finals through competing in at least one Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix, or Challenger competition. Additional junior competitors could qualify through having won the 2024 U.S. Championships at the junior level. Additional senior competitors could qualify thorugh having won the 2024 sectional singles final at the senior level.

Advancement to U.S. Championships

Skaters advanced by either having a bye or competing at Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals.

Senior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:^[3]

Placing in the top five at the 2024 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Selection to the 2024 World Championships team
Winning a medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualifying for the same event at the Grand Prix Final or the Junior Grand Prix Final
Competing at three international assignments classified as an ISU Grand Prix, ISU Junior Grand Prix, or ISU Challenger Series event

Junior skaters were eligible for a bye through meeting one of the following criteria:^[3]

Qualifying for the same event at the Junior Grand Prix Final
Competing at three international assignments classified as an ISU Junior Grand Prix or ISU Challenger Series event

If the number of athletes with three international competitions from the approved competition list exceeded the number of available byes, byes were awarded based on the highest to lowest total score in the following order of importance:

There was a minimum required Technical Element Score for all athletes to compete.

After accounting for all byes, the top placements from Singles Sectionals, U.S. Pairs, or U.S. Ice Dance Finals were then used until the maximum number of competitors for each event was met.

Seniors

Singles

Singles skaters could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top two total combined scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final
Having the next-best score nationwide in the Sectional Singles Final until the maximum was met

There were a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

Pairs could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top placements at the U.S. Pairs Final until the maximum was met

There were a maximum of 12 spots.

Ice dance

Ice dance teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top placements at the U.S. Ice Dance Final until the maximum was met

There were a maximum of 15 spots.

Juniors

Singles

Singles skaters could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top four total combined scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final
Having one of the top two total combined novice scores from each section in the Sectional Singles Final

There were a maximum of 18 spots.

Pairs

Pairs teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top eight total combined scores in the U.S. Pairs Final

There were a maximum of 8 spots.

Ice dance

Ice dance teams could advance to the U.S. Championships in the following ways:

Receiving a bye
Having one of the top ten total combined scores in the U.S. Ice Dance Final

There were a maximum of 10 spots.

Entries

U.S. Figure Skating published the official list of preliminary entries on November 25, 2024.^[2]

Senior

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Jason Brown	Starr Andrews	Emily Chan Spencer Howe	Emily Bratti Ian Somerville
Goku Endo	Alina Bonillo	Nica Digerness Mark Sadusky	Oona Brown Gage Brown
Tomoki Hiwatashi	Ting Cui	Alisa Efimova Misha Mitrofanov	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko
Liam Kapeikis	Alex Evans	Linzy Fitzpatrick Keyton Bearinger	Madison Chock Evan Bates
Lucius Kazanecki	Sarah Everhardt	Grace Hanns Danny Neudecker	Amy Cui Jonathan Rogers
Joseph Klein	Amber Glenn	Ellie Kam Danny O'Shea	Caroline Green Michael Parsons
Kai Kovar	Logan Higase-Chen	Ellie Korytek Timmy Chapman	Rafaella Koncius Alexey Shchepetov
Jimmy Ma	Sonja Hilmer	Isabelle Martins Ryan Bedard	Michela Melillo Karl Schapfel
Ilia Malinin	Mia Kalin	Katie McBeath Daniil Parkman	Annabelle Morozov Jeffrey Chen
Daniel Martynov	Josephine Lee	Audrey Shin Balazs Nagy	Eva Pate Logan Bye
Samuel Mindra	Isabeau Levito	Naomi Williams Lachlan Lewer	Vanessa Pham Anton Spiridonov
Maxim Naumov	Elyce Lin-Gracey	—	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski
Camden Pulkinen	Alysa Liu		Grace Yi Danila Savelev
Jacob Sanchez	Clare Seo		Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik
Beck Strommer	Bradie Tennell		—
Emmanuel Savary	Lindsay Thorngren
Andrew Torgashev	Sherry Zhang
Michael Xie	Ava Ziegler

Junior

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Ryan William Azadpour	Sofia Bezkorovainaya	Saya Carpenter Jon Maravilla	Hana Maria Aboian Daniil Veselukhin
Patrick Blackwell	Annika Chao	Olivia Flores Luke Wang	Effie Chen Kenny Eckert
Thomas Chen	Alayna Coats	Graceann Gottschalk Sam Herbert	Michelle Deych Ryan Hu
Lorenzo Elano	Ela Cui	Elizabeth Hansen William Church	Julia Epps Blake Gilman
Sergei Evseev	Mia Iwase	Sofia Jarmoc Luke Witkowski	Olivia Ilin Dylan Cain
Aleksandr Fegan	Jiaying Ellyse Johnson	Milada Kovar Jared McPike	Ja Yi Kirwan Rowan Le Coq
Isaac Fulton	Jessica Jurka	Addyson McDanold Aaron Felderbaum	Anaelle Kouevi Yann Homawoo
Kirk Haugeto	Hannah Kim	Mazie McFarland Samir Andjorin	Caroline Mullen Brendan Mullen
Michael Jin	Teryn Kim	Reagan Moss Jakub Galbavy	Elianna Peal Ethan Peal
Louis Mallane	Skylar Lautowa-Peguero	Taisiya Shapovalova Carter Griffin	Yahli Pedersen Benjamin Starr
Brendan Man	Emilia Nemirovsky	—	Emily Renzi William Lissauer
Arsen Meghavoryan	Cleo Park		Annelise Stapert Maxim Korotcov
Evan Neuhaus	Maria Platonova		—
Jared Sedlis	Angela Shao
Alek Tankovic	Carina Tanabe
Vaclav Vasquez	Kaya Tiernan
Ethan Yan	Sophie Joline von Felten
David Zhao	Annabelle Wilkins

Schedule

Date	Discipline	Time^[4]	Segment
January 21	Junior pairs	10:20 am	Short program
	Junior men	2:40 pm	Short program
	Junior ice dance	8:50 pm	Rhythm dance
January 22	Junior women	7:45 am	Short program
	Junior men	10:30 am	Free skate
	Junior pairs	5:30 pm	Free skate
	Junior ice dance	8:22 pm	Free dance
January 23	Junior women	10:17 am	Free skate
	Senior pairs	5:05 pm	Short program
	Senior women	7:20 pm	Short program
January 24	Senior ice dance	4:12 pm	Rhythm dance
January 24	Senior women	6:47 pm	Free skate
January 25	Senior ice dance	9:58 am	Free dance
	Senior men	11:45 am	Short program
	Senior pairs	6:35 pm	Free skate
January 26	Senior men	2:50 pm	Free skate
January 26	—	7:30 pm	Skating Spectacular

All times are listed in local time (UTC-06:00).^[5]

References

^ "2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". U.S. Figure Skating.
^ ^a ^b "2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced". U.S. Figure Skating. November 25, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "2025 SINGLES, PAIRS AND ICE DANCE QUALIFYING SEASON ATHLETE BYE & ADVANCEMENT CRITERIA Lineup Announced" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.
^ "Events Schedule for the 2024 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". www.columbussports.org. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
^ "Color Schedule" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.

External links

[1] at SkatingScores.com

[2025nationals-1] "2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". U.S. Figure Skating.

[entries-2] "2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships Lineup Announced". U.S. Figure Skating. November 25, 2024.

[byes-3] "2025 SINGLES, PAIRS AND ICE DANCE QUALIFYING SEASON ATHLETE BYE & ADVANCEMENT CRITERIA Lineup Announced" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.

[4] "Events Schedule for the 2024 U.S. Figure Skating Championships". www.columbussports.org. Retrieved 2023-11-22.

[time-5] "Color Schedule" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating.

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v t e 2024–25 figure skating season
ISU Championships	European Championships Four Continents Championships World Junior Championships World Championships
ISU Grand Prix	Skate America Skate Canada International Grand Prix de France NHK Trophy Finlandia Trophy Cup of China Grand Prix Final
ISU Challenger Series	Cranberry Cup International John Nicks International Pairs Competition Lombardia Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Budapest Trophy Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur Nepela Memorial Tallinn Trophy Warsaw Cup Golden Spin of Zagreb
Junior competitions	ISU Junior Grand Prix Junior Grand Prix Final
National championships	United States