Event Coverage – 2006 U.S. National Championships

NOVICE:

Madison Hubbell & Keiffer Hubbell

Club: Ann Arbor FSC
Coaches: Iouri Tchesnitchenko & Iaroslava Netchaeva
Free Dance: Modern Tango

1st – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Piper Gilles & Tim McKernan

Club: Broadmoor Skating Club
Coach: Patti Gottwein-Britton
Free Dance: Music from “The Triplets of Belleville”

2nd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Michelle Pennington & Brad Coulter

Clubs: University of Delaware FSC/Stars FSC
Coaches: Warren & Olivia Maxwell
Free Dance: Cirque Du Soleil

3rd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Rachel Tibbetts & Eric Reinhart

Club: Broadmoor Skating Club
Coach: Tiffany Hyden-Dombreck
Free Dance:

4th – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Shannon Wingle & Ryan Devereaux

Club: Arctic FSC/Coyotes SC of Arizona
Coaches: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva
Free Dance:

1st – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Katie Wyble & Chad Reinhold

Clubs: Center Ice & Blades of Western Pennsylvania/All Year FSC
Coaches: Barbara Gahagan & Bob Mock
Free Dance: Music from “The Mask”

2nd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Genevieve Deutch & Alexander Lorello

Clubs: Stars FSC/University of Delaware FSC
Coach: Gennadiy Karponosov, Karen Ludington
Free Dance: Umbrellas of Cherbourg

3rd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Anastasia Olson & Greg Zuerlein

Clubs: /Detroit Skating Club
Coaches: Jerod Swallow
Free Dance:

4th – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Cathy Reed & Chris Reed

Clubs: SC of Morris
Coach: Shae Lynn Bourne & Nikolai Morozov
Free Dance:

1st – Eastern Sectional Championships

Samantha Tomarchio & Nicholas Sinchak

Club: Columbia FSC/Bowie FSC
Coach: Genrikh Sretenski
Free Dance: Carmen

2nd – Eastern Sectional Championships

Isabella Cannuscio & Zachary Varraux

Clubs: University of Delaware FSC
Coaches: Karen Ludington, Alexandre Kirsanov, and Oleg Fediukov
Free Dance: Music from “Once Upon A Time in Mexico”

3rd – Eastern Sectional Championships

Alexis Hauser & Kyle Herring

Clubs: University of Delaware FSC
Coaches: Christie Moxley
Free Dance:

4th – Eastern Sectional Championships

 

JUNIOR:

Meryl Davis & Charlie White

Club: Detroit Skating Club
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva
Original dance: “Ran Kan Kan” by Tito Puente (Mambo) and “Besame Mucho” (Rhumba)
Free dance: “Sarabande” by Handel

– Bye to Nationals –

Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates

Club: Ann Arbor FSC
Coaches: Iouri Tchesnitchenko & Iaroslava Netchaeva
Original Dance: “Besame Mucho” (Cha Cha) “Perfidia” by Alberto Dominguez (Rhumba), Cha Cha
Free Dance: “Battle Without Honor” from the Kill Bill Volume 1, and “Jingi” from Electic Samauri (by Tomoyasu Hotei

1st – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Kimmerly Lauten & Augie Hill

Club: Stars FSC
Coaches: Warren & Olivia Maxwell
Original Dance: “Mambo Jambo” (Mambo), “Beautiful Maria of My Soul” (Rhumba) and “Copacabana” (Samba)
Free Dance: Music from “Phantom of the Opera”

2nd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Brooke Huber & Karl Edelmann

Club: Ann Arbor FSC
Coaches: Iouri Tchesnitchenko & Iaroslava Netchaeva
Original Dance: “Pao Pao” (Cha cha, Rumba)
Free Dance: “Esperanza” by Pistolero

3rd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Isabella Elliman & Dmitry Serebrenik

Club: Skating Club of New York/Aspen FSC
Coach:
Original Dance:
Free Dance:

4th – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Katrina Reyes & Jon Wright

Club: Washington FSC/All Year FSC
Coaches: Scott Myers, Michelle Myers
Original Dance: “Tres Deseos”, “Eres Todo En Mi” from the Dance with Me Soundtrack, Cup of Life
Free Dance: Spartacus & Taras Bulba

1st – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Mauri Gustafson & Logan Giulietti-Schmitt

Club: DuPage FSC
Coach: Pierre Panayi
Original Dance: “Lola, Lola” (Samba), “Sympathique” (Cha Cha), “Do You Only Wanna Dance” from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Free Dance: “Shout and Feel It” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Shon” from “Swing Kids”

2nd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Pilar Bosley & John Corona

Clubs: Peninsula FSC/Philadelphia SC
Coach: Robbie Kaine, Christine Fowler-Binder, Pasquale Camerlengo
Original Dance: “Valio la Pena” by Marc Anthony, “No Me Ames” by Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and “Let’s Get Loud” by Jennifer Lopez
Free Dance: Music selections from Cirque du Soleil and David Arkenstone

3rd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Clare Farrell & Ashley Deavers

Clubs: Spokane FSC/Birmingham FSC
Coaches: Scott Myers & Michelle Myers
Original Dance: Wanna Dance & Sway from Shall we Dance Soundtrack
Free Dance: Music from Chocolat

4th – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Kaitlyn Weaver & Charles Clavey

Clubs: Charter Oak SC/Texas Gulf Coast FSC
Coach: Mathew Gates
Original Dance: “Subway Harry” by Poncho Sanchez (Cha Cha)and “Bomba Carambomba” by Angel Canales (Salsa)
Free Dance: “Warm Air” by Vanessa Mae and “I’ll Fly Away” by Bond

1st – Eastern Sectional Championships

Jane Summersett & Elliot Pennington

Clubs: New England FSC/Skating Club of Boston
Coach: Iveta Ice
Original Dance: Cha Cha, Rhumba
Free Dance: “La Danza Delle Streghe” by Gabry Ponte

2nd – Eastern Sectional Championships

Elizabeth Miosi & Dmitry Ponomarev

Club: Skating Club of New York
Coach: Elena Garanina
Original Dance: Mambo, Samba
Free Dance: Phantom n Ice

3rd – Eastern Sectional Championships

Blake Rosenthal & Calvin Taylor

Club: Skating Club of Wilmington
Coach: Andrew Newberry
Original Dance: “Whatever Lola Wants” by Cuban Pete and “Boom Boom”
Free Dance: Music from The Mask of Zorro

4th – Eastern Sectional Championships

SENIOR

Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto

Club: Arctic FSC
Coaches: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva
Original Dance: Salsa, Rhumba, “Let’s Get Loud” by Jennifer Lopez (Cha Cha)
Free Dance: “Jaleo” by Louis Winsberg, modern tango music

– Bye to Nationals –

Melissa Gregory & Denis Petukhov

Club: Skating Club of New York
Coaches: Nikoli Morozov & Shae Lynn Bourne
Original Dance: “Que Color” (Cha Cha) and “Beautiful Maria of My Soul” from The Mambo Kings (Rhumba), Mambo
Free Dance: “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofiev and “Art of War” by Vanessa Mae

– Bye to Nationals –

Tiffany Stiegler & Sergei Magerovskiy

Club: Los Angeles FSC/Arctic FSC
Coaches: Nikoli Morozov & Shae Lynn Bourne
Original Dance: Merengue, Rhumba
Free Dance: “Notre Dame de Paris”

– Bye to Nationals –

Morgan Matthews & Max Zavozin

Club: Skating Club of New York
Coach: Elena Garanina
Original Dance: Cha Cha, “Carapiecho” (Samba) from Shall We Dance
Free Dance: “El Tango de Roxanne” from Moulin Rouge

– Bye to Nationals –

Loren Galler-Rabinowitz & David Mitchell
Club: Skating Club of Boston
Coaches: Natalia Dubova
– Bye to Nationals –

Trina Pratt & Todd Gilles
Club: Broadmoor Skating Club
Coach: Patti Gottwein-Britton, Christopher Dean
– Bye to Nationals –

Jennifer Wester & Daniil Barantsev
Club: Dallas Figure Skating Club
Coaches: Nikoli Morozov & Shae Lynn Bourne
1st – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Charlotte Maxwell & Nick Traxler
Clubs: Stars FSC
Coach: Pierre Panayi
2nd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Lindsay Evans & Kevin O’Keefe
Club: Colorado FSC/Skating Club of Boston
Coaches: Barret Brown, Tom Lescinski, Karen Cullinan
3rd – Midwestern Sectional Championships

Jamie Silverstein & Ryan O’Meara
Club: Arctic FSC/Coyotes SC of Arizona
Coaches: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva
1st – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Caitlin Mallory & Brent Holdburg
Clubs: St. Moritz ISC/Stars FSC
Coaches: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko
2nd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Meghan McCullough & Joel Dear
Club: Skating Club of Boston
Coaches: Barret Brown, Tom Lescinski, Karen Cullinan
3rd – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Stephanie Ellis & Ian RossFrye
Club: Escondido FSC/All Year FSC
Coaches: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko
4th – Pacific Coast Sectional Championships

Kimberly Navarro & Brent Bommentre
Clubs: Santa Rosa FSC/Philadelphia SC & HS
Coach: Robbie Kaine, Cheryl Demkowski Snyder
1st – Eastern Sectional Championships

Kate Slattery & Chuen-Gun Lee
Clubs: All Year FSC/Skating Club of Wilmington
Coaches: Nikoli Morozov & Shae Lynn Bourne
2nd – Eastern Sectional Championships

Elizabeth Palmer & Jonathan Toman
Club: Portland Ice Skating Club/Skating Club of Southern New Jersey
Coaches: Irina Romanova, Igor Yaroshenko
3rd – Eastern Sectional Championships