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One US junior man I am excited to see this coming season is Patrick Blackwell. He's been landing two quads and triple axel consistently, and if he stays healthy, this will be his year. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5wgGyCLjqk/ He was at Detroit Skating Club training with Audrey Weisiger for...

Watch out for this junior pairs team coming out of Boston (unless they decide to do novice pairs as the girl is only 10 but has her triples)! Will be very exciting. Zach Lopinto is aiming to do a Maravilla this year competing both in junior pairs (if they do junior) and junior men...

Even during the pandemic, Ilia went to Viktor to train every weekend. They'd drive from Reston to Wilmington on Saturdays. Luke Wang around the time shortly before the pandemic trained with Viktor in Wilmington, driving from his place in MD. He was the one who convinced Luke to try pairs...

I just find it very interesting that these boys were all single skaters before. Nick Hseih was on Team USA and a JGP Junior Men competitor before. As a junior men's competitor, Lucas Altieri won the Golden Spin of Zagreb. While focusing on college, they are discovering new avenues to continue...

Was super excited to watch David Shapiro win the solo ice dance junior level at the 2024 National Intercollegiate Final in Lake Placid this weekend (fun fact: top 6 are men out of 10 skaters; Karen Chen won senior solo dance). I hope David competes at the regular solo ice dance circuit, as he's...

They will announce where the sectionals and the nationals will be in a couple of weeks (towards the end of April)

There is an NQS webinar tonight so maybe they will finally say where the sectionals and nationals are going to be

Link: https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/2024%20NQS%20schedule.pdf

Ion is owned by Luiz Taifas and his wife Mitra Setayesh. I was part of the LOC of the Championship Series in Leesburg, VA, in Oct 2021, and Mitra was very actively involved in the planning and preparations.

He said on Twitter on March 27 https://x.com/SkatingLesson/status/1773124579491270819?s=20

They've made changes to the list Added Reagan Moss and Jakub Galbavy in Pairs Removed Eckert/Cui in Ice dance

Pedersen & Chen have split up. Yahli is trying out with some skaters right now.

Don't think she's ready to go senior

Lots of new teams and pairings coming up so it's going to be exciting

I added the criteria for selection and Jarmoc/Witkowski didn't get the 125 score in a novice event