2023 John Nicks International Pairs Challenge / Middle Atlantics NQS (NYC club comp., Sept. 6-9)

[TDsk8]

I hope you enjoy @TDsk8 (and maybe report back here if you can ):

The 3rd John Nicks International Pairs Challenge takes place on Wednesday & Thursday, Sept. 6-7, 2023, at Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink in New York City, hosted by the Skating Club of New York together with their annual club competition ("Mids" for short): https://www.thescny.org/index.php/john-nicks-pairs-challenge

Wednesday in the WEST Rink (times could change):
Junior Pairs SP: 1:15-2:15 PM Eastern time
Senior Pairs SP: 2:30-5:00 PM

Thursday in the WEST Rink (times could change):
Junior Pairs FS: 10:50-11:45 AM
Senior Pairs FS: 12 noon-2:45 PM

Senior and Junior Pairs SP starting orders should appear -- after the draws scheduled for tomorrow morning -- on the John Nicks Pairs Challenge results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33717/index.htm

Senior Pairs
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Sophia SCHALLER / Livio MAYR AUT
2 Ashlyn SCHMITZ / Tristan TAYLOR CAN
3 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA
4 Anna VALESI / Manuel PIAZZA ITA
5 Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN PHI
6 Greta CRAFOORD / John CRAFOORD SWE (new coach Bruno Massot is with them in NYC)
7 Grace HANNS / Danny NEUDECKER USA
8 Chelsea LIU / Balazs NAGY USA (I've heard unofficially that they have WD)
9 Isabelle MARTINS / Ryan BEDARD USA
10 Maria MOKHOVA / Ivan MOKHOV USA
11 Nina OUELLETTE / Rique NEWBY-ESTRELLA USA
12 Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ USA

Junior Pairs
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Sofia ENKINA / Nikita KOVALENKO ISR (new; 7th in their JGP debut in Linz last week)
2 Saya CARPENTER / Jon MARAVILLA USA (re-teamed this season; not yet listed publicly in the ISP)
3 Ashley FLETCHER / Aaron FELBERBAUM USA (new; recently added to ISP & their international debut)

Senior Pairs NQS (4 registered) - :
Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov (I've heard unofficially that they have WD)
Linzy Fitzpatrick/Keyton Bearinger
Ellie Korytek/Timmy Chapman
Katie McBeath/Daniil Parkman (their 2nd NQS after Glacier Falls; have arrived in NYC)

Junior Pairs NQS (2):
Sydney Cooke/Matthew Kennedy (new)
Reagan Moss/Jakub Galbavy (new; he competed for SVK in singles and has been released to compete for USA starting next season)

NQS Pairs SP starting orders will appear be on the Middle Atlantics results page (linked below).

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The 97th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships (NQS for singles & pairs) is Sept. 6-9, 2023: https://www.thescny.org/index.php/mids
Starting orders will show up on this page eventually are posted on the Results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/index.asp
(There are non-qualifying events on Sunday, Sept. 10.)

"Mids" & John Nicks have never been livestreamed in the past, unfortunately.

From what I was told, admission is $10/day or $15 for both days (includes Middle Atlantics NQS comp. events.

I hope you enjoy @TDsk8 (and maybe report back here if you can ):

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The 97th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships (NQS for singles & pairs) is Sept. 6-9, 2023

I hope you enjoy @TDsk8 (and maybe report back here if you can ):

I will try and go LIVE on my YouTube channel and post it.

Seeing the schedule, I will have to do some running from one Rink to another.
I can only record Isabeau Levito SP.

 

[TDsk8]

(Forgot to post links )

LIVE on
https://youtube.com/@_TimothyDavid


Then post the video on
https://youtube.com/@TimDavidFSkating

 

[BrightSkates]

Even with the bad skates Martins/Bedard got the FS TES min.for Worlds. 47.67 as well Ouellette/Newby-Estrella 47.85.
Hanns/Neudecker 42.67.

 

[tony]

Don't know where this fits, but Parkman has an IG story shading Metelkina/Berulava for competing on the Junior Grand Prix. No love lost between him and his former Federation (and their skaters).

 

[Karen-W]

Don't know where this fits, but Parkman has an IG story shading Metelkina/Berulava for competing on the Junior Grand Prix. No love lost between him and his former Federation (and their skaters).

Yeahhhh, he's so clearly happy to be skating for the US now, lol.

 

[Sylvia]

Here are 11 SP videos (8 Senior, 3 Junior) from the first day of John Nicks: https://www.youtube.com/@MikichkaFigureSkater/videos

ETA that more are being added as I type this.

ETA #2:

Hanns/Neudecker (music?): "Solid program. No major errors."

Sara Bareilles' "Gravity" covered by Alex & Sierra (last seasons' SP music). Their sbs triple toes were landed in very good unison.

Jim Peterson put them on in NYC (Grace's photo of the 3 of them at Sky Rink) since Drew Meekins was in Istanbul with Flores/Wang and Natalia Mishkutenok presumably was coaching Williams/Lewer back home in CO Springs.

 

[Sylvia]

Even with the bad skates Martins/Bedard got the FS TES min.for Worlds. 47.67 as well Ouellette/Newby-Estrella 47.85.
Hanns/Neudecker 42.67.

Both H/N and O/N-E had higher TES in both programs at John Nicks last year - I was able to edit the relevant FS TES into my table before the window expired yesterday:

Updating the TES after today's SP at John Nicks (Fitzpatrick/Bearinger competed last year; doing NQS this year):

SENIOR

Sophia SCHALLER / Livio MAYR	AUT	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	29.00	S	Bavarian Open 2023	03/02/2023	53.58	S
Ashlyn SCHMITZ / Tristan TAYLOR (Sr. debut)	CAN	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	18.94	S	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2022	31.85	S
Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV	FRA	ISU GP Grand Prix de France 2022	04/11/2022	36.67	S	ISU World Team Trophy 2023	15/04/2023	57.30	S
Anna VALESI / Manuel PIAZZA	ITA	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	30.77	S	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2023	60.43	S
Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN	PHI	Challenge Cup 2023	25/02/2023	31.33	S	ISU World Championships 2023	23/03/2023	49.76	S
Greta CRAFOORD / John CRAFOORD	SWE	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	29.26	S	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2023	55.78	S
Linzy FITZPATRICK / Keyton BEARINGER	USA	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	08/09/2022	23.85	S	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	09/09/2022	38.69	S
Evelyn Grace HANNS / Danny NEUDECKER	USA	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	08/09/2022	33.00	S	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	09/09/2022	44.58	S
Isabelle MARTINS / Ryan BEDARD (Sr. debut)	USA	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	25.71	S	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2022	47.67	S
Maria MOKHOVA / Ivan MOKHOV	USA	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	08/09/2022	31.22	S	ISU CS U.S. International FS Classic 2022	14/09/2022	53.97	S
Nina OUELLETTE / Rique NEWBY-ESTRELLA	USA	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	08/09/2022	25.44	S	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	09/09/2022	48.06	S
Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ	USA	ISU CS Finlandia Trophy 2022	06/10/2022	34.45	S	2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	09/09/2022	57.75	S

JUNIOR

Sofia ENKINA / Nikita KOVALENKO	ISR	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	21.20	J	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	01/09/2023	31.54	J
Saya CARPENTER / Jon MARAVILLA	USA	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	20.70	J	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2023	32.53	J
Ashley FLETCHER / Aaron FELBERBAUM	USA	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	06/09/2023	18.76	J	2023 John Nicks Pairs Challenge	07/09/2023	27.07	J

Edited on Sept. 7 to update the above pairs' TES if their FS scores at John Nicks today were higher than previously.

ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2024:
PAIR SKATING 29.00 46.00

ISU European & ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2024:
PAIR SKATING 25.00 42.00

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2024:
JUNIOR PAIR SKATING 23.00 34.00

 

[Karen-W]

Isabeau is a WD from the senior women.

Monster SP score for Jacob! 80.10!

Great scores for Fegan and Hagueto too, to be fair.

 

[Sylvia]

Monster SP score for Jacob! 80.10!

Great scores for Fegan and Hagueto too, to be fair.

Junior Men SP protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/SEGM027.html

ETA top 5:

Jacob Sanchez, Hudson Valley FSC NY) 80.19 - 3Ab1, 3Lz, 3F+3T, level 4 on steps & all 3 spins (his CCoSp4V (nS = sit position not held or not low enough)
Aleksandr Fegan, SC of New York 69.60
Kirk Haugeto, SC of New York 64.99
Lucius Kazanecki, North Jersey FSC 64.98
Tamir Kuperman, Israel Ice Skating Federation 60.38

 

[Rukia]

Monster SP score for Jacob! 80.10!

I support this I don't even need to see the skate

 

[Sylvia]

Senior Women SP top 4:
Ting Cui, Baltimore FSC 50.38 - 2Lz+2T*, 2A, 3S, level 4 on steps & 2 spins
Alex Evans, SC of New York 49.19 - 3F<+2T, 3Lo<, 2A, 2 L4 spins
Alexa Gasparotto, Arctic FSC (Michigan) - 47.04 - 3S+3T fall, 3F, 2A
Lilly Mills, SC of New York - 46.67 - 1Lz*, 3F+2T, 2A
SP protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/SEGM013.html

Senior Men SP will the final event of tonight (ETA link to protocols): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/SEGM029.html
1 Maxim Zharkov, Dallas FSC 71.62 - jumps: 3A (-0.27), 3F, 3Lz+3T
2 Emmanuel Savary, University of Delaware FSC 70.44 - jumps: 4S (9.7 bv -3.23 = 6.47), 2A, 3F+3T
3 Nathan Chapple, Winterhurst FSC 59.46
4 Ken Fitterer, National Ice Skating Association of UK Ltd 58.71

Middle Atlantics starting orders/results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/index.asp

 

[TDsk8]

Senior Women SP top 4:
Ting Cui, Baltimore FSC 50.38 - 2Lz+2T*, 2A, 3S, level 4 on steps & 2 spins
Alex Evans, SC of New York 49.19 - 3F<+2T, 3Lo<, 2A, 2 L4 spins
Alexa Gasparotto, Arctic FSC (Michigan) - 47.04 - 3S+3T fall, 3F, 2A
Lilly Mills, SC of New York - 46.67 - 1Lz*, 3F+2T, 2A
SP protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/SEGM013.html

Senior Men SP will the final event of tonight (ETA link to protocols): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/SEGM029.html
1 Maxim Zharkov, Dallas FSC 71.62 - jumps: 3A (-0.27), 3F, 3Lz+3T
2 Emmanuel Savary, University of Delaware FSC 70.44 - jumps: 4S (9.7 bv -3.23 = 6.47), 2A, 3F+3T
3 Nathan Chapple, Winterhurst FSC 59.46
4 Ken Fitterer, National Ice Skating Association of UK Ltd 58.71

Middle Atlantics starting orders/results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/index.asp

OMG I overslept
Been a tiring move to Brooklyn.
Definitely will be there tonight.

 

[TDsk8]

Made it for the Junior and Senior Men practice & LP

 

[TDsk8]

Junior Men's LP
(This is my first Live competition I've watched since 2012 Four Continents. My eyes needs catching up.)

Jacob Sanchez - stands out from the rest of this field. Great flow, coverage, awesome chor seq.

Aleksandr Fegan - patient on the ice and approach.

Kirk Haugeto - entertaining program to Aladdin. Very quick in the air.

Skaters from Boston have great program construction. Especially their choreo sequences.

*Senior Men just finished their practice.

 

[Sylvia]

Mids Junior Men final standings/link to protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/CAT015SEG028.html
Top 8:
1 Jacob Sanchez, Hudson Valley FSC 80.19 (1) 156.28 (1) 236.47 - 6 clean triples (see below)
2 Aleksandr Fegan, SC of New York 69.60 (2) 126.74 (2) 196.34 - 5 clean triples
3 Kirk Haugeto, SC of New York 64.99 (3) 124.68 (3) 189.67 - 4 clean triples, 3A<< (-1.43 goe)
4 Lucius Kazanecki, North Jersey FSC 64.98 (4) 116.90 (5) 181.88
5 Patrick Blackwell, SC of Boston 57.12 (6) 122.86 (4) 179.98 - opened with 3Ab1+2A (13.9 points), 3Lz+1Eu+3S & 3T+3T
6 Tamir Kuperman, Israel Ice Skating Federation 60.38 (5) 108.04 (7) 168.42
7 Zachary LoPinto, SC of Boston 51.86 (7) 109.46 (6) 161.32
8 Lucas Fitterer, National Ice Skating Association of UK Ltd 49.52 (9) 98.26 (8) 147.78

Jacob received L4 on his 3 spins; FS jumps were:
3Ab1 (-2.40 goe + 1.00 bonus) = 6.60
3Ab1+2A (11.30 bv + 2.13 + 1.00 bonus) = 14.43
3Lo
3Lz
3Lz+1Eu+3S (11.77 bv + 1.57) = 13.34
2A+2T
3F

Mids Junior Women final standings: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/CAT004SEG012.html
Top 4:
1 Ela Cui, SC of Boston 55.89 (1) 96.92 (2) 152.81 (improved her NQS score from 132.11)
2 Jiaying Ellyse Johnson, DuPage FSC 55.14 (2) 86.58 (6) 141.72
3 Katie Turcotte, Finer Edge FSC 45.07 (3) 95.70 (3) 140.77 (slightly improved her NQS score)
4 Sofia Bezkorovainaya, Washington FSC 40.63 (6) 96.93 (1) 137.56 (improved her NQS score)

Mids Senior Women final standings: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/CAT005SEG014.html
Sarah Everhardt came back from 8th in SP to win, scoring 119.65 in FS - landed 6 triples cleanly & 2A+3T< fall - 162.19 total.
2nd & 3rd were Alex Evans & Ting Cui (neither of whom improved their NQS scores).

Mids Senior Men FS is scheduled to start at 9:30 pm ET: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/CAT016SEG030.html
ETA: Great to Emmanuel Savary back competing again! He won the FS (136.65) and the gold (207.09).

 

[TDsk8]

Unless my eyes deceived me.
Sightings: Alexander Zahradnicek, Rohene Ward, Derrick Delmore, Wesley Campbell, Kyoko Ina, John Zimmerman.

 

[TDsk8]

Oh, also. There are a lot of knee slides in skater's programs.
Very cool effect

 

[TDsk8]

Just switched to the East Rink for Senior Men. Now I can sit

I'll be LIVE streaming it and screen recording on my YouTube channel

https://youtube.com/@_TimothyDavid

See you in a few minutes

 

[Rukia]

Well I know I have a soft spot for Emmanuel Savary, but I liked that a lot!

 

[Frau Muller]

My pairs costume of the year: Mokhova’s Audrey Hepburn ascot dress from My Fair Lady! Gorgeous.

 

[Frau Muller]

Junior Men's LP
(This is my first Live competition I've watched since 2012 Four Continents. My eyes needs catching up.)

Jacob Sanchez - stands out from the rest of this field. Great flow, coverage, awesome chor seq.

Aleksandr Fegan - patient on the ice and approach.

Kirk Haugeto - entertaining program to Aladdin. Very quick in the air.

Skaters from Boston have great program construction. Especially their choreo sequences.

*Senior Men just finished their practice.

What a podium! Love them all. I hope that films of these appear, as we saw with pairs. I’m ready to fly with Aladdin!

 

[TDsk8]

What a podium! Love them all. I hope that films of these appear, as we saw with pairs. I’m ready to fly with Aladdin!

I'm sorry I didn't film any of the Junior Men Really wish I could have.

The good spots to record wasn't available. Where I was watching, the quality would suffer. Plus everyone would be distracted with kids chatter on replay.

Am looking forward to seeing these programs throughout this season.
So inspiring.

 

[Sylvia]

Best Mids podium pic I've seen on social media so far! (shared with permission by this Japanese fan): https://twitter.com/kote1102/status/1700720191343309173

https://twitter.com/x/status/1700720191343309173

Mids Junior Men final standings/link to protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2023/33420/CAT015SEG028.html
Top 8:
1 Jacob Sanchez, Hudson Valley FSC 80.19 (1) 156.28 (1) 236.47 - 6 clean triples (see below)
2 Aleksandr Fegan, SC of New York 69.60 (2) 126.74 (2) 196.34 - 5 clean triples
3 Kirk Haugeto, SC of New York 64.99 (3) 124.68 (3) 189.67 - 4 clean triples, 3A<< (-1.43 goe)
4 Lucius Kazanecki, North Jersey FSC 64.98 (4) 116.90 (5) 181.88
5 Patrick Blackwell, SC of Boston 57.12 (6) 122.86 (4) 179.98 - opened with 3Ab1+2A (13.9 points), 3Lz+1Eu+3S & 3T+3T
6 Tamir Kuperman, Israel Ice Skating Federation 60.38 (5) 108.04 (7) 168.42
7 Zachary LoPinto, SC of Boston 51.86 (7) 109.46 (6) 161.32
8 Lucas Fitterer, National Ice Skating Association of UK Ltd 49.52 (9) 98.26 (8) 147.78

 

[Wyliefan]

That is amazing.

 

[Sylvia]

Just switched to the East Rink for Senior Men. Now I can sit

I'll be LIVE streaming it and screen recording on my YouTube channel

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@TDsk8 Any chance you can upload the 1st place free skate of Emmanuel Savary at least? (unless his FS music is the reason for the copyrught strike?)

 

[Frau Muller]

Thanks for what you did, @TDsk8 !

That’s Haugeto upside down??? ROTFL!

 

[TDsk8]

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@TDsk8 Any chance you can upload the 1st place free skate of Emmanuel Savary at least? (unless his FS music is the reason for the copyrught strike?)

YouTube deleted the video due to his program music. The other skaters music didn't get flagged though ....

I've uploaded the program, without sound though. Sorry

Emanuel Savary long program (No Sound)

 

[Sylvia]

Well I know I have a soft spot for Emmanuel Savary, but I liked that a lot!

YouTube deleted the video due to his program music. The other skaters music didn't get flagged though ....

I've uploaded the program, without sound though. Sorry

Thank you! Do either of you recall what Savary's music/song is?

His Instagram story showed Peter Liu (Liu's ISU bio: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101609.htm), who graduated from the University of Delaware this past May and now coaches in Viktor Pfeifer's group, as Emmanuel's coach at Mids.

ETA - replying to my own question : Savary's FS music is to the Black Panther OST.

 

[Rukia]

ETA - replying to my own question : Savary's FS music is to the Black Panther OST.

lol yeah you beat me to it but it was a very cool Black Panther program

 

[Sylvia]

Lois Elfman wrote an article for the Amsterdam News (Sept. 14):

Emmanuel Savary starts his skating comeback with a victory

For several years, Emmanuel Savary and Starr Andrews were the lone African American skaters competing in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

amsterdamnews.com

Excerpts:

“It’s nice to be back; it’s been awhile,” said Savary, 25, who first competed in NYC when he was 11. “Happy to skate and looking forward to the future. I’m coming back for one more year. My swan song season, I guess you could say. The goal is to go to Nationals and skate the best that I can, and I can move on with my other goals in life. I’m finishing up college (studying physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware) and coaching a little bit as well.”

Nathan Chapple won the silver medal in the senior men’s event. “It felt great; it felt easy,” he said. “I like to perform, so it felt good. One of the major things I like to do is perform. I’d like to take that to a higher level.”
[Alexa] Gasparotto finished eighth overall in the senior women’s competition. She has been beset by several injuries over the past few months but is persevering in her training by prioritizing quality over quantity and adding physical therapy. [...]
“I feel very supported,” she said. “I feel I’m turning into the role model that I always wanted to be.”
Rohene Ward and Amber Gil coach both Chapple and Gasparotto. “It’s important for them to put their programs out there and be seen,” said Ward. “I thought it was a great event. Very musical skaters.”

[2nd] Aleksandr Fegan, SC of New York 69.60

"Sasha" Fegan, 13, shared his Junior Men's "Bolero" SP video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxRoDw0LrkI/