2001 Central Pacific Regionals

ARGH, the traffic to Oakland was insane. So I missed half the Intermediate ladies. My friend Dorie said that the first six girls all skated perfect programs.

Due to distance and babies, we could not attend much, here are the notes on what we have.

• Intermediate Ladies Short
• Novice Ladies Short
• Novice Men's Free

Intermediate Ladies Short Program

Catherine Riley

Wore a green dress and skated to Celtic music. She had some nice connecting steps in her program. She did a double lutz/double loop, single axel, and I didn't write down about her jump out of steps. She had a nice free leg position in her layback spin, great presentation with a big smile on her face. 5th place

Heather Cristobal

She wore a yellow dress with red trim. Very graceful young lady with a balletic quality to her skating. Her single axel was fine, as was her double lutz/double loop and double out of steps. She opened the program with a very lovely Kerrigan spiral. She finished the program after the music stopped. 3rd place

Brittney Lusk

She did a double loop, fell out of it and then added on the double toe. Steps into a double jump was fine and so was an ina baur into a single axel. Good diagonal footwork, the combination spin traveled a bit. She skated to Carmen. 14th place

Alycia Bowles

She had good flow coming out of her axel, but she fell on one of her other jumps. Sorry my notes are incomplete. 15th place

Tiffany Seto

Double lutz/double loop, I think she turned out of the jump. Spiral into a single axel, nice, and her double out of steps was fine. 9th place

Novice Ladies Short

Midori Higashi

She wore a harem-esque program, and I kid you not skated to the I Dream of Jeannie theme song. She had great flow going into and coming out of the axel. Combination was double lutz/double toe, double loop out of steps was fine. She is a fast skater. 7th place

Rebecca Fong

She has graceful arm movements. Double lutz/double toe, I think she did a double axel, but I am not sure if novice ladies are allowed to do double axels in the short. She had nice flow in the footwork into a double jump. 4th place

Erin Reed

She wore a beautiful lavender costume. Axel jump was fine; she stepped out of a double loop and did a salchow/loop combination, that might have been a triple sal but I am not sure. She skated to "Somewhere My Love" and opened the program with a layback spin that had very lovely arm movements. Ended the spin with a scratch spin with her arms to her side for a very cool illusion effect. Another fast skater. 3rd place

Christina Waterhouse

Yet another very fast skater, these novice girls are speed demons. She landed a double axel, double lutz/double toe, but landed that lutz on her knee. Her spins started out very fast, but she couldn't hold the speed and the spins slowed down very noticeably. She stepped out of the jump out of steps. Skated to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. 6th place

Caitlin Mallory

She skated to Swan Lake and did a lot of very lovely ballet movements, steps and arm movements. She has a lovely layback spin with a deep arch in her back. She landed a double axel, double lutz/double toe, and her jump out of steps was done with her hands over her head. 2nd place

Julian Burns

Landed a double axel, and a double loop. Her combination was triple salchow/double toe, she wobbled a bit on the landing of that sal, but held it. She has a great smile. 1st place (duh she has a triple)

Brittany Ogle

Landed a double lutz/double toe combination and a wobbly double loop. I have no notes on her axel. She had a flirty presentation with a little shoulder rolling. 9th place

Nicole Westin

Some double/double combination, I have no idea what. She fell on her axel, double loop was fine. She did a catch foot layback spin with good speed. 8th place

Roujin Mozaffarimehr

Skated to Istanbul. Double lutz/double toe combination; fell on the double axel, double loop was fine. She had a nice camel spin, difficult position with her knee bent. 11th place

Jessica Sedlack

She wore a beautiful dress, white bodice with a blue skirt, I want that dress. She popped the axel; her combination had a triple salchow, but she fell out of the sal, sorry I didn't write down the second part of the combination. Good extension in her Y spin. 5th place

Caitlin Haltiner

She landed a double/double combination and single axel and I am sorry that is all the notes I have for her. 10th place

Novice Men Free

Michael Berg

Beginning Pose was a military salute. Landed double axel, an undetermined triple jump, which he two footed. Also landed a double lutz/double toe. He did a spiral into a spread eagle. Fell on some jump and landeded another double jump. He did a knee slide during his footwork sequence. Ended with a flying sit spin, ended saluting. 8th place

William Wong

Landed a single axel, double loop, popped a lutz, fell out of another double jump. He did circular footwork with two split jumps in it. 9th place

Peter Lindstrom

He started out his program with his hand over his heart. Skated to Enter The Heroes. I wonder if these saluting programs were set up before or after September 11. Landed a double jump; a double lutz/double toe; did a spiral into a triple salchow, but two footed the salchow; landed another double/double combination. He did a spiral then reached over and touched the ice and did another spiral. Landed another double jump; did a flying sit spin; double loop; then did a split jump into another double jump. He landed one other double jump and a double lutz. He did a sit spin with his hands straight down by his side, cool effect. Ended the program with a scratch spin and then ending pose with his hand over his heart again. 6th place

Bilal Kheir

Skated to Moonlight Sonata. Landed a double axel; then fell on a triple jump. He landed another double jump and did a salchow but I can't tell if it was a double or triple. He had very big jumps with lots of height. Landed a double lutz; single axel; double loop and another double jump. 5th place

Miguel Shahpouri

Started with a lutz and took a bad fall, hit the wall, poor guy. Singled an axel. Did a spread eagle into a double salchow. Landed a double loop; then popped something; two footed a double jump and then another single axel. 10th place

Patrick Rodgers

Skated to the Four Seasons. Landed a double axel and a triple salchow. He has a nice camel spin. Landed a double loop; popped a lutz; and then landed a double axel/pop combination. 3rd place

Alvin Visperas

Landed a double lutz/double toe; a single axel; a double salchow; and two other double jump. He did a flying sit spin that had good height. 7th place

Christopher Kinser

Les Miserables Landed a double/double combination; fell out of a double axel; landed a double salchow; ina baur into a lutz; double loop; double lutz; and single axel. He was expressive and had nice footwork. Big smile on his face at the end. 4th place

Michael Dimalanta

Whoa, this kid is fast. He started out with I think a triple/triple combination, might have been triple/double; Landed a triple loop; a double jump; triple salchow; double axel into another double axel; single axel. He did a spread eagle into an ina baur. Had a lot of dramatic flourishes to the music with his arms. Ended with a scratch spin and he looked visibly tired at the end of his program. 1st place

Geoffrey Varner

Landed a double axel; did a nice series of three turns into a double jump. He had good flow and I loved this kids edges. (I am sorry Geoffrey I couldn't help myself, but having me love your edges means the skategods will kill you.) He landed a triple jump; a double of some sort; landed a double axel/double toe; another double jump; a double/double combination; and a double loop. Had a slight stumble in some connecting steps.