U.S. National Figure Skating Championships

Atlanta, GA
Jan. 3-11 2004

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Day 1: 4-Jan-2004

• Novice Short Events (06-Jan-2004 10:52 PM)
  • Nov. Men Short
  • Nov. Ladies Short

Day 2: 5-Jan-2004

• Novice Ladies Free (06-Jan-2004 10:52 PM)

Day 3: 6-Jan-2004

• Sr. Ladies Practice (06-Jan-2004 11:00 PM)

Day 5: 8-Jan-2004

• Jr. Ladies Short (13-Jan-2004 12:50 AM)

Day 6: 9-Jan-2004

• Why no Jr. Men? (14-Jan-2004 12:40 AM)

Day 7: 10-Jan-2004

• Jr. Ladies Free (13-Jan-2004 12:50 AM)
• Sr. Ladies Free (14-Jan-2004 01:00 AM)

Day One

• Novice Men Short
• Novice Ladies Short There are no banners anywhere in Atlanta. At every Nationals I have ever been to, there were banners welcoming the skaters at the airport, and the downtown area was covered with banners announcing the event. Not here. There isn't even a banner at the headquarter's hotel.

  Novice Men Short

  Steven Elefante

  Skated to a swing medley with a disco beat. Jump out of steps was fine. Did a flying sit spin. Landed a triple/double did extra turns coming out of the triple. Fell on the double axel. His combo spin wobbled a lot. He smiled a lot throughout the program.

  Daisuke Murakami

  Skated to Sing, Sing, Sing. Landed a double axel with great flow going in and coming out of the jump. Landed a triple/double combo. Has nice stretch in his camel spin. Jump out of footwork was fine.

  Charlie White

  Music was 13th Warrior. Landed a triple lutz/double toe combo. Jump out of steps was fine with much more difficult footwork than other boys had. Also had a difficult footwork sequence. Good ice coverage.

  Princeton Kwong

  Music was Russian Sailor's Dance/Gilere. Landed a double axel and a triple/double combo. His double out of steps was fine. He is fast. Excellent circular footwork. Ended with a blur scratch spin.

  Douglas Razzano

  Music from Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack. He tried a triple lutz/double toe, but landed the lutz almost down on his knees. Fast spins. Popped a jump. Ended with a blur scratch spin.

  Lenny Ranney

  Skated to a medley of Summertime and Take the A Train. Started out the porogram with a nice series of three turns. Landed a triple/double combo. Did a spiral into a double axel and the jump out of steps was fine. His jumps came to a complete halt when he landed, but he did land them. I liked his style a lot.

  Brandon Mroz

  Music from Cirque Du Soleil. Kid did a lot of acting out of circus moves, started out acting out tight-rope walking did a spread eagle while pretending to juggle. Landed a double axel a triple/double combo and jump out steps were fine.

  Daniel Elson

  Music was Baba O'Reilly (that's what it says in the program, I don't know what it is either.) He had a very unusual style, not my cup of tea, but it was stylish not just skate jump. Landed a triple sal/double toe and unfortunately I don't have any othe rnotes.

  Peter Lindstrom

  Music was called Everything. Landed a triple/double combo. Landed jump out of steps and a double axel. He really stretched out his legs going into a flying spin.

  Daniel Reed

  Skated to West Side Story. Landed double axel and fell on a triple loop.

  William Brewster

  Music was Napoli. Did a pop jump/double combo. Had good flow coming out of his double axel. Good height in his flying sit spin.

  Stephen Carriere

  I am sorry all the notes I have for him is that he popped something. End of the event I probably was busy with Marshall and couldn't take notes.

  Novice Lady's Short

  Crystal Shum

  Skated to the soundtrack from Cutting Edge, wore the traditional multi-color racing car outfit. She did a fast combo spin with pretty positions. Landed a triple/double combo. She was way tilted on her double axel and fell. She did a nice spiral where she changed her leg from in front to behind.

  Jessica Lee

  Music was the Poem, Secret Garden. Very delicate and graceful skater with a beautiful smile throughout her program. She landed a double axel, a triple/double combo and jump out of steps. Ended with a beautiful layback spin. This was a lovely program, well presented. I thought she would win the short, but then many other ladies came out and were really good as well. So I have no idea how any of them ended up.

  Brittney Vise

  Hernando's Hideaway. She fell out of the double axel. Como jump was fine. She had a big smile on her face throughout and nice arm movements.

  Cara Kinney

  Overture to Crazy For You. Landed a triple/double combo. She landed double axel, jump out of steps was fine. She did a catch foot spiral and had some nice footwork in between spirals in her spiral sequence. Great presentation.

  Lindsey Wilson

  Music was Born. Fell on a triple loop, double axel and jump out of steps was fine.

  Christine Zukowski

  Music was Hernando's Hideaway. Landed triple/double combo and jump out of steps. Stepped out of the double axel.

  Danielle Shepard

  Music was Montezuma. I fell in love with her during the warm up. She did spins with very unusual positions. She did a catch foot layback spin. She is fast. Landed a triple/double combo and double axel. She had the most complicated steps into her jump out of steps.

  Tenile Victorsen

  Appalachian Music. Did a split jump into a spiral. Landed a double axel and a triple/double combo. Footwork sequence was fast. Jump out of steps was fine, she is very musical.

  Molly Oberstar

  Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Charlotte spiral into an Ina Baur. Triple salchow/double toe combo. She did a back spiral/3turn/into a forward spiral, very nice. Cool spin position. Jump out of steps was fine.

  Juliana Cannarozzo

  Time to Say Goodbye. She did a triple/double combo but fell out of the triple. Double axel and jump out of steps were fine. She has nice stretch in her spins.

  Katrina Hacker

  Madame Butterfly. Landed a triple salchow/double loop combo. Landed a double axel. She has fast spins. She did a Kerrigan spiral.

  Megan Oster

  Chicago Overture. Fell on a triple jump. Jump out of steps was fine, double axel was high.

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