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U.S. Nationals

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Jan. 8-16, 2006

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Updated: 24-Jan-2006 01:50 PM
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I don't have a lot of notes and they are incomplete. I am sick so this is not up to my usual reports. These notes are from long and short programs.

Chrissy Hughes
Short
Music was Symphony #3 by Boccherini Landed a double axel and a triple salchow/double toe combination., popped the solo jump. She had nice strtch and speed in his spirals. She has pretty hand movements.
Free Skate
Little Russian symphony by Tchaikovsky. She wore a lovely blue purple costume. She landed a triple jump, a triple salchow/double toe a double jump and another triple salchow. She has nice flow a very smooth skater. She did two lunges in her footwork.
Angela Maxwell
Short
Program was Shout and Feel It. She fell on a double axel; had a problem with a triple salchow combination, but I can't make out my notes there. She had a lot of nice dance moves and presented well, with lots of personality.
Free Skate
Music is Red Poppy Suite. She landed a double axel/double toe/double loop sequence. Fell on a triple salchow. Landed a triple jump, did a double/double with steps in between. Landed a double axel, did a catch foot layback into a Bielman spin. Spread eagle into a salchow, but fell. She had a good footwork sequence with dramatic expression.
Debbie Knubley
Short program music is O Mio Babbino Caro. She landed a double axel, did triple salchow/double loop combination but put her foot down after the loop. She did a fast Ina Baur. I am sorry I have no notes for her Free except her music was Rhapsody In Blue.
Laney Diggs
I like Laney but I have no notes for her. Sorry told you I wasn't up to my usual self.
Alexe Gilles
Short
Her short program was Techno Tango. Did a lunge into a double axel. She fell on triple jump and landed another triple jump.
Free Skate
Music was Rhapsody of Rock and Roll. Started with a catch foot layback which she held for many revolutions. Landed a double axel; a triple/double/double sequence. She landed a double jump, popped something, landed a triple jump and a triple/double combination.
Hilary Ho
Short
Music was East of Eden. Landed a double axel, she did a triple lutz combination, but fell on the second jump. She landed a triple jump. She did butterflies into her combination spin.
Free Skate
Music was Turnadot. She landed a triple lutz, she fell on a triple salchow. She did a flying sit spin with good height. She put her hand down a triple/double combination. She landed a double axel. She did a double/half/double sequence. She did a spread eagle into a triple jump. She had a big smile on her face in her spiral sequence. She looked very happy throughout and was wonderfully expressive.
Rhiana Brammeierr
Short
Wow she was really something, clear and away the winner. Her short music was On Golden Pond. She carried the theme of birds in flight throughout the program with lovely arm movements and Moves In the Field. She landed triple salchow/double toe, a solo triple and put her hand down on the double axel. Very musical skater.
Free Skate
Music was Scent of a Woman soundtrack. Landed a triple salchow/double toe; spread eagle into a triple loop, very well done. She landed a double/double loop combination and a double axle/double toe combination. She landed another triple salchow. She has beautiful Moves in the Field and a very sophisticated carriage. She landed a double axel and did the ever ubiquitous Bielman on both feet.
Michaelee Scarincio
Short Program
Music is Secret Garden. She has a cute smile. She landed a triple jump, a triple salchow/double toe combination; and did a spread eagle into a double axel. She has fast well stretched spin and is very expressive.
Free Skate
Her free skate music is Malguena. She did an Ina Baur with nice stretch. She landed a triple axel/triple/double sequence. (I think the second jump was a triple.) Two footed another triple jump. She did steps into a split jump into a triple, but fell. She landed a triple salcho/double toe combination. She did a spread eagle into a double axel. She has great transitions. Did a Bielman spiral.
Victoria Rackohn
Short
Music was "Samson and Delilah" Her costume was a far too skimpy harem outfit that was completely inappropriate for a 13 year old girl. She landed a triple salchow and a double axel. Very well extended and fast spins. Her combon looked like double toe/double toe to me, but Ann said it was triple/double.
Free skate
Music was Restoration soundtrack. She fell on a triple salchow. She did steps and a split ump into a double axel/double loop combination. She has very high very extended split jump. She landed a double/double combination. She had nice stretch in her flying sit spin. She did a very stretched spiral sequence into a double jump. She did the soon to be required Bielman. (Get the feeling I am sick of the over-inflation of the worth of a Bielman.) She did a Charlotte into a double axel and a split into a double jump.
Kelcie Lee
Short
In the short she landed a triple salchow/double toe a double axel and a triple jump. She has great expression.
Free Skate
Music is Firebird. She stepped out of triple. She landed a triple lutz with great speed going in and coming out. She landed a double loop/double loop combination a double jump and another double jump. She maintains good speed throughout the program and presents very well.
Blake Rosenthal
Short
Her short program was Mexican Hat Dance. She landed a wobbly triple/double combination. Landed a double axel and a triple jump. Presented well and musical.
Free Skate
Free skate was Scherazade - She landed a triple/double combination and a triple salchow; another triple jump; a treiple salchow/double toe/double loop combinaton with a hop at the end. She did a catch foot layback spin. She landed a double axel/double loop combination. She is expressive, smiled big during her spiral sequence and did a particularly good change edge spiral.
Brittney Rizo
Short
Music was rocking gypsies. She landed a triple salchow/double toe and a double axel and a triple.
Free Skate
She wore a gorgeous sparkly blue dress. Her music is Don Juan De Marco soundtrack. She landed a triple loop and a triple jump. She did a forward inside camel. She did a back catch foot spiral into a double axel. She did a spread eagle. She landed a triple salchow/double toe combination. She landed a double/double combination. She had very pretty arms in her layback but couldn't hold it very long cause the new stupid spin rules make you change positions, twisting like a pretzel instead of letting us enjoy a perfectly lovely spin. She did wally, wally into a triple, but fell. She was very happy and enjoyable to watch.

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