Above photo credit: Danielle Earl/U.S. Figure Skating
By Abby Farrell
Eighteen U.S. athletes will take the ice at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, slated for Feb. 19-23, in Seoul, South Korea.
Of the 18 skaters, seven have previously stood on the podium at Four Continents while six will make their debut at the event.
Leading the Team USA delegation are ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
The two-time and reigning World champions are three-time champions, winning in 2023, 2020 and 2019, and seven-time medalists at Four Continents.
Chock and Bates head to Seoul after earning their second Grand Prix Final gold and sixth U.S. title, both of which tied records for most golds in ice dance at that respective event. At this year’s Four Continents, Chock and Bates will go after another record. They enter as the favorites for their fourth gold, which would give them the most ice dance gold medals of any team in the history of the event worldwide.
Joining them in the ice dance event are Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko as well as Emilia Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik.
Carreira and Ponomarenko will compete for their third Four Continents medal this weekend. The 2025 U.S. silver medalists currently hold a pair of bronze medals from the event, which they won in 2024 and 2022. This season, they earned two medals in the Grand Prix Series – a silver and bronze at NHK Trophy and Cup of China, respectively.
Zingas and Kolesnik will be competing in their second Four Continents Championships after finishing just off the podium in fourth last year. Earlier this season, the team out of Novi, Michigan, secured two fifth-place finishes in the Grand Prix Series as well as two medals in the Challenger Series.
In the pairs event, Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea will compete at Four Continents for the third straight year. The 2024 U.S. champions hope to repeat their success and stand on the podium yet again after claiming bronze at this event last season.
Earlier this season, Kam and O’Shea brought home two Grand Prix medals, a silver from Skate America and bronze from NHK Trophy, to qualify for their first Grand Prix Final.
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov take the ice just weeks after winning their first U.S. title in Wichita. Their Grand Prix Series season garnered bronze at Skate America and a fourth-place finish at Grand Prix de France.
In their first season together, Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy will compete in South Korea for only the second time internationally after securing bronze at 2024 Golden Spin of Zagreb.
In the women’s event, Bradie Tennell will take the ice for her fourth Four Continents Championships while Alysa Liu and Sarah Everhardt will make their debut at this event.
In her comeback season after coming out of retirement, Liu travels to Seoul fresh off taking silver at the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, last month. She also earned two golds in the Challenger Series earlier this season.
Tennell is the 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist. Back competing this season after missing all of last season due to injury, Tennell stood in fifth place at both Skate America and NHK Trophy earlier this season.
To round out her first season competing as a senior internationally, Everhardt hopes to continue a successful breakout year. Everhardt won gold at Cranberry Cup International followed by silver at Lombardia Trophy before claiming bronze at the 2025 U.S. Championships.
The stars and stripes will send three men who are no stranger to competing at Four Continents: Camden Pulkinen, Jimmy Ma, and Tomoki Hiwatashi.
Pulkinen, a two-time World Team member, will compete at his third Four Continents Championships. He took home his second consecutive bronze at the U.S. Championships last month.
Ma will also compete at the event for the third time. Ma opened his season with bronze at Cranberry Cup this past August.
Hiwatashi will be competing at his fifth Four Continents. Hiwatashi, who trains in Japan and set his international best scores at the 2019 and 2020 Four Continents Championships, He finished first at the Midwestern Sectional Singles Final to clinch his spot at the U.S. Championships, where he placed sixth.
Competition begins Thursday with the pairs short program, rhythm dance and men’s short program, followed by the pairs free skate and women’s short program on Friday. On Saturday, medals will be awarded after the men’s free skate and free dance. The event concludes Sunday with the women’s free skate.
All events will be streamed live on Peacock, and can be accessed on Peacock for 72 hours following their conclusion. NBC Sports will be showing Four Continents on E! Feb. 20-22 and NBC on Feb. 23. To view the full TV schedule, visit the U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone.
Four Continents is an annual competition that began in 1999 with skaters representing the four world regions of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
Click here for the full event schedule and results.
U.S. ENTRIES AT ISU FOUR CONTINENTS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025
Athlete | Hometown | Training Town
Women
Sarah Everhardt | Haymarket, Va. | Reston, Va.
Alysa Liu | Richmond, Calif. | Oakland, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif.
Bradie Tennell | Carpentersville, Ill. | West Orange, N.J.
Men
Tomoki Hiwatashi | Hoffman Estates, Ill. | Uji, Japan
Jimmy Ma | Great Neck, N.Y. | Norwood, Mass.
Camden Pulkinen | Scottsdale, Ariz. | Irvine, Calif. and New York City, N.Y.
Pairs
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov | Norwood, Mass.; Houston, Texas | Norwood, Mass.
Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea | Colorado Springs, Colo.; Colorado Springs, Colo. | Colorado Springs, Colo.
Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy| Northport, N.Y; Budapest, Hungary | Colorado Springs, Colo. and Toronto, Ontario
Ice Dance
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko | Saint Clair, Mich.; San Jose, Calif. | London, Ontario
Madison Chock and Evan Bates | Redondo Beach, Calif.; Ann Arbor, Mich. | Montreal, Quebec
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik | Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; Kharkiv, Ukraine | Novi, Mich.
