(10/1/20) - The International Skating Union announced today the athlete selections for the 2020 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, which will begin Oct. 23-25 with 2020 Skate America at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the ISU Council determined that the Grand Prix Series would be staged as domestically run events with participants at each event limited to athletes from the host country, training in the host country or in the respective geographical area. This season only, competitors will be ranked based on their total score(s) at a Grand Prix Series event. Team USA will only send athletes to Skate America and Skate Canada International.
The field at Skate America will feature reigning U.S. champions Nathan Chen (men), and Madison Chock and Evan Bates (ice dance), as well as Americans Mariah Bell and the pairs team of Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson. 2018 Olympians Bradie Tennell, Karen Chen, Vincent Zhou, and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue will also compete at the Orleans Arena.
In 2019, the United States captured 15 medals on the Grand Prix circuit, including three medals at the 2019 Grand Prix Final in Turin, Italy.
The complete list of athlete selections for the 2020 Grand Prix Series is available at www.isu.org. The lists of all U.S. selections to Grand Prix events and international selections to Skate America are below. (Lineups are subject to change.)
TEAM USA ASSIGNMENTS FOR 2020 ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING SERIES
Skate America — Las Vegas — Oct. 23-25, 2020
Ladies: Starr Andrews, Mariah Bell, Karen Chen, Gracie Gold, Amber Glenn, Isabelle Inthisone*, Gabriella Izzo*, Pooja Kalyan*, Audrey Shin*, Bradie Tennell, Kate Wang*
Men: Nathan Chen, Tomoki Hiwatashi, Alex Krasnozhon, Jimmy Ma, Ilia Malinin*, Maxim Naumov*, Camden Pulkinen, Vincent Zhou
Pairs: Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson, Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc, Tarah Kayne and Danny O’Shea, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier*, Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov, Olivia Serafini and Mervin Tran*, TBD**
Ice Dance: Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, Molly Cesanek and Yehor Yehorov*, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov*, Eva Pate and Logan Bye*, Livvy Shilling and Alexander Petrov*
Skate Canada International — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2020
Men: Jason Brown
2020 SKATE AMERICA INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES
Ladies: Ashley Lin (CHN)
Men: Stephen Gogolev (CAN), Keegan Messing (CAN), Michal Brezina (CZE), Alexei Bychenko (ISR)
Pairs: Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov (RUS)
Ice dance: Yura Min and Daniel Eaton (KOR)
*Making Grand Prix Series debut
**To be determined
