2012 PRUDENTIAL U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS NOVICE - ICE DANCING
IT’S LUCKY SEVEN FOR MOORE, KLABER by LYNN RUTHERFORD
H
olly Moore began skating with Daniel Klaber when she was 9 and he was 10, and since then, there have been a few changes. When they started, she was so shy she barely spoke a word
for the first year or two. Now the bubbly 16-year-old, an honors student at Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills, Ohio, can barely contain herself. “At first we were both really young and [ice dance] was just kind of
a fun thing to do,” Moore said. “Over the years, our trust in each other built and we became really good friends. Trough success and failure, everything just made us stronger. We were just always excited to get right back at it and keep going.” “We were kind of opposites when we first started, but then our personalities started rubbing off on one another and we started having more in common,” Klaber, a 17-year-old junior at Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, said. “It just made it more fun, and I think the more fun you have the better your partnership will be.” After placing second in both of the novice pattern dances, the
Argentine Tango and Starlight Waltz, Moore and Klaber sure had fun with their free dance to “Le Jazz Hot,” from Victor/Victoria. Tey shim- mied, sparkled and high-stepped their way to 62.02 points, including a well-executed and challenging twizzle sequence and fast-moving closing rotational lift. Overall, they earned 109.53 points. “We really love our free dance,” Moore said. “I hope that showed
and everyone could share in the fun we were having. We worked hard this season and it really paid off.” “As soon as the music came on, I forgot everything in my head and
went along with everything we do every day,” Klaber said. Moore and Klaber, who train under Jackie Miles and Chip Ross-
bach at the Pavilion Skating Club in Cleveland Heights and also spend time at the Detroit Skating Club, are likely moving up to the junior ranks next season, with an eye on competing in the Junior Grand Prix Series. Tis is their first national title, although they won intermediate silver in 2010.
“Te key was hard work all season, and also being consistent and competing like they practice every day,” Miles, who has coached the duo for five years, said. “We also spend a lot of time working on the basics, like stroking, skating skills and edges.”
Holly Moore/Daniel Klaber Whitney Miller/Kyle MacMillan
Whitney Miller and Kyle Mac- Millan, who train at Maryland’s Wheaton Ice Skating Academy (WISA), won both of the pattern dances and captured the silver medal with a second-place free dance to gypsy music highlight- ed by three difficult lifts. Tey finished with 108.13 points. For MacMillan, just 14, it
was his third U.S. medal in four seasons. He and former partner Rachel Parsons won both the U.S. juvenile and intermediate ice dance titles. “We had a very solid free skate,” MacMillan said. “Unlike [other]
Hannah Rosinski/Jacob Jaffe
times we’ve done it, the second half had a lot of energy. Te first half was light, but also had energy.” “We want to work to increase our power and to become a stronger team together in our synchronization,” Miller, 13, said. Moore and Klaber’s Cleveland Heights training partners, Hannah
Rosinski and Jacob Jaffe, took bronze after a fun and funky free dance to soulful James Brown hits. Tey scored 99.13 points. “We think it was our best free dance performance we ever compet-
ed,” Rosinski, 16, said. “I was most nervous about the twizzles, because I screwed up on them at sectionals, but I’m really happy I got them today.”
“Tis is our first season together, so we’re just starting to feel more
comfortable,” Jaffe, 17, said. “We’ve been really working on our edges, just getting them so secure and such a change from past. Tey’re not only important in the pattern dance but also in the free dance, with all of the footwork.” Rosinski and Jaffe share the ice with the novice champions every
day. Tey also train with Jaffe’s younger brother, Micah, and his partner, Kimmie Berkowitz, who placed fourth in intermediate ice dance at the 2012 U.S. Junior Championships. “Holly and Daniel are so much fun to train with because they push
us, they motivate us, and I think we do the same with them,” Rosinski said.
“Both Hannah and Jacob competed at the novice level with pre-
vious partners, who have since enrolled in college,” coach Miles said. “Tat experience really helped, and they’ve jelled nicely together.” Colorado Springs-based skaters Chloe Rose Lewis, just 11, and her
15-year-old partner Logan Bye took fourth place after placing sixth in the Argentine Tango, fourth in the Starlight Waltz and third in the free dance.
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PHOTOS BY JAY ADEFF
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