INTERMEDIATE LADIES Less than a point separated the
(l-r) Anastasia Kortjohn, Anna Grace Davidson, Emmy Ma, Olivia Allan
LADIES GOLD
Anna Grace Davidson 99.52
SILVER
Anastasia Kortjohn 97.41
BRONZE
Emmy Ma 95.59
PEWTER
Olivia Allan 94.27
MEN’S GOLD
(l-r) Eric Stinehart, Andrew Torgashev, Micah Tang, Eric Sjoberg
Andrew Torgashev 107.92
SILVER
Eric Stinehart 98.00
BRONZE
Micah Tang 88.55
PEWTER
Eric Sjoberg 87.54
PAIRS GOLD
Alicia Bertsch/ Austin Hale 67.83
SILVER
(l-r) Darbie Burke/ Griffin Schwab, Alicia Bertsch/ Austin Hale, Gabriella Marvaldi/ Kyle Hogeboom, Alexandria Schmainda/ Matthew Scoralle
Darbie Burke/ Griffin Schwab 59.69
BRONZE
Gabriella Marvaldi/ Kyle Hogeboom 53.59
PEWTER
Alexandria Schmainda/ Matthew Scoralle 44.23
ICE DANCING GOLD
Eliana Gropman/ Ian Somerville 103.56
SILVER
(l-r) Madison Fox/ Val Katsman, Eliana Gropman/ Ian Somerville, Gwen Sletten/ Elliot Verburg, Rebecca Lustig/ Zachary Milestone
Madison Fox/ Val Katsman 97.63
BRONZE
Gwen Sletten/ Elliot Verburg 89.75
PEWTER
Rebecca Lustig/ Zachary Milestone 87.61
50 MARCH 2013
top three competitors following the short program, all of whom competed as juvenile ladies last year. In the end, 11-year-old Anna Grace Davidson, of Holladay, Utah, claimed the title over an impressive field of young up-and- comers. “It feels different being at such a big competition with so many old- er girls,” Davidson said of her first championships as an intermediate competitor. “I think I handled it well. I’ve been working really hard.” Despite a second-place finish
in the free skate, Davidson won the event. She finished sixth at last year’s U.S. Junior Championships at the juvenile level. Her clean free skate to “Whitaker’s Wonder” included a dou- ble Axel-double toe combination and back-to-back Level 4 spins. Davidson finished with 99.52 points. Rallying from a fifth-place fin-
ish in the short program, Anastasia Kortjohn, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who also completed her first interme- diate season in Omaha, won the free skate with 64.92 points to claim the silver medal. “Before I got here I was working
really hard,” Kortjohn said. “Ten to- day, I just made sure I did what I’ve been doing in training.” In her impressive performance to
“Rhapsody in Rock,” Kortjohn com- pleted the most difficult element of the event, a triple Salchow-double toe combination that netted 5.20 points. In addition, Kortjohn completed dou- ble Axel-double toe and double Lu- tz-half loop-double flip combinations and earned a Level 4 on both of her spins. Kortjohn finished with 97.41 points. Winning the bronze medal,
Emmy Ma, of Manhasset, N.Y., exe- cuted a near-perfect free skate to selec- tions from Memoirs of a Geisha, which included double flip-double toe and double Lutz-double loop combina- tions.
“I felt like I could skate to this
music really well when I heard it,” Ma said. “I love everything about it. I saw the movie, I read the book and I like all of it. Today I was a little bit ner- vous, but only a little bit.” Ma earned a total of 95.59 points, less than a point ahead of Ol- ivia Allan, of Elmhurst, Ill., who fin- ished fourth with 94.27 points. — Mimi Whetstone
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