GOLD Kassandra Carpentier, 112.24 SILVER Maxine Marie Bautista, 105.84 BRONZE Gia Kokotakis, 99.43 PEWTER Ting Cui, 95.30
GOLD TJ Nyman, 104.70 SILVER Dinh Tran, 100.41 BRONZE Alan Wong, 89.50 PEWTER Ryan Dunk, 89.09
GOLD Elli Kopmar/Jonah Barrett, 97.52 SILVER Sydney Cooke/Nathaniel Dennler, 96.29 BRONZE Joanna Hubbart/William Hubbart, 95.16 PEWTER Jasmine Fendi/Joshua Fendi, 93.78
GOLD Sophia Elder/Christopher Elder, 103.53 SILVER Jillian Moyer/Jarred Druzynski, 89.25 BRONZE Molly Cesanek/Maxwell Gart, 83.14 PEWTER Cherri Chen/Edward Jahoda, 83.09
INTERMEDIA TE LADIES
dreams do come true by MICHAEL TERRY
Kassandra Carpentier fulfi lled a dream by winning the intermedi- ate ladies title in Greensboro. “T is has been an amazing experience,” Carpentier, a member of the Colonial FSC in Boxborough, Massachusetts, said. “It’s everything I thought it would be and more. T e hard work pays off .” Last year, Carpentier, 12, fi nished sixth at the juvenile level at the
Eastern Sectional, missing out on a trip to the 2014 U.S. Championships. “T is was quite upsetting to her as her goal for the year was to make it to nationals, especially with it being held close to home in Boston,” her coach and mother, Genevieve Coulombe, said. “I believe, though, that everything happens for a reason, and this made Kassandra work even harder to fulfi ll her dream of competing at the national level.” Carpentier, who manages a genetic disorder of cystic fi brosis on a daily basis, also showed her determination by learning a comp- letely new free skate (including music) following sectionals. “She works extremely hard every day, treating every practice as if
it were a competition,” Coulombe said. “It made it that much more exciting to see it all come together in that moment.” Carpentier’s free skate, set to Notre Dame de Paris, picked up
where she left off the night before with her sterling, clean short pro- gram. She connected on all nine jumps, including a double Axel- loop-double loop combination to start off the second half of her program. She landed a triple Salchow, which received a minor deduc- tion. Out of 16 total elements through both programs, she received positive grades of execution on 15 en route to a total score of 112.24. DuPage (Illinois) Figure Skating Club’s Maxine Marie Bautista,
LADIES: (l-r) Maxine Marie Bautista, Kassandra Carpentier, Gia Kokotakis, Ting Cui
seventh after the short program, generated the competition’s top free skate score of 75.10. Performing to “Over the Rainbow,” Bautista opened with a triple Salchow-double toe loop combination and land- ed a triple toe loop and triple Salchow before fi nishing with a Level 4 change-foot combination spin. “It felt good to get out on the ice and put together a strong perfor- mance, especially after how my short program went,” said Bautista, who racked up 105.84 total points. “I’m happy to get a medal. I put in a lot of work for this so it feels good. I wish that I had skated better yesterday, though.” Gia Kokotakis, 13, and a member of the All Year FSC, skated to
a bronze-medal fi nish, capping an exciting weekend for the Southern California native. After placing third in the Pacifi c Coast Sectional Championships,
MEN: (l-r) Dinh Tran, TJ Nyman, Alan Wong, Ryan Dunk
Kokotakis fi nished strong in Greensboro, earning a total 99.43 points. “I did what I was meant to do,” Kokotakis said. “I created my fi rst U.S. Championships moment. I clawed through my region, I clawed through my section and now I’m here and skating like I knew I could. T is (competition) becomes something else … something more than
For Carpentier,
PAIRS: (l-r) Sydney Cooke/Nathaniel Dennler, Elli Kopmar/Jonah Barrett, Joanna Hubbart/William Hubbart, Jasmine Fendi/Joshua Fendi
52 MARCH 2015
ICE DANCE: (l-r) Jillian Moyer/Jarred Druzynski, Sophia Elder/Christopher Elder, Molly Cesanek/Maxwell Gart, Cherri Chen/Edward Jahoda
PHOTO BY MELANIE HOYT
JAY ADEFF/U.S. FIGURE SKATING
JAY ADEFF/U.S. FIGURE SKATING
PHOTO BY MELANIE HOYT
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