60-YEAR JUDGES Lucy Brennan Joan Gruber Bette Todd 50-YEAR JUDGES Kim Cool Werner Freitag Thomas Hagen Roberta Parkinson Jerry Shipley 40-YEAR JUDGES Joanne Bishop Rita Cerny Diane Conrad Christina Dubois Carolyn Haman
Lucy Brennan, Roberta Parkinson and Kim Cool were honored for their decades of service as officials.
Action Items This year, the Governing Council considered
approximately 85 rule changes and seven bylaw changes. The biggest change coming out of the meeting was the approval of the Test Re- fresh project, which included multiple changes rolling out as follows: • Effective Nov. 1, 2017, skaters will be able to receive test credit for certain tests by achieving the minimum defined passing scores based on their IJS protocol at a U.S. Figure Skating sanctioned nonqualifying competition. This option will be available for juvenile, intermedi- ate, novice, junior and senior free skate, pairs and free dance tests as well as the adult gold free skate test. The minimum scores will be de- termined annually by the Tests Committee with the respective discipline committee (Singles, Pairs or Dance), and published in a Technical Notification. • Also effective Nov. 1, the test requirements for adult gold and pre-preliminary through se- nior free skate tests will be amended to better align with the well-balanced singles free skate requirements. The minimum requirements to pass a test will not change, but skaters will have more flexibility in which elements they can perform to pass a test at a test session. • Effective Sept. 2, 2018, all tests judged at a test session will be marked on a scale ranging from -3 to +3, in whole number increments, with “0” equal to passing average for test level expectations. The Judges Committee will provide training for the new marking system. Judges and prospective judges will be notified as soon as more information is available regard- ing the training. Other noteworthy changes included: • Effective July 1, 2017, any person 18 years of age or older must submit to and pass an annual background screen in order to partner minors in pairs, free dance and/or pattern dance tests. The background screen must be taken through
the Members Only site, and more information will be communicated as it becomes available. • Amendments were made to the lift require- ments in adult partnered free dance events. Also, the step or spiral sequence requirements for the championship adult silver, adult silver and adult bronze singles events have been changed to a “maximum of one choreographic sequence.” These changes go into effect July 1, 2017. • Adult gold, adult silver and adult bronze solo free dance events will be added to adult quali- fying competitions, and the IJS will be used for the championship adult silver singles event, starting with the 2018 adult sectional and U.S. Adult Championships. • Effective July 1, 2017, all singles, pairs and ice dance teams competing in IJS events will be expected to take their starting positions no later than 30 seconds after their names have been announced. (There will no longer be an additional 30 seconds granted to the first skat- er/team in a warm-up group.) • The bye rules for synchronized sectional and U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships were revised. The call to start and warm-up rules for synchronized skating were also amended to make them more clear and consistent, and to match the ISU rules for IJS events. • Effective July 1, 2017, bonus points have been added for juvenile, intermediate and novice pairs short program and well-balanced free skate events at competitions judged using IJS; and bonus points have been revised for ju- venile, intermediate and novice singles events. • The juvenile singles and open juvenile sin- gles well-balanced free skate and test programs now have a duration of 2:20 +/- 10 seconds. • The age requirement to compete in juvenile singles events at qualifying competitions is now “under 13 years of age as of Sept. 1 prior to the regional championships.” • A jump combination with two triple jumps
will be allowed in the intermediate singles short program starting July 1, 2017. • Effective July 1, 2017, test registration fees will increase to $6 per test if the test is regis- tered online or $9 per test if the test is manually submitted via the Test Report Form. • Effective Sept. 2, 2017, The Judges and Pairs Test Rules will be amended to transfer responsi- bility for judging pairs tests and pairs compe- tition events from the test judge classifications to the competition judge classifications and create a new pairs test judge certification for those who already hold singles/pairs test judge appointments and desire to continue judging pair tests. • Starting January 1, 2018, it is required that all competitions use IJS for all singles short program and well-balanced free skate events for juvenile and above, with the exception of high school, intercollegiate, State Games, adult and open well-balanced free skate events. The 6.0 system may also continue to be used for all pre-juvenile and lower free skate events, test track, showcase, Learn to Skate USA, Theatre On Ice, Special Olympics, therapeutic skating, solo dance, partnered dance, pairs, synchronized skating and specialty events (spins, compulsory moves, jumps, etc.). • Categories A and B for coach compliance will be merged into one category (Professional Coach (or Choreographer) with four required CERs starting January 1, 2018. Professional Group Instructor and Professional Sports Science Support Service will remain separate categories.
These changes only represent a portion of what was approved by the Governing Council on May 6. For full details on all approved changes, please visit
http://www.usfigureskating.org/ story?id=84154&menu=boardofdirectors.
David Hamula Caroline Hudnall Wayne Hundley Joseph Inman Julia Jordan Eleanor Kerr Carol Miller-Davis Carol Nugent Colleen Parke Barbara Stuns E. Richie Van Vliet Hazel Wecal Paula Ziegler 40-YEAR REFEREES Ann Fauver Barbara Holland
Maribel Leiter Franklin Nelson 25-YEAR JUDGES Helen Aimers Deb Alsen Terry Arthur Denise Barton-Leto Kim Downing Leslie Gianelli Heidi Green Laurie Johnson Nancy Johnson Kristina Lundgren John Maier Patricia Michie Claudia Mushkin
Christa Robinson Patricia St. Peter Dennis Sveum Christine Wenger 25-YEAR REFEREES Wendy Enzmann Robert Wagner 75-YEAR CLUBS Great Falls FSC Hiawatha SC Wisconsin FSC 50-YEAR CLUBS Bowling Green SC Cantiague FSC Charleston FSC
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