2017 U.S. ADULT CHAMPIONSHIPS
CHAMPIONSHIP MASTERS JUNIOR-SENIOR LADIES
Alsup brings A game, repeats as titlist
BY TROY SCHWINDT Regan Alsup (Detroit SC) arrived in
Wake Forest, North Carolina, more than ready to defend her title. “I’ve been skating really well lately,”
Alsup, who generated an event-best 66.46 points, said. “I think it’s some of the best skating I’ve ever done in my whole life. I felt confi dent coming out today. Sometimes that means more pressure, but when I got out there I was feeling real calm and just kind of let my body do what it knows how to do.” Alsup landed 10 double jumps, three in combination; achieved a Level 4 change-foot combination spin; earned her highest GOE — 0.98 — on her footwork; and received all positive GOEs, except for her last spin which garnered a zero GOE. Alsup, who lives and trains in Washing- ton, D.C., shattered her sectional score (a personal best at the time) by more than seven points performing to Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up.”
“I think one of the things that comes with skating more consistently in practice, I have more time to work on the in-between stuff ,” Alsup, 25, said. “I love this music. I love the choreography; it feels real comfortable.” Alsup is a video producer for the non-
profi t Discovery Learning Alliance that makes educational videos for schools in Africa. She received her degree in Washington, D.C., while attending American University, where she played defense on the women’s club
three in combination; and earned Level 4 on two spins. Roth, a coach at the Jersey Shore Arena
in Farmingdale, New Jersey, said she got the itch to return to competition and a piece of music called its name to her: “El Tango De Roxanne” from Moulin Rouge! She coached herself and choreographed the program. Jaclyn Yacomes-Metzler (Washington FSC) earned the bronze medal with 54.22 points. She won the event in 2014. Yacomes-Metzler skated to music by
Rachmaninoff . “I think I recovered well after my fall in
the beginning,” she said. “I was happy I was able to recover and I think I sold the rest of that program.” Yacomes-Metzler fell on her opening
hockey team. She trains and choreographs programs for children at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex. In 2008, Stephanie Roth (Jersey Coast FSC) competed at sectionals for the last time at the Polar Ice House in Wake Forest, where she qualifi ed for her fi nal U.S. Championships at the senior level. “It was kind of fun to come back here after having not competed in nine years,” Roth, 34, said. “I had a little bit of jitters, but it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the whole adult circuit.” Enjoy, indeed. She earned the silver medal with a score of 65.24 points, more than six points better than her sectional score. “My goal was to beat my sectional score and the chips can fall where they may after that,” she said. She landed 10 double jumps,
double Lutz-double loop combination. She was clean the rest of the way, with two Level 4 spins to her credit. Ari Pressman (Starlight Ice Dance Club) won the pewter medal with a score of 51.61.
(l-r) Stephanie Roth, Regan Alsup, Jaclyn Yacomes-Metzler, Ari Pressman
SKATING 19
PHOTO BY JAMES GODWIN
JAY ADEFF/U.S. FIGURE SKATING
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