Cherry Blossom - WFSC

[pennskater]

Anyone going to watch or skate?
It starts today - Intermediate Short.

[Alexeiskate]

I plan on watching the senior event on Saturday. Doesn anyone know who's competing in Senior?

[Arsenette]

Any pages with results or do we grovel here :twisted:

[Debbie S]

The Washington FSC's website usually puts up results within a few weeks after the competition.

[Alexeiskate]

I was at the CRC for a little bit on Saturday and didn't take any notes but the skating was enjoyable to watch.

Karen Kadavy was there as a coach. She was very blond and gorgeous! It's too bad we don't get a chance to see Karen performing much anymore. Malinina and husband Roman were also there. As I was leaving the arena I saw Ann-Patrice's coach talking to some people. I'm guessing that he had a student competing there.

For the junior men, I really like Michael Soloski (sp?) jumps. He finished his jumps in the air and then sort of float down gently onto the ice for the landing. I haven't seen that technique from anyone before and it looked really neat. Jordan Miller jumps were also impressive. Jordan had a slight wrap and opened legs position on his jumps but they were powerful, high, and fast rotations. Trey Rouse (sp?) had the best 2axel of the competition. There was a skater from the Washington FSC, Michael ?, that did the only 3axel at the competition. It was two-footed but fully rotated and had a good run-out on the landing.


For the senior lady, the only skater I recognized was Sarah Wheat. She was having a really rough time with all of the jumps and seemed slow, but she had a graceful style to her skating.

[haribobo]

Thanks for the report, Alexeiskate.

Caryn Kadavy, I think is how it's spelled.

AP's coach is Tom Zakrajsek. Sara Wheat is the only Sara in skating that I can think of...all the other ones I believe are Sarah with an "H."

Michael Solonoski, Traighe Rouse are the spellings...

The junior man who tried the triple axel from Washington FSC is Craig Ratterree. And good for him! :) For results and more reports, go over to Unseen Skaters.

[Trillian]

Originally posted by Alexeiskate
For the senior lady, the only skater I recognized was Sarah Wheat.

She was the only one who's made nationals in seniors, so that makes sense. :) Amy Bobrick, who won the event, was a novice national medalist back in 2000. She's had a rough time in juniors because of a string of poorly-timed injuries, but it sounds like she's ready to go out and be competitive as a senior this year. Definitely a skater to watch at Easterns!

[Skatewind]

Junior Ladies - Kristina Moore 1st, Katherine Hadford 2nd overall. Kristina Moore won LP, Katherine Hadford won SP

Intermediate Ladies - Kelsey Traunero (sp?) won SP & got second in LP, can't remember if she was the overall winner or not

Novice Men - Johansen (sp?) from IceWorks, nice skater. 1st in LP & 1st overall

Novice Dance - Rosenthal & Taylor, who won Inter Dance at Jr Nationals last year

Intermediate Men - Zachary Dewulf 1st in both SP & LP

Juvenile Pairs - Friedenberg & Dunie-Neustadt

Sorry, can't remember more than that right now

[Skatewind]

Originally posted by haribobo
The junior man who tried the triple axel from Washington FSC is Craig Ratterree. And good for him! :)
He will be one to watch after he reconfigures his SP. Very nice skating & presentation.

[rinkrat24/7]

can anyone post the exact link to results??? someone said something about unseen skaters and i dont remember the exact address for it. ~thx~

[Sylvia]

Cherry Blossom notes and results (copied from the official results sheets & typed up) thread:
http://www.unseenskaters.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=628

[Arsenette]

Ah! Results are up!

Cherry Blossom 2003 (http://www.crcskating.org/cherry.html)

[Smileysk8er]

YEAH! Congrats to Craig on landing his 3 axel, and Kristina for winning YOU GO GIRL! :D :D :D ;)