U.S. announces 2009-10 Reserve Team envelope
Emily Hughes, Parker Pennington among those in reserve envelope
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| Parker Pennington, who got back into the national spotlight with his third-place SP at the 2009 AT&T U.S. Championships, is on the reserve team. (Paul Harvath) |
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The envelope level is primarily determined by the athlete's performance in international and U.S. Figure Skating competitions during the previous season and is used to determine funding levels. It is not used as a strict guideline for selections to international competitions.
Further information about the criteria and funding for athletes on the Reserve Team envelope can be found here.
2009-10 U.S. Figure Skating Reserve Team
Ladies
• Samantha Cesario
• Laney Diggs
• Taylor Firth
• Joelle Forte
• Emily Hughes
• Nina Jiang
• Molly Oberstar
• Karen Zhou
Men
• Alexander Aiken
• Michael Chau
• Andrew Gonzales
• Eliot Halverson
• Parker Pennington
• Dennis Phan
• Douglas Razzano
• Scott Smith
• Tommy Steenberg
• Jay Yostanto
Pairs
• Kylie Duarte and Colin Grafton
• Cali Fujimoto and Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne
• Laura Lepzinski and Ethan Burgess
• Jessica Rose Paetsch and Drew Meekins
• Meredith Pipkin and Brett Dunie-Neustadt
• Tori Vollmer and Zack Sidhu
Ice Dancing
• Anastasia Cannuscio and Colin McManus
• Gabrielle Friedenberg and Benjamin Nykiel
• Charlotte Lichtman and Dean Copely
• Rachel Tibbetts and Collin Brubaker
• Jennifer Wester and Daniil Barantsev