2009 Indy Pairs Challenge (July 31-Aug. 2)

The Host Club is Indiana/World Skating Academy FSC in Indianapolis, Indiana. The competition venue is located in the Pan American Plaza in downtown Indianapolis.
Link to Club's Event Info page
Link to Schedule/Official Results page
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* = new team in 2009-10
[J] = JGP age-eligible team

SENIOR PAIRS (21 teams)

Short program starting order (Friday, July 31, 2009):

Brooke Paulin/Brian Shales (CAN)
*Jennifer Brunn/Steven Elefante
Paige Lawrence/Rudolph Swiegers (CAN)
Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin
Jessica Rose Paetsch/Drew Meekins
*Brittany Chase/Grant Marron
*Tiffany Vise/Don Baldwin
Erika Choi Smith/Nathan Bartholomay
Caydee Denney/Jeremy Barrett
Kendra Moyle/Steven Pottenger
Lisa Moore/Justin Gaumond
Molly Aaron/Daniyel Cohen
Brooke Castile/Ben Okolski
*Amanda Dobbs/Joseph Jacobsen
Sara Jones/Jeremy Sandor (CAN) [J]
*Kaleigh Hole/Adam Johnson (CAN) [J]
Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig
Laura Lepzinski/Ethan Burgess
Andrea Best/Trevor Young
*Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN)
Chloe Katz/Joseph Lynch
Withdrawn:
Tracy Tanovich/Michael Chau
Amanda Velenosi/Mark Fernandez (CAN) [J]

Free skate starting order (Saturday, August 1, 2009):
Paetsch/Meekins
Brunn/Elefante
Denney/Barrett
Moore/Gaumond
Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
Castile/Okolski
Katz/Lynch
Jones/Sandor
Moyle/Pottenger
Paulin/Shales
Lepzinski/Burgess
Lawrence/Swiegers
Vise/Baldwin
Yankowskas/Coughlin
Evora/Ladwig
Hole/Johnson
Smith/Bartholomay
Best/Young
Aaron/Cohen

[Note: Dobbs/Jacobsen only registered for the SP. Chase/Marron are registered for the Junior Pairs FS. The SP and FS at Indy are separate, and not combined, events.]

***COMBINED OVERALL SENIOR RESULTS***

179.18 Brooke Castile/Ben Okolski 1 1
171.81 Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig 2 2 [Cup of China]
165.13 Caydee Denney/Jeremy Barrett 3 3 [NHK Trophy, Skate Canada]
149.74 Paige Lawrence/Rudolph Swiegers CAN 9 4 [NHK Trophy]
145.51 Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin 4 7 [Skate Canada]
145.28 Chloe Katz/Joseph Lynch 6 5
137.68 Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch CAN 14 6
133.75 Kaleigh Hole/Adam Johnson CAN 10 9 [JGP Lake Placid]
132.45 Jessica Rose Paetsch/Drew Meekins 11 8
132.06 Andrea Best/Trevor Young 7 10
130.35 Laura Lepzinski/Ethan Burgess 8 11
125.25 Brittany Chase/Grant Marron 15 (Sr) 4 (Jr)
123.29 Jennifer Brunn/Steven Elefante 17 12
122.30 Brooke Paulin/Brian Shales CAN 16 13
119.50 Kendra Moyle/Steven Pottenger 5 19
118.65 Tiffany Vise/Don Baldwin 13 17
118.48 Molly Aaron/Daniyel Cohen 18 15
115.76 Erika Choi Smith/Nathan Bartholomay 19 14
111.17 Sara Jones/Jeremy Sandor CAN 21 16
103.12 Lisa Moore/Justin Gaumond 20 18
45.09 Amanda Dobbs/Joseph Jacobsen 12 (SP)
43.72 Brittany Chase/Grant Marron 15 (SP)

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JUNIOR PAIRS (16 teams)

Short program starting order (Friday, July 31, 2009):

*Felicia Zhang/Taylor Toth [J]
Katie Bobak/Matthew Penasse (CAN) [J]
Haven Denney/Daniel Raad
Britney Simpson/Nathan Miller [J]
Vladyslava Rybka/Andriy Deputat (UKR)
Tori Vollmer/Zack Sidhu [J]
Cali Fujimoto/Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne [J]
Kylie Duarte/Colin Grafton [J]
Olivia Gibbons/Tyler Harris
Brittany Jones/Kurtis Gaskell (CAN) [J]
*Andrea Tou/Garnet Suidy (CAN)
*Carolyn-Ann Alba/Chris Knierim
*Maria Simoni/Alex Darnell (WD)
Alexandra Young/Matthew Young (CAN) [J]
Meredith Pipkin/Brett Dunie-Neustadt [J]
*Rebecca Du/Sergey Sidorov [J]
Withdrawn:
Margaret Purdy/Michael Marinaro (CAN) [J]

Free skate starting order (Saturday, August 1, 2009):
Duarte/Grafton
Jones/Gaskell
Tou/Suidy
Alba/Knierim
Young/Young
Du/Sidorov
Fujimoto/Barsi-Rhyne
Vollmer/Sidhu
Bobak/Penasse
Chase/Marron
Denney/Raad
Gibbons/Harris
Simoni/Darnell (WD)
Zhang/Toth
Rybka/Deputat
Simpson/Miller
Pipkin/Dunie-Neustadt

***COMBINED OVERALL JUNIOR RESULTS***

132.03 Britney Simpson/Nathan Miller 1 1 [JGP Lake Placid]
128.35 Brittany Jones/Kurtis Gaskell CAN 2 2 [JGP]
125.25 Brittany Chase/Grant Marron 15 (Sr) 4 (Jr)
123.11 Vladyslava Rybka/Andriy Deputat UKR 5 3
119.54 Carolyn-Ann Alba/Chris Knierim 3 6
118.59 Andrea Tou/Garnet Suidy CAN 6 5
115.04 Felicia Zhang/Taylor Toth 4 9
113.26 Katherine Bobak/Matthew Penasse CAN 10 7
112.27 Olivia Gibbons/Tyler Harris 8 10
109.99 Haven Denney/Daniel Raad 13 8
105.08 Kylie Duarte/Colin Grafton 7 13 [JGP Lake Placid]
105.01 Tori Vollmer/Zack Sidhu 11 11 [JGP]
102.11 Meredith Pipkin/Brett Dunie-Neustadt 12 14 [JGP Lake Placid]
98.78 Alexandra Young/Matthew Young CAN 15 12
90.27 Cali Fujimoto/Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne 14 15
89.90 Rebecca Du/Sergey Sidorov 9 16
81.53 Brittany Chase/Grant Marron 4 (FS)

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Here's a compilation of the 2009-10 program music of/choreographers for some of the U.S. Senior and Junior pair teams. More will be edited in later as the information becomes known.

SENIOR

Denney/Barrett
SP: Music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Song and Dance," specifically Variations (cello piece composed for ALW's cellist brother Julian - a set of variations on the famous "A Minor Caprice No 24" by Paganini)
FS: "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov
Choreographer: Jim Peterson

Evora/Ladwig
SP: Themes from the movie Love Actually
FS: "Piano Concerto No. 2" by Rachmaninoff
Choreographer: Jim Peterson

Castile/Okolski
SP: "Samba Pa Ti" by Carlos Santana
FS: "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy (same music as last season)
Choreographer: Marina Zoueva

Katz/Lynch
SP: Caravan
FS: Music from Henry V
Choreographers: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva

Yankowskas/Coughlin
SP:
FS: Music from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack
Choreographers: Damon Allen (SP), Marina Zoueva (FS)

Lepzinski/Burgess
SP: "Bolero" by Ravel (guitar version)
FS: Music from Les Miserables
Choreographer: Zuzanna Szwed

Paetsch/Meekins
SP: Music from On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein
FS: Music from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Choreographer: Tom Dickson (SP), Dalilah Sappenfield (FS)

Best/Young
SP: Selections from The Godfather soundtrack (last season's)
FS:

Moyle/Pottenger
SP: Tosca
FS: Music from the Mr. and Mrs. Smith soundtrack

Vise/D. Baldwin
SP: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Santa Esmeralda
FS: Selections from The Matrix, The Mission, and Transformers
Choreographer: Jill Watson

Aaron/Cohen
SP: "El Cumbanchero"
FS: Music from the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack

Smith/Bartholomay
SP: Blues/jazzy piece
FS:

JUNIOR

Simpson/Miller
SP: Asian fusion [martial arts theme]
FS: Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
Choreographers: Dalilah Sappenfield, Zuzanna Szwed

Gibbons/Harris
SP: "Tango de los Exilados" by Vanessa-Mae (same music as last season)
FS: "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin
Choreographers: Mark Mitchell, Christine Hough-Sweeney

Vollmer/Sidhu
SP: The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" by Jeff Beck
FS: Music from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein (same music as last season)
Choreographers: Renee Roca (FS), Cindy Stuart (SP)

Fujimoto/Barsi-Rhyne
SP: Music from Romeo & Juliet [not sure which one]
FS: Music from 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Choreographers: Tracy Prussack, Rudy Galindo

Pipkin/Dunie-Neustadt
SP: "Harem" composed by Frederico de Brito from a performance by Sarah Brightman
FS: Music from the Troy soundtrack
Choreographer: Irina Romanova

Duarte/Grafton
SP: Theme from Ice Castles by Marvin Hamlisch
FS: "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin
Choreographer: Sheryl Franks

Alba/Knierim
SP: Summer of '42 by Michel Legrand
FS:
Choreographer: Dalilah Sappenfield

Zhang/Toth
SP: a lyrical piece
FS: Medley of Mrvica songs (Ryan/Toth's FS from last season)

Du/Sidorov
SP: Love Story
FS: Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn