2010-11 U.S. Team Envelopes A-C (projected)

Here is my unofficial compilation of the projected 2010-11 U.S. team envelopes based on the results of 2010 Nationals and 2009-10 international competitions (assuming at this time that there will be no retirements and/or team splits). These envelopes likely will not be finalized and officially announced by U.S. Figure Skating until May 2010.

Click here for the 2010-11 U.S. Team Envelope Criteria document.
Click here for the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships official results and protocols.

These envelopes are designated for funding purposes and do not necessarily correlate with future international assignments.

"Athletes qualifying in more than one envelope and/or tier will always be placed in the higher envelope and tier."

Last updated: May 2, 2010

TEAM A - TIER 1
MEN: Jeremy Abbott, Evan Lysacek
LADIES: Rachael Flatt
PAIRS: Caydee Denney/Jeremy Barrett
DANCE: Meryl Davis/Charlie White
Placements 1st-3rd at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games: Lysacek 1st, Davis/White 2nd
2010 U.S. senior champion combined with a top-10 finish at the 2010 Olympics: Davis/White 2nd, Flatt 7th, Abbott 9th
2010 U.S. senior champion combined with a top-10 finish at the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships: Davis/White 2nd, Abbott 5th, Denney/Barrett 7th, Flatt 9th
Placements 1st-3rd at the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships: Davis/White 2nd
Placements 1st-3rd in the ISU World Standings at the conclusion of the 2009-10 season: Lysacek #1, Davis/White #1 (as of 3/25/10)

TEAM A - TIER 2
MEN: Johnny Weir, Adam Rippon
LADIES: Mirai Nagasu
PAIRS: Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig, Keauna McLaughlin/Rockne Brubaker
DANCE: Tanith Belbin/Benjamin Agosto, Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates
2010 U.S. senior champion: (Abbott, Flatt, Denney/Barrett, Davis/White)
Placements 1st-3rd at the 2009 Grand Prix Final: (Lysacek, Davis/White,) Weir
2010 Four Continents champion: Rippon
Placements 4th-10th at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games: Belbin/Agosto 4th, Nagasu 4th, Weir 6th, (Flatt 7th, Abbott 9th), Evora/Ladwig 10th
Placements 4th-10th at the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships: (Abbott 5th, Denney/Barrett 7th, Flatt 9th), Rippon 6th, Nagasu 7th, Evora/Ladwig 9th, Samuelson/Bates 9th
Placements 4th-10th in the ISU World Standings at the conclusion of the 2009-10 season: Belbin/Agosto #5, Abbott #5, Weir #6, McLaughlin/Brubaker #8, Flatt #9 (as of 3/27/10)

TEAM B - TIER 1
MEN: Ryan Bradley
LADIES: Sasha Cohen, Ashley Wagner, Caroline Zhang
PAIRS: Brooke Castile/Benjamin Okolski, Rena Inoue/John Baldwin
DANCE: Madison Chock/Greg Zuerlein, Madison Hubbell/Keiffer Hubbell, Kimberly Navarro/Brent Bommentre, Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani
Placements 11th and lower at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games: (Denney/Barrett 13th, Samuelson/Bates 11th)
Placements 11th and lower at the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships: Bradley 18th, Navarro/Bommentre 14th
Placements 11th-15th in the ISU World Standings at the conclusion of the 2009-10 season: (Samuelson/Bates #11, Nagasu #13, Rippon #15), Zhang #12, Chock/Zuerlein #13, Shibutani/Shibutani #14, Inoue/Baldwin #14 (as of 3/27/10)
Placements 2nd-4th in the senior events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: (Lysacek, Weir), Bradley; (Nagasu), Wagner, Cohen; (Evora/Ladwig,) Inoue/Baldwin, Castile/Okolski; (Belbin/Agosto, Samuelson/Bates), Navarro/Bommentre
Placements 4th-6th at the 2009 Grand Prix Final: (Abbott), Wagner
Placements 2nd-3rd at the 2010 Four Continents Championships: McLaughlin/Brubaker, Zhang, Hubbell/Hubbell
2010 World Junior champion: N/A
Champion at any of the six Grand Prix Series competitions in the 2009-10 season: Belbin/Agosto (Lysacek, Abbott, Davis/White)

TEAM B - TIER 2
MEN: Ross Miner; Jason Brown
LADIES: Alissa Czisny, Christina Gao; Agnes Zawadzki
PAIRS: Felicia Zhang/Taylor Toth
DANCE: N/A
Placements 2nd-3rd at the 2010 World Junior Championships: Zawadzki
2010 U.S. junior champion: Brown, Zawadzki, Zhang/Toth, (Shibutani/Shibutani)
Placements 1st-3rd at the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final: Miner, Gao, (Shibutani/Shibutani)
Placements 2nd-3rd at any of the six Grand Prix Series competitions in the 2009-10 season: Czisny (Rippon, Lysacek, Weir, Bradley; Flatt, Wagner; McLaughlin/Brubaker, Inoue/Baldwin)
2010 Olympic Team first alternate: (Bradley, Wagner, Inoue/Baldwin, Navarro/Bommentre)
2010 World Team first alternate: (Bradley, Wagner, McLaughlin/Brubaker, Navarro/Bommentre)
Placement 5th in the senior events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Gao (Rippon, McLaughlin/Brubaker, Chock/Zuerlein)

TEAM C - TIER 1
MEN: Richard Dornbush, Grant Hochstein, Armin Mahbanoozadeh, Brandon Mroz, Keegan Messing; Max Aaron, Joshua Farris, Austin Kanallakan
LADIES: Amanda Dobbs, Ellie Kawamura, Beatrisa Liang, Angela Maxwell, Kristine Musademba; Kiri Baga, Lindsay Davis, Yasmin Siraj
PAIRS: Amanda Dobbs/Joseph Jacobsen, Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin; Brynn Carman/AJ Reiss, Erika Choi Smith/Nathan Bartholomay, Britney Simpson/Nathan Miller
DANCE: Lauri Bonacorsi/Travis Mager, Isabella Cannuscio/Ian Lorello, Rachel Tibbetts/Collin Brubaker
Placements 1st-3rd at any of the seven Junior Grand Prix Series competitions in the 2009-10 season: Dornbush, Hochstein, Kanallakan, (Miner); Baga, Kawamura, Maxwell, Musademba, (Gao); Simpson/Miller; (Shibutani/Shibutani), Bonacorsi/Mager, Cannuscio/Lorello, Tibbetts/Brubaker, [Piper Gilles/Zachary Donohue-split]
Placements 4th and lower at the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final: Dornbush, Hochstein; Maxwell, Baga, Kawamura; Simpson/Miller; Cannuscio/Lorello
Placements 6th-7th in the senior events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Mroz, Hochstein; Dobbs, Liang; Yankowskas/Coughlin, Dobbs/Jacobsen; (Hubbell/Hubbell), [Jane Summersett/Todd Gilles-split]
Placements 2nd-3rd in the junior events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Farris, Aaron; Siraj, Davis; Simpson/Miller, Smith/Bartholomay; Tibbetts/Brubaker, [Gilles/Donohue-split]
Champions at the senior B international competitions in the 2009-10 season: Czisny, Yankowskas/Coughlin, (Davis/White)
Placements 4th and lower at the 2010 World Junior Championships: Messing, Hochstein, Mahbanoozadeh; Baga, (Gao); Simpson/Miller, (Zhang/Toth), Carman/Reiss; (Shibutani/Shibutani), Tibbetts/Brubaker, [Gilles/Donohue-split]
2010 Olympic Team second and third alternates: (Rippon), Mroz; (Cohen, Gao); (McLaughlin/Brubaker, Castile/Okolski); (Chock/Zuerlein), Hubbell/Hubbell
2010 World Team second and third alternates: (Rippon), Mroz; (Cohen), Liang; (Castile/Okolski), Yankowskas/Coughlin; (Chock/Zuerlein), Hubbell/Hubbell

TEAM C TIER 2
MEN: Stephen Carriere; Scott Dyer, Alexander Zahradnicek; Nathan Chen, Emmanuel Savary, Timothy Dolensky
LADIES: Melissa Bulanhagui; Nina Jiang; Leah Keiser, Ashley Cain, Katarina Kulgeyko
PAIRS: Chloe Katz/Joseph Lynch; Ashley Cain/Joshua Reagan, Mandy Garza/Brandon Frazier, Kylie Duarte/Colin Grafton
DANCE: Lynn Kriengkrairut/Logan Giulietti-Schmitt; Anastasia Olson/Jordan Cowan; Alexandra Aldridge/Daniel Eaton, Danvi Pham/Vu Pham, Joylyn Yang/Jean-Luc Baker
Placements 1st-3rd in the novice events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Chen, Savary, Dolensky; Keiser, Cain, Kulgeyko; Cain/Reagan, [Vollmer/Sidhu-split as of 2/3], Garza/Frazier; Aldridge/Eaton, Pham/Pham, Yang/Baker
Placements 4th-5th in the junior events at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Dyer, Zahradnicek; (Baga), Jiang; [Alba/Knierim-split], (Carman/Reiss; Cannuscio/Lorello), Olson/Cowan
Placements 2nd-3rd in the senior B international competitions in the 2009-10 season: Carriere, (Dobbs), Katz/Lynch, Kriengkrairut/Giulietti-Schmitt
2010 World Junior Team alternates: (Messing, Dornbush, Brown); (Baga, Davis), Bulanhagui; Cain/Reagan, [Vollmer/Sidhu-split as of 2/3], Duarte/Grafton; (Cannuscio/Lorello), Olson/Cowan, (Bonacorsi/Mager)

RESERVE TEAM
Consideration will be given to skaters or teams that do not qualify for the A, B or C envelopes based on the depth and strength of their respective event at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships: TBD
Consideration will be given to skaters or teams that qualified for the A, B or C envelopes in the previous season:
Team B: Becky Bereswill, Alexe Gilles, DeeDee Leng; Castelli/Shnapir, Tanovich/Chau
Team C: Alexander Johnson, Shaun Rogers, Steven Evans; Kristiene Gong, Kimmie Meissner, Mary Beth Marley, Angela Wang, Kendall Wyckoff; Aaron/Cohen, [Andrews/Anderson-split], [Denney/Raad-split], [Gibbons/Harris-split]; Pratt/Obzansky, Wingle/McKernan
Athletes or teams that are assigned to an international competition and do not meet the criteria for the A, B or C envelopes will be placed in the reserve envelope: TBD

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U.S. Four Continents team (Team A - Tier 2 for 4CC gold medalist; Team B - Tier 1 for 4CC silver or bronze medalist):
Rippon 1st (B2->A2), Mroz 4th, Bradley 5th; Zhang 3rd (->B1), Dobbs 4th, Gilles 9th; McLaughlin/Brubaker 2nd (B2->B1), Yankowskas/Coughlin 4th, Castelli/Shnapir 10th; Hubbell/Hubbell 3rd (C1->B1), Chock/Zuerlein 6th, Summersett/Gilles 7th.

U.S. Olympic team:
Lysacek 1st (A2->A1), Weir 6th, Abbott 9th (A2->A1);
Evora/Ladwig 10th (B1->A2), Denney/Barrett 13th;
Davis/White 2nd (A2->A1), Belbin/Agosto 4th (B1->A2), Samuelson/Bates 11th;
Flatt 7th (A2->A1), Nagasu 4th (B1->A2).

U.S. Junior World team:
Zawadzki 2nd, [Wagner-WD], Baga 7th (1st alt.), Gao 8th;
Hochstein 5th, Mahbanoozadeh 10th (->C1), [Miner-WD], Messing 4th (1st alt.; C2->C1);
Simpson/Miller 5th, Zhang/Toth 9th, Carman/Reiss 13th (C2->C1);
Shibutani/Shibutani 4th, Tibbetts/Brubaker 7th, Gilles/Donohue 9th.

U.S. World team:
Abbott 5th, [Lysacek-WD], Bradley 18th (1st alt.), [Weir-WD], Rippon 6th (2nd alt.);
Nagasu 7th, Flatt 9th;
Denney/Barrett 7th (A2->A1), Evora/Ladwig 9th;
Davis/White 2nd, Samuelson/Bates 9th (B1->A2), [Belbin/Agosto-WD], Navarro/Bommentre 14th (1st alt.).