By Kristen Henneman
The International Skating Union today announced the athlete assignments for the 2025 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series with 48 skaters set to represent Team USA at the six international stops.
Traditionally the first event in the Grand Prix Series, 2025 Skate America will be the fifth of six stops this season, taking place Nov. 14-16 in Lake Placid, New York – the original location of Skate America in 1979.
Team USA will be led by three World champions who enter the season with their eyes on returning to the Olympic Games: reigning World titlist Alysa Liu in the women’s competition and three-time World gold medalists Madison Chock and Evan Bates in the ice dance event. This year, Chock and Bates seek their fifth Skate America win, which would tie the record for most Skate America golds in ice dance with Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
Jason Brown, a two-time Olympian who has medaled in his last four appearances at Skate America, headlines the U.S. lineup in the men’s event while 2024 World Championships team members Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez return to the ice in the pairs competition after missing last season due to injury.
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The Grand Prix Series, which begins in October, incorporates six international figure skating competitions as a unified point-scoring series that awards prize money to eligible skaters. Athletes can compete at a maximum of two Grand Prix events and at the conclusion of the series, athletes' points are totaled based on their results with the top six women, men, pairs and ice dance teams eligible to compete at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2025, set for Dec. 4-7, in Nagoya, Japan.
Last year, Team USA secured 14 medals during the Grand Prix Series, including at least one in each discipline at Skate America.
The complete list of athlete selections for the 2025 Grand Prix Series is available on isu-skating.com. The lists of U.S. selections to all six Grand Prix events and international selections to Skate America are below.
TEAM USA ASSIGNMENTS FOR 2025 ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING SERIES
Lineups are subject to change
Grand Prix de France: Angers, France – Oct. 17-19, 2025
Women: Isabeau Levito, Elyce Lin-Gracey
Men: Ilia Malinin, Maxim Naumov, Andrew Torgashev
Pairs: Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy*
Ice Dance: Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville, Eva Pate and Logan Bye
Cup of China: TBA, China – Oct. 24-26, 2025
Women: Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu
Men: Camden Pulkinen, Jacob Sanchez*
Pairs: Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman
Ice Dance: Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik
Skate Canada International: Saskatoon, Canada – Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2025
Women: Sarah Everhardt, Isabeau Levito, Bradie Tennell
Men: Lucas Broussard, Ilia Malinin
Pairs: Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea
Ice Dance: Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville, Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, Leah Neset and Artem Markelov
NHK Trophy: Osaka, Japan – Nov. 7-9, 2025
Women: Sarah Everhardt, Elyce Lin-Gracey
Men: Jimmy Ma, Andrew Torgashev
Pairs: Emily Chan and Spencer Howe, Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov
Ice Dance: Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, Katarina Wolfkostin and Dimitry Tsarevski*
Skate America: Lake Placid, New York – Nov. 14-16, 2025
Women: Alysa Liu, TBD, TBD
Men: Jason Brown, TBD
Pairs: Olivia Flores and Luke Wang*, Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez, TBD
Ice Dance: Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, TBD
Finlandia Trophy: Helsinki, Finland – Nov. 21-23, 2025
Women: Amber Glenn, Bradie Tennell
Men: Lucas Broussard, Jason Brown, Jimmy Ma
Pairs: Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea
Ice Dance: Oona Brown and Gage Brown, Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik
*making Grand Prix Series debut
2025 SKATE AMERICA INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES
Lineups are subject to change
Women: Lea Serna (FRA), Anastasiia Gubanova (GEO), Lara Naki Gutmann (ITA), Wakaba Higuchi (JPN), Rinka Watanabe (JPN), Hana Yoshida (JPN), Chaeyeon Kim (KOR), Haein Lee (KOR), Ekaterina Kurakova (POL)
Men: Vladimir Litvintsev (AZE), Daiwei Dai (CHN), Kevin Aymoz (FRA), Luc Economides (FRA), Corey Circelli (ITA), Daniel Grassl (ITA), Nikolaj Memola (ITA), Kazuki Tomono (JPN), Tatsuya Tsuboi (JPN), Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ)
Pairs: Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Ethier (CAN), Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava (GEO), Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel (GER), Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (JPN), Ekaterina Geynish and Dmitrii Chigirev (UZB)
Ice Dance: Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha (CAN), Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek (CZE), Loicia Demougeot and Theo Le Mercier (FRA), Celina Fradji and Jean-Hans Fourneaux (FRA), Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA), Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez (GBR), Noemi Maria Tali and Noah Lafornara (ITA)
