Off-season news 2020: Retirements, coaching changes, music selections, and more!

Retirements

  • Charlie Bilodeau CAN - April 2020

  • Quinn Carpenter USA - April 2020

  • Anna Duskova CZE

  • Polina Edmunds USA

  • Sofia Evdokimova/Egor Bazin RUS - March 2020

  • Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres FRA - September 2020

  • Alena Kanysheva RUS - retired from singles skating and starting ice dance

  • Chris Knierim USA - February 2020

  • Viveca Lindfors FIN

  • Valentina Marchei ITA - September 2020

  • Daria Panenkova RUS

  • Betina Popova/Sergey Mozgov RUS - February 2020

  • Elena Radionova RUS - September 2020

  • Elicia Reynolds/Stephen Reynolds USA (and then unretired weeks later)

  • Maria Sotskova RUS - July 2020

  • Ksenia Stolbova RUS - February 2020

  • Sergei Voronov RUS - September 2020

New partnerships

  • Justine Brasseur/Zachary Daleman CAN

  • Alisa Efimova/Ruben Blommaert GER

  • Alena Kanysheva/Andrei Pylin RUS

  • Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva/Egor Bazin RUS

  • Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier USA

  • Katie McBeath/Nate Bartholomay USA

  • Viktoria Vasilieva/Nikita Volodin RUS

  • Lorraine McNamara/Anton Spiridonov USA

Splits

  • Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya/Harley Windsor AUS - February 2020

  • Laura Barquero/Ton Consul ESP

  • Justine Brasseur/Mark Bardei CAN - April 2020

  • Anna Duskova/Radek Jakubka CZE (Duskova retired)

  • Isabella Gamez/David-Alexandre Paradis PHI

  • Liubov Ilyushechkina/Charlie Bilodeau - April 2020 (Bilodeau retired)

  • Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter - April 2020 (Carpenter retired)

  • Avonley Nguyen/Vadim Kolesnik USA (both looking to continue skating)

Coaching changes

  • Mikhail Kolyada RUS - to Alexei Mishin

  • Alena Kostornaia RUS - to Evgeni Plushenko / Sergei Rozanov

  • Alysa Liu USA - to Lee Barkell / Massimo Scali

  • Evgenia Medvedeva RUS - to Eteri Tutberidze

  • Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus CAN - to Carol Lane

  • Bradie Tennell USA - to Tom Zakrajsek

  • Alexandra Trusova RUS - to Evgeni Plushenko / Sergei Rozanov

Music announcements

  • LADIES

    • Mariah Bell USA - SP: Glitter In The Air (choreo Adam Rippon); FS: ABBA medley (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne)

    • Karen Chen USA - SP: Rise (choreo Drew Meekins)

    • Ting Cui USA - SP: This Bitter Earth (choreo Colin McManus)

    • Amber Glenn USA - FS: Rain In Your Black Eyes (choreo Misha Ge)

    • Wakaba Higuchi JPN - SP - Bird Set Free; FS: Poeta

    • Marin Honda JPN - SP: I’m an Albatraoz; FS: La La Land

    • Rika Kihira JPN - SP: Leeloo (choreo Benoit Richaud)

    • Alena Kostornaia RUS - SP: You Should See Me In A Crown

    • Evgenia Medvedeva - SP: Masquerade (choreo Jeff Buttle); FS: Alegria (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne)

  • MEN

    • Dmitri Aliev RUS - FS: SOS d’un terrien en détrasse

    • Kevin Aymoz FRA - SP: Indigène

    • Jason Brown USA - SP: Sinnerman (choreo Rohene Ward); FS: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (choreo David Wilson)

    • Nathan Chen USA - SP: Asturias, Cancion de Mariachi (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne); FS: Philip Glass selections (metamorphosis II, Violin Concerto I, Truman Sleeps) (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne)

    • Petr Gumennik RUS - SP: Moonlight Sonata

    • Tomoki Hiwatashi USA - SP: Standards

    • Makar Ignatov RUS - SP: I Can’t Go On Without You

    • Yuma Kagiyama JPN - SP: Vocussion (choreo Lori Nichol); FS: Lord of the Rings (choreo Misao Sato)

    • Brendan Kerry AUS - SP: I Will Leave The Light On (choreo Florent Amodio)

    • Alex Krasnozhon USA - SP: Heart Upon My Sleeve (choreo Alex Johnson)

    • Jimmy Ma USA - SP: Come Together (choreo Misha Ge)

    • Keegan Messing CAN - SP: Perfect (choreo Lance Vipond); FS: November Rain (choreo Lance Vipond)

    • Nicolas Nadeau CAN - FS: The Doors (choreo Scott Moir0

    • Nam Nguyen CAN - SP: Adios Nonino; FS: Mi Manchera

    • Camden Pulkinen USA - SP: In This Shirt (choreo Joshua Farris)

    • Matteo Rizzo ITA - SP: Romanza; FS: The Greatest Showman

    • Alexander Samarin RUS - SP: Russian folk music

    • Keiji Tanaka JPN - SP: Hip Hip Chin Chin; FS: Sherlock

    • Kazuki Tomono jPN - SP: The Hardest Button to Button; FS: Moulin Rouge

    • Andrew Torgashev USA - SP: Flamenco; FS: Dream, Battle Cry, Radioactive

    • Shoma Uno JPN - SP: Great Spirit; FS: Dancing on My Own

    • Sota Yamamoto JPN - SP: Dark Eyes (choreo Kenji Miyamoto); FS: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (choreo Kenji Miyamoto)

    • Vincent Zhou USA - SP: Vincent; FS: Algorithm (choreo Misha Ge0

  • DANCE

    • Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko USA - RD: Too Darn Hot; FD: Doctor Zhivago

    • Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson GBR - RD: Blues Brothers

    • Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Nikolaj Sorensen CAN - RD: Bonnie and Clyde; FD: Roots, Return to the Inner Temple

    • Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier CAN - RD: Mack and Mabel; FD: Both Sides Now

    • Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri ITA - RD: Grease; FD: Atonement

    • Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker USA - RD: Saturday Night Fever

    • Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue USA - RD: Burlesque

    • Sara Hurtado/Kirill Khaliavin ESP - RD: Hello Dolly

    • Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva/Egor Bazin RUS - RD: The Artist

    • Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha CAN - RD: West Side Story; FD: Rio

    • Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron FRA - RD: The Artist; FD: Tango (Jalousie)

    • Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin RUS - RD: Moulin Rouge

    • Katarina Wolfkostin/Jeffrey Chen USA - FD: Exogenesis Part 3

    • Tiffani Zagorski/Jonathan Guerreiro RUS - RD: The Greatest Showman

  • PAIRS

    • Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitri Kozlovskii RUS - SP: Cavalier Song; FS: James Bond

    • Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson USA - SP: Light of the Seven (choreo Benoit Richaud); FS: Who Wants To Live Forever (choreo Cindy Stuart)

    • Ashley Cain-Gribble/Timothy LeDuc USA - FS: Rach 2

    • Tarah Kayne/Danny O’Shea USA - FS: Carmen

    • Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro CAN - SP: Gimme All Your Love; FS: The Blower’s Daughter

    • Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov RUS - SP: Bolero

    • Evelyn Walsh/Trennt Michaud CAN - SP: Natural (choreo Eric Radford); FS: Cirque du Soleil (choreo Eric Radford)