SAN JOSE — The country’s top figures skaters are competing in San Jose through Jan. 7 in the U.S. championships.
The local headliners are Karen Chen of Fremont and Polina Edmunds of San Jose in women’s singles, Vincent Zhou of Palo Alto in men’s singles and Campbell ice dancer Elliana Pogrebinsky.
In all, 22 Bay Area athletes have qualified across five divisions — juvenile, intermediate, novice, juniors and seniors.
Lower division events are scheduled for Solar4America Ice — the complex where the Sharks train — through Wednesday.
The seniors competing for berths to the 2018 Winter Olympics and main junior events are scheduled Tuesday through Sunday at SAP Center.
Here are the Bay Area skaters:
Juveniles:
Allison Kim of San Mateo and Ethan Musladin of Sunnyvale in pairs.
Juliana Newton of Oakland and Evan Mullins of Stockton in ice dance.
Intermediate
Ava Stephens of San Jose and Katie Wang of San Francisco in women’s singles.
Ian Ramsey of Redwood City in men’s singles.
Novice
Jeffrey Chen of Fremont in ice dance.
Juniors
Alysa Liu of Richmond and Lily Sun of Foster City in women’s singles.
Dinh Tran of San Francisco in men’s singles.
Anthony Ponomarenko of Morgan Hill and Nikolay Usanov of Los Gatos in ice dance.
Juliette Erickson of San Jose, Nathan Grundhofer of Fremont and Sarah Feng of Fremont in pairs.
Seniors
Karen Chen of Fremont and Polina Edmunds of San Jose in women’s singles.
Vincent Zhou of Palo Alto and Kevin Shum of Piedmont in men’s singles.
Elliana Pogrebinsky of Campbell in ice dance.
Alexandria Yao of Cupertino in pairs.
