Senior dance teams competing: 17
*Alissandra Aronow & Collin Brubaker withdrew after qualification
Senior pairs competing: 12
*Brianna de la Mora & Taylor Wilson withdrew after qualification
New teams: 5
Marissa Castelli & Mervin Tran (first, pairs, Eastern Sectionals)
Anya Davidovich & AJ Reiss (first, pairs, Pacific Coast Sectionals)
Gretchen Donlan & Nate Bartholomay (bye, pairs)
Charlotte Maxwell & Ryan Devereaux (second, dance, Midwestern Sectionals)
Tory Patsis & Nathaniel Fast (second, dance, Pacific Coast Sectionals)
First senior Nationals: 4
Madeline Aaron & Max Settlage (first, junior pairs, 2014 Nationals)
Cali Fujimoto & Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne (ninth, junior pairs, 2014 Nationals)
Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker (first, junior dance, 2014 Nationals)
Olivia Oltmanns & Joshua Santillan (sixth, junior pairs, 2014 Nationals)
*Also marks first senior event for Patsis. Additionally, this will be the first U.S. Nationals for Tran, previously representing Japan and Canada, and for Davidovich, previously representing Israel.
Teams with senior international experience: 13
*Though neither has competed at a senior international, Danielle Gamelin & Alexander Gamelin (dance) and Oltmanns & Santillan (pairs) both competed on the Junior Grand Prix
Former gold medalist teams: 5
Madeline Aaron & Max Settlage (junior pairs, 2014; novice pairs, 2011)
Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker (junior dance, 2014)
Alexandra Aldridge & Daniel Eaton (junior dance, 2012, 2013; novice dance, 2010)
Haven Denney & Brandon Frazier (junior pairs, 2012)
Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani (junior dance, 2010; novice dance, 2007)
*Additionally, Castelli and Shnapir (senior pairs gold, 2013, 2014); Madison Chock with Greg Zuerlein (junior dance, 2009); Leng (junior ladies, 2009); Madison Hubbell with Keiffer Hubbell (junior dance, 2008); Danny O’Shea (novice men, 2008); Chris Knierim with Brynn Carman (novice pairs, 2008); Evan Bates with Emily Samuelson (junior dance, 2007; novice dance, 2005).
Teams at 2010 Nationals: 5
Alexandra Aldridge & Daniel Eaton (novice dance)
Anastasia Cannuscio & Colin McManus (junior dance)
Danielle Gamelin & Alexander Gamelin (novice dance)
Olivia Oltmanns & Joshua Santillan (novice pairs)
Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani (junior dance)
*2015 junior competitors Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter also competed at this event, at novice.
Teams with four or more consecutive Nationals appearances*: 13
Four: Chock & Bates; Denney & Frazier; Fujimoto & Barsi-Rhyne; Hubbell & Donohue
Five: Aaron & Settlage; Jessica Calalang & Zack Sidhu; Ginna Hoptman & Pavel Filchenkov; Alexandria Shaughnessy & Jimmy Morgan
Six: Aldridge & Eaton; Gamelin & Gamelin; Oltmanns & Santillan
Seven: Cannuscio & McManus; Shibutani & Shibutani
*Does not include pre-novice competition; intermediate and juvenile events were contested separately prior to 2013.
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Ballets: 4
Coppelia (Delibes), Aaron & Settlage (SP); Don Quixote (Minkus), Chock & Bates (SD); Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky), Pauline Bynum & Jason Deveikis (FD); Spartacus (Khatchaturian), Kayne & O’Shea (LP)
Film scores: 12
An American in Paris, Chock & Bates (FD), Scimeca & Knierim (LP); Anna Karenina, Anastasia Olson & Ian Lorello (FD); Gone With the Wind, Aldridge & Eaton (FD); The Great Gatsby, Hubbell & Donohue (FD); The Mask of Zorro, Elicia Reynolds & Stephen Reynolds (SD); Moulin Rouge!, Charlotte Maxwell & Ryan Devereaux (FD), Scimeca & Knierim (SP), Kayne & O’Shea (SP); The Nights of Cabiria, Gamelin & Gamelin (FD); Pirates of the Caribbean, Gabriela Morrell Zucker & Andrej Sitiks (SD); Puss in Boots, Maxwell & Devereaux (SD); Romeo and Juliet (1967), Calalang & Sidhu (LP); Romeo and Juliet (2013), Hawayek & Baker (FD); Saturday Night Fever, Kristen Nardozzi & Nick Traxler (FD)
Stage musicals: 5
Grease, Shaughnessy & Morgan (SP); The King and I, Aaron & Settlage (LP); The Lion King, Denney & Frazier (LP); Miss Saigon, Leng & Shnapir (LP); My One and Only, Calalang & Sidhu (SP)
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