Teenager Isabeau Levito scored 73.78 to take the lead after the women’s short program Thursday night, closing out the first day of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Levito, the reigning junior world champion who took third place in her senior nationals debut last year, entered as the favorite to win her first U.S. title. The 15-year-old has drawn attention for her remarkable poise at the highest level of her sport after an impressive international senior debut in which she earned silver at both Grand Prix assignments and the Grand Prix Final last month.
Levito holds a razor-thin lead over two-time national champion Bradie Tennell, who had a clean skate after missing the entire 2021-22 season with foot and ankle injuries. Though Tennell struggled with consistency in her Grand Prix assignments last fall, she recorded a season-best score of 73.76 in her return to San Jose, where she won her first title in 2018.
Starr Andrews is fewer than five points out of the lead. Five years after she wowed the SAP Center crowd with a free skate set to her cover of Whitney Houston’s “One Moment in Time” in her senior nationals debut, the 21-year-old — donning the same rhinestone bodysuit she wore for her 2018 short program — is in third place by a slim margin after the short program, edging Amber Glenn by a hundredth of a point.
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