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Each year, the United States Figure Skating Association sanctions the U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, in which figure skaters from across America compete at the juvenile, intermediate, novice, junior and senior levels for 20 U.S. titles in ladies, men's, pairs and ice dance. During Olympic and World Championship years, the U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS serves as the final qualifying competition before U.S. Figure Skating names its competition teams. The U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS made its television debut in 1961 as part of the CBS SUNDAY SPORTS SPECTACULAR, with Bud Palmer emceeing coverage of the event, which was videotaped on the preceding Friday and Saturday at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, CO.
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World champion U.S. prodigies Ilia Malinin and Jordan Stolz headline the 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championship. NBC Sports presents live coverage of the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships from INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas, across Peacock, NBC, and USA Network, beginning Thursday, January 23 through Sunday, January 26, 2025. Live coverage begins today at 11:20 a.m. ET with the junior pairs' Short live on Peacock. NBC presents live coverage windows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, while USA Network presents live coverage windows on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Ilia Malinin, the reigning world champion and first and only skater to have successfully performed a quadruple Axel in competition, looks to defend his 2023 and 2024 national titles while ice dance duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who won gold in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic team event, look to win their fourth straight and sixth overall national championship. Other notable skaters expected to compete in singles this week include defending national champion Amber Glenn, 2019 and 2020 national champion Alysa Liu, and 2018 and 2021 national champion Bradie Tennell. Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea headline the pairs' event after winning last year's national title.

On the NBC and USA Network windows, Terry Gannon will handle play-by-play alongside 1998 Nagano Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski, three-time U.S. champion Johnny Weir, and 2022 Beijing Olympic gold medalist in ice dance Gabriella Papadakis as analysts. Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Andrea Joyce and 2016 national champion Adam Rippon will serve as reporters.