Come January, Evan Lysacek is back in Spokane to reclaim his national title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after losing out to Jeremy Weir in 2009, placing third following two consecutive years of winning the gold.

 

It seems bronze medals were in the cards for Evan for the 2008-2009 season, beginning with 2008 Skate America. The following week, he competed at the 2008 Skate Canada International, where he won a second bronze medal. Then at the 2009 United States Figure Skating Championships, Lysacek earned the bronze yet again, placing just 0.60 points behind silver medalist Brandon Mroz. Due to this close placement at the U.S. Championships though, Lysacek fortunately secured his place on the 2009 Four Continents Championships and the 2009 World Championships.

16-year-old Mirai Nagasu announced in May, 2009 that she was ending her three year coaching relationship with Charlene Wong and had chosen Frank Carroll—coach of Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, both of whom he’d taken to the world championships—for the 2009-10 season.

 

“At the end of the season I felt like I really needed a change,” Nagasu said. “After a lot of thought and deliberation, we decided that the right choice was to begin training with Mr. Carroll.”