"Olympic Year Inflation" is a Myth

Below are the average total scores for the US ladies event by year.
2006     134.903888888889
2007     138.651428571429
2008     142.307
2009     138.54652173913
2010     136.933181818182
2011     140.687727272727
2012     150.642631578947
2013     151.0905

As you can see, the two years with the lowest averages are Olympic years.  This may be due to the fact that in Olympic year nationals, although some ladies rise to the occasion, many others completely bomb because of the pressure.

Below is a link to the scores for each year.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap6O3HAGfi85dGo1b0pDT0dwb1UxWFBqRU00QzREYnc&usp=sharing

Senior Nationals Ladies Results under COP

(Records are bolded)

Senior	SP	LP	Overall
2006	Sasha Cohen 65.15	Sasha Cohen 134.03	Sasha Cohen 199.18
2007	Kimmie Meissner 65.69	Alissa Czisny 119.59	Kimmie Meissner 181.68
2008	Mirai Nagasu 70.23	Rachel Flatt 125.82	Mirai Nagasu 190.41
2009	Alissa Czisny 65.75	Ashley Wagner 115.05	Alissa Czisny 178.06
2010	Mirai Nagasu 70.06	Rachel Flatt 130.76	Rachel Flatt 200.11
2011	Mirai Nagasu 63.35	Alissa Czisny 128.74	Alissa Czisny 191.24
2012	Agnes Zadawski 66.24	Ashley Wagner 123.96	Ashley Wagner 187.02
2013	Ashley Wagner 67.57	Gracie Gold 132.49	Ashley Wagner 188.84

Junior Nationals Ladies Results under COP

(Records are bolded)

Junior	SP	LP	Overall
2006	Rachel Flatt 53.58	Megan Hyatt 95.75	Megan Hyatt 139.96
2007	Mirai Nagasu 54.26	Mirai Nagasu 101.20	Mirai Nagasu 155.46
2008	Angela Maxwell 54.91	Alexe Gilles 103.54	Alexe Gilles 156.17
2009	DeeDee Leng 53.57	Elle Kawamura 79.43	DeeDee Leng 132.49
2010	Agnes Zadawski 63.14	Agnes Zadawski 108.73	Agnes Zadawski 171.87
2011	Courtney Hicks 60.84	Courtney Hicks 112.38	Courtney Hicks 173.22
2012	Gracie Gold 60.21	Gracie Gold 118.71	Gracie Gold 178.92
2013	Polina Edmunds 58.17	Polina Edmunds 101.70	Polina Edmunds 159.87

Novice Nationals ladies Results Under COP

(Records are bolded)

Novice	SP	LP	Overall
2006	Rhiana Brammeier 47.98	Rhiana Brammeier 90.25	Rhiana Brammeier 138.23
2007	Carolyn-Ann Alba 45.04	Kristine Musademba 88.44	Angela Maxwell 131.65
2008	Sophia Lamay 38.86	Marissa Secundy 73.12	Marissa Secundy 110.38
2009	Kiri Baga 43.16	Angela Wang 79.97	Kiri Baga 120.16
2010	Ashley Cain 45.03	Leah Keiser 92.07	Leah Keiser 136.66
2011	Mariah Bell 41.91	Hannah Miller 82.96	Hannah Miller 122.30
2012	Karen Chen 46.54	Karen Chen 93.63	Karen Chen 140.17
2013	Tyler Pierce 45.66	Tyler Pierce 83.30	Tyler Pierce 128.96

Intermediate Nationals Ladies Results under COP

(Records are bolded)

Intermediate	SP	LP	Overall
2006
2007	Gretchen Dolan 35.65	Agnes Zawadzki 67.25	Gretchen Donlan 102.36
2008	Lexia Hood 32.25	Nina Jiang 64.78	Nina Jiang 94.57
2009	Katarina Kulgeyko 34.05	Katrina Kulgeyko 73.66	Katrina Kulgeyko 107.71
2010	Katia Shpilband 37.81	Gwendoyln Prescott 72.98	Katia Shpilband 107.64
2011	Madison Vinci 40.63	Karen Chen 79.30	Karen Chen 119.92
2012	Elizabeth Nguyen 36.27	Ashley Shin 68.05	Ashley Shin 99.41
2013	Anna Grace Davidson 35.36	Anastasia Kortjohn 64.92	Anna Grace Davidson 99.52

Records For US Nationals Ladies

Below are the results for each Ladies Singles Nationals under COP.
Starting with Juvenile.

Juvenile	SP	LP	Overall
2006
2007			Nina Jiang 70.10
2008			Leah Keiser 50.01
2009			Gwendolyn Prescott 55.01
2010			Dyllan McIntee 56.25
2011			Dalia Rivkin 52.46
2012			Caitlin Nguyen 49.65
2013			Karoline Calhoun 49.25

California Set to Dominate US Figure Skating

In 2008, four teenagers swept the podium at the US Ladies Singles Figure Skating Championships: Mirai Nagasu (14), Rachel Flatt (15), Ashley Wagner (16), and Caroline Zhang (14).

There are four more up-and-coming skaters that will most likely be emerging after the Sochi Olympics

Starr Andrews

Karen Chen 

Gia Kokotasis

Ai Setoyama

In a sense, California already dominates figure skating. Great names such as Rachel Flatt, Mirai Nagasu, Caroline Zhang, Ashley Wagner, Sasha Cohen, Michelle Kwan, Evan Lysacek, Mao Asada, and Yu-Na Kim all trained in California at one point in their careers.

These four young skaters should be amazing to watch.