Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier made history in more ways than one on Saturday night. They became the first team in nine years to win the pairs’ title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in their debut season, and they blew the previous U.S. Championships score records out of the water in the process. Their free skate score of 150.64 bested the previous record of 146.01, and their 228.10 total toppled the 216.15 set last year. “Our goal today was to let the people at home watching feel something inspiring,” Knierim said on the NBCSN broadcast. FIGURE SKATING NATIONALS: Full Results | TV Schedule While this was their first nationals as a team, it was the ninth senior nationals for Knierim and eighth for Frazier. Both are decorated pairs’ skaters with their former partners – Knierim’s husband Chris and Frazier’s childhood partner Haven Denney. Knierim and Frazier teamed up in March after those on-ice partnerships ended. “This just gives us confidence to keep going and build on it for next time,” Frazier said. This is Knierim’s fourth U.S. title in all, making her the first pairs’ skater to win four national titles since Kyoko Ina, whose fifth and final crown came in 2002, and… Read full this story
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