Ilia Malinin flew to D.C. on Monday after the national championships in Wichita and knew that young skaters were on the plane that crashed Wednesday.

The Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships air live this week from Wichita, Kansas, on NBC Sports, USA Network and Peacock. The field includes every national champion from last January: Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates and the pairs’ team of Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea.

The world of competitive figure skating is back, The U.S. Figure Skating Championships will take place this weekend in Wichita, Kansas, and will be carried on NBC, Peacock, and USA Network.How to Watch U.

Among those athletes competing in Wichita are former and hopefully future Olympians, many of whom are also defending national champions.

The U.S. worlds team was chosen during the U.S. national championships in Wichita over the weekend, and skaters are starting to put together their resume for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics next February.

After the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, some young athletes stayed a couple of additional days for further development.

The passengers on American Airlines Flight 5342 included some of America’s most promising young skaters and coaches, returning from a national training camp for up-and-coming talents.

Just days after figure skaters, family and coaches from across the United States came together in Wichita, a tragic plane crash has left the U.S. Figure Skating community reeling.

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short Wednesday night when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River were just

As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.

Images of the wreckage in the Potomac River filled every news feed, and as the world watched for details of the airplane-helicopter crash near Washington, D.C., Jordyn Pair headed Thursday morning to Ann Arbor’s Biggby Coffee Ice Cub.