Alissa Czisny again turning to U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Detroit Free Press

Greensboro, NC - A master once, a new champion.

Alissa Czisny of the Detroit Skating Club had managed to fight through the fear they once used to fight against doubt that threatened to end his skating career.

Figure Czisny won her second U.S. women's figure skating at the Coliseum Saturday night in Greensboro. But as everyone has, after her skating career knows, achieving low Czisny to get there.

"To come back after what happened last year, with all that I lived, what are the decisions I made confirmed the right," she said.

A series of disappointments had 11 Place the 2009 World Cup followed. But Czisny, which decided the 2009 champion United States was the biggest mistake and ends at the Citizens 2010 "10, the Olympic team competition.

This led to last spring Czisny party with his longtime coach, Julie Berlin, and turn Yuka Sato and Jason Dungjen, former champion Jeremy Abbott skaters who were taken to the title of his second U.S. men last season and a took place on the Olympic team in Vancouver.

The decision was difficult, Berlin was the one who developed Czisny lyrical style was graceful in particular spirals and spins.

But Sato and Dungjen Czisny was able to embrace what she needed: a fresh start. They started the season by winning medals in her two Grand Prix competitions before taking gold in the Grand Prix Final last month in China.

She entered a modified skate nationals in Greensboro, confident, focused and balanced. They showed it Friday night, with first Mirai Nagasu in the women's short program. And then she got it again Saturday night, opening with a triple Lutz-double toe loop and fight for a landing on her triple loop. Czisny won the freestyle with 128.74 points and 191.24 overall.

Rachel Flatt, third after the short program, left Nagasu won the silver medal. It is Czisny join the U.S. World Team, travels to Tokyo in March.

"I must be capable of much more consistent in my competitions this season," she said, "what I do when I have to, and I plan to do the same world."

Contact Jo-Ann Barnas: 313-222-2037 or jbarnas@freepress.com.