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Watch Brookline's Yasmin Siraj at US Figure Skating Championships Tonight
BHS junior currently in 6th place in Ladies Finals.
Brookline resident Yasmin Siraj will be skating in the finals of the 2013 US Figure Skating Championships tonight, Saturday, Jan. 26, sometime around 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on WHDH-TV 7News Boston.
A member of the Boston Skating Club, the 16-year-old Brookline High School junior is currently in 6th place after scoring 57.88 points in the short program in the senior ladies championships taking place in Omaha, Nebraska.
One of the youngest skaters in the finals, Siraj will skate second in the final rotation of six competitors.
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The top two skaters will be named members of the team that will represent the US in the World Championships in Canada.
Siraj, who won the New England Regionals to qualify for the finals, won the silver medal at the U.S. Junior Championships as a junior in 2010. She made her senior national debut finishing 8th in 2011.
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