Jason Koon

Thirteen-year-old Anna Waugh competed with her new partner, 16-year-old Matt Jacoby, at a U.S. Figure Skating national qualifying event in Philadelphia last weekend.

Waugh is now training full time with Jacoby at the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society while her parents live in Iredell County. Waugh and Jacoby compete in Ice Dance in the novice division. Waugh is qualified to compete at the senior level but cannot compete in that division until she turns 16.

Waugh and Jacoby have been skating together since June. Jacoby lost his former partner Alydia Livingston in the Flight 5342 crash in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29.

The pair plan to compete next at a qualifying event in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 5-9. The top five finishers in that competition will advance to natio

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