U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

When: Through Sunday

Where: SAP Center

TV: Peacock, USA Network, !38

Schedule highlights: Women’s short program, 6 p.m. Thursday, Peacock (7 p.m. USA Network); Women’s long program, 4:45 p.m. Friday, Peacock (8 p.m., delayed !38 ); Men’s short program, 1:15 p.m. Friday, Peacock (2 p.m. USA Network); men’s long program, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Peacock (noon !38 ).

Tickets: ticketmaster.com

WHAT TO WATCH

National titles are available in the men’s, women’s, pairs and ice-dance programs. Skaters also will be competing for trips to Japan for the 2023 World Figure Skating Championships in March. The U.S. can send three skaters from each category.

Of the four 2022 national champions, three will not be defending their crown in San Jose. Six-time reigning men’s champion Nathan Chen is not competing this season, and 2022 women’s champion Mariah Bell and two-time pairs winners Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc retired.

Also absent are Palo Alto’s Vincent Zhou, on break this season, as well as Richmond’s Alysa Liu and ice dancers Zachary Donohue and Madison Hubbell, all of whom retired.

Ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock will look to repeat as U.S. champs in San Jose after finishing fourth at the 2022 Bejing Olympics . ... Ilia Malinin, 18, who became the first skater to land a quadruple axel and did it at all four of his events this season. He ranks second in the world by best total score . ... Jason Brown, the 2015 champion, is back after many thought the Beijing Olympics would be his final competitive appearance.