Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe e mesịrị n'oge ahụ, ha sonyere n'Egwuregwu Mba United States nke afọ 2008 ma merie n'asọmpi mba ndị okenye, na-aghọ òtù egwuregwu abụọ mbụ nke United States n'ime afọ 51 iji merie n'asọmpi mba ndị nta na ndị okenye. N'agbanyeghị mmeri ha meriri n'asọmpi U.S. Championships, e nyeghị McLaughlin na Brubaker ọrụ n'asọmpi ahụ.
Otu egwuregwu World Championship ma ọ bụ World Junior Championship team n'ihi ISU mmachi afọ. McLaughlin dị obere maka asọmpi ISU ndị okenye na Brubaker emeela agadi maka asọmpi World Junior. Mmeri McLaughlin na Brubaker, jikọtara ya na mmeri nke Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss na ọkwa nke obere, na Brynn Carman / Christopher Knierim na ọkwa novice, nyere onye nkuzi ha Dalilah Sappenfield mmeri nke ndị mmeri mba maka 2008, ihe rụzuru nke mere ka a kpọọ Sappenfield Onye Ọzụzụ nke Afọ.