Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga baya a wannan kakar, sun yi gasa a gasar zakarun Amurka ta 2008 kuma sun lashe lambar yabo ta kasa, inda suka zama na farko na Amurka a cikin shekaru 51 da suka lashe lambar yabo ta kasa da kasa. Duk da lashe gasar zakarun Amurka, ba a sanya McLaughlin da Brubaker zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya ba
kungiyar ko tawagar gasar zakarun duniya saboda takunkumin shekaru na ISU. McLaughlin ya yi matashi sosai don manyan gasar ISU kuma Brubaker ya tsufa sosai don Gasar Junior ta Duniya. Nasarar McLaughlin da Brubaker, haɗe tare da nasarar Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss a matakin ƙarami, da Brynn Carman / Christopher Knierim a matakin farawa, sun ba kocin su Dalilah Sappenfield babban zakara na gasar zakarun Turai na shekara ta 2008, nasarar da ta sa aka nada Sappenfield a matsayin Kocin Shekara.