Kammala wannan jumla: Daga baya a wannan kakar, sun yi gasa a gasar zakarun Amurka ta 2008 kuma sun lashe babban lambar yabo ta kasa, sun zama na farko da ke da 'yan takara biyu na Amurka a cikin shekaru 51 don lashe jerin sunayen manyan' yan takara da manyan 'yan takara. Duk da lashe gasar zakarun Amurka, McLaughlin da Brubaker ba a sanya su zuwa
Teamungiyar Gasar Duniya ko Teamungiyar Gasar Junior ta Duniya saboda ƙuntatawar 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.