They were in 12th place after Wednesday's short program, but moved up three spots in the overall standings after a ninth place showing in Friday's free skate. They scored 117.78 points in the free skate to go with 55.73 points from the short program.

Scimeca and Knierim found out they were competing at worlds less than a month ago. They were the silver medalists at nationals this year and the U.S. had two spots at worlds. However, the 2012 national champs, Caydee Denney and John Coughlin, were returning to action after Coughlin was recovering from surgery on a torn labrum in his left hip and successfully petitioned one of the two spots.