2024-25 Canadian Figure Skating

[saine]

Skate Canada's top Pairs moments:

Top Pair Moments from the 2024-2025 Season

Whether dazzling on international ice or owning the national spotlight, [...]

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I think my top one has to be Deanna getting her citizenship.

 

[4everchan]

Skate Canada's top Pairs moments:

Top Pair Moments from the 2024-2025 Season

Whether dazzling on international ice or owning the national spotlight, [...]

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I think my top one has to be Deanna getting her citizenship.

I have so many !!!! I love pairs.

Come back from injury from Marly to a world's bronze was amazing...

But also, yoni and ava back on ice and doing very well at Nationals.

I'd also put Lia and Trennt's programs, which were my fave from the entire season among all pairs in there and their bronze at 4CC.

 

[RatedPG]

I have so many !!!! I love pairs.

Come back from injury from Marly to a world's bronze was amazing...

But also, yoni and ava back on ice and doing very well at Nationals.

I'd also put Lia and Trennt's programs, which were my fave from the entire season among all pairs in there and their bronze at 4CC.

Same with me.
Marly getting bronze at Junior Worlds after their injury was wow!

Also, Lia and Trennt are my fave Canadian Pairs team.

 

[Bluediamonds09]

Is Lia Pereira still skating? A youtube video of her at 2022 Jr Worlds was recently posted. I actually don't know of any Canadian women skaters with a higher difficulty than Maddie Schizas, but with Maddie so inconsistent, I wonder if any other girl can take her penciled-in olympic spot.

 

[4everchan]

Is Lia Pereira still skating? A youtube video of her at 2022 Jr Worlds was recently posted. I actually don't know of any Canadian women skaters with a higher difficulty than Maddie Schizas, but with Maddie so inconsistent, I wonder if any other girl can take her penciled-in olympic spot.

she is... she won the bronze medal at 4CC in pairs with Trennt Michaud.

Actually, if you want to see the Canadian field, watch challenge/nationals this year. There are a number of strong skaters in Canada. Maddie is the best known one but Sara-Maude, Katherine, Kaiya, Fée-Ann, even Justine have won challenger medals... and Uliana has harder difficulty than Maddie but lacks in other departments.

The seniors are also lucky that some of the novice/junior skaters are not age eligible. For instance, Lia Cho would smoke the competition jumping wise.

 

[saine]

Robert Brodie interviews Katherine Medland Spence:

'Always remember why I do this'

If there's a lesson that Katherine Medland Spence took home during a breakout season, it's to embrace the joy the sport she loves brings to her.

rwbrodiewrites.substack.com

 

[Bluediamonds09]

she is... she won the bronze medal at 4CC in pairs with Trennt Michaud.

Actually, if you want to see the Canadian field, watch challenge/nationals this year. There are a number of strong skaters in Canada. Maddie is the best known one but Sara-Maude, Katherine, Kaiya, Fée-Ann, even Justine have won challenger medals... and Uliana has harder difficulty than Maddie but lacks in other departments.

The seniors are also lucky that some of the novice/junior skaters are not age eligible. For instance, Lia Cho would smoke the competition jumping wise.

Thanks.
And that's more women than I knew were competing! Idk who Uliana is, but if she's lacking in artistry, she probably won't be one of my favorites.
Why won't Canada send these women to more competitions? The more they're out there competing, the easier competing will be. They all will need to be super consistent if they wish to bump Maddie for the one (only one?) Olympic spot.

 

[FlossieH]

Thanks.
And that's more women than I knew were competing! Idk who Uliana is, but if she's lacking in artistry, she probably won't be one of my favorites.
Why won't Canada send these women to more competitions? The more they're out there competing, the easier competing will be. They all will need to be super consistent if they wish to bump Maddie for the one (only one?) Olympic spot.

Uliana Shiryaeva skates out of Champs and is trained by Joanne McLeod. Her family moved from Russia to Canada a few years ago (before the start of the war) and she initially skated on the domestic circuit whilst waiting for international clearance. She did a couple of seasons as a junior and has competed as a senior this past season although she is still age eligible for juniors. She has previously competed on the Junior Grand Prix representing Canada and did at least one ISU Challenger event this past season. She has the third highest ISU SB among Canadian women this year.

 

[saine]

Why won't Canada send these women to more competitions? The more they're out there competing, the easier competing will be. They all will need to be super consistent if they wish to bump Maddie for the one (only one?) Olympic spot.

They're looking for minimum benchmark scores for the women to be given a Senior International. For example, the scores in 2024-25 were:

	Men	Women	Ice Dance	Pairs
International Benchmark	204	155	154	152
Domestic Benchmark	219	166	165	163

Priority for the pre-GP Challengers goes to the skaters who have GP assignments. And then there's also taking into consideration that an assignment within 7 days of Skate Canada Challenge grants a skater a bye to Nationals. So they'll be careful about who gets those assignments (Katherine was a skater who did get a bye that way thanks to Warsaw Cup.)

All of the women who competed internationally this year at the Senior level should have met both those benchmarks, so they should get an assignment next season at least. Hopefully more will get second assignments. And there could be some more women who have a good summer competition and meet the benchmark as well.

 

[Alwaysoniceinmyheart]

Is Lia Pereira still skating? A youtube video of her at 2022 Jr Worlds was recently posted. I actually don't know of any Canadian women skaters with a higher difficulty than Maddie Schizas, but with Maddie so inconsistent, I wonder if any other girl can take her penciled-in olympic spot.

Maddie had a great season. I’m hoping she’s turned a corner.

 

[Skating Bobr]

Uliana Shiryaeva skates out of Champs and is trained by Joanne McLeod. Her family moved from Russia to Canada a few years ago (before the start of the war) and she initially skated on the domestic circuit whilst waiting for international clearance. She did a couple of seasons as a junior and has competed as a senior this past season although she is still age eligible for juniors. She has previously competed on the Junior Grand Prix representing Canada and did at least one ISU Challenger event this past season. She has the third highest ISU SB among Canadian women this year.

She moved to Canada after February 24, 2022. If you check her Instagram, she has posts from Russia even in the summer of 2022. Think there was even one russian local competition. So she was clearly still training in Russia when Russia invaded Ukraine.

 

[Skater Boy]

Now that the skating season is over I guess it is time for skaters to regroup, refocus and get their programs ready for the big olympic year. Honestly, this was not a stellar year. May be the best was Maddie coming in 11th. Piper and Paull regained silver but now look vulnerable with Laurence and Guillaumme returning as well as the russians and the Shibuanis. Maddie still looks best of the ladies.; just not a lot of great copetition.. This is not the time when Canada had Gabby and Kaelyn with Alaine sitting in the background or Josee Lisa S Karen and Susan. Heck even Jennifer Robinson for a while was top ten. It looks pretty bleak and the men may be even worse.. You cannot be sure the men will make it out of the sp. Roman truly is the one hope but even if he skates clean because he has done so poorly over the years he will not get the big scores. You can't have much hope in Wesley, Stephen or the up and comers for 2026.k Some of these skaters have been around for w hile in the men. I don't understand why Canada is having such a lull in singles and to be honest Deanna and Max look like they are moving on down out of the top 5. Trennt and Lia still sruggle with mediocrity though they did win bronze at 4CC they did very poorly at worlds causing Canada along with a poor showing from Deanna and Max to lose the third spot for the Olympics. and in men roman has huge potential but this has been said since he was a teenager and now he is approaching mid 20's. He is a beautiful skater maybe like a Chan or Brown but he has had so many bad skates, horrific to the point he cannot be counted on to make it out of the sp. But the other Canadian men arae no better and don't have beautiful skating and no one is a tech wiz. Anthony Pardis was the hope but as we saw this year he just doesn't have the tech - not even a 3 A. When i comes to the team event there is a very good chance Canada won't make the top 5 well at least it is n ot a slam dunk. USA, Japan, Italy and France are he faves. Then you have the Georgians, Korea, Canada probably fighting it out for the final spot unless I missed someone - Germany? Britain? China? Their greatest depth is in dance and even then with injuries LaLa has no come as far in fact hey fell backwards losing ground to the second American team and the gains on Britain and Italy seem lost. Now not to be negative it looks like hey could fall another three spots with Guillaume and Laurence; the Shibs and russia. Maybe the judges will allow hem to move ahead of pc. I was always concerned abou the lack of rejectory of Deanna and Max. Fine skaters butt they didn't do anything super well or more difficult or unusual than otherr teams. They are nnot terrible artists but they are not Gordeeva and Grinkov nor have the grit of Savchenko, Rodina or even Duhamel. They need some programs that create a spark and magic and hey are a eam I worry have they reached their peak and it is downhilll all now. Fingers crossed they come back and create a faiiry tale ending. this has to be one of the worst times for skating for Canada. To have two consecutive olympics with no team medal just seems shocking. I thought one skater was Canada's great hope but year after year with injuries and they withdrawls I am not sure Gogo will ever go to worlds or the olympics. I have no idea with Skate Canada can or should do.

 

[Skater Boy]

One thing SMD and our other Lady contenders should keep in mind is that even though they probably won't make the Olympics, is that 4CC next year will be a great opportunity to make a name for them self. The top skaters will not be there and that could leave the door open for a CAN lady to do well. Yes there will be some 'top' USA and JPN ladies there but if they could beat one or two of them and place top 5 or even sneak into a medal the judges will start taking them more seriously.

I think a medal would be tough when 4th to 6th in Japan and USA is better than the best Canadian plus there is Korea and Georgia.

 

[Skater Boy]

Interesting that the fact that Maddie wasn't able to gain the 2 spots for the Olympic, that's mean that women will need to work harder and maybe bring the triple axel for gaining the only spot for the Olympic. I have a feeling that the competition will be fierce this year in women.

If Canada looks at the body of work Maddie is sadly still their strongest most consistent skater. I don't think Sara has much name recognition.

 

[4everchan]

I think it's a bit short sighted to say that Deanna and Max do not have unique elements when they have created some of the best lifts in the world, without using standard and common tricks to get level 4. Also, they have worked a lot with the death spirals.
They have also worked on the throw triple lutz this year but they were not comfortable with it so they removed it from their programs. So it's not true that they are not reaching for harder moves.

Some teams indeed have bigger jumps or throws, however we haven't seen the quad throws since the ISU lowered their value... so since 2019.

In terms of content, the best teams are able to do the 3t-2a-2a sequence and Deanna and Max only do 3t-1a-2a. This is where they lose points when things are clean... but they gain them back on GOE of lifts and twist. So in that sense, it's because they didn't perform to the best of their abilities that they didn't succeed this year, not because other teams have higher BV.

 

[saine]

I think a medal would be tough when 4th to 6th in Japan and USA is better than the best Canadian plus there is Korea and Georgia.

I don't think Georgia would be an issue at 4CC for medal chances.

 

[Alwaysoniceinmyheart]

I think it's a bit short sighted to say that Deanna and Max do not have unique elements when they have created some of the best lifts in the world, without using standard and common tricks to get level 4. Also, they have worked a lot with the death spirals.
They have also worked on the throw triple lutz this year but they were not comfortable with it so they removed it from their programs. So it's not true that they are not reaching for harder moves.

Some teams indeed have bigger jumps or throws, however we haven't seen the quad throws since the ISU lowered their value... so since 2019.

In terms of content, the best teams are able to do the 3t-2a-2a sequence and Deanna and Max only do 3t-1a-2a. This is where they lose points when things are clean... but they gain them back on GOE of lifts and twist. So in that sense, it's because they didn't perform to the best of their abilities that they didn't succeed this year, not because other teams have higher BV.

Agree one hundred percent with everything you say. Plus, they are working extra hard on improving their jumps this off season.

 

[saine]

From the JGP allocations, Canada won't have any singles entries for JGP Ankara and JGP Baku. No extra ice dance spots at the moment, so it'll be one entry at each event for that unless it changes after June 1.

 

[ice coverage]

From the JGP allocations, Canada won't have any singles entries for JGP Ankara and JGP Baku. No extra ice dance spots were picked up, so it'll be one entry at each event for that

Honest question: Isn't it too early to know whether or not any dance spot(s) will be picked up?

"The ISU Members must also announce by June 1, 2025 the disciplines and/or the events in which they were originally entitled to enter participants but will not use this right." (from p. 5 of JGP series announcement)

 

[saine]

Honest question: Isn't it too early to know whether or not any dance spot(s) will be picked up?

"The ISU Members must also announce by June 1, 2025 the disciplines and/or the events in which they were originally entitled to enter participants but will not use this right." (from p. 5 of JGP series announcement)

Honest answer maybe, that's what it is for now and that's the information they have posted at the moment. I will edit my post clarifying that it could change, but it is not guaranteed.