Shocked. 8 years ago they were the up and coming novice team in the US. When they lost that footing it seems their connection with Israel was the path to world acclaim. Lots we don't know but I guess it was not to be.
2025-26 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships
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Shocked. 8 years ago they were the up and coming novice team in the US. When they lost that footing it seems their connection with Israel was the path to world acclaim. Lots we don't know but I guess it was not to be.
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Does anyone know anything about Louis Gregory? Is he at Ashlie's level?
He was a very artistic friend skater who hasn't competed in dance before. Based on training clips, and being assigned JGPs I think it's very promising.
And they have their first international event a couple of days later at the Bolero Cup, alongside another new (GBR) couple Dana Sabatini-Speciale and Daniel Kaye plus newish (GBR) couple Sophia Bushell and Antonio Pena.
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Max and Sofia have been skating together for years. They've been at Junior Worlds since 2022/23 https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00111923.htm
They train in Novi MI so it is a quick drive to DSC for Skate Detroit, and I think many of Igor's kids are competing at Skate Detroit
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With all the return announcements thus far this season I feel that a "Returnee" or "Out of Retirement" option should have been added to keep track of. This is starting to feel a little like the lead up to the 1994 Olympics when pros could return to competition.
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I think I may have confused them with some other team.
I think I am working too much and too hard to keep up with skating these days.
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Just Keegan really, as Cizeron, Sui/Han and Shibsibs were in last year's thread already.
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Baylen and Nikolai are skating with Chris and Alexa Knierim and Timothy Leduc in Chicago suburbs. Things are going really well for them and as noted they are added to the ISP for junior pairs even before competing. They have had critiques with judges formally and have done a couple of demonstration progrms. They will be competing for the first time in an NQS competition called Greater Chicagoland Open Sept 4-7. Before finding Nikolai, Baylen was learning new pair elements and mastering skills with Chris while keeping up her singles skating. This season she is competing both singles and pairs. Last season in 2024 to 2025 she made the national development camp in intermediate women. She is competing as a novice woman this year and then will be also doing junior pairs. I’ve seen them skate together and they’re really good match. It looks like they’ll be planning to start with content including a double twist (they can do triple off ice), throw doubles, a stag lift and another lift also an upgrade from Baylens previous experience, SBS axel sequence, building a solid successful Junior repertoire.
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Maite Van Mulders and Robbe De Vos (BEL) have split.
Seems to have been a messy one...
Seems to have been a messy one...
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This looks a lot like a new partnership announcement:
Dauria Romanenko / Timmy Chapman (USA, pairs)
Dauria Romanenko / Timmy Chapman (USA, pairs)
Amy Ritchie and Mitchell Dunn are a new Pairs team for Canada.
They're listed on the entry list for BC/YT Autumn Leaves separately as competing in Junior Pairs, with the only other entries for Junior Pairs being Jaslynn Wong/Nico Conforti. They also appeared together in an Instagram reel from Connaught, along with Wong/Conforti and Ava Cheung/Stephen Lee.
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This also means that Monique Menard/Mitchell Dunn (Pairs, Canada) have split. They last competed together at BC/YT Super Series High Performance in June 2025 and were entered for Championnats quebecois d'ete.
They're listed on the entry list for BC/YT Autumn Leaves separately as competing in Junior Pairs, with the only other entries for Junior Pairs being Jaslynn Wong/Nico Conforti. They also appeared together in an Instagram reel from Connaught, along with Wong/Conforti and Ava Cheung/Stephen Lee.
Connaught Skating Club on Instagram: "Carrying ourselves through the last part of the long weekend"
141 likes, 0 comments - connaught_sc on August 31, 2025: "Carrying ourselves through the last part of the long weekend".
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This also means that Monique Menard/Mitchell Dunn (Pairs, Canada) have split. They last competed together at BC/YT Super Series High Performance in June 2025 and were entered for Championnats quebecois d'ete.
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Nora Rothenbuehler/Manuel Rossi (Pairs, Switzerland) appear to have split as he is now on Ice Partner Search.
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This is official now:
Carpenter/Maravilla have split.
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Carpenter/Maravilla have split.
Jon and Saya on Instagram: "Hi everyone, unfortunately, we have decided to end our pair partnership together. We have been through a whole lot these 4 years that we have skated together. Our first national title in intermediate, junior grand prixs, j
203 likes, 11 comments - jonandsaya on September 6, 2025: "Hi everyone, unfortunately, we have decided to end our pair partnership together. We have been through a whole lot these 4 years that we have skated together. Our first national title in intermediate, junior grand prixs, junior...
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I realise they were a US team, but as I don't know them (sorry), pair or ID?This is official now:
Carpenter/Maravilla have split.
Jon and Saya on Instagram: "Hi everyone, unfortunately, we have decided to end our pair partnership together. We have been through a whole lot these 4 years that we have skated together. Our first national title in intermediate, junior grand prixs, j
203 likes, 11 comments - jonandsaya on September 6, 2025: "Hi everyone, unfortunately, we have decided to end our pair partnership together. We have been through a whole lot these 4 years that we have skated together. Our first national title in intermediate, junior grand prixs, junior...
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Sorry, they were a junior pair team.
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Thanks. No worries, I tend to know these things about senior teams, just not often about juniors.
I wonder if their affiliation with Israel and the mandatory military requirements for young Israeli adults-male and female, had anything to do with it. I'm not sure how dual citizenship works in this case, but it seems strange that they would pull out after preparing for the new season and likely making the minimum to skate for Israel at the Olympics. I've always enjoyed their skating and wish them all the best. Life does go on.@saine is always a click or two ahead of us
When teams retire or split after the first competition of the season (hello Marly) I often think it's either one of two things
1) Commitment level of one of the partners not matching the other
2) Realizing that they don't want to compete/train at the highest level anymore and it's better to end things before the real season starts and too much work has been done to back out.
I find that it also often happens years around the Olympic year... for obvious reasons. Teams of that level are not going to make a statement at the Olympics (or even qualify) and if that was a goal for them, they would be in for another 5 years.
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