2026 Canadian Nationals : Women's Short Program

[4everchan]

2026 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships
January 5-11, 2026

Slush Puppie Centre
Gatineau, Québec, Canada

500 Bd de la Cité
Gatineau, QC J8T 0H4
Québec, Canada

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Senior Women’s Short Program

Saturday, January 10, 2026
17:30 EST (UTC-5)

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SP Start Order & Results

Warm Up Group 1​

1 Sandrine Blais QC
SP: "The Fire Within" by Jennifer Thomas
FS: "The Blue Planet" soundtrack
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 15th
2025 Canadian Junior Championships - 3rd

2 Amy Shao Ning Yang BC/YT
SP: "Mad World" by 2WEI, Tommee Profitt and Fleurie
FS: Thais: Meditation; "Dawn of Faith" by Eternal Eclipse
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 14th
2025 Canadian Championships - 14th

3 Cristina Lyons ON
SP: "Running Up That Hill" (Stranger Things Theme) [featuring Wonder] [Epic Orchestral Version]
FS: "Young and Beautiful" (cover)
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 13th
Did not compete in singles in2024-25
Previously competed in Sr. Pairs with Marty Haubrich

4 Breken Brezden MB
SP: "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters
FS: "Lost in Time" by Karl Hugo; "Theme from Somewhere in Time" by John Barry from the Somewhere in Time soundtrack; choreo by Lance Vipond
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 12th
2025 Canadian Championships- 5th

5 Justine Miclette QC
SP: "Je l'aime a mourir" by Shakira (kept from 2024-25)
FS: "La Isla Bonita (Extended Remix)" by Madonna; "Solo Tu" by Elliot Goldenthal; "Like A Prayer" by Madonna
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 11th
2025 Canadian Championships - 11th

6 Hetty Shi ON
SP: "Histoire d'un Amour"
FS: "Pas de deux" from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 10th
2025 Canadian Championships - 8th

Warm Up Group 2​

7 Lulu Lin ON
SP: "Puttin' On The Ritz;" "Swingin' at the Savoy" by Ella Fitzgerald
FS: "A Love Before Time," "Yearning of the Sword" by Coco Lee, from the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack; choreo by David Wilson
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 9th
2024-25 World Juniors - 24th

8 Reese Rose ON
SP: "Dog Days Are Over" by by Florence + The Machine
FS: "Rumor Has It" by Adele and Ryan Tedder; "Someone Like You" by Adele and Dan Wilson; "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele and Paul Epworth; choreo by Julie Brault
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 8th
2025 Canadian Junior Championships - 4th

9 Marie-Maude Pomerleau QC
SP: "Seven Nation Army" (cover)
FS: " The Songcord" from Avatar: The Way of Water; "The Hunt" from Avatar: The Way of Water; choreo by Joey Russell, Julie Marcotte
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 7th
2025 Canadian Championships - 12th

10 Kaiya Ruiter AB/NT/NU
SP: "Smile" ( it's a cover of Nat King Cole by Kristin Chenoweth)
FS: Titanic soundtrack; "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion; choreo by Joey Russell
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 6th
2025 Canadian Championships- 4th

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11 Fée Ann Landry QC
SP: "Born For This" (Epic Orchestral Mix) by Foxxi
FS: "Runaway" by Aurora; "Running with the Wolves" by Aurora (kept from 2024-25; choreo by David Wilson, Marie-France Dubreuil
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 5th
2025 Canadian Championships - 10th

12 Minsol Kwon ON
SP: James Bond Medley: "Gun Barrel" (from No Time to Die) by Hans Zimmer; "Los Meurtos Vivos Estan (from Spectre) by Thomas Newman featuring Tambuco; "The Name's Bond... James Bond" (from Casino Royale) by Nicholas Dodd & Orchestra; choreo. by Misha Ge
FS: Invierno Porteño by Astor Piazzolla; Performed by Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 4th
Previously competed for Korea

Warm Up Group 3​

13 Megan Woodley ON
SP: "Carmen Ballet V. Entrance of Carmen and Habanera" by George Bizet, Rodion Shchedrin, Filippa Giordano
FS: "Story of My Life (Acoustic) & Rewriting My Life" by Savannah Outen, Karl Hugo; choreo by Mary Larmer, Jeffrey Buttle
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 3rd
2025 Canadian Championships- 7th

14 Gabrielle Daleman ON
SP: "I'm Here" by Pink, choreo by Kaitlyn Weaver
FS: "Bacchanale" (from Samson and Delilah)by Camille Saint-Saëns; choreo by Lori Nichol
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 1st
Did not compete in 2024-25

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FanFest: https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/55190

15 Uliana Shiryaeva BC/YT
SP: "Voila" by Barbara Pravi (from 2024-25)
FS: "La Terre Vue Du Ciel" by Armand Amar, choreo by Mark Pillay (kept from 2024-25)
2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge - 2nd
2025 Canadian Championships - 9th

16 Katherine Medland Spence ON
SP: "With One Look" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patti LuPone
FS: "Photograph / Clair de Lune" by Cody Fry; choreo by Danielle Rose
BYE - 2025 Canadian Championships- 3rd

17 Sara-Maude Dupuis QC
SP: "Ray of Light" by Madonna
FS: "Castells" (Human soundtrack) by Armand Amar, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Julien Carton; "Dam in China" (Human soundtrack) by Armand Amar, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; "Paddy Fields" (Human soundtrack) by Armand Amar, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Grégoire Korniluk; "Toil" (Human soundtrack) by Armand Amar, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Grégoire Korniluk; choreo by David Wilson (kept from 2024-25)
BYE - 2025 Canadian Championships- 2nd

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FanFest: https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/98909

18 Madeline Schizas ON
SP: "Spirit" (from "The Lion King") by Beyonce, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Timothy Lee McKenzie; "Grasslands Chant" (from "The Lion King") by Lebo M; "Remember" (from "The Lion King") by Hans Zimmer
FS: "Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto" by Gang Chen, Zhanhao He; choreo by Alison Purkiss, Asher Hill
BYE - 2025 Canadian Championships- 1st

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FanFest: https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/88675

 

[Skater Boy]

Will the judges dump Madi? I think the problem is no one this year has taken the lead. Sarah, Katherine, Gabby have had their chances. So Skae Canada is going to have a tough decision who to send. If Schizas wins that makes it easy as she is the defending champion and overall has skated while not great as well or better than the rest.. I would be very very worried if Sarah or Katherine have the skate of their life because I am not sure how reasonable it is to assume they will replicate it at Olympics. I guess SC can try to look at the future with Lulu and Kwon for interest but they aren't Oly eliigble I believe.

 

[4everchan]

Katherine has been injured and is not back to the shape she demonstrated last year. Even with her challenger win, she's not really showing a great body of work. Sara- Maude has a better record but is still not getting much love from the judges on GOE and PCS. Gabby can get higher GOE and good PCS but her comeback still is not showing consistency. It's really up to Madeline to punch her tickets. She has it in her own hands. Anyone else depends really on Maddie not being able to deliver a stable enough performance. If Maddie is off the podium with disaster skates, it may happen that skate Canada sends someone else... But it will take a lot of things to align properly for anyone else than Maddie to punch that ticket. What is interesting me is the 4CC and the JWC selections as we'll as potentially WC selection. A bad performance from Maddie at Nationals may lead to Skate Canada splitting Olympics and Worlds between two women.

 

[jersey1302]

Will the judges dump Madi? I think the problem is no one this year has taken the lead. Sarah, Katherine, Gabby have had their chances. So Skae Canada is going to have a tough decision who to send. If Schizas wins that makes it easy as she is the defending champion and overall has skated while not great as well or better than the rest.. I would be very very worried if Sarah or Katherine have the skate of their life because I am not sure how reasonable it is to assume they will replicate it at Olympics. I guess SC can try to look at the future with Lulu and Kwon for interest but they aren't Oly eliigble I believe.

I can’t see them sending Katherine period.. Sara I could. I also think possibly depending how nationals is skated they may send the top 3 to 4cc to make a decision too if they’re all close.

 

[saine]

I can’t see them sending Katherine period.. Sara I could. I also think possibly depending how nationals is skated they may send the top 3 to 4cc to make a decision too if they’re all close.

There won't be a 4CC skate-off. They didn't include 2026 4CC in the Olympics selection criteria (but did for Worlds) and specified the qualification period would end January 11, 2026. Debra Armstrong already said in an interview that 4CC and Olympics would very likely be split. If it's close, they'll go to the body of work.

 

[jersey1302]

There won't be a 4CC skate-off. They didn't include 2026 4CC in the Olympics selection criteria (but did for Worlds) and specified the qualification period would end January 11, 2026. Debra Armstrong already said in an interview that 4CC and Olympics would very likely be split. If it's close, they'll go to the body of work.

Oh ok. Interesting . But I guess that’s a close cut off for the event.

 

[jersey1302]

Do we know if Madeline is doing lion king or going to a new one? And does anyone know what she’s skating to if she qualifies Olympics for the short program?

 

[HeadBanger]

I can’t see them sending Katherine period.. Sara I could. I also think possibly depending how nationals is skated they may send the top 3 to 4cc to make a decision too if they’re all close.

I concur. If Sara nails both here programs and the 3A, I’d say the spot is hers

Short of that, it’s Maddie’s to lose. I don’t see Katherine as a viable option, Kaiya just isn’t there yet, and after seeing Gabby give up on her program at SCC I’m not real interested in sending her to any major competitions either

 

[Andrea82]

Officials

Name	Role
Veronique Gosselin	Technical Controller
Kevin Reynolds	Technical Specialist
Jayson Peace	Technical Specialist
Glenn Fortin	Referee
Jeff Lukasik	Judge 1
Christine Bourdeau	Judge 2
Karen Howard	Judge 3
Leslie Keen	Judge 4
Susan Morriss	Judge 5
Hilary Quick	Judge 6
Wei Shi	Judge 7
Andrew Bosco	Judge 8
Lynne Dey	Judge 9

 

[Jammers]

I can’t see them sending Katherine period.. Sara I could. I also think possibly depending how nationals is skated they may send the top 3 to 4cc to make a decision too if they’re all close.

No way are they sending the top 3 to 4CC to fight it out since the Olympics will be less then two weeks away and whoever is being considered for the team is not going to compete at 4CC.

 

[jersey1302]

No way are they sending the top 3 to 4CC to fight it out since the Olympics will be less then two weeks away and whoever is being considered for the team is not going to compete at 4CC.

Yeah you are correct. Skate Canada is naming the team right after nationals. They are not sending anyone to 4CC to make a decision on who is on the team. Going to be a very interesting nationals for women!

 

[soccerjc77]

One thing I would like to happen is since that Benoit Richaud is there with Stephen Gogolev.
I would be happy if Uliana Shiryaeva meet Benoit Richaud and work with him for her free skate La terre vue du ciel to make it work like Adam Siao Him Fa.

 

[4everchan]

5 minute call

 

[saine]

Before the short starts, this is the information about what is going on with the Lion King (from Robert Brodie):

But beyond that little moment of bravado, there was this piece of happy news (which we’re guessing no doubt fuels that sentiment, at least in part) — “The Lion King” is cleared for takeoff to Milan. Well, most of it. The short program music that Schizas and her coaching team had pretty much written off for the Olympics — she had told us back in the spring the price tag to clear it was “exorbitant” — is suddenly ready to roar once again.

“It was after I did sectionals (in the fall) with our younger skaters. I took a four-day trip to Aruba and on the plane, I got an email from Debra (Armstrong, Skate Canada’s CEO) saying they were able to clear the second and third pieces of music, right out of the blue,” said Nancy Lemaire, Schizas’ coach at the Milton Skating Club, who used “a huge relief” to describe her reaction to that rather important piece of news.

“We were actually thinking we were going to have to go back to ‘The Black Swan’ (they had plans to use older versions of music by Tchaikovsky; the version they had used earlier in the season had not received music rights clearance). It’s a huge relief.”

“A happy surprise,” Schizas called it.

The opening section of music in the program, which lasts about 35 seconds, didn’t receive the go ahead. But there is already a Plan B in place for that part of the program, to complete the circle of its life, if you will.

“We’re still looking at the first piece, the first 35 seconds, but we’ve offered up a couple of different options, and the guy who works for Skate Canada clearing music is looking into it,” said Lemaire.

 

[cocteautwin]

Schedule is wild tonight. I'm a bit sleepy but I hope I can survive till us free dance.

 

[saine]

Those Maddie and Gabby quotes

 

[RatedPG]

Those Maddie and Gabby quotes

I love it
Cut the nice and positive vibes here in Canada

I want to see a competition with athletes who want to compete and win

 

[RatedPG]

Go Amy!!!

 

[RatedPG]

Cristina
Potential candidate to pair up with David S

 

[saine]

Enzo at the boards!

(there's going to be a dog in the kiss and cry with Sandrine, the commentators spent the Junior events realizing they weren't a stuffie )