What ever happened to Caitlin Yankowskas
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We had her for a while, when she skated with Hamish Gaman. But, then they ran out of money, and ended up retiring.
Here is how I announced their retirement on here:
The Facebook link doesn't work any more. But you can get the gist of what happened from the conversation below my post.
Although they got together very late on in his career, I had high hopes for her and Hamish. But, hey, these things happen.
To answer your question, I don't know what Caitlin is doing now. But, Hamish was one of the professional skaters on this year's series of "Dancing On Ice".
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Still not over Coughlin dumping her for Denney. Such a dumb move.
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But he's now learnt from his mistakes and has found a new partner. Probably the best partner you could ever imagine:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BprqKU-Fgt2/
You can blame Mathman for that one!
(Here is where it was originally posted).CaroLiza_fan
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me too
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Yeah and he and Denney didn't even make the Olympics together.
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Wait, is this the Caitlin who partnered with John Coughlin after the death of his mother, and she helped him work through the grief, skated Ave Maria, and then they won Nationals, got 5th? at World's, the best placement for US Pairs in a decade or something and then ...
Next season, he said lol bye Caitlin, I got a new partner.
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6th at Worlds, but I get your point!
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Yeah, pretty much.
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:sad21: Too soon
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Didn't say he was retiring and then found new passion to team up with Denney?
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Delilah had Caydee do a tryout with John before Worlds at their rink. So basically many other people at their rink knew that John was looking for a new partner before Caitlin did. I forgot if someone told her before or after Worlds but either way it did not come from John or Delilah. She does tell the whole story in her TSL interview years ago but it’s clear she doesn’t want to talk about it anymore.
I am still not over it tbh, I still think USFSA should have slashed Caydee and John’s funding but they got all the financial and politicking support and it was like his partnership with Caitlin never happened.
When the Knierims left Delilah I was just like...it’s what she deserves.gif
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I think that's what he originally said, LOL.
She last skated for the United Kingdom with Hamish Gaman.
September 10, 2015, Yankowskas and Gaman announced their retirements from competitive figure skating due to lack of funding.
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i found this video from American Ice Theatre from sometime last year of her doing some footwork/choreography. This is all i could find on her in recent years.
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanIceTheatre/videos/10155035892176173/
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanIceTheatre/videos/10155035892176173/
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Thank you for the video link
She truly was (=is) immensely talented. So glad to see that she still is on the ice! And immensely sad 
that US pair skating lost such a wonderful skater; that her career was abrupted against her will with John Coughlin.
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Thank you for the video link
It happens all too often. Marissa Castelli's career recently was abrupted against her will with Mervin Tran. Marissa's older, though, and already happy to have moved on.
Simon Shnapir's career was abrupted against his will with Marissa Castelli, right after they went to the Olympics. Simon had wanted to try for another one.
Ashley Cain's pairs career got abrupted by her partner Joshua Reagan when he broke the partnership ... so he could skate with Caitlin Yankowskas. Ashley thought she wouldn't get to do pairs again, until 4 years later. It was John Coughlin who encouraged her to try a few pairs moves with him ... which made her fall in love with pairs again, and gave her the belief in herself that she needed. Next thing she knew, USFS was pairing her up with Timothy Leduc ....
Timothy Leduc had also had his career abrupted with Dee Dee Leng, although I don't know who initiated the break-up or if it was mutual. All of the above break-ups, except Mervin/Marissa, happened right after the pair had had a major competition win/advance/breakthrough. I recall John saying at the time that he couldn't any longer be miserable in training every day. (Was Caitlin not aware of this? From her TSL interview, I think she wasn't.) In fact, that was also why Marissa broke the partnership with Simon. She was tired of the personality struggle they had ... even though it got results. I seem to recall Simon being surprised also.
Count me among the people who never got over the Yankowskis/Coughlin break-up ... until a few days ago, when I read Ashley Cain's post and how she credited John with giving her the encouragement to love pairs again. This is interesting, because her break-up with Joshua Reagan was a direct result of Caitlin Y. having to look for -- and finding -- a new partner: Josh.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3vRiWFDHU/ Ashley's IG post.
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i don't follow pairs too closely, but this discipline clearly has way more drama than the others
i never knew all this happened and how some skaters were abruptly "dumped" by their partner. it's almost as if we're talking about romantic relationships! haha. but that's really unfortunate some of them didn't feel like they could communicate their issues with their partner which ultimately led to the break up.
