In addition to those who have senior GP events, I would be sending out Breken, Uliana and possibly Katherine Medland-Spence. I think Gabby needs a bit longer to be really secure and not be at risk of overdoing it, so wouldn't send her to the earlier competitions. She doesn't need to gain experience of the international environment, whereas the others do.
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Wow!! Timed it perfectly to watch Kaiya and she was phenomenal. This program suites her so well. She actually skated this event better than her winning Nationals performance. I’m clearly rooting for Kaiya to be sent to Senior Worlds. Maddie vs Kaiya this season. Also, after Breken’s skate here, I think Sara Maude is our third best female skater. National team is bang on with our single categories. Total score of 189.92 is 
I heard the announcer name the medalists:
1) Kaiya Ruiter
2) Katherine Medland Spence
3) Breken Brezden
…. Gabby
Hopefully, Gabby placed fourth here
I heard the announcer name the medalists:
1) Kaiya Ruiter
2) Katherine Medland Spence
3) Breken Brezden
…. Gabby
Hopefully, Gabby placed fourth here
You forgot Fee Ann!! I would send her out prior to the three mentioned ladies
Yes. I'd fused her with Mely-Ann and put her back in juniors!.You forgot Fee Ann!! I would send her out prior to the three mentioned ladies
I'd ha a feeling I was missing someone. She is the other senior lady I'd send out in the next set of competitions.Gabby went into second after she skated, so I think that means she will have ended up 4th overall. Pretty good when she's been out so long.Wow!! Timed it perfectly to watch Kaiya and she was phenomenal. This program suites her so well. She actually skated this event better than her winning Nationals performance. I’m clearly rooting for Kaiya to be sent to Senior Worlds. Maddie vs Kaiya this season. Also, after Breken’s skate here, I think Sara Maude is our third best female skater. National team is bang on with our single categories. Total score of 189.92 is
I heard the announcer name the medalists:
1) Kaiya Ruiter
2) Katherine Medland Spence
3) Breken Brezden
…. Gabby
Hopefully, Gabby placed fourth here
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I would say Breken looked tired today but still gave a captivating performance if not as good as last week. After all, her last competition was just last week - that must be hard! She absolutely deserves a Senior B this autumn.
Kaiya gave us two beautiful programmes. She didn't pop or fall. Kudos to her - yes, she deserves to be considered to be in the fight for the World's spot. Not sure under the new "combined" TES what she needs to also do to qualify for Worlds. Also needs to get her programmes in front of other tech panels (international). I agreed with this panel but I am just a fan who wears glasses.
Uliana also needs to be included in the mix. Her short programme is great and she looks happy skating it. Her free looks a bit more laboured at this point in the season but with promise. She needs to now convince international tech panels and judges she is a factor.
Sarah-Maude has been hot and cold but such a impressive skater when she controls her power. Skate Canada has already rewarded her so not worried but of course, Senior B before SCI
I haven't given up on Maddie. She has changed the layout for both short and free - perhaps she needs time to get used to it. We know that when she is on, judges like her and reward her. Fingers crossed for her.
There needs to be a Senior C division perhaps for all of the skaters who show moments of brilliance but perhaps don't get have the full package (is there one?). But where international competition/judging would help them to learn and mature. Miriam, Bella, Katherine all deserve that (and Fee Ann, perhaps Justine as she has been having issues for awhile with consistency)
Let's see how the season progresses. Also loved seeing Gabby enjoy skating. Her smile and fist pump at the end of the free made my day.
I would say Breken looked tired today but still gave a captivating performance if not as good as last week. After all, her last competition was just last week - that must be hard! She absolutely deserves a Senior B this autumn.
Kaiya gave us two beautiful programmes. She didn't pop or fall. Kudos to her - yes, she deserves to be considered to be in the fight for the World's spot. Not sure under the new "combined" TES what she needs to also do to qualify for Worlds. Also needs to get her programmes in front of other tech panels (international). I agreed with this panel but I am just a fan who wears glasses.
Uliana also needs to be included in the mix. Her short programme is great and she looks happy skating it. Her free looks a bit more laboured at this point in the season but with promise. She needs to now convince international tech panels and judges she is a factor.
Sarah-Maude has been hot and cold but such a impressive skater when she controls her power. Skate Canada has already rewarded her so not worried but of course, Senior B before SCI
I haven't given up on Maddie. She has changed the layout for both short and free - perhaps she needs time to get used to it. We know that when she is on, judges like her and reward her. Fingers crossed for her.
There needs to be a Senior C division perhaps for all of the skaters who show moments of brilliance but perhaps don't get have the full package (is there one?). But where international competition/judging would help them to learn and mature. Miriam, Bella, Katherine all deserve that (and Fee Ann, perhaps Justine as she has been having issues for awhile with consistency)
Let's see how the season progresses. Also loved seeing Gabby enjoy skating. Her smile and fist pump at the end of the free made my day.
I really like the LP choice for Kaiya. It suited her well similar to when she did the Mulan soundtrack, she seems to do better with portraying a character in terms of performance. Her SP music choice I am not sure why pick such a cover when there are so many other pieces of music out there.
I didn't recognize the coach she was with tonight and she might be doing summer training in Ontario to have picked this sectionals over the BC/Alberta one.
I didn't recognize the coach she was with tonight and she might be doing summer training in Ontario to have picked this sectionals over the BC/Alberta one.
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Love that she is going for two Lo’s now instead!!! She usually falls or stumbles with too many lutzes and flips.
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Love that she is going for two Lo’s now instead!!! She usually falls or stumbles with too many lutzes and flips.
I think she also needs to get feedback from international judges to convince her that technical elements alone are not enough on the international circuit. She can win domestic competitions by having better jumps than all the other Canadian women, but she needs better skating skills and performance skills to do well internationally. I would have preferred her to learn that out of the spotlight, on the junior international circuit - but it does look like she's intending to only do senior this year.
Her current CTES is 84.82, so she's 5.18 points off for Worlds. Changing her layout to repeat the 3Lo instead of 3Lz could make up those points she needs. But it'll definitely depend on the tech panel.
Her official SB score (senior only - I've disregarded the junior ones as they cannot count towards senior CTES) last year was the Autumn classic. She lost over 7 points on her TES there through under-rotations. Sorting out the rotation issues is what I think would make the biggest difference. Looking through the protocols for her senior events last year, her 3Lo does seem to be the most consistent - but not when she does it at the end of a combo. There were also a couple of events where she needlessly dropped points by getting a V for her change combination spin. Levels for those have varied enormously between events, so improving consistency there would help as well.
Going back to juniors for the second half of the season helped a lot with experience (youth olympics in particular should have been really valuable in that respect), but meant she had no further opportunities for gaining the senior technical minimums. If you take her TES from junior worlds and add in 4 points for the step sequence the juniors omit, that would have been enough for the senior CTES if it had been a senior event.
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UR + spins kill her score. I agree.
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Love both Kaiya Ruiter and Gabby Daleman program ! Hope both of them have a great season.
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Archives are up!
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Pillers is missing Sunday at the moment. I'll add in time stamps for where everything should be.
Edit - I can't find any of the Junior or Senior events in the archives, I'll check back later
Optimist Rink - https://skateontario-streaming.memberlounge.app/resources/sectional-series-2-august-optimist-rink
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Pillers is missing Sunday at the moment. I'll add in time stamps for where everything should be.
Edit - I can't find any of the Junior or Senior events in the archives, I'll check back later
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