2025–26 Canadian Women: News and Updates

[jägerbomb]

Is it just me, or have Schizas' basics regressed somewhat? I don't ever remember her posture being quite this bad.

I also don't think this long program was worth keeping and the packaging is not great -- she looks very juvenile.

I think it's unfortunate she hasn't been able to capitalize on her obvious potential this quadrennial.

 

[Jay42]

Let's not get all doom and gloomy here. It's not like we have a 1995 era Canadian women's situation. Schizas has another GP event to redeem herself. Medland Spence could have a good outing next week. Dupuis and Ruiter have had some good early season outings and there are several not yet age eligible women with great potential for the future. Fingers crossed that we'll see some great skates at Nationals.

Oh I'm definitely excited for the future, what I've read about the juniors is very promising and we haven't even had the chance to see what Minsol Kwon can do (please God do not let her train with Joanne McLeod). Just in the context of this season, I do genuinely think pretty much any of the women we can send will make the FS at Olympics and Worlds so I do think sending any of the women would be fine. It's just frustrating I think because we know Maddie Schizas has a lot of potential but instead of rising to it she's been kind of regressing over the last year or so. Like yes Worlds was her best finish yet but what she had been doing before that hadn't been dazzling and she was behind Dupuis at 4CCs.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

It's crazy to think Canada had two women on the World Podium in 2017, and that was against a full international field (including Team USA, Team JPN, Team KOR and Team RUS.)

 

[Winnipeg]

It has always been a mystery to me why the women's field in Canada is so inconsistent over the years. Some stars like Kaetlyn Osmond, Rochette, etc and then slump periods like the one we are currently in now

 

[honey]

Weird that Schizas went back to last years LP dress. I actually really liked the green one she was wearing for the Challengers. I agree the pink one is juvenile looking (along with swallowing her up with appliqués).

But this seems to be the least of the problems right now. She needs to really think long and hard about what has been going wrong this season, because apart from a couple of good SPs in summer events, she’s been having meltdowns left and right. Panic move to Ravi is kind of where my mind goes, but doubt she will do that.

I also read the Rob Brodie piece from Saturday and she said the Black Swan music still hasn’t cleared. So should she make it to the Olympics, that program cannot be what she skates. She seems to be debating on whether she does it again in Finland and changes after that or tries to change to something else in the next few weeks. The music clearance seems to be a real pain for everyone.