2024-2025 Skate Canada Challenge starting orders are copied out below:
Thursday, Nov. 28 - Rink A (Pairs & Jr. Women finish in this rink on Friday):
Junior Pair SP (as of Nov. 15):
1 Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov ON
(their season debut; 2024 Junior gold medalists)
2 Noémie Rolland / Étienne Lacasse QC [J5]
(2 JGPs)
3 Siyul Back / Gavin Mahoney ON [N1]
Senior Pair SP (as of Nov. 15):
1 Cristina Lyons [S11 at 2024 Nationals] / Marty Haubrich ON
Junior Women SP (as of Nov. 25):
1 Lucille Yang ON [J7]
2 Reese Rose ON [J4]
3 Séléna Koster QC
4 Mila Marleau ON [N7]
5 Brookelynn Pollock BC/YK
6 Natasha Hewitt ON [J14]
7 Konstantina Lock BC/YK
8 Kaydee Kallay AB/NT/NU [N8]
9 Mégane Vallières QC [J10]
10 Gabrielle Jugnauth BC/YK [J11]
11 Malia Stuart BC/YK
12 Sophia Mekki ON [N9]
13 Lia Cho AB/NT/NU
(2024 Novice champion; Cranberry Cup International Adv. Novice gold medalist)
14 Kassidy Sinclair AB/NT/NU [J16]
15 Anya Roussakova NS
16 Kaylee Sun ON [N5]
17 Alice Roy QC [N15]
18 Eva Sicurella QC [N17]
19 Lily Lee ON
20 Valeria Veprjitska ON [J12]
21 Yaena Nam QC [N11]
22 Calissa Adlem BC/YK [J13]
23 Sandrine Blais QC [N3]
24 Stavrina Aranitis QC [J5]
25 Ashley Dinh ON [J15]
26 Rebecca Schindel SK
27 Laurence Gignac QC
28 Sadie Henderson AB/NT/NU
29 Caroline Mayo NS
30 Rory Greenbank MB
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Friday, Nov. 29 - Rink B (FPs are in this rink on Saturday):
Senior Men SP (as of Nov. 22):
1 Rio Morita ON [S7]
2 John Kim ON [J6]
(2 JGPs)
3 Antoine Goyette QC [S12]
4 Anthony Paradis QC
(2024 Senior bronze medalist; 2 JGPs)
5 Matthew Newnham AB/NT/NU [S5]
6 Alec Guinzbourg ON [S8]
7 Aleksa Rakic BC/YK
(2024 Senior silver medalist)
8 Bruce Waddell ON [S10]
9 David Li BC/YK
(2024 Junior silver medalist)
10 Edrian Paul Celestino QC
(back after previously representing PHI)
11 Shohei Law BC/YK [S-wd]
12 Roman Sadovsky ON [S6]
13 Brian Chiem AB/NT/NU
Junior Men SP:
1 Neo Tran BC/YK [J10]
2 Louie Fukuda-Wu BC/YK [N7]
3 Travis Trang AB/NT/NU [N2]
4 Jonathon Moravec ON [N17]
5 Kento Nakashima AB/NT/NU [N1]
6 Herman Lau ON [J18]
7 Tehryn Lee BC/YK [N6]
8 Vladimir Furman QC [J11]
9 James Cha ON [N5]
10 Nico Conforti BC/YK [N12]
11 Parker Heiderich AB/NT/NU [N4]
(2024 Trophy Metropole Côte d’Azur Junior gold medalist)
12 William Chan BC/YK [J5]
(1 JGP)
13 David Shteyngart ON
(2024 Junior bronze medalist)
14 Jake Ellis ON [J9]
15 Christopher Manis BC/YK
16 Edward Nicholas Vasii QC
(1 JGP)
17 David Bondar ON [J8]
(2 JGPs)
18 Étienne Lacasse QC [J12] - also Junior Pairs
19 Kole Sauve AB/NT/NU [N9]
20 David Howes MB [J4]
21 Liam Schmidt QC [J13]
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Saturday, Nov. 30 - Rink A (Free Dances are in Rink A; Sr. Women FP is in Rink B on Sunday):
Junior RD (as of Nov. 15):
1 Alyson Lacombe / Morgan Laliberté-Laurent QC [N2]
2 Amélia Dufour-Saysourinho / Anthony MacDonald QC [N5]
3 Charlie Anderson / Cayden Dawson ON
4 Summer Homick / Nicholas Buelow ON (1 JGP)
5 Olympia Kalaganis / Émile Deveau QC
6 Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang BC/YK
(2024 Junior silver medalists; 2 JGPs/CHN bronze medalists)
7 Olivia Corneil / Alexandre Emery ON [N9]
8 Nelly-Anne Chao / Thierry Caron QC [N8]
9 Rachel Martins / Juel Kowalczyk ON [N4] (1 JGP)
10 Auréa Cinçon-Debout / Earl Jesse Celestino QC [J8] (2 JGPs)
11 Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys ON
(2024 Junior gold medalists; 2 JGPs/CZE bronze medalists)
12 Victoria Carandiuc / Andrei Carandiuc QC [J13] (1 JGP)
13 Chaïma Ben Khelifa / Nikita Sosnenko QC
14 Sophia Gover / Billy Wilson-French ON [J7] (1 JGP)
15 Caroline Kravets / Aiden Dotzert ON
16 Anjou Karino / Andrew Song AB/NT/NU [N6]
17 Laurence Brière / Julien Lévesque QC [N1] (2 JGPs)
18 Madison Tong / Michael Boutsan ON
19 Audra Gans / Gabriel Liu QC
20 Rilee Eby / Jacob Stark ON
21 Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren QC [S10] (2 JGPs)
Senior RD (as of Nov. 25):
1 Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu QC [J4]
2 Alyssa Robinson / Jacob Portz AB/NT/NU [S9
3 Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers ON [S4]
4 Éliane Foroglou-Gadoury / Luke Anderson QC
5 Alisa Korneva / Kieran MacDonald ON
(2024 Junior bronze medalists)
Senior Women SP (as of Nov. 22):
1 Monica Finlay ON
2 Marie-Raphaële Savoie QC
3 Megan Woodley ON [J6]
(1 JGP)
4 Marie-France D'Amour QC [S11]
5 Bella Jia ON
6 Kara Yun ON [J9]
(1 JGP)
7 Hetty Shi ON
(2024 Senior bronze medalist; 2 JGPs)
8 Angelina YinLin Guan BC/YK
9 Elise Dawson ON
10 Aleksa Volkova QC
(2024 Junior silver medalist)
11 Maya Isabelle ON
12 Fée-Ann Landry QC [S5]
13 Julianne Lussier QC [S17]
14 Natalie Roccatani ON [S15]
15 Mia Clarke QC
16 Marie-Maude Pomerleau QC [S10]
17 Camille Perreault QC
18 Breken Brezden MB [S18]
19 Uma Zagele AB/NT/NU
20 Grace Johnson AB/NT/NU
21 Amy Shao Ning Yang BC/YK
22 Jade Bouchard QC
23 Uliana Shiryaeva BC/YK [S4]
24 Justine Miclette QC [S8]
25 Alexandra Sarmiento Diaz AB/NT/NU
26 Emily Sales BC/YK [J18]
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2024 Canadian national medalists not listed in the starting orders:
Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher (2024 Junior bronze medalists; have qualified for the 2024-25 JGP Final; will make their Senior debut at Nationals)
Lulu Lin (2024 Junior gold medalist; 2 JGPs; will make her Senior debut at Nationals)
Terry Yu Tao Jin (2024 Junior gold medalist - has not competed this season?)
Martina Ariano-Kent / Charly Laliberté-Laurent (2024 Junior silver medalists; have not competed this season?)
Mély-Ann Gagner (2024 Junior bronze medalist)
2 JGPs:
Grayson Long (will make his Senior debut at Nationals)
Julia Quattrocchi & Simon Desmarais (have qualified for the JGP Final)
BYES section of the rulebook:
https://info.skatecanada.ca/index.php/en-ca/rules-of-sport/54-competitions.html#h14-byes
14.5. Byed Skaters Electing to Compete
In the event that a competitor is Byed through a Sectionals competition, Skate Canada Challenge, or Regionals but elects to compete, the Bye will be retained by the competitor regardless of the result achieved by such competitor. In this case, the numbers of competitors advancing to the next level of competition will be determined as if the competitor activated their Bye.