2025 Canadian Jr. & Sr. Sectionals/Challenge

I’m still thinking about that skate. I want her to succeed and for the rest of the world to get to see her. Any chance she’s magically going to learn triples triples and/or we can coax her into pairs?
 
Shame Bouchard did just a double sal there. Her triple lutz combo looked good. She won the free skate at Sectionals after struggling in the short.
 
Turn out on the combo and only a double toe for Shiryaeva otherwise she would have taken the lead easily (she still might). She's improved so much since last year.
 
Mistake on the combo aside, I'm so impressed with Shiryaeva's progress. She's so much more engaged with her presentation now.
 
Cynthia Phaneuf had a great show program to this Shakira Je l’aime a Mourir years ago. I like this song.

Miclette with a nice 3T+3T, but down on the flip. 2A technique is kind of insane, but it was landed.

Very mature presentation.
 
I feel like it's been forever since we've seen Miclette make her triple triple. Shame about the triple flip. This is better than she's skated most of the year though. (Actually I just looked at her protocol from sectionals and this was very similar and she had a clean triple triple there).
 
A clean skate for Rakic, including a 4t and two 3a! He still really needs to improve his speed and flow to be competitive internationally though.
 
Dang these scores are close. Several skaters have a chance to win this with a good free skate tomorrow. The battle for the final spot in the last warmup group at nationals will be fierce.
 
Okay I switched to senior men for the last three skaters. (ETA the feed is doing the same wonky thing as yesterday for me and repeating the same few seconds over and over again....) Sigh everything has played so smoothly today so far.
 
Shame about the first popped axel for Morita but props to him for trying the second one later. He seems much improved from the last time I saw him skate. Seems he has the quad sal solidly now in both programs.
 
I'm so glad Paradis went for the triple axel! And that he didn't let hit affect the rest of the program, because dang this program is GLROIOUS.
 
JoannaLouise said:
Is this the first time we've seen Anthony Paradis attempt a 3a? He had a fall, but props to him for upping his technical content.
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He attempted it at Cranberry Cup (under rotated and a fall per the protocol). He's been doing a deliberate single axel there in other events this year.
 
Wow Rakic has a very clean protocol. I'll try to watch the replay if it cooperates. Even if someone skates two lights out programs at nationals I predict a 4CC skate off for the worlds spot. I have no idea who to give it to and it might be difficult to even qualify a man to the Olympics. We may need an extra team event quota place to see one of our men at the next Olympics I'm afraid. Would love to be proven wrong though.
 
Darn I tried to watch the junior men replay and it was all glitchy. I wonder if they are still having problems with the feed in rink B as rink A was better today for me.
 
danafan said:
Wow Rakic has a very clean protocol. I'll try to watch the replay if it cooperates. Even if someone skates two lights out programs at nationals I predict a 4CC skate off for the worlds spot. I have no idea who to give it to and it might be difficult to even qualify a man to the Olympics. We may need an extra team event quota place to see one of our men at the next Olympics I'm afraid. Would love to be proven wrong though.
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Ehhhhh... Gogolev and Sadovsky both have SBs in the SP that would get them into the FS at Worlds - barely, but still.
 
I saw it live and, for me, Aleksa had the skate of the night. I watched the senior men's practice earlier in the day and although they didn't all hit them for the competition, I was really pleased to see so many 3As and quads landed. Anthony only attempted one 3A during the practice and it went very similar to the one in his program. John Kim did not have a great skate but he looked vey impressive in the practice. Matthew Newnham is a joy to watch, has such lovely lines, and finishes each movement. Rio Morita is massively improved from the last time I saw him several years ago.

Junior and Senior dance were great. So much fun!!
 
Laurie Nealin article appearing in yesterday's edition of the Winnipeg Free Press (email required to read full article): Winnipeg pair erases all doubt

First, Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov knocked off any lingering rust in their finale to take the junior pair title after a nine-month absence from competition.
With an assist from Freddie Mercury, the reigning Canadian junior champions were excited to be, and to show, they are back in the game after Kemp’s extended recovery from injury.
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Meanwhile, fellow Winnipegger and junior men’s competitor David Howes, 17, is in medal contention after ranking fourth in his short program opener. With the four top-scoring men separated by fewer than four points, it will be a fight to the finish in the free skate on Saturday afternoon.
“It’s exactly what I’ve been doing in training, so I’m happy to have been able to put that out in a national competition,” said Howes, who now trains in Richmond, B.C.
Skating to Everybody Wants to Rule the World, the 2023 Canadian novice men’s champion garnered bonus points for the quality of his jumps, spins and footwork save for his triple flip jump which was judged to be a smidge short of rotation.
“I really love (the music) and Joey Russell, who did the choreography, did a really fantastic job,” said Howes, noting it took him a while to warm up to the piece after his coach suggested it.
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Six hours before Howes stepped on the ice, Kemp and Elizarov debuted their new long program set to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Even before their choreographer suggested it, that music had piqued Kemp’s interest and she wondered if it was something worth considering.
“We were wanting to do something different than our long program last year because it was kinda super serious,” said Elizarov. “We wanted the long to be a little more fun, a bit more entertaining so that’s the goal.”
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They will ramp up the technical difficulty of their long program over the next six weeks — turning the throw double-jumps and individual double salchows they performed here into triples.
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I don't know what happened with Maya Isabelle but she skated over to the referee, then left the ice and came back to finish her program.
 
Camille Perrault looks really happy in the kiss and cry. She landed a lot of triples (I think 5?) 52 tech score! She looks less happy after her score was posted.
 
Today was much better for Natalie Roccatani. I think she has seven triples in her plant content today. She was with Karen Preston and Tracy Wilson in the kiss and cry. New leader
 
After the second skater in this group we will start to see the first qualifiers for nationals. Perrault still has the highest TES of 52 from the first group.
 
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Lussier's marks are taking forever. Seriously when will we find out who the first qualifier is?!
 
Grace Johnson will be the first official qualifier. She skated very well and clean but didn't do any of the harder triples.
 
Marie-France d'Amour saved a lot of landings and managed to avoid falling a few times. A really nice triple lutz combo at the beginning. I think this will qualify.
 
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