2021 Skate Canada Challenge: Senior Ladies

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2021 Skate Canada Challenge
Senior Ladies
Short Program - Jan 15 / 16:00 (EST)
Free Skate - Jan 16 / 16:10 (EST)

1	Catherine Carle	ON
2	Emilie Roy	NB
3	Faith Benko	BC/YK
4	Heidi Pelchat	QC
5	Elizabeth Hatzis	QC
6	Katherine Medland Spence	ON
7	Michelle Rivest	QC
8	Jennyfer Richer-Labelle	QC
9	Gabrielle Daleman	ON
10	Véronik Mallet	QC
11	Michelle Long	ON
12	Emily Bausback	BC/YK
13	Lissa Anne McGaghey	NB
14	Emma Bulawka	BC/YK
15	Angel Green	ON
16	Béatrice Lavoie-Léonard	QC
17	Kim DeGuise Leveillee	QC
18	Kaiya Ruiter	AB/NT/NU
19	Viviane Fontaine-Maltais	QC
20	Emma Dinda	ON
21	Madison Moore	AB/NT/NU
22	Kristina Ivanova	ON
23	Alexa Matveev	ON
24	Emmanuelle Proft	ON
25	Amanda Tobin	ON
26	Alison Schumacher	ON
27	Sarah Tamura	BC/YK
28	Danae Russell	MB
29	Madeline Schizas	ON
30	Amelia Orzel	ON
31	Emily Millard	BC/YK

 

[Roo87]

Well that was a nice start, great skate Catherine! and a 3-3!!

 

[Supernovaimplosion]

Shame about the camel spin

 

[Supernovaimplosion]

If these keeps up maybe we should have more virtual competitions

 

[Jeanie19]

Emilie is 35. Great skate for her.

 

[RatedPG]

I just joined to watch 5 minutes ago. Missed the first half. It doesn’t look like I missed much. I watched Michelle Long’s skate and Emily Bausback..... I like Emily’s program. Michelle was good too. But, the jumps

 

[Jeanie19]

I missed some. How do you rewind on Daily motion?

 

[Roo87]

Kaiya!!!!! yes!

 

[Koatterce]

Kaiya!!! so good

 

[Colonel Green]

I missed some. How do you rewind on Daily motion?

You can't, until it's archived.

If Kaiya could start getting more GOE on her jumps she'd probably be untouchable.

 

[abbykitty]

Looks like Kaya Ruiter pulled an Alysa Liu and already got used to her new puberty body real quick. And with a new combo 3F-3T, and solid 3Lz.

 

[Jeanie19]

Kristina. Beautiful blue dress and a lovely program. She has great potential.

 

[Jeanie19]

Amanda. Pretty red dress. Good jumps and spins. I really like the program.

 

[Jeanie19]

Alison. Lovely pink dress and lovely skate. Clean and great spins.

 

[ana]

Alison skated beautiful. Great choice of music

 

[Sabrina]

Kaya , Catherine Carle, Christina Ivanov, Alison, Michele Long, Amanda were all good or very good. Kaya is amazing! Gabby should not be third.

 

[Koatterce]

Out of curiosity, I looked at the TES/PCS ranks of the skaters. Number in brackets indicates overall place)

Top 10 TES (SP)
1. Kaiya Ruiter 34.81 (1)
2. Alison Schumacher 33.02 (2)
3. Madeline Schizas 30.96 (4)
4. Catherine Carle 30.90 (7)
5. Michelle Rivest 30.80 (10)
6. Amanda Tobin 29.38 (9)
7. Amelia Orzel 28.23 (11)
8. Gabrielle Daleman 28.20 (3)
9. Michelle Long 28.18 (6)
10. Emily Bausback 28.08 (5)
11-17 are all within 2 pts (28.00-26.28)

Top 13 PCS (SP)
1. Gabrielle Daleman 29.60 (3)
2. Kaiya Ruiter 28.10 (1)
3. Emily Bausback 27.65 (5)
4. Michelle Long 27.55 (6)
5. Alison Schumacher 27.50 (2)
6. Veronik Mallet 27.00 (8)
7. Madeline Schizas 26.75 (4)
--huge gap--
8. Emily Millard 23.05 (12)
9. Jennyfer Richer-Labelle 22.90 (13)
10. Amanda Tobin 22.80 (9)
11. Amelia Orzel 22.70 (11)
12. Emma Bulawka 22.70 (22)
13. Catherine Carle 22.60 (7)
small gap before the rest

 

[rain]

I thought Daleman and Bausback were both generously scored here. That said, Daleman actually looked better than I expected. Obvious issues on the jumps, but an interesting program choreographically and you can still see those world class skating skills. I did not, however, think she should have scored above Schizas, at least.

I thought Schizas looked improved in her posture and musicality. Ruiter looked great, but I'm always cautious about overhyping a young teen who's still growing into themselves. That said, she seems to have really good basic skating that should hold her in good stead. I also loved Alison Schumacher. I took notice of her a couple of years ago at nationals. She didn't place all that well at the time, but I thought she had tremendous potential. Glad to see she's looking so good.

Catherine Carle was a nice surprise to start off the competition, and totally screwed over by skating first. And, as always, even when there are mistakes, Michelle Long is a delight.

 

[readernick]

So, I thought the oldest competitor (Michelle Long) and the youngest competitor ( Kaiya) were the two standouts. A lot of skaters have nice basic skating, but very little attention to the music or detail was shown. Kaiya, on the other hand, is just an adorable committed performer and Michelle Long was the best skater in the event. ( Obviously not the best jumper in the event)

 

[Koatterce]

So, I thought the oldest competitor (Michelle Long) and the youngest competitor ( Kaiya) were the two standouts. A lot of skaters have nice basic skating, but very little attention to the music or detail was shown. Kaiya, on the other hand, is just an adorable committed performer and Michelle Long was the best skater in the event. ( Obviously not the best jumper in the event)

Actually the oldest competitor Emilie Roy in 30th place, she's 35!