OTTAWA, ON (July 3, 2025) – Skate Canada is excited to announce the athletes and synchronized skating teams that will make up its national team for the 2025-2026 season. The team includes five men, three women, four pair teams, four ice dance teams, and three synchronized skating teams.
The team will see many returning athletes including 2025 World Championships ice dance silver medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier and 2025 Four Continents Championships pair silver medallists Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps.” New faces added to the team this season are Katherine Medland Spence in women’s, David Li in men’s, and Fiona Bombardier and Benjamin Mimar in pairs.
To be named to the national team, skaters must have finished in the top three in the senior men, women, pair or ice dance disciplines at the 2025 Canadian National Skating Championships and/or be assigned to a 2025 ISU Grand Prix event at the ISU Grand Prix Selection meeting and must be competing during the 2025-2026 season.
The synchronized skating team is comprised of the synchronized skating teams that finished in the top three in the senior discipline at the 2025 Canadian National Skating Championships.
For more information about the National Team, click here.
Name | Age | Hometown | Coach | Training Location
Women
Sara-Maude Dupuis | 20 | Montreal, Que. | Stéphane Yvars & Françoise Parisé | Boucherville, Que.
Katherine Medland Spence | 24 | Ottawa, Ont. | Ken Rose & Danielle Rose | Richmond Hill, Ont.
Madeline Schizas | 22 | Oakville, Ont. | Nancy Lemaire | Milton, Ont.
Men
Stephen Gogolev | 20 | Toronto, Ont. | Lee Barkell | Toronto, Ont.
David Li | 18 | Richmond, B.C. | Bianca Butler | Irvine, CA
Anthony Paradis | 18 | Boisbriand, Que. | Yvan Desjardins & Violaine Émard | Rosemère, Que.
Aleksa Rakic | 20| Burnaby, B.C. | Joanne McLeod | Burnaby, B.C.
Roman Sadovsky | 26 | Vaughan, Ont. | Tracey Wainman & Grzegorz Filipowski | Richmond Hill, Ont.
Pair
Fiona Bombardier | 20 | Newmarket, Ont. & Benjamin Mimar | 24 | Toronto, Ont. | Julie Marcotte | Sainte-Julie, Que.
Kelly Ann Laurin | 19 | St-Jérôme, Que. & Loucas Éthier | 25 | Deux-Montagnes, Que. | Stéphanie Valois | Rosemère, Que.
Lia Pereira | 21 | Milton, Ont. & Trennt Michaud | 28 | Trenton, Ont. | Alison Purkiss & Nancy Lemaire | Brantford, Ont.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek | 42 | Chicago, USA & Maxime Deschamps | 33 | Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que. | Josée Picard | Sainte-Julie, Que.
Ice Dance
Alicia Fabbri | 22 | Terrebonne, Que. & Paul Ayer | 27 | Brossard, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Piper Gilles | 33| Toronto, Ont. & Paul Poirier | 33 | Unionville, Ont. | Carol Lane & Juris Razgulajevs | Scarborough, Ont.
Marjorie Lajoie | 24 | Boucherville, Que. & Zachary Lagha | 26 | Saint-Hubert, Que. | Romain Haguenauer & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Marie-Jade Lauriault | 28 | Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines, Que. & Romain Le Gac | 30 | Laval, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Team | Coach | Training Location
Synchronized Skating
Les Suprêmes | Pascal Denis & Marilyn Langlois | Saint-Léonard, Que.
NEXXICE | Jennifer Beauchamp-Chrichton & Shelley Simonton Barnett | Burlington, Ont.
Nova | Dominic Barthe & Nadine Tougas | Brossard, Que. & St-Hubert, Que.