Skate Canada – OTTAWA, ON: Team Canada will be competing at two skating events this week in Europe. Senior skaters will be at the 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberdorf, Germany and junior skaters will be at the fifth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy is the sixth stop on the International Skating Union’s (ISU) 2018 Challenger Series. Canada will have one entry per discipline in men, women, pair and ice dance, at the event which runs from September 26-29, 2018 in Oberdorf, Germany.

CANADIAN ENTRIES AT 2018 NEBELHORN TROPHY 

DISCIPLINE	NAME	AGE	HOMETOWN	CLUB	COACH
Men	Keegan Messing	26	Sherwood Park, Alta. & Brantford, Ont.	Sherwood Park FSC	Ralph Burghart
Women	Alaine Chartrand	22	Prescott, Ont.	York Region Skating Academy	Tracey Wainman, Grzegorz Filipowski
Pair	Evelyn Walsh/Trennt Michaud	17/22	London, Ont./ Trenton, Ont.	London SC/ Trenton Skating Club	Alison Purkiss
Ice Dance	Piper Gilles/ Paul Poirier	26/26	Toronto, Ont./ Unionville, Ont.	Scarboro FSC/ Scarboro FSC	Carol Lane/ Juris Razgulajevs

Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada High Performance Director, will be the Canadian team leader at the event. Physiotherapist Karen Seymour, of Toronto, Ont., will be the Canadian medical staff onsite. Andrea Derby of Windsor, Ont., and Nicole LeBlanc-Richard of Dieppe, N.B., will be the Canadian officials at the event.

For more information and full entries please visit www.isu.org 

Canada will have six entries at the fifth stop on the ISU Junior Grand of Figure Skating series in Ostrava, Czech Republic, which runs from September 26-29, 2018. Canada will have two entries in men, pair and ice dance.

CANADIAN ENTRIES AT ISU JGP #5 – OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC

DISCIPLINE	NAME	AGE	HOMETOWN	CLUB	COACH
Men	Joseph Phan	17	Toronto, Ont.	CPA Laval	Brian Orser
Men	Aleksa Rakic	13	Burnaby, B.C.	Champs International Skating Centre of B.C.	Joanne McLeod
Pair	Gabrielle Levesque/ Pier-Alexandre Hudon	15/19	Bridgewater, N.S./ Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Que.	St. Margaret’s Bay SC/ CPA La Pocatière Inc.	Charleen Cameron/ John Mattatall
Pair	Brooke McIntosh/ Brandon Toste	13/15	Toronto, Ont./ Mississauga, Ont.	Canadian Ice Academy/ Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club	Andrew Evans
Ice Dance	Emmy Bronsard/ Aissa Bouaraguia	14/17	Montreal, Que./ Montreal, Que.	CPA Gadbois/CPA Gadbois	Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer, Pascal Denis
Ice Dance	Olivia McIsaac/ Corey Circelli	16/16	Burlington, Ont./Toronto, Ont.	Burlington SC/ Toronto Cricket Skating & Curling Club	Andrew Hallam, Tracey Wilson

André Bourgeois, Skate Canada NextGen Director, and Manon Perron of Boucherville, Que., will be the Canadian team leaders at the event. Dr. Sari Kraft of Toronto, Ont., and physiotherapist Meaghan Shewchuk of Lloydminster, Alta., will be the Canadian team medical staff on site. Laura Carr of Kelowna, B.C., and Sabrina Wong of Toronto, Ont., will be the Canadian officials at the event.

For results and full entries please visit www.isu.org. All events on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit will be livestreamed on the ISU Junior Grand Prix YouTube channel. 

 

For Information:
Emma Bowie, Communications Manager
+1 (613) 747-1007 ext. 714 
ebowie@skatecanada.ca