Skate Canada Names 25 Athletes & Three Synchronized Skating Teams to 2024-2025 National Team

OTTAWA, ON (July 3, 2024) – Skate Canada is excited to announce the athletes and synchronized skating teams that will make up its national team for the 2024-2025 season. The team includes five men, four women, three pair teams, five ice dance teams, and three synchronized skating teams. 

2024 Pair World Champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, and 2024 Ice Dance World Championship silver medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are both back for another season as are Canadian senior men’s champion Wesley Chiu and senior women’s champion Kaiya Ruiter. New faces added to the team are Aleksa Rakic and Anthony Paradis to the men’s team, and Hetty Shi to the women’s team. 

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 2024 Canadian National Skating Championships and/or be assigned to a 2024 ISU Grand Prix event at the ISU Grand Prix Selection meeting and must be competing during the 2024-2025 season.   

The synchronized skating team is comprised of the synchronized skating teams that finished in the top three in the senior discipline at the 2024 Canadian National Skating Championships.   

Name | Age | Hometown | Coach | Training Location    

MEN 

Wesley Chiu | 19 | Vancouver, B.C. | Keegan Murphy & Eileen Murphy | Richmond, B.C.
Stephen Gogolev | 19 | Toronto, Ont. | Lee Barkell | Toronto, Ont.
Anthony Paradis | 17 | Boisbriand, Que. | Yvan Desjardins & Violaine Émard | Rosemère, Que.
Aleksa Rakic | 19 | Burnaby, B.C. | Joanne McLeod | Burnaby, B.C.
Roman Sadovsky | 25 | Vaughan, Ont. | Tracey Wainman & Grzegorz Filipowski | Richmond Hill, Ont.  

WOMEN

Sara-Maude Dupuis | 19 | Montreal, Que. | Stéphane Yvars & Françoise Parisé | Boucherville, Que.
Kaiya Ruiter | 18 | Calgary, Alta. | Scott Davis | Calgary, Alta.
Madeline Schizas | 21 | Oakville, Ont. | Nancy Lemaire & Derek Schmidt | Milton, Ont.
Hetty Shi | 15 | Northville, USA | Rafael Arutyunyan & Brian Orser | Irvine, USA & Toronto, Ont. 

PAIRS 

Deanna Stellato-Dudek | 41 | Chicago, USA & Maxime Deschamps | 32 | Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que. | Josée Picard | Sainte-Julie, Que. 
Kelly Ann Laurin | 18 | St-Jérôme, Que. & Loucas Éthier | 24 | Deux-Montagnes, Que. | Stéphanie Valois | Rosemère, Que.  
Lia Pereira | 19 | Milton, Ont. & Trennt Michaud | 27 | Trenton, Ont. | Alison Purkiss & Nancy Lemaire | Brantford, Ont.      

ICE DANCE 

Alicia Fabbri | 21 | Terrebonne, Que. & Paul Ayer | 26 | Brossard, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Laurence Fournier-Beaudry | 31 | Montreal, Que. & Nikolaj Soerensen | 35 | Montreal, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Piper Gilles | 32 | Toronto, Ont. & Paul Poirier | 32 | Unionville, Ont. | Carol Lane & Juris Razgulajevs | Scarborough, Ont. 
Marjorie Lajoie | 23 | Boucherville, Que. & Zachary Lagha | 25 | Saint-Hubert, Que. | Romain Haguenauer & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.
Marie-Jade Lauriault | 27 | Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines, Que. & Romain Le Gac | 29 | Laval, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon | Montreal, Que.   

Team | Coaches | 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. 

For more information about the National Team, click here.