Ottawa, Ont. (Nov. 3, 2025) – 23 Canadian figure skaters are set to compete in International Skating Union (ISU) events in Europe this month.

A large Canadian contingent will start the month in Graz, Austria for the 2025 Icechallenge. Held from Nov. 5-9, the event will feature 19 athletes across all four disciplines. The senior event will see the international senior debut of several Junior Grand Prix medallists, including pair teams Jazmine Desrochers and Kieran Thrasher as well as Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov, and men’s competitor Grayson Long, along with former Canadian Champions Gabrielle Daleman and Keegan Messing. The athletes will be looking to obtain the ISU qualifying scores to be eligible for consideration for the upcoming Championships season.

Later this month, four Canadian athletes will travel to Warsaw, Poland for the ISU Challenger Series Warsaw Cup, taking place Nov. 19-23.  In the pair event, Skate Canada International gold medallists, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will look to refine their programs ahead of the Grand Prix Final to be held in Nagoya in December.

They will be joined by Wesley Chiu in the men’s event, who will be making his return to competition after being sidelined due to injury last season. Sara-Maude Dupuis, who became the first Canadian women’s skater to land a triple-axel in international competition earlier this year, will round out the delegation in Poland.

For full information on the 2025 Icechallenge, click here. To learn more about the Warsaw Cup, click here.

Team Canada
Name | Age | Hometown | Coach

Icechallenge
Junior
Women
Sandrine Blais | 15 | Sherbrooke, Que. | Marc-André Craig
Hetty Shi | 17 | Northville, MI | Karen Preston
Quinn Startek | 13 | Stoney Creek, Ont. | Jen Jackson
Megan Woodley | 16 | Oro-Medonte, Ont. | Kevin Dawe

Men
William Chan | 16 | Vancouver, B.C. | Eileen Murphy

Ice Dance
Laurence Brière | 17 | Carignan, Que. & Julien Lévesque | 19 | Boucherville, Que. | Mylène Girard

Senior
Women
Kaiya Ruiter | 19 | Calgary, Alta. | Brian Orser
Gabrielle Daleman | 27 | Newmarket, Ont. | Michael Hopfes

Men
Grayson Long | 18 | Toronto, Ont. | Brian Orser
Keegan Messing | 33 | Anchorage, USA | Ralph Burghart

Pair
Ava Kemp | 17 | Winnipeg, Man. & Yohnatan Elizarov | 21 | Winnipeg, Man. | Kevin Dawe
Jazmine Desrochers | 19 | Mississauga, Ont. & Kieran Thrasher | 21 | Oakville, Ont. | Jeff Langdon

Ice Dance
Jamie Fournier | 20 | Montreal, Que. & Everest Zhu | 22 | Waterloo, Ont. | Benjamin Brisebois
Chloe Nguyen | 20 | Burnaby, B.C. & Brendan Giang | 22 | Burnaby, B.C. | Aaron Lowe

Team Leaders – Andre Bourgeois & Mike Slipchuk
Medical Team – Sylvia Ciurysek
Officials –  Hilary Quick & Susan Morriss

Challenger Series Warsaw Cup
Women
Sara-Maude Dupuis | 20 | Boucherville, Que. | Stephane Yvars

Men
Wesley Chiu | 19 | Vancouver, B.C. | Keegan Murphy

Pair
Deanna Stellato Dudek | 42 | Chicago, USA | Maxime Deschamps | 33 | Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC | Josée Picard

Team Leader – Andre Bourgeois
Medical Team – Scott Fraser & Erika Persson
Official – Debbie Islam