by Melanie Hoyt With a free dance score of 79.43 that edged their personal best from last year’s National Championships, Madison Hubbell and Keiffer Hubbell secured the Junior Midwestern Sectional title. Their dance, set to music by Apocalyptica, in…
by Melanie Hoyt Keiffer Hubbell has only been back on the ice for a month, but the Hubbells’ original dance was impressive even without this qualification. Their score of 51.06 is comparable to what some of the top teams…
by Melanie Hoyt It’s been a busy week for me, so it isn’t until I arrive, twenty minutes before the junior compulsory, that I think to ask which dance we’ll be seeing. I’m delighted to find out that it’s…
Rochester, MI – November 14-17, 2007 Junior Compulsory Dance Report Junior Original Dance Report Junior Free Dance Report Senior Compulsory Dance Report Senior Original Dance Report Senior Free Dance Report Rochester Reflections Blog Photographs
by Melanie Hoyt At the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Western Challenge, twelve pre-novice dance teams competed for eight spots at the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals. Only Alberta/NT/Nunavut and Western Ontario fielded full teams of four dance teams…
by Melanie Hoyt For the novice ice dancers who wanted to qualify for the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals, they needed to finish in the top eight at the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Western Challenge. The results were…
by Melanie Hoyt For the first time since the beginning of the Eastern and Western Challenge events were introduced, senior competitors had to qualify through the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Senior Challenge. In the dance event, fifteen teams will…
by Melanie Hoyt After winning the compulsory dance at the 2008 BMO Skate Canada Senior Challenge, Siobhan Karam and Kevin O’Keefe also won the original dance on Friday evening. Their program, set to music from “Lord of the Dance”…
Eastern & Western Challenges Mississauga, Ontario – December 5-9, 2007 Senior Original Dance Report Senior Free Dance Report Novice Free Dance Report (Western) Pre-Novice Free Dance Report (Western) Photographs
by Melanie Hoyt Have you ever heard a can of soda pop explode? There’s a distinct POP! and then a slow, quiet fizzing sound as the carbonated liquid drains out of the small hole that the POP! created. This…