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by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje won the Autumn Classic International, their only competition in the 2018 fall season. They then skipped the Grand Prix Series to perform in a Canadian skating tour. “It took some time for us to...

by Anne Calder This morning I opened my new calendar to January where the scenic winter photo was a quick reminder of my imminent trip to Detroit and the 2019 US National Figure Skating Championships. I can’t believe 25 years have passed since the last time Nationals...

by Anne Calder | Photo by Daphne Backman In the Fall, Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier won two Grand Prix bronze medals and earned prize money as the highest-ranking Challenge Series ice dance team. However, they have mixed emotions about the first half of the season....

By Maura Sullivan Hill | Photo by Robin Ritoss When American ice dancer Jean-Luc Baker suffered a concussion during preseason training in August, his season with partner Kaitlin Hawayek could easily have gone off the rails. They lost training time and weren’t able to...

by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman & Robin Ritoss “Compared to singles, what I love about ice dance is having someone there for you all the time.” ~ Haley Sales Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker are one of the eight senior ice dance teams competing in...

by Anne Calder | Photos by Robin Ritoss Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis each skated singles at the international level for almost a decade and in 2016, they became ice dance partners. The couple recently won gold at the 2019 Finnish National Championships....

Daphne was a guest on the new Skate Talk Online webcast program where she talked about ice-dance.com's beginnings and how the sport has changed in the last two decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Vw5jLmxLY&t=589s

by Francesca | Photos by Robin Ritoss Thank you to all the #TeamKoKo fans who submitted questions for Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto. Special thanks to Misato & Tim for taking the time to chat with us and also for helping with the question translations.  I...

by Francesca | Photos by Robin Ritoss Francesca caught up with Japan's Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto a few weeks ago, just before they started their Grand Prix season. The interview is split into two parts, with the second piece focused on fan-submitted...

Article by Anne Calder | Photos by Robin Ritoss Anne met up with USA’s Karina Manta and Joseph Johnson at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City just a few days after they were invited to Skate America for their first ever Grand Prix. They...