reports and recaps

Article & Photos by Melanie Hoyt On the second night of the 2014 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships in Ottawa, the stakes were higher than usual, and a buzz…

by Katie Tetzloff | Photo by Robin Ritoss  Last week in Budapest, 29 ice dance teams from countries throughout Europe competed at the 2014 European Championships. For many of these…

by Daphne Backman | Photo by Robin Ritoss Meryl Davis & Charlie White continued their dominance of the U.S. ice dancing realm winning their sixth consecutive U.S. championship title.  Receiving…

Meryl Davis & Charlie White are one free dance performance away from becoming six-time U.S. champions, a feat that has not been matched by any other U.S. ice dancing team. …

Article & Photos by Melanie Hoyt  Meryl Davis & Charlie White’s fourth consecutive Skate America title was never really in doubt—not before the competition, nor during the event. Davis &…

by Katerina Tetzloff & Melanie Hoyt | Photo by Robin Ritoss Last weekend, one of the most important competitions of the year was held in the small resort town of…

by Katerina Tetzloff & Daphne Backman | Photos by Melanie Hoyt After an entire year of hard work and dedication, the World Figure Skating Championships in London, Ontario, Canada, came…

by Katerina Tetzloff & Daphne Backman | Photos by Melanie Hoyt After an exciting short dance event, the United States’ Meryl Davis & Charlie White (pictured, right) are in the…

Ice dancing is certainly more quantifiable than it used to be, but it is still subjective. It will always have an element of subjectivity—that is part of what makes it…

After the pairs turned in a shocker of a short program event at the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France some were bracing for a short dance splat-fest,…

or The Amazing Race: Uzbek-style Today’s qualifying round for the ice dance competition at the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships featured one missed warm-up, two skate malfunctions, and (I’m assuming)…

by Jacquelyn Thayer With the close results established after the short dance, the stage was certainly set for an exciting contest in the free dance. What may have been less…

Many wondered if the altitude of Colorado Springs would have a deleterious effect on the skaters competing at Four Continents. While a few athletes needed to catch their breaths post-program,…

For the journalists covering all four disciplines at Skate Canada, today’s string of back-to-back short programs/dances make for a long day.  Anyone looking to “pre-write” their short dance article —…

The Stuff Dreams are Made of…   By Andrea Gropman  On Sunday, June 26, 2011, ice dance couples from juvenile level to senior level, and representing clubs from Laurel to Los…