Newfoundland Labrador Winter Games - 240301-1025
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00:00:00 Figure skating has got to be one of the toughest sports out there.
00:00:05 There's also a lot of focus on you, the individual.
00:00:09 Unlike a team sport, where the focus is on the entire team.
00:00:15 These young athletes, when they get out on the ice, the cameras, the eyes, the focus is all on them.
00:00:21 And they're on the ice by themselves.
00:00:24 So their successes, their failures, are all spotlighted.
00:00:27 So it can be pretty stressful for them.
00:00:31 But also pretty invigorating as well.
00:00:38 We've got our skaters, again, they're getting a five minute warm up.
00:00:43 They don't get to go through the entire program.
00:00:46 They basically get on the ice, they can try some of their elements, as we call them.
00:00:53 It's a great opportunity just to get the muscles relaxed.
00:01:02 Get ready for their competition, their actual competitive skate that's coming up shortly.
00:01:14 And again, for those just tuning in, we are broadcasting live from the Mike Austin Arena
00:01:19 here in beautiful Lewisport, Newfoundland, with the 2024 Newfoundland and Labrador Winter Games.
00:01:30 And we've got eight skaters on the ice.
00:01:44 And in their warm up, they're always given a one minute...
00:01:55 They're always given a one minute warning, or a one minute notice.
00:01:59 That if they have an element that they definitely want to warm up to,
00:02:04 they've got one minute left to try that.
00:02:15 So again, we've got 16 skaters in this group of Star 5 women, 13 and over, free program.
00:02:24 Eight that are warming up right now.
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00:02:40 No, not you, Susan Dean.
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00:03:04 She's okay to play the skaters music, isn't she?
00:03:07 Okay.
00:03:08 I'll go on.
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00:03:16 So again, this is the Star 5 women, 13 and over, free program.
00:03:23 Our skaters kind of went and selected...
00:03:27 Please welcome Kate Bair.
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00:03:37 And the eight skaters.
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00:06:09 Our home club is the Silver Blade Skating Club, and our home club coaches are Lisa Young and April Barron.
00:06:16 The music that you heard from our program was Cinderella.
00:06:21 Kayla trains for about five and a half hours per week in her home club,
00:06:25 and her personal best score for this program was 17.57 points.
00:06:30 She's just waiting in our Kiss and Cry section for her score to come out there.
00:06:36 Some past successes is she's had gold at the Western Classic and silver at the Summer Skate.
00:06:41 Some interesting facts about Kayla is she enjoys skating singles competitions
00:06:46 as well as being a current member of the Silver Elite's pre-nava synchro team,
00:06:51 which placed gold in their category at the Synchro Series 2 in Baltimore, Ontario.
00:07:07 Waiting for her score for Kayla Berry.
00:07:12 She's going to be nervous when you're doing the rating.
00:07:28 High five from the coach.
00:07:32 Our next skater is going to be Rebecca Watts from Central Region,
00:07:36 who is from the Sparkling Police Figure Skating Club.
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00:10:15 Ladies and gentlemen, representing the Central Region, Rebecca Watts.
00:10:22 And that was Rebecca Watts.
00:10:25 Her home club is the Sparkling Blade Skating Club.
00:10:30 Our next individual coach is Joanne Dormandy.
00:10:35 The music you heard was "Sunny Side of the Street."
00:10:39 And she trains for about three hours per week.
00:10:42 Her personal best score for this program you just saw was 16.28 points.
00:10:47 Some past successes from Rebecca is she got gold in the Star 4 under 13 free program
00:10:54 at the Agnes Thistle in 2022, and gold in the Star 4 in the American Elements
00:10:59 in the Winter Clear.
00:11:00 I'm going to have a 30 seconds in between.
00:11:02 Rebecca is a grade 8 French immersion student at Exploits Valley Intermediate
00:11:06 and has been skating with the Sparkling Blade Skate Club since she was 4 years old.
00:11:11 And in her free time she loves to sing and also participates in the Kiwanis Music Festival.
00:11:19 Sounds like Rebecca is multi-talented.
00:11:24 She's just waiting in the end section of our stadium here now for the scores to be announced.
00:11:30 See how the judges graded her program.
00:11:34 The score for Rebecca Watts, she has 15.33 points, which puts her in second place.
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00:12:10 Our next skater is Suzy Huang.
00:12:13 Rebecca has given her some words of encouragement.
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00:12:25 This is Suzy Huang.
00:12:26 She's going to be skating to the music of Grandioso by Edvin Martin.
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00:15:11 It's got to feel good to get it on the ice and get your program completed.
00:15:15 And against Suzy is representing the Central Region and her home club is the Sparkling Blades Figure Skating Club.
00:15:25 And her home club coach is also Joanne Dormody and Melissa Thornhill.
00:15:31 She trains for about four hours per week and her personal best score in this program has been 18.64 points.
00:15:38 Some past successes for Suzy has been, she placed fourth at the Provincials and competed in the Atlantics in 2023.
00:15:45 She placed second at the Agnes Thistle 2023 and placed third in the Classics 2024.
00:15:51 Some interesting facts about Suzy is she started skating at eight years old.
00:15:56 She's played piano for the past seven years.
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00:16:09 She's got to be happy with that for sure.
00:16:11 Suzy also enjoys other hobbies like crocheting and embroidery.
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00:16:23 Next skater ready to do this program is Chloe Quilty.
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00:16:38 And Chloe is going to be skating to the music of Skyfall by Adele.
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00:19:04 Ladies and gentlemen, Chloe Quilty.
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00:19:10 What a great job by Chloe.
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00:19:15 I think she's going to be pretty happy with that.
00:19:18 And Chloe represents the Silver Jets figure skating club out of our host town of Gander.
00:19:23 And her home club coaches, Nikki Davis and Janine Connelly.
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00:19:33 Chloe is currently attending grade 12 at Gander Collegiate and she works at Booster Juice in Gander.
00:19:39 Chloe is also working on becoming a figure skating coach. Good for her.
00:19:43 Chloe is in the junior firefighter program with Gander Fire Rescue.
00:19:48 And she's now in her third year with that program. That's also good achievement. That's awesome.
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00:19:59 She's just waiting in our kiss and cry section with her coach, Nikki.
00:20:06 Anxiously waiting for her score to come out.
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00:20:18 Nervous time when you're waiting for judges to decide if they, what they like about your program.
00:20:25 Scored each of the components.
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00:20:47 Chloe seems pretty happy there, which is all that matters really.
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00:20:59 Next skater taking to the ice is going to be Leah Smith.
00:21:04 From the St. Johns North region.
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00:21:19 And the music, Somebody to Love by Queen.
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00:23:48 Ladies and gentlemen, Leah Smith.
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00:23:54 And Leah's with the Prince of Wales Skating Club. Her home club coaches are Jill Burton, Kayla Finnelly and Yoon Faeban.
00:24:05 She trains for about six hours per week. Her personal best score for this program has been 17.04 points.
00:24:13 Leah is a program assistant with the Prince of Wales Skating Club and was one program assistant of the year in 2022.
00:24:23 She also competes in synchronized skating with the POWSC Synergy Novice Team.
00:24:29 And they won a gold medal in the Atlantic Regional Synchro Championships in February and represented the Atlantic provinces at the Skating Canada Cup National Synchro Competition in Waterloo, Ontario.
00:24:41 Some past successes for Leah. She's got first place in the Star 7 Artistic at the Provincial Skating Championships in February 2024.
00:24:50 She placed third place in the Star 5 13 and over at the Eastern Classic in January 2024.
00:24:57 And first place in the Star 5 Artistic at the Agnes Thistle Invitational in November 2022.
00:25:14 With gold medal in the split, she earned 15.71 points which puts her currently in third place.
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00:25:27 She was pleased with that.
00:25:29 Next skater at the end of our rink here is Mira McGrath.
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00:26:00 And Mira is going to be skating to the music What About Us by Pink.
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00:26:21 What about us? What about the times that you're in the end times?
00:26:28 What about us? What about the broken happy ever after?
00:26:35 Oh! What about us? What about all the plans that you did in desire?
00:26:43 Oh! What about all the plans that you did in desire?
00:26:51 What about all the plans that you did in desire?
00:26:57 What about all the plans that you did in desire?
00:27:04 What about all the plans that you did in desire?
00:27:12 Are you ready? I'll be ready. Now it's time to let them know you're ready.
00:27:21 What about us? What about the times that you're in the end times?
00:27:29 What about us? What about the broken happy ever after?
00:27:36 Oh! What about us? What about the plans that you did in desire?
00:27:44 Oh! What about us? What about the times that you're in the end times?
00:27:52 What about us? What about us? What about us?
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00:28:18 Ladies and gentlemen, the Maheras.
00:28:23 Great job, Mahera.
00:28:25 And again, her home club is the Polaris Figure Skating Club in Labrador.
00:28:30 Her home club coach is Alice Petal.
00:28:35 And she says she trains for about four hours a week, so good dedication there.
00:28:40 Some past successes for Mahera is silver at the Labrador Classic,
00:28:44 silver in artistic at the Labrador Classic, and silver in artistic in previous provincials.
00:28:51 She's also got silver at the last Labrador divisionals.
00:28:55 Some interesting facts about Mahera.
00:28:57 She started to skate at the age of three and a half and receives Can Skater of the Year at age of seven.
00:29:03 She says that perfectionalism is her blessing and her curse.
00:29:09 She helps out with the Can Skate program, and in her spare time she loves the outdoors.
00:29:15 Skidooing and going on quad and of course time spent at the cabin.
00:29:24 And just going over her program with the coach at the end of our rink there.
00:29:37 And our current standings of course is Suzy Huang is in first,
00:29:41 Kayla Barry second, and Leah Smith in third so far, but got a nice few skaters yet to go.
00:29:54 The score for Mahera, she earned 15.42 points, which puts her currently in fourth place.
00:30:05 Double high five. She seems okay with that.
00:30:16 Our next skater is going to be Chloe Jackson from the Avalon region.
00:30:25 Our next skater from the Avalon region, please welcome to the ice, Chloe Jackson.
00:30:34 She's going to be skating to the music of the French classic.
00:30:43 Taking her position.
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00:33:04 Lovely to see the smiles on their faces after they completed their program.
00:33:11 Chloe skates with the CBS skating club and her home club coach is Hannah Poole.
00:33:19 She trains for about seven hours per week. Her personal best score in this program has been around 19.52 points.
00:33:26 She's had a lot of past successes with gold with the Agnes Thistle, gold in the Eastern Classics, bronze in Provincial,
00:33:33 silver star seven artistic, silver in the star eight, synchro Elizabeth Swan.
00:33:38 Skate Newfoundland Labrador Atlantic's team member, skate Newfoundland Labrador's star team.
00:33:45 Chloe has participated in soccer, music, dance, softball and swimming but she says figure skating is her true passion.
00:33:52 Chloe waiting in her kiss and cry section for her score. Here it comes.
00:34:07 She's got 18.94 points which puts her currently in second place.
00:34:15 [Applause]
00:34:19 Awesome.
00:34:22 We've got one more skater in this first half of our group, our flight.
00:34:34 Taking to the ice is going to be Eglia El Haj Musa.
00:34:40 And she's actually representing St. Pierre and Miquelon, local French islands off our south coast.
00:35:03 And Eglia is going to be skating to the music Changing by Sigma.
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00:38:03 And we have just called on our second half of this group, our second flight of eight skaters for their five minute warmup.
00:38:12 While Eglia waits in our kiss and cry section for her score.
00:38:17 Interesting fact about Eglia is that she took part in the competition in March of 2023 in Chambray, France.
00:38:25 So being from the French islands, she's able to travel to France for competitions.
00:38:30 And she trains a number of hours per week, four on ice and two off ice.
00:38:39 Of course off ice training is a big part of figure skating as well for flexibility and muscle development.
00:38:46 And we've got our eight skaters warming up on the ice for the second half of this Star 5 13 and over program.
00:39:08 As the skaters are skating, they've got to be quite aware of everyone that's around them.
00:39:15 Not sure if Eglia is happy with her score.
00:39:31 But there's a little smile there for sure.
00:39:37 But yes, we've got our eight skaters, they've got to be quite aware of everyone else around them.
00:39:43 So you'll notice that they're always turning their heads, making sure that if they're going to do an element, a jump, a spin, that they're away from the other skaters.
00:39:56 They're pretty used to that because they're usually doing this when they're practicing on their home rinks.
00:40:02 Most of the time they've got a lot of skaters around them as well, so they're quite used to this.
00:40:09 And you'll see them practicing different elements of their program.
00:40:22 Skaters doing spins and jumps, anything to get that little last bit of practice in there while they're waiting for their program to come up.
00:40:32 [Skaters practicing]
00:40:56 And as I mentioned, a lot of these skaters spend a lot of time in off-ice training.
00:41:02 A lot of that involves a lot of stretching.
00:41:06 This is a sport that is all-encompassing.
00:41:10 There's jumps and spins, maneuverabilities that are involved.
00:41:14 Flexibility plays a large role in this.
00:41:18 And a lot of the rinks have ice throughout the winter, but come summer they take their ice up, so it becomes an important time for some off-ice training for a lot of these athletes to keep their skills up-n-up.
00:41:34 So when the season opens again in September or October, that they're able to get back on the ice with little to no problem.
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00:41:51 And you'll see the skaters, while they are warming up, they'll actually go back and converse with their coaches.
00:41:59 Chat about what's going good, what might not be going so good.
00:42:03 Oftentimes this is a time when they'll actually make a decision to either pull something from their program.
00:42:11 Especially with some of the complex jumps and spins.
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00:42:17 One minute remaining.
00:42:19 A lot of times if they don't feel that they are feeling it today, they may actually pull a part of their, some element from their program.
00:42:31 They often feel it's better to pull the element, if they're not feeling good about it, then to continue on with it.
00:42:38 Not to complete it in the fashion that they want.
00:42:42 So you'll often see them conversing with their coaches at the end of our rink, just to get some feedback.
00:42:49 And their coaches are of course observing.
00:42:53 Seeing what's going good, what's not going so good.
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00:43:24 So you'll see all the skaters leave except for the one that's up next, which is our Gracie Hadley Roberts.
00:43:30 Gracie is representing Eastern Region.
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00:43:37 Wait at the end of the rink for their name to be called.
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00:43:52 And Gracie is going to be skating to the theme music, Swan Lake.
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00:46:25 And that was Gracie Hadley Roberts.
00:46:28 She skates with the Silver Wings Skating Club in Eastern.
00:46:32 Her home club coach is Sue Ann Johnson and Patricia Maloney.
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00:46:42 Some past successes for Gracie is that she has won gold two times in the star four category.
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00:46:52 So she's moved up this year, obviously she's competing in the star five, 13 and over.
00:46:56 Some interesting facts about Gracie is she's a CAN skate coach in training.
00:47:01 And she coaches four hours per week as part of Silver Wings Skating Club's CAN skate coaching team.
00:47:09 She's also on the Discovery Collegiate's cheerleading team.
00:47:13 [Skaters practicing]
00:47:22 And again ladies and gentlemen this is the second part of our star five, 13 and over women's program.
00:47:30 [Skaters practicing]
00:47:53 A lot of the athletes know if they've had a good or a bad skate when they get into the kiss and cry section.
00:47:59 Our next skater from our sensitive digital section, please welcome to the ice, Danielle Keeping.
00:48:05 [Skaters practicing]
00:48:10 And this is Danielle Keeping and she's going to be skating to the music, Sign of the Times.
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00:50:35 Danielle's home club is the Port of Basque Figure Skating Club.
00:50:41 Danielle trains for about five and a half hours a week.
00:50:46 Some past successes for Danielle is in January 2023 she was the gold medalist in the Western Divisional star four over 13 category.
00:50:55 She also won the Joan Target Award during the competition.
00:50:59 And she went on to the Provincials and earned a silver medal in February of 2023.
00:51:04 Her synchronized skating team won a bronze medal at the Elizabeth Swan Memorial Skate in January 2024.
00:51:11 And they skate at the Provincials in March.
00:51:16 Danielle looks forward to summer and softball season and hopes to see the Toronto Blue Jays game this summer.
00:51:23 So hopefully she does.
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00:51:29 Some high fives from some teammates there.
00:51:31 Always great to see the camaraderie between the teammates even though they're competing there.
00:51:36 They're all in the frame of mind that they've got to support each other.
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00:51:50 Just waiting on the score now for Danielle.
00:51:53 As the judges compile their scores of each of the elements of the program.
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00:52:17 Just anxiously waiting for those scores to come out.
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00:52:36 It's not all about placing first or second.
00:52:38 It's oftentimes getting personal bests at these sorts of competitions.
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00:53:00 And this is Alexandra Ford and she's going to be skating to the music of Aladdin.
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00:55:28 Again she represents the western region and I believe they also said indigenous.
00:55:35 Her home club is the Silver Blade Skating Club at a corner brook and her home club coaches
00:55:41 Lisa Young and April Barrett.
00:55:46 Some past successes for Alexandra is in the 2021 summer skate.
00:55:51 She was a bronze medalist in the star four program.
00:55:54 She was a bronze medalist in the 2021 Agnes Thistle star four program.
00:56:00 She was a gold medalist in the 2022 Agnes Thistle program.
00:56:05 And a silver medalist in the star five western classics 2023.
00:56:12 Alexandra is a grade nine student at the corner brook intermediate.
00:56:16 She also skates synchronized skating with the silver elite skating team and works part time with corner brook minor hockey.
00:56:24 In the 15th.
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00:56:35 I think that's a personal best for Alexandra.
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00:56:46 Again it's nice to walk away with medals from competitions but you see progress and you're increasing your personal best.
00:56:52 That's a huge achievement.
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00:57:00 And our next skater is also representing Saint Pierre Miquelon.
00:57:03 It's Kiera La Proel.
00:57:05 And she's going to be skating to the music of "Find Me" by Sigma.
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00:59:19 Great job Kiera.
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00:59:27 French Island Saint Pierre Miquelon certainly representing well here at our winter games.
00:59:33 And Kiera is her home club coach is Alana Vossen.
00:59:41 Her home club of course is the club de patinage de Surglas over on the islands.
00:59:48 She trains for about four hours a week on ice and again two hours off ice.
00:59:54 In 2020 she took part in the regional competition in Marseille France and in 2022 in Chambray France as well.
01:00:05 So traveling in France, competing and also competing here in our Newfoundland and Labrador winter games.
01:00:18 So they're getting lots of international experience as well. That's fantastic.
01:00:22 Just discussing with her coach what she taught of her program, what went well, what didn't go so well.
01:00:31 Waiting for her score.
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01:00:54 Score was 16.78 which ranks her fifth so far.
01:01:04 Our next skater taking to the ice is going to be Isabella O'Dell.
01:01:09 Our next skater represents the Eastern region. Please welcome to the ice, Isabelle O'Dell.
01:01:17 And Isabelle is going to be skating to the music of "To Build a Home".
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01:01:47 There's a place where I don't feel like home.
01:01:56 There's a place where I feel like home.
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01:02:27 I want to build a home for you, for me.
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01:03:37 Great job, Isabelle.
01:03:41 Ladies and gentlemen, Isabelle O'Dell.
01:03:45 And Isabelle represents the Eastern region and her home club is the Silver Wings Skating Club.
01:03:50 And her home club coach is Sue Ann Johnson.
01:03:55 Her personal best score for this program has been 15.01 points.
01:04:02 Isabelle is also in her spare time a cheerleader.
01:04:05 She's in theatrical dance.
01:04:08 She does Bible study and she's also a can skate coach.
01:04:12 So lots of busyness going on there.
01:04:17 And she still gets time to put in about four hours of training for figure skating per week as well.
01:04:32 So excellent job.
01:04:40 Waiting with the coach.
01:04:43 Just waiting for the scores for Isabelle to come out.
01:04:48 And of course the judges are looking at the different components of her program from her spins and her jumps and grading each one, her transition between those elements.
01:05:00 Everything right down to ice coverage.
01:05:03 All these things contribute to the overall score.
01:05:16 How much of an element got completed before a fall.
01:05:24 Oftentimes the athletes will get a feeling though of how their skate went.
01:05:42 I think she's pleased with her score on that.
01:05:45 I think that's a personal best for her.
01:05:48 She did an awesome job.
01:05:55 Our next skater is going to be Sophia Breton.
01:06:04 Sophia is going to be skating to the music of Turning Page.
01:06:10 And she's with the Silver Blade Skating Club.
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01:08:25 Fantastic.
01:08:32 Great job, Sophia.
01:08:35 And again her home club is the Silver Blade Skating Club.
01:08:38 Her home club coaches are Lisa Young and April Barron.
01:08:45 Her personal best score for this program has been 17.77 points.
01:08:54 Sophia has been skating since she was three years old at her home club, Silver Blades.
01:09:00 And she's been assisting with the pre-can and the can skate program at that club for a number of years as well.
01:09:10 Fantastic.
01:09:12 She placed second at the Western Classics in 2024.
01:09:15 That was held a little earlier this year.
01:09:18 And she's also placed second at the Agnes Thistle Invitational back in 2023.
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01:09:48 High five from the coach.
01:09:51 16.66, that ranks her sixth so far in this group.
01:09:57 Our next skater taking to the ice is Alexa Bishop from the Mount Pearl South.
01:10:04 Our next skater represents the Mount Pearl South region.
01:10:09 Please welcome to the ice Alexa Bishop.
01:10:13 And Alexa's going to be skating to the music, "Don't Rain on My Parade."
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01:12:33 Ladies and gentlemen, Alexa Bishop.
01:12:38 And that was Alexa Bishop taking her bow.
01:12:41 And again, Alexa represents the Mount Pearl South region.
01:12:44 And her home club is the Mount Pearl Parade Skating Club.
01:12:48 Home club coaches are Miranda Walsh and Megan White and team.
01:12:55 Some interesting facts about Alexa is besides single skating, Alexa skates at also a synchronized skater
01:13:03 and has been skating synchro since the age of seven.
01:13:07 She plays volleyball and is a member of her school's grade eight volleyball team.
01:13:12 And she's an animal lover and she has two Shih Tzu dogs whom she adores.
01:13:19 Hopefully they're watching today.
01:13:26 Alexa has won gold medal at the 2024 Eastern Figure Skating Classics,
01:13:31 a gold medal at the 2024 Skate Newfoundland Provincial Championships.
01:13:35 She's a member of the Skate Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Team.
01:13:45 Yep.
01:13:50 19.23, she's in first place.
01:13:52 She's quite happy over that.
01:13:54 That's awesome.
01:13:55 Good for her.
01:14:04 And our last skater of this group.
01:14:15 And this is Ava Griffiths Labrador and going to be skating to Human by Christina Perry.
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01:16:41 Ladies and gentlemen, Ava Griffiths.
01:16:45 Great job by Ava.
01:16:50 And Ava's home club is the Polaris Figure Skating Club.
01:16:53 And our home club coaches are Alice Petal and Jennifer Thomas.
01:16:59 Jennifer Thomas.
01:17:01 Some past successes is Ava has won the 2023 Alice and Cyler Dobbin Award
01:17:08 for the highest technical points.
01:17:15 And Ava also says she loves to read.
01:17:20 And again, she's representing the Labrador region.
01:17:24 And she was the last skater in our star five 13 and over women.
01:17:39 Just waiting on the scores for Ava as she puts back on her warmup jacket.
01:17:46 It's nice and warm when you're out skating, but once you come off the ice,
01:17:49 it's a little bit chilly when you get warmed up as quickly as possible.
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01:18:14 The scores for Ava Griffiths.
01:18:19 She has earned 15.30 points, which puts her in 13th place.
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01:18:35 The unofficial results for star five women for 13 and over free program.
01:18:42 In first place, Alexa Bishop.
01:18:45 In second place, Susie Hung.
01:18:49 In third place, Colleen Jackson.
01:18:53 In fourth place, Kayla Berry.
01:18:56 In fifth place, Agla Elhaj Musa.
01:19:00 In sixth place, Cara Lefiole.
01:19:04 In seventh place, Sophia Bretton.
01:19:08 In eighth place, Leah Smith.
01:19:11 In ninth place, Byron McGrath.
01:19:14 In 10th place, Rebecca Watts.
01:19:17 In 11th place, Alexandra Ford.
01:19:20 In 12th place, Isabelle O'Dell.
01:19:23 In 13th place, Ava Griffiths.
01:19:30 In 15th place, Danielle Keating.
01:19:33 And in 16th place, Colleen Quilty.
01:19:38 And those were the results for our star five women 13 and over.
01:19:44 Warming up on the ice right now, we have our two gentlemen representing the star six men.
01:19:51 This is the combined intermediate men free program.
01:19:56 We've got Dylan Reed and James Ries.
01:20:01 Dylan represents the Trinity Percenture Figure Skating Club and James represents the Mount Pearl Paradise Skating Club.
01:20:10 It's great to see some males taking part in the sport.
01:20:26 The males themselves, because the sport involves a lot of power, they can get some really good height on their jumps.
01:20:40 Figure skating itself versus hockey, it certainly takes a lot of skill to get out there on the ice.
01:20:47 In hockey, you don't normally be doing jumps and spins.
01:20:55 Figure skating encompasses all those sorts of elements.
01:21:04 They often say it's easy for a figure skater to become a hockey player,
01:21:11 but not so easy for a hockey player to become a figure skater.
01:21:26 The only difference really in the skates, the equipment themselves,
01:21:32 is the figure skates will actually have a jagged edge at the front of their blade, often referred to as a toe pick.
01:21:42 The figure skaters will use that to start a jump.
01:22:07 And again, the skaters, when they're warming up, they'll go back and converse with their coaches quite often.
01:22:24 And these guys are getting a six minute warm up. They've got one minute remaining, I believe, in their warm up.
01:22:31 And again, it's a great opportunity to get out, warm up the muscles.
01:22:37 An opportunity to practice some elements of their program.
01:22:49 And again, it's an opportunity sometimes to make some last minute adjustments to the program.
01:22:57 They'll base that on how they're feeling for the day, what the ice conditions are like.
01:23:02 A number of different variables come into play.
01:23:05 And they'll actually talk with their coach and decide how they want to go forward.
01:23:21 We've got Dylan, who's going to be the first of the two skaters who's going to be taking the ice.
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01:23:31 When all skaters please remain in the ice.
01:23:33 Your warm up is now over.
01:23:40 This is the star six men's combined intermediate men's free program.
01:23:47 And our first competitor represents the Avalon Nation.
01:23:52 Please welcome to the ice, Dylan Reed.
01:23:56 This is Dylan Reed and he's going to be skating to the music "I Hear a Symphony" by Cody Fry.
01:24:03 I used to hear a simple song that was until you came along.
01:24:16 God's play something new.
01:24:21 I hear it when I look at you.
01:24:26 I hear it when I look at you.
01:24:34 I hear it when I look at you.
01:24:44 I hear it when I look at you.
01:24:54 I hear it when I look at you.
01:25:04 This little town on the water.
01:25:10 Perfection is so near.
01:25:16 You are beautiful by far.
01:25:22 I want to be near.
01:25:26 I want to be near.
01:25:28 I want to be near.
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01:26:48 Ladies and gentlemen, Dylan Reed.
01:26:58 Great job by Dylan.
01:27:02 I would think he's happy with that for sure.
01:27:07 And Dylan's home club is the Trinity Passentia Figure Skating Club and his home club coach is Dana Smith.
01:27:17 Dylan has earned gold in Provincials and Atlantics 2023 for the Star 5 program.
01:27:24 Of course this is the Star 6 program he's competing in now.
01:27:28 And Dylan was a member of the Trinity Passentia Minor Hockey Association from age 4 to 12 and then switched to figure skating.
01:27:36 He rapidly passed each level from Can Skate to Star 3 in the first year and then Star 3 to 6 in his 2022-23 season.
01:27:46 So Dylan has progressed on very rapidly and very nicely.
01:27:54 He trains about 5 hours a week so it certainly shows.
01:28:03 Just waiting for the scores for Dylan here at the moment.
01:28:09 His personal best score for this program in the past was 19.44.
01:28:24 19.1 on this skate today.
01:28:28 Not quite his personal best but still got to be happy with that.
01:28:32 Our next skater is James Reese.
01:28:39 And James represents the Mount Pearl Southern Shore Skating Club.
01:28:51 And James is going to be skating to the music of Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
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01:31:12 James just conversing with his coach there. He took a couple of hard falls there for sure.
01:31:28 Sometimes after those falls you just got to take a minute.
01:31:37 Just goes to show how much these young athletes put into this.
01:31:47 They just go out there and they give it their all.
01:32:08 He's just chatting with his coaches. Not sure if he's going to finish off the program.
01:32:17 Because of the jumps he didn't get to finish the programs and a lot of times in competitions they will let him pick up from where he left off.
01:32:28 We're going to see if that's going to be the case in this situation.
01:32:52 James just approaching the judging desk.
01:33:02 Looks like he's going to pick up where he left off.
01:33:17 He's just cheering him on.
01:33:27 Let's get his music queued up again.
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01:34:22 Ladies and gentlemen, James Reese.
01:34:27 That certainly deserves a round of applause for sure for James.
01:34:32 The resilience of these skaters to hit obstacles but get back out there again is just amazing.
01:34:42 It's going to be a little bit disappointing for James, no doubt.
01:34:46 Certainly he probably didn't have the skate that he wanted to have.
01:34:55 But again, just goes to show he got out there and gave it everything he had. Sometimes it works out for you, sometimes it doesn't unfortunately.
01:35:08 In competitions like this it all comes down to the moment you're on the ice.
01:35:14 You're having a bad day, things don't go right, unfortunately that's what you get judged on.
01:35:23 One bad skate does not make a bad skater.
01:35:31 And these athletes who have been at this a while, they've developed a resilience for this sort of thing.
01:35:40 As disappointing as it can be at times.
01:35:45 That's why they've got their coaches who support them.
01:35:55 Just waiting on the score for James again, just two skaters in this star six men group.
01:36:16 That's going to take us up, I believe they're going to do a resurfacing of the ice.
01:36:29 It's actually not a bad score.
01:36:58 So that takes us up, we're going to have a flood of the ice, a resurfacing of the ice, and it's actually going to be a lunch break.
01:37:05 So an opportunity for some of the judges and staff members to grab some lunch.
01:37:11 There's actually going to be a medal presentation, so for this morning's competitions, they're going to have the medal presentations taking place for those individuals.
01:37:23 And we are going to resume again at 1225, so after the break we're going to be into the star six women.
01:37:34 There's going to be 15 skaters in that group.
01:37:38 And the star eight women after that, and we've got a full day of competition.
01:37:44 So I think we're running up until about six o'clock this evening with competitions, and again if you're just tuning in,
01:37:50 we're live from the Mike Austin Arena here in Lewisport with the Newfoundland Labrador 2024 Winter Games.
01:37:59 This is figure skating that's taking place here in Lewisport.
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