Sunskate

part 1: July-November 2025

2025 Skate Canada Challenge (Calgary, AB November 29-30, 2025 Sheri Moir, Alma Moir for IAMO)

Bashynska/Perron 8th place (7th RD, 9th FD) Lauriault/LeGac 1st place🥇(1st RD, 1st FD) Robinson/Portz 3rd place 🥉 (5th RD, 3rd FD) Hensen/Lickers 2nd place 🥈 (2nd RD, 2nd FD) Anderson/Dawson 2nd place jr 🥈 (2nd RD, 2nd FD) Corneil/Emery 9th place jr (7th RD, 10th FD)

Amber at an SOI q&a :

"[if there's] anything skating has taught me, it's taught me resilience, it's taught me sportsmanship, it's taught me how to get back up after you fall - that's something that some people have asked me - when you fall in competition how do you get back up?

i'm like, i don't really have a choice - part of me wants to get off the ice immediately, but i can't really do that - [have to] finish what you started

there's a few that have really helped me over the last few years especially, one of them being if you uplift the people around you in your everyday, that also lifts you up

because for so many years, especially in women's figure skating, we were all climbing over each other to get to the top, and it didn't matter who you stepped on or what you did, it only mattered that you succeeded. and then people would eventually get there, and it was so lonely. it would be miserable - it's like, oh i have this success, who do i share it with now - the people that i hurt? no. so leading wtih kindness is so much - you're so much more fulfilled that way, and in life things can get really intense, and the want to succeed can get so *harsh* that sometimes we forget that, and we need to show others and ourselves that kindness"

love her - one person can make a difference to an entire culture and change things for the better a bit at a time. and there are more and more like minded people in skating

Elliana Peal & Ethan Peal

Toast to Milan is on USFS youtube now

there wasn't much if anything that was new, but the team has a good energy together - they've definitely bonded, between Milan and SOI. Vadym loving Costco is practically part of their brand now. i'd forgotten that Christina was born with dislocated hips, and that they weren't sure she would be able to walk, let alone skate. Anthony says he felt a lot of pressure and expectations when he was young, even before he stepped onto the ice, about his OGM parents - but that around 4 years ago, he took ownership of his identity, that he's building his own path - it feels poignant since it coincides with his surgery and is close in time to the coaching change

Madi Chock says her dress got a big rip at Olympic practice day of a performance - she says "we" stepped on the skirt, but Evan owns it was him

and spotted in the audience:

Utana Yoshida & Masaya Morita clip of their new RD filmed in Kinoshita Academy ice arena -

aww that's nice

lol - what was this man saying

who did this to his hair 😵

USA 🇺🇸 Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko Elliana Peal/Ethan Peal Isabella Flores/Linus Colmor Jepsen

Canada 🇨🇦 Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain LeGac Alyssa Robinson/Jacob Portz Nadiia Bashynska/Noe Perron (part time) Layla Veillon/Alexander Brandys Charlie Anderson/Cayden Dawson

Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 Samantha Ritter/Daniel Brykalov

Belgium 🇧🇪 Olivia Josephine Shilling/Leo Baeten

Japan 🇯🇵 Utana Yoshida/Masaya Morita (part time)

Scott at the 2026 USFS Impact Summit on May 20 in Colorado Springs

he was on a 30 minute IAM Team Model panel with Patrice and Jamal and a 45 minute 2026 Olympic coaches panel that included Patrice, Alysa Liu's coaches Phillip DiGuglielmo and Massimo Scali, and Igor among others followed by a roundtable open house, whatever that is, all on May 20. then Models of Success: Business Model - IAM panel on the 21st, again with Patrice and Jamal

Toast to Milan, the Peacock special with the US Olympic figure skating team was filmed at the summit on May 20, so CPom were there for a day as well