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I recently came across this video of Alex's 2022 induction into the Springwater Sports Heritage Hall of Fame (linked on her bio page there). Understandable if it's too difficult a watch, but it is very sweet (and bittersweet).
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I recently came across this video of Alex's 2022 induction into the Springwater Sports Heritage Hall of Fame (linked on her bio page there). Understandable if it's too difficult a watch, but it is very sweet (and bittersweet).
Skate Canada: The Olympic experience in one word… go. 💬
(x and x, September 16 Stories)
Skate Mariposa: So much fun at the Mariposa Summer Celebration this week!
Barrie Sports Hall of Fame: Congratulations to this evening’s Barrie Sports Hall of Fame inductees! 🏆
A big thank you to every volunteer, sponsor, partner, and attendee who helped make this incredible night possible. Your contributions made tonight truly fantastic and memorable!
This year’s inductees:
Emily MacTavish Dan Marouelli Steve Porter Mitchell Islam & Alexandra Paul
Local Lifetime Achievement Award: Jo-Anne Eyers 🏆
The event was filled with excitement, appreciation, community, and heartfelt support. What an incredible night!
Stay tuned for more Barrie Sports Hall of Fame and 2024 Induction Ceremony content 🏆🏒🏀🏊♀️⚾️🏈
This year's inductees include Emily MacTavish, Jo-Anne Eyers, Steve Porter, Dan Marouelli, Mitch Islam and Alexandra Paul
Ice-dance partners Mitchell Islam and the late Alexandra Paul are being inducted in the athlete category. The local couple had been "active in sports for most of their lives, with their greatest successes coming in competitive ice dancing," says the BSHOF. Paul, who passed away in an automobile crash in August 2023 at age 31, and Islam won the Canadian junior national title in 2010, and went on to earn silver medals at the 2010 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships that same season. Together, they would claim three senior Canadian national bronze medals over their career. After winning their second national bronze in 2014, the two qualified to compete at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, where they placed 18th in the ice-dance event. The pair competed for Canada at two ISU World Championships, with their best result coming at the 2014 worlds when they earned 10th place. "Alexandra and Mitchell were consistently at the top of their sport through the years of 2009 to 2016, competing at the highest international level," says the BSHOF. "They represented Canada at 21 international events, collecting five medals." After their skating career ended, Paul became a lawyer, while Islam became an NCCP-certified figure skating coach through the National Coaching Certification Program. He was recently named ice-dance director at the Mariposa School of Skating in Barrie.
You've probably seen some of these; if not, hopefully searching these terms on YT will give the right results! 2010 Skate Canada FD (a standing O at their very first GP, second place in the segment, highest TES); 2011 Canadian Nats SD; 2012 US International Classic FD; 2013 Canadian Nats SD; 2014 Canadian Nats SD and FD; 2015 Worlds SD. And this never shows up in search, so this 2013 Nebelhorn FD practice, for the lines: youtube /watch?v=Ajmp3IywVeA + this cute early fluff: /watch?v=ogw65qXPcaE
2010/11 FD Casablanca, choreo by Marie-France and Patrice!
2010/11 Tango Waltz SD 😭
2012/13 FD "The Legend of 1900s" music by Ennio Morricone - choreo by Angelika Krylova and Pasquale Camerlengo
2013 Can Nats SD "Crazy for You" this is so airy and light and graceful 😭😭
2014 Nats - Crazy for You - the commentators on more than one of these videos talk about how they float across the ice, and it's true
2014 Nats FD Wallis and Edward - this is lovely - is there no video of the kiss and cry when they found out they were going to Sochi??
2015 worlds SD - the Paso!
Nebelhorn practice 2013
Fluff where he says Marie-France and Patch were huge inspirations and also Tessa and Scott - and that he hoped "Scotty" couldn't hear him say that because his head might explode
anon, thank you thank you - it's extra poignant to watch them now, but they are SO lovely - she must have had a lot of ballet training, she's a beautiful, alluring dancer, and they were so good together. he has a little bit of a Fred Astaire thing going. just so musical and elegant. and really good skaters with gorgeous lifts. dancing to standards like Gershwin and tango/paso seems to have been their wheelhouse - they're so light on their feet at times and quick but alternately intense and fiery in the tango pasos. i just loved this
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