Senior dance teams competing: 15
Senior pairs competing: 7
New teams: 5
Catherine Daigle-Roy & Dominic Barthe (sixth, dance, Skate Canada Challenge)
Lubov Iliushechkina & Dylan Moscovitch (first, pairs, Skate Canada Challenge)
Alexa Linden & Jean-Luc Jackson (eighth, dance, Skate Canada Challenge)
Kirsten Moore-Towers & Michael Marinaro (Grand Prix competitors; second, pairs, Skate Canada Challenge)
Natasha Purich & Drew Wolfe (Grand Prix competitors; third, pairs, Skate Canada Challenge)
First senior Nationals: 4
Mackenzie Bent & Garrett MacKeen (first, junior dance, 2014)
Vanessa Grenier & Maxime Deschamps (first, junior pairs, 2014)
Jade Robitaille & Philippe Granger (eighteenth, junior dance, Skate Canada Challenge 2014)
Julianne Séguin & Charlie Bilodeau (second, junior pairs, 2014)
*Also first senior event for Daigle-Roy, Barthe, Linden, Jackson and Wolfe. This is also the first Canadian Nationals for Iliushechkina, previously representing Russia.
Competed together at junior: 12
*While included in this count, Weaver & Poje only competed internationally as juniors; they competed, and medaled, in the senior event at their first Nationals.
Former gold medalist teams: 7
Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford (senior pairs, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Mackenzie Bent & Garrett MacKeen (junior dance, 2014)
Vanessa Grenier & Maxime Deschamps (junior pairs, 2014)
Madeline Edwards & ZhaoKai Pang (junior dance, 2013; novice dance, 2011)
Andreanne Poulin & Marc-Andre Servant (junior dance, 2012)
Nicole Orford & Thomas Williams (junior dance, 2011)
Alexandra Paul & Mitch Islam (junior dance, 2010)
*Also Moore-Towers and Moscovitch (senior pairs, 2011); Paul Poirier with Vanessa Crone (senior dance, 2011, and junior dance, 2007).
Teams at 2010 Nationals: 4
Victoria Hasegawa & Connor Hasegawa (novice dance)
Alexandra Paul & Mitch Islam (junior dance)
Andreanne Poulin & Marc-Andre Servant (junior dance)
Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje (senior dance)
Most previous Nationals appearances by an individual:
13: Meagan Duhamel (in singles 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007), Dylan Moscovitch (missed 2002, 2009; in singles prior to 2006), Andrew Poje (missed 2013)
12: Eric Radford (in singles prior to 2005)
9: Paul Poirier
7: Vanessa Grenier (in singles prior to 2014), Mitch Islam (missed 2008, 2009), Michael Marinaro (in singles prior to 2010), Kaitlyn Weaver (missed 2013)
6: Brittany Jones, Kirsten Moore-Towers, François-Xavier Ouellette, Alexandra Paul, Thomas Williams
*Novice events not held at Nationals between 2001 and 2009; novice participation between those years is thus not included here.
Provinces represented:
*Central Ontario = 3 (2 dance, 1 pair); Western Ontario = 3 (1 dance, 2 pair); Northern Ontario = 1 (dance); Eastern Ontario = 1 (dance)
Popular musical genres
Brit rock: 4
“Atlas”/”Fix You” (Coldplay), Robitaille & Granger (FD); “Glacier” (James Vincent McMorrow), Mariève Cyr & Benjamin Brisebois-Gaudreau (FD); “In Your Eyes” (Peter Gabriel), Paul & Islam (FD), Séguin & Bilodeau (LP); “Neutron Star”/”I Belong to You”/”Uprising” (Muse), Duhamel & Radford (LP)
Film scores: 10
The Artist, Purich & Wolfe (LP); From Russia with Love, Iliushechkina & Moscovitch (LP); Ghost, Daigle-Roy & Barthe (FD); The Grand Budapest Hotel, Séguin & Bilodeau (SP); The Great Gatsby, Jones & Reagan (LP); Life is Beautiful, Edwards & Pang (FD); The Mission, Carolane Soucisse & Simon Tanguay (FD); Somewhere in Time, Grenier & Deschamps (LP); Titanic, Orford & Williams (FD); W.E., Jones & Reagan (SP)
Stage musicals: 3
Chess, Moore-Towers & Marinaro (LP); Chicago, Moore-Towers & Marinaro (SP); West Side Story, Hasegawa & Hasegawa (FD)
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